Sacred Spaces  - Photo by Travel Grant recipient Matthew Minarchek (History) in  Takengon, Indonesia

The Einaudi Center is a hub for global activity at Cornell. The center organizes, catalyzes, and supports collaborative and interdisciplinary research, teaching, and outreach programs across campus. We focus on projects that promote intercultural and cross-national understanding. We educate students to become citizens of the world. And we help solve key economic, environmental, and political problems across the world.

Douglas Rutzen to speak on civil society and peaceful protest
On Tuesday, April 29th, at 4:30PM in Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, Douglas Rutzen, President and CEO of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, will give a talk entitled "Defending Civil Society and Peaceful Protest Around the World." The talk is part of the Einaudi Center's ongoing Foreign Policy Distinguished Speaker Series and cosponsored by...

Andrew C. Weber discusses U.S. efforts to eradicate weapons of mass destruction
On Thursday, March 27th, 2014 at 4:30PM in Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, Andrew C. Weber, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs and Cornell alum, gave a talk entitled “Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction.” The talk was part of the Einaudi Center’s ongoing Foreign Policy Distinguished Speaker Series.After a brief...

Foreign policy experts assess U.S. power at D.C. panel
Is the United States in retreat as a global power? And does it really matter if we are? Those questions were the launching point April 1 for a wide-ranging conversation in Washington, D.C., featuring three prominent Cornell foreign policy experts. Their consensus answer to the first question was a qualified no; to the second, an unqualified yes..

Roundtable discussion to commemorate 20th anniversary of the Rwanda genocide
On April 17, 2014, at 4:30pm, the Einaudi Center and the Institute for African Development will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Rwanda genocide with a roundtable discussion in Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall. The keynote address will be given by Adama Dieng, the UN Secretary-General's Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide and followed by a panel...

Fredrik Logevall wins 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History, Parkman Prize and Arthur Ross Book Award
Fredrik Logevall, the John S. Knight Professor of International Studies, Professor of History, and director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, has been awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History, the 2013 Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians and the 2013 Arthur Ross Book Award for his book Embers of War: The Fall of...

CERIS organizes workshop on global Islam

The Cornell Educational Resources for International Studies (CERIS) hosted a professional development workshop for community college faculty entitled Global Islam: Borders, Boundaries and Belonging/s on November 16. This one-day workshop featured Cornell expertise, along with presenters from Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Binghamton University.Presenters...