Join LASP, Luisa Trujillo (LASP internship facilitator with CONDESAN/Ecuador) and meet some of LASP's partners in Ecuador to learn more about this summer's digital internships. Application deadline extended to March 31st 2021.

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Explore options beyond academia and discover how to make informed decisions for career choices in government, non-profits and industry. Test-drive career opportunities through career panels, individual and group sessions, site visits and more. Visit website for more details.

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Join LASP, Luisa Trujillo (LASP internship facilitator with CONDESAN) and meet some of LASP's partners in Ecuador to learn more about this summer's digital internships. Application deadline extended to March 31st 2021.

Meeting Registration Link:…

Join LASP, Luisa Trujillo (LASP internship facilitator with CONDESAN) and meet some of LASP's partners in Ecuador to learn more about this summer's digital internships. Application deadline extended to March 31st 2021.

Meeting Registration Link:…

Film Overview

The documentary film The River and the Wall follows five friends on an immersive adventure through the unknown wilds of the Texas borderlands as they travel 1200 miles from El Paso to the Gulf of Mexico on horses, mountain bikes, and canoes. Conservation filmmaker Ben Masters realizes the…

Join LASP, Luisa Trujillo (LASP internship facilitator with CONDESAN) and meet some of LASP's partners in Ecuador to learn more about this summer's digital internships. Application deadline extended to March 31st 2021.

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Cosponsored by Latino/a Studies Program, Latin American Studies Program, and Comparative Literature

Melissa Castillo Planas' most recent book project, with Rutgers University Press’ new Global Race and Media series, A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture, examines the…

Latin American economies have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown measures adopted by national governments to address the public health crisis. Given the erosion of many of the social and economic gains of the early 2000s, what are the prospects for economic recovery in the months and years…

"Social Justice and the University Language Learner"
Cassandra Glynn (Concordia College), Pamela Wesely (University of Iowa), and Beth Wassell (Rowan University)

Teaching for and about social justice positively influences all students, yet integrating social justice education into the college…

The Language Resource Center offers grants for effective and innovative projects that enhance language instruction at Cornell. We welcome proposals from all languages and all levels of instruction. Lecturers, senior lecturers, and professors who are involved with language teaching and do not have visiting status…

Following the 1655 invasion of Spanish Jamaica, English forces waged guerilla warfare on two fronts. The first was against a small Spanish resistance that maintained a toehold on the island despite the initial Spanish surrender. The defeat of that beleaguered resistance, however, depended on the outcome of the…

Governments across the developing world rely on their armed forces for domestic policing operations. Advocates of these “mano dura” (iron fist) policies view them as necessary to control crime, while detractors claim they undermine human rights. We experimentally evaluate a military policing intervention in Cali,…

In the past 15 years, emerging markets (EM) have come to represent the largest share of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and made gains in economic development and political influence; in turn, their companies have taken on a new level of importance in driving innovation, local development and global competition…

Sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Paul Humphrey received his PhD in Modern Languages from the University of Birmingham (2013), and his research focuses on gender, sexuality and African-derived religions in Caribbean literature. His…

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports college graduates conducting research or teaching in any field in more than 150 countries. Applications are due in the fall; students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are encouraged to start the process in their junior year.

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The research seminar series is an initiative of the Emerging Markets Theme of the Cornell S.C. Johnson College of Business, which focuses on engaging students and faculty in discourse over the role of emerging markets in an increasingly connected world.

Every month, we will host a speaker to expand our…

In the last three decades, the Brazilian constitutional experience has moved towards the adoption of a model of judicial supremacy, in which the Supreme Court has the prerogative to give the last word on the attribution of meaning to constitutional norms. With the rise of a government of judges, the Supreme Court…

Is the Einaudi Center's International Relations minor for you? Here's a chance to find out. Graduates go on to successful careers in fields like international law, economics, agriculture, trade, finance, journalism, education, and government service.

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This LASP summer research grant provides funding for in-country research costs for graduate pre-dissertation work in Latin America or the Caribbean. (The grant does not cover international airfare; students should also apply for an Einaudi Center Travel Grant for airfare.) LASP will offer up to three research…

This is a second time during 24 February to meet the leaders if you couldn't make the 11am session. Sarayaku’s Kichwa communities were central to Ecuador’s first National Indigenous Uprising in 1990 and are at the forefront of indigenous rights mobilization. Come listen to four leaders from Sarayaku's…

Sarayaku’s Kichwa communities were central to Ecuador’s first National Indigenous Uprising in 1990 and are at the forefront of indigenous rights mobilization. Come listen to four leaders from Sarayaku's indigenous communities and learn more about indigenous cosmologies & human rights frameworks. Come…

The Cornell Contemporary China Initiative (CCCI) welcomes Ana Candela, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University to speak and discuss her extensive research on

From Compradors to Hacendados:
Cantonese Merchants In Peru and the Expanding Settler Colonial Frontiers of the Cantonese…

The Latin American Studies Program (LASP) invites Cornell Faculty, Staff, Graduate and Undergraduate Students, to attend in its Annual Research Symposium on February 20, 2021. The event is a great opportunity to hear about research related to Latin America in a number of varied disciplines and in different stages…

Hosted by Cornell’s Emerging Markets Institute, the Emerging Markets Webinar Series is a monthly initiative that highlights key concepts and ideas occurring in emerging markets. The theme for 2021 is “Building Bridges and Encouraging Dialogue,” with online sessions profiling four emerging markets: Africa, Latin…

Sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

This found footage, single-channel video installation contemplates borders, migration, and human-animal relations in the context of bilateral management of “transboundary pests,” particularly gregarious…

"Addressing Speech Comprehensibility in the Second Language Classroom: What 25 Years of Research Might Tell Us About Classroom Pedagogy"
Dustin Crowther
Assistant Professor of Second Language Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

In his 2005 publication, John Levis highlighted the…

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides full funding for graduate and professional students conducting research or teaching in any field in more than 150 countries. Open to U.S. citizens only.

The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program supports doctoral students conducting research…

Existing work presents mixed findings on the impact of weather events on international mobility. Relying on fine-grained data over a long-time span (1980-2019) in the Mexico-U.S. setting, we turn to machine learning (ML) tools to first determine if weather events can predict migration choices of 150,000+…

The Migration Studies minor is a university-wide, interdisciplinary undergraduate minor that prepares students to understand the historical and contemporary contexts and factors that drive international migration and shape migrant experiences around the globe. This minor draws on the rich course offerings found…

The Latin American Studies Minor is an undergraduate minor across disciplines that will allow students to explore the history, culture, government, politics, economy and languages of Latin America and the Caribbean. Qualifying courses can be found in almost every college.

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