When & where

Join us on Wednesdays from 12:20-1:10 p.m. Eastern Time during the semester in 175 Warren Hall, unless otherwise noted. 

All seminars are available to livestream via Zoom. Students, faculty and the general public are welcome to attend in-person or online.

Did you miss a seminar? Catch-up on our YouTube.

Co-sponsors

  • Department of Global Development
  • Department of Natural Resources and the Environment
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management

Courses

Cornell undergraduate and graduate students may register for the seminar series as a course: GDEV 4961, AEM 4961, NTRES 4961, GDEV 6960, AEM 6960, and NTRES 6960.

Seminar series gift honors Tsujimoto brothers

The Harry ’51 and Joshua ’49 Tsujimoto Perspectives in Global Development and the Environment Seminar Series honors Harry and Joshua Tsujimoto, whose parents, Roy and Miki, emigrated from Japan to California in the 1910s. In search of the American dream, the family dedicated their lives to farming. Their resilience carried them through the Great Depression until the attack on Pearl Harbor. Amid rising anti-Asian racism across the United States, the Tsujimoto family was forcibly relocated to an internment camp in Arizona. The brothers, then in their teens and early 20s, spent two and a half years in the camp. Upon their release in 1945, immigration laws in California prohibited the family from returning to their farm. Once again, the family started over. They moved to a small farming community in Elma, New York, thanks to relocation sponsorship from a local minister. Settled in the western New York agricultural region near Buffalo, the family re-committed their lives to farming. Harry and Joshua matriculated to Cornell, where they studied at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS).

The Tsujimoto family at their farm in El Centro, California

Seminar archive

Did you miss a seminar? Watch the recordings of global experts who shared their perspective on international development.

Emily Bernhardt headshot

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Streams in the City: how urbanization affects the structure and function of rivers
Fall 2026 Harry ’51 and Joshua ’49 Tsujimoto Perspectives in Global Development and the Environment Seminar Series About the speaker Emily Bernhardt received her PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Cornell University in 2001 and was a...
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Fall 2026 Harry ’51 and Joshua ’49 Tsujimoto Perspectives in Global Development and the Environment Seminar Series About the speaker Parfait Martial Eloundou-Enyegue's research agenda broadly addresses the interrelationships between population...
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Fall 2026 Harry ’51 and Joshua ’49 Tsujimoto Perspectives in Global Development and the Environment Seminar Series About the speaker Nikhit Agrawal is a postdoctoral associate working on carbon and data governance in the Natural Resources and...
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Ranveer Chandra and Purvi Mehta headshot

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Fall 2026 Harry ’51 and Joshua ’49 Tsujimoto Perspectives in Global Development and the Environment Seminar Series About the speaker Ranveer Chandra is the Vice President of Frontier Tuning, and the CTO of Agri-Food at Microsoft. Previously...
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Fall 2026 Harry ’51 and Joshua ’49 Tsujimoto Perspectives in Global Development and the Environment Seminar Series About the speaker Micah R. Fisher, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the Matsunaga Institute for Peace & Conflict Resolution at...
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