Past Events
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
5:00 pm
Sage Hall, B01
Registration Link in person: https://cvent.me/dx9K9m
Registration Link online: https://cornell.zoom.us/s/93668620332
A fireside chat between Andrew Karolyi and Iván Duque about Duque's new book: "Our…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Migrations Program
5:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Undergraduate Global Scholars are student leaders in the campus community. This competitive fellowship program is open to students from all colleges and majors with a passion for big global questions and speaking across differences. The Global Scholars program provides a toolkit of resources for weighing…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
12:00 pm
Virtual
Global Cornell is offering competitive faculty grants in collaboration with Global Hubs partners.
Apply for funding to explore potential research collaborations with colleagues at Hubs universities.
Global Hubs collaborative research seed grants bring together Cornell and partner institution faculty…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
11:00 am
Uris Hall, Terrace
International Fair showcases Cornell's global opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. Explore the fair and find out about international majors and minors, language study, study abroad, funding opportunities, global internships, Cornell Global Hubs, and more.
The International Fair is…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
5:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Quechua will be offered in Romance Studies this fall and spring thanks to a Fulbright FLTA Grant submitted by LACS. Since the language wasn’t taught last year, this will be the first opportunity for Freshman and Sophomore undergraduate students to enroll.
Quechua is an indigenous language family spoken by…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
9:00 am
Stocking Hall
Join the Cornell University Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and the South Asia Center at Syracuse University for the 2024 International Studies Summer Institute (ISSI)! This year, we will explore plant and animal migration around the world and at home. ISSI is a professional development workshop for…
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
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
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…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
5:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
In The Culture Trap, Derron Wallace argues that the overreliance on culture to explain Black students' achievement and behavior in schools is a trap that undermines the historical factors and institutional processes that shape how Black students experience schooling. This trap is consequential for a host of…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:45 pm
Uris Hall, Conference Room, 153
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
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!
…Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
South Asia Program
9:00 am
Cornell University
This inter-disciplinary conference brings together experts on questions of climate change, agrarian transformations and labor to help us reflect on the future of work.
Overview
The future of work is hot. Literally. Unpredictable seasons, droughts, floods, warming temperatures, rising seas, and a host…
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
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…
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…
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…
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
In 2008, Ecuador emerged at the forefront of the movement to recognize Nature as a subject of law, becoming the first, and to date the only, country to recognize and protect the rights of Nature at the Constitutional level. At the time of…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:00 pm
Stimson Hall, G25
"Language Policy, (Anti-)Racism, and Change"
Jeff Bale
Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, University of Toronto
This session begins with findings from a policy genealogy (Gale, 2001) of the Heritage Languages Program (HLP) in Ontario and the…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
9:00 am
Africana Studies and Research Center
This conference brings together scholars undertaking new research on questions of democratic resistance and sources of resilience in response to global evidence of democratic backsliding.
We will work together to analyze domestic and international factors, including institutions, civil society, political…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
South Asia Program
5:00 pm
A. D. White House, Guerlac Room
Associate Professor Aliyah Khan from the University of Michigan will give a talk titled "Diasporic Devotions: The Indo-Caribbean Islamic Qasida and Gendered Performance" on Thursday, March 21.
The Indo-Caribbean Islamic qasida is a diasporic devotional song that propagates Indian subcontinental…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
South Asia Program
12:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Payments made to non-state armed groups are often treated as predation. But rebels deploy multiple logics when constructing their taxation systems, many of which cannot be reduced to extortion. Rebels also use taxation as a “technology of governance” to resolve a number of social and political challenges related to…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
12:20 pm
Virtual
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) Seminar Series.
Co-sponsored by Einaudi's Democratic Threats and Resilience Initiative
After being governed by left-wing populism for most of the 21st century, Ecuador elected right-wing Guillermo Lasso as its new president in 2021. This…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
5:00 pm
Statler Hall, 165
Planning for study abroad? No matter how you identify or where you're studying, early planning is the key to a successful study abroad experience.
Join us for a facilitated discussion with fellow students about navigating your intersectional identities while studying abroad. A panel of returned study…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
4:45 pm
Virtual
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports U.S. citizens to study, conduct research in any field, or teach English in more than 150 countries. Students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are encouraged to start the process in their junior year. Recent graduates are welcome to apply through…