Johns Hopkins Department of Political Science Associate Professor Bentley Allan will discuss his research on the interaction of environmental science and politics. Lunch will be provided.
Group discussion about: Felipe Antunes de Oliveira, Dependency Crisis in Brazil and Argentina. A Critique of Market and State Utopias (2024, University of Pittsburgh Press). This event is co-sponsored by the Program in International Studies.
Garrett Washington, Associate Professor of History, University of Massachusetts Amherst Amidst changes redefining and subjugating womanhood in the Meiji period (1868-1912), industrialist Hirooka Asako (1849-1919) rescued her marital family’s failing coal mine in Uruno. This story highlights her determination, knowledge but also her collaboration with male relatives and associates, and direct management, illuminating the underexamined […]
Matias Vernengo, Professor of Economics at Bucknell University, will discuss the last 10 months of Javier Milei's presidency in Argentina. Javier Milei was elected president of Argentina last November, and was inaugurated later in December, facing an economic crisis that has been ongoing for too long, and that he claims was caused by the Peronist […]
Discussion of Dependency Crisis with the author, Felipe Antunes de Oliveira. This event is co-sponsored by the Program in International Studies.
Suyoung Son, Associate Professor in Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University How can the written recipes convey the embodied practice of cooking? While cooking traditionally relies on direct transformation and oral explication, what circumstances lead to the translation of this mute skill into written form? This talk examines two 17-century cooking recipes from Chosŏn Korea (1392–1897), […]
Group discussion about: Charisse Burden-Stelly (Wayne), Black Scare / Red Scare (2023, University of Chicago Press). E-book access forthcoming. This event is co-sponsored by the Program in International Studies.
Crystal Baik, Associate Professor, Gender & Sexuality Studies, University of California, Riverside In this talk, Professor Crystal Mun-hye Baik offers a glimpse into her second book project, Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun: An Elegy. An intimate cultural history of war, illness, and estrangement framed through her family history, Before the Fire Dogs Steal […]
Entrance is free. All films are captioned. This event is co-sponsored by the International Studies Program, the Center for Advanced Media Studies, and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.
Discussion of Black Scare / Red Scare with the author, Charisse Burden-Stelly (Wayne State University). This event is co-sponsored by the Program in International Studies.
Thomas Pepinsky, Walter F. LaFeber Professor, Department of Government and Brooks School of Public Policy, Cornell University Ethnicity is central to politics throughout the Malay world, but the meaning and significance of ethnicity—and of social categories like “Malay”—is contested, dynamic, and multifaceted. This talk is an overview of an ongoing book project, tentatively entitled Ethnic Orders, which […]
Group discussion about: Margarita Fajardo (Sarah Lawrence) The World that Latin America Created (2022, Harvard University Press). This event is co-sponsored by the Program in International Studies.