Institute for the Social Sciences — Cornell University

Land Team Awards Research Grants to Graduate Students
ISS Faculty Fellows Find Gender Gap in STEM Majors Linked to High School Job Plans
ISS Faculty Fellow Finds: Diaries, the Original Social Media: How Our Obsession with Documenting (and Sharing) Our Own Lives is Nothing New

Upcoming Events

Creativity, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Theme Project Begins

July 1, 2013 12:00 PM
Social Media: Origins, Opportunities, and Risks

July 17, 2013 7:30 PM

Speaker: Lee Humphreys
What is Land? (Public Panel)

September 6, 2013 3:00 PM - September 6, 2013 5:00 PM

Aletta Biersack, Anthropology, University of Oregon, and Andie Palmer, Anthropology, University of Alberta

What is Property and Does it Matter?

May 14, 2013 Stuart Banner, UCLA School of Law Sponsored by the 2013 Institute on Contested Landscapes

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Global and Local Commons: Emergent Institutions with Residual Property Forms

May 16, 2013 Kathryn Milun, Sociology / Anthropology, University of Minnesota-Duluth Sponsored by the 2013 Institute on Contested Landscapes

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Messy Hectare: Questions about the Epistemology of Land Grabbing Data

May 17, 2013 Marc Edelman, Anthropology, Hunter College and Graduate Center, CUNY Sponsored by the 2013 Institute on Contested Landscapes

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