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 […]
Johns Hopkins Department of Comparative Thought and Literature Visiting Professor Nana Sharikadze will discuss the upcoming Georgian elections with the topic "Elections 2024: Why My Vote Has Never Mattered More”. Lunch will be provided.
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), […]
Come learn more about the SAIS Summer Academies, immersive four-week programs taking place in Bologna, Italy and Washington, DC. Join us for an information session, where we will give a brief presentation on the programs and answer any questions you may have. Lunch will be provided.
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 […]
Hear firsthand from trauma, critical care, and acute care surgeon Dr. Feroze Sidhwa (MD, MPH), who served in the European Hospital in Gaza, as he shares his experiences of medical challenges and resilience under conflict. The talk will be moderated by Dr. Ahmed Ragab, Associate Professor, Department of History of Medicine, JHU School of Medicine. […]
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.