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The Technopolitics of Nuclear Latency: How Isolated States Use Nuclear Technology to Engage the West
12:00 pm, Uris Hall, G08
Why do isolated latent proliferators insist on retaining some of their nuclear capabilities in nonproliferation settlements?

From Sand Dunes to Exotic Hard Timber Forests: An Environmental History of Coastal Vietnam
12:15 pm, Kahin Center
Gatty Lecture Series Join us for a talk by Thuy Linh Nguyen, Associate Professor of History from Mount Saint Mary College.

Hu Shih Distinguished Lecture: Emperor Qianlong’s Peepshow Boxes: A Case of Eighteenth-Century Global Interaction in Art and Visual Culture
4:30 pm, Johnson Museum of Art, Robinson Lecture Hall
The East Asia Program is honored to have Wu Hung, the Harrie A.

Hakem Al-Rustom - Armenian Genocide Commemoration Lecture
4:45 pm, Goldwin Smith Hall, 142
More information forthcoming.

Repair/Maintenance: Politics of (In)completeness Graduate Student Symposium
9:00 am, Kahin Center
Our world is in dire need of repair. From collapsing infrastructures and ecological devastation to fraying democratic institutions and longue durée effects of colonial violence, the language of repair has become ubiquitous to our understanding of…

International Scholar, Graduate, and Professional Student Coffee Hour
10:00 am, Big Red Barn, Greenhouse
Calling all current international employees including J1 interns: join International Services (part of the Office of Global Learning) for a casual meet and greet/coffee hour on the final Friday of each month. Coffee and snacks will be provided.

Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium with Wu Hung
3:30 pm, Rockefeller Hall, 374
Speaker: Wu Hung, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History and the College Chinese Art, University of Chicago

Listening to Archives: Islam and Politics in Modern Kashmir
12:15 pm, Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Suvaid Yaseen (Asian Studies, Hamilton College)

IES Luigi Einaudi Distinguished Lecture: Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
12:00 am, TBD
IES Luigi Einaudi Distinguished Lecture Further details TBA.

Putting the Environment into Law: Chile’s 1980 Constitution and the Rise of Environmentalism during the Free-Market “Silent Revolution,” 1970s and 1980s
12:20 pm, Uris Hall, G08
This talk examines the history of the environmental clauses in Chile’s constitution. That constitution was imposed at gunpoint by the Pinochet dictatorship and has been widely assailed for preserving the “guardrails” of Chile’s neoliberal economic…