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Webinar

land acknowledgements are frequently given at official Cornell events, but what do they represent? We will dive into the performative aspects of land acknowledgements and how land-grant universities such as Cornell have a responsibility to move...
  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
Ashish Bajracharya

Seminar

Perspectives in Global Development: Spring 2022 Seminar Series In recent years, the garment industries of countries in South and Southeast Asia, including Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Vietnam have grown to provide economic opportunities to millions...
  • Department of Global Development
  • school of integrative plant science
  • Dyson School
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Field Day

Join us for a field trip to the Ganondagan State Historic Site! Transportation and snacks provided, vans leave from Akwe:kon at 11:30am on 4/23. Ganondagan is the original site of a 17th century Seneca town that existed peacefully for more than...
  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene: Conceptualizing the Climate Crisis

Seminar

A critical conversation on our contemporary planetary predicament and how different ways of conceptualizing it might entail different strategies for transformative change. Wendy Wolford is Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global...
  • Climate Change
  • Development
  • Global Development
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Seminar

Attendees will learn about the earth's biogeochemical cycling by world experts and will hear about some of the most pressing biogeochemical questions across terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. In this session, Dr. Gene Likens, Distinguished...
  • Biogeochemistry
  • Climate Change
  • Climate Change
Jared Bosire

Seminar

Perspectives in Global Development: Spring 2022 Seminar Series Africa is experiencing an unprecedented scale of large scale developments ranging from ports and harbors, mining, roads and railways, agriculture and oil & gas among others all...
  • Department of Global Development
  • school of integrative plant science
  • Development
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Webinar

This talk examines emerging narratives of life that differ significantly from dominant anthropocentric perspectives of the world and their associated extractive modes of global development. Based on the notion of radical interdependence, these...
  • Polson Institute for Global Development
  • Development
  • environment
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Lecture

Join Jessica Martin ( Gayogo̱hó:nǫ ʔ /Cayuga Nation) in a discussion on the importance of “Ganędagǫ:” in the Gayogo̱hó:nǫ ʔ language, the status of the language, and community-based efforts to promote language learning and revitalization. Martin...
  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program

Webinar

Hear from your peers and savvy Twitter users CALS faculty Corrie Moreau, Neil Lewis Jr. and Ariel Ortiz-Bobea about how they’ve optimized their Twitter presence, grown their networks and amplified their work and thought leadership.
  • communication
Uma Lele

Seminar

Perspectives in Global Development Seminar Series: Spring 2022 The Sustainable Development Goals are off track. The prospects of the SDGs being realized by 2030 are bleak. The rapid pace of consistent decline in poverty and hunger until 2015 had...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
  • Plants

Seminar

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Presented in partnership with Cornell Global Development and the Institute for African Development Overview The 2021 STAARS Fellows will present their research projects. Each Fellow will get 40 minutes to present followed by 15 minutes for...
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Meeting

The NYCO planning committee is hosting an on-farm meeting for its second meeting of 2022. Rick and Laura Pedersen of Pedersen Farms in Seneca Castle will host on April 12th at 10 AM. The farm is located at 11798 County Road 4, Seneca Castle, NY...
  • Organic
  • Field Crops
  • Vegetables
Transforming Global Food Systems After COVID 19

Lecture

Global Development Distinguished Speaker Series Featuring: Johan Swinnen, Ph.D. '92 Date: April 11 at 11:45 a.m. Location: 401 Warren The COVID-19 pandemic and associated policy responses has significantly impacted food and nutrition security...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development

Seminar

Presenter: Vice Chancellor Tawana Kupe, University of Pretoria. Venue and Time: Lecture Hall III, Veterinary Research Tower from 12:00 noon to 1:00 PM. Controlling climate change, promoting global health and creation of open, egalitarian...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
  • sustainability
Hannah Van Zanten

Seminar

Perspectives in Global Development: Spring 2022 Seminar Series The need to transform the food system to avoid exceeding the Earth’s biophysical limit is widely recognized. A redesign towards circular food systems is a promising solution to...
  • Global Development
  • Department of Global Development
  • food

Workshop

Please join us for the Spring meeting of The North American Alliance of Learning Cities, NAALC, h osted by Cornell University’s Education Minor and the Community Learning and Service Partnership, CLASP, of the Department of Global Development...
  • CLASP
  • Community Learning and Service Partnership program
  • Department of Global Development
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Seminar

Seminar in Critical Development Studies hosted by Cornell Global Development and the Graduate Field of Development Sociology Abstract: A common trend within major contributions to the debate on the financialization has consisted of giving...
  • Global Development
  • Department of Global Development
Dairy cows in Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine Teaching Dairy Barn.

Webinar

Registration This program is available at no cost to participants thanks to the generous support of our industry sponsors. Pre-registration is required. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing instructions and links...
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • CCE
  • Dairy
Webinar Annoucement

Webinar

Agenda & Speakers Introductory Remarks: Will Watts (Walmart Food Safety Collaboration Center) Project Overview: Ralph Christy (Cornell) & Joel Li (Qimei Agriculture Science and Technology Company) Session 1: Introduction to Microbial Food...
  • Food Science
  • sustainability
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Seminar

Attendees will learn about the earth's biogeochemical cycling by world experts and will hear about some of the most pressing biogeochemical questions across terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. In this session, Dr. Maggie Xenopoulos, professor of...
  • Biogeochemistry
  • Climate Change
  • Climate Change