The Institute for Comparative Modernities is pleased to announce the 2023 Spring Event Series, a range of engaging hosted events featuring conversations from Cornell faculty members and guest speakers about recent publications, and lectures about ongoing critical research and practice. ICM is additionally hosting symposia featuring award-winning translators of texts from the Global South, panel discussions on Reparations for Colonization/Carbonization, and a two-day conference on the topic of Racial Capitalism across the globe. Events and dates listed below:
Wednesday, February 1: ICM New Conversations Series: Mostafa Minawi and Durba Ghosh, Describing Difference and Inscribing Race: The Case of the Late Ottoman Empire | Toboggan Lodge, 4:45 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
Saturday, February 11: ICM Symposium: Global South Translation Natalie Melas and other Cornell faculty in dialogue with translation award recipients Abrona Lee Pandi Aden, Conor Bracken, Whitney DeVos , Katherine Hennessey, Sumathy Sivamohan, and Jeremy Tiang | Online, 10:45 a.m – 12:45 p.m.
Monday, February 20: ICM Lecture: Ernesto Bassi, Plantation Dreams: Global Connections and Disconnections from South America’s Caribbean Shores | Goldwin Smith Hall G22, 4:45 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
Wednesday, March 1: ICM New Books Series: Iftikhar Dadi, Lahore Cinema: Between Realism and Fable | Goldwin Smith Hall G22, 4:45 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
Friday, March 3: ICM Symposium: Reparations for Colonization/Carbonization with ICM members Esra Akcan, Iftikhar Dadi, Natalie Melas, and guests Rebecca Boehling, Ashley Dawson, Amah Edoh, William Fleming, Tiffany Florvil, Bronwyn Leebaw, Anne McClintock, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Ruti Teitel, Liliane Umubyeyi | A.D. White House, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Monday, April 17 ICM Lecture: Rahaab Allana | Goldwin Smith Hall G22, 4:45 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
Friday, April 21-Saturday, April 22: ICM Conference (co-organized with the Einaudi Center for International Studies and the Polson Institute for Global Development) Racial Capitalism: Past, Present and Futures with Cornell faculty and ICM members Begüm Adalet, Amiel Bize, Viranjini Munasinghe, and guest speakers Joanne Barker, Darren Byler, Jodi Byrd, Muriam Haleh Davis, Megan Ming Francis, Jodi Kim, Jordanna Matlon, Robert Nichols, Derecka Purnell, Russell Rickford, Rinaldo Walcott | Africana Studies and Research Center, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
