Events

IGCS Colloquium

August 25th, 2017 - 2:30PM-7:00PM

Location: 181 Goldwin Smith Hall

Historicism, Anthropology, and Goethe’s Idea of World Literature presented by Stephen Klemm, German Studies, Cornell University...

The Cornell International Fair

August 30th, 2017 - 11:30AM-2:00PM

Location: Uris Hall

Room: First Floor Terrace

The Cornell International Fair showcases the many options for students to internationalize their Cornell experience. It invites undergraduate and graduate students to explore international and global study on campus and abroad. Students will be able to talk with faculty and staff about study abroad, exchanges, language study, international majors/minors, fellowships, internships, courses with inte...

"Border Walls and the Politics of Becoming Non-Human" by Miriam Ticktin, CMSP Seminar

September 7th, 2017 - 4:30PM-5:30PM

Location: Morrill Hall

Room: 404

In this talk I am concerned by the ways in which border walls and zones come not simply to defend (for example, certain territories), but also to define -- that is, to shape or alter categories of natural and human kinds. I will suggest that border walls -- such as those at the border of (predominantly Christian) Spain and (predominantly Muslim) Morocco, as well as between France and the Uni...