Events
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
12:20 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) Seminar Series.
Co-sponsored by Einaudi's Democratic Threats and Resilience Initiative
In this talk, Gabriel Vommaro will present his new Elements, "Conservatives Against the Tide. The Rise of the Argentine PRO in Comparative Perspective…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:30 pm
Stimson Hall, G25
"iSpraak: A Platform for Second Language Pronunciation Instruction, Assessment, and Research"
Dan Nickolai
Associate Professor of French and Director of the Language Resource Center, Saint Louis University
This presentation will showcase the latest feature developments to the iSpraak…
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
10:00 am
Olin Library, 703
Join the Tompkins County Public Library and Cornell University Library for the 2024 Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon!
This year, our theme is Solidarity, with a focus on artists/art/art movements affected or displaced by violence. We’ll be meeting up in person on Friday, April 19, from 10am to 5pm in…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:45 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, G22
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) Seminar Series.
Co-sponsored: Department of History, Department of History of Art & Visual Studies
New colonial histories are being researched and written for the 1500s and 1600s to document the presence of people of the African Diaspora and…
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
12:00 pm
429 Rockefeller Hall, 429
The Latina/o Studies Program Fridays with Faculty luncheon seminar offers an opportunity for Latina/o and non-Latina/o students of all levels and disciplines to meet faculty and administrators from across the university for informal conversation about their current research/work in progress. All are welcome!
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Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
12:20 pm
Virtual
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) Seminar Series
The mid-1960s ushered in an era of the belief in technological fixes for many social ills. Chief among these was a push to end global hunger using designer seeds that could yield more and thus feed more people. These seeds, developed in…
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
1:00 pm
Virtual
In this discussion, Marielena Hincapié, Distinguished Immigration Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Cornell Law School, interviews Jonathan Blitzer, staff writer at The New Yorker and immigration expert, on his recently published book Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of…
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
11:00 am
Virtual
Join us on Zoom to practice your Portuguese skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you…
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
6:00 pm
Stimson Hall, G25
Come to the LRC to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Southeast Asia Program
South Asia Program
12:00 am
Cornell Tech, Roosevelt Island, TBD
Registration Link: https://pitch.emiconference.com/
The registration for the 2024 Cornell EMI Mark Mobius Pitch Competition is NOW OPEN. Apply by 4/10.
The Cornell EMI Mark Mobius Pitch Competition invites student entrepreneurs and recent graduates…
Past Events
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
4:45 pm
Mc Graw Hall, MCG165
A Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) Public Issues Forum funded by the US Department of Education's Title VI UISFL grant.
As the wife of Jamaica's former Prime Minister, Beverley Manley Duncan conversed with global players such as Fidel Castro, Winnie Mandela, and Pierre Trudeau.…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
12:20 pm
Statler Hall, 391
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) Seminar Series.
Co-sponsors: Departments of Communication, Information Science, and Science & Technology Studies
What does it mean to live in a “datafied” society? Life in media-saturated contexts implies the increasing transformation of people’s…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
5:00 pm
Rockefeller Hall, Schwartz Auditorium, Room 201
Lund Critical Debate
Climate change has a disproportionate impact on the world’s most vulnerable populations, yet climate crises also impact people across the full spectrum of wealth and power. How do we understand these varied impacts and design climate policy to maximize human well-being and justice on a…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Kavita Panjabi (Former Professor of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata)
Turtuk is now an Indian village on the India-Pakistan border in the Karakoram mountains, in the contested zone of Baltistan. People in Turtuk who went to sleep in their homes in Pakistan on the 13th of December…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:30 pm
Statler Hall, 291
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) Seminar Series.
This Seminar will be in Spanish.
Muntz Metal, an alloy of copper and zinc, remains a significant find in shipwrecks across the globe. In the 19th century, its introduction revolutionized maritime safety for the British Empire…