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Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

5:00 pm

Warren Hall, 175

LACS Weekly Seminar

The environmental crisis accentuates inequality. In Latin America and the Caribbean, the most vulnerable populations often reside in informal, precarious, or popular settlements, which are more exposed to climate events and generally have less access to infrastructure and ecosystem…

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

1:30 pm

Virtual

This is a meeting in which students of Portuguese and the Portuguese-speaking community at Cornell will meet students, professors, teachers, and representatives of Afro-Brazilian organizations to read (or partially read) "O Olho Azul" by Toni Morrison.

The meeting will be in Portuguese and it is…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

5:00 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Risking their lives along a network of dangerous Colombian highways to confronting the wounds of leaving home through poetry, Nos Vemos Pronto documents first-hand the treacherous and diverse experiences of Venezuelan refugees in Colombia. Filmed in various regions throughout Colombia, from the Venezuelan border to…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

12:25 pm

Uris Hall, G08

The story of TodoSomos, two years on the Venezuelan Colombian border, rigorously documenting the humanitarian crisis through the collection of first-person narrative and how we created an archive of the story that is undeniable and inconvenient to those responsible for the crisis.

TodoSomos on the Colombian…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

4:00 pm

Physical Sciences Building, 401

Drug trafficking and drug-related violence have increased dramatically in Latin America's Southern Cone during the last decade. Illicit activities have increased and diversified in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay in a way that threatens political and social inclusion. The talk will discuss the evolution of drug-…

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

1:00 pm

Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Black Box Theatre

Celebrating Teatrotaller’s 30th Anniversary!

Jorge Silva ’12 a Cornell alum and managing director of the Wirtz Center for Performing Arts at Northwestern University will be joining us in person to lead a neo-futurist workshop.

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

5:00 pm

Virtual

An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed her maternal ancestors were Sephardic grandees. Yet she found herself at a dead end when it came to her grandmother’s maternal line. In this talk, Professor Leibman…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

South Asia Program

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

Comparative Muslim Societies Program

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Institute for African Development

Institute for European Studies

11:30 am

G10 Biotech

Faculty and staff are invited to join for an overview and open discussion of the Global Hubs initiative.

Vice Provost Wendy Wolford will explain the purpose of the Global Hubs, and faculty leads for several of the Hubs locations will discuss their experiences with institutional partners and ways for faculty…

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

12:25 pm

Virtual

Dr. Tassiana Oliveira is a professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY).

This event will be in English. Everybody is welcome!

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

4:45 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Alicia is helpless. War memories invade her mind like threatening thunder. Uprooted by the armed conflict, she tries to reshape her life in La Sirga, a dilapidated hostel on the shores of a great lake in the highlands of the Andes. There, on a swampy and murky beach, she will try to settle down until her fears and…

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Institute for European Studies

Einaudi Center for International Studies

4:00 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Autocracy has been on the rise in global political affairs over the past decade, becoming a focal point of academic and public debate. Less attention has been focused, however, on the rise of social protest movements that contest authoritarian regimes in a large number of countries. This panel seeks to draw…

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

12:25 pm

Virtual

Dr. Valquíria P. Tenório is a professor at the Instituto Federal de São Paulo, campus Matão.

This event will be in English. Q/A in English and Portuguese. Everybody is welcome!

WHEN: March 3, 2023 at 12:25PM

WHER: Zoom. Registration in advance is require.

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

11:30 am

ILR Conference Center, 423

Social Movements as a Way of Life: How African American and Latinx Experiences Change the Ways We Think About US History

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

5:00 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Gary Wilder is a Professor in the Ph.D. Program of Anthropology, with cross-appointments in History and French, at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he is also Director of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change.

Professor Wilder is the author of Concrete Utopianism: The…

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

1:00 pm

Virtual

Celebrating Teatrotaller’s 30th Anniversary!

Douglas Oviedo, Honduran born activist, youth pastor, rapper, and writer came to the United States with one of the 2018 caravans. Join us via zoom for a conversation about his migrant trajectory and his play, “Caravaneros” on March 1 at 1:00 pm.

Register…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

9:00 am

Willard Straight Hall, Memorial Room

We invite the Cornell community to participate in the Special Seminar and Poster Session Scaling-up Nature-based Solutions in Latin America to bring together Cornell faculty, scientists and students, international fellows, experts from Latin America, and finance specialists to find joint solutions for challenges on…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

12:25 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Karl Offen's presentation explores a multigenerational family letter collection to illustrate the relationship between family biography and Atlantic geographies from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. Among the 300 documents in the letter collection that he and a colleague tracked down from…

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

4:45 pm

Goldwin Smith Hall, G22

The Institute for Comparative Modernities (ICM) hosts Department of History faculty member and Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) Ernesto Bassi for a lecture on his current research.

Abstract

During the late eighteenth century, Santa Marta (located in South America’s…

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

Over 500 Cornellians have crossed the globe with the Fulbright U.S. Student Program since the 1940s. You could be the next!

The program, administered by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, supports college graduates conducting research or teaching English in more than 150 countries. The…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

9:00 am

Physical Sciences Building, 401

Saturday, February 18th, 2023 -- 9:00am-4:30pm (breakfast available at 8:30am) FULL SCHEDULE HERE

Physical Sciences Building (PSB) 401

A territory, understood as a site to be defended, is anchored by parameters of exclusivity and control. Territory is often associated with physical land mass,…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

4:30 pm

Physical Sciences Building, 401

Friday, February 17th -- 4:30pm-7:30pm & Saturday, February 18th, 2023 -- 9:00am-4:30pm (breakfast available at 8:30am)

Physical Sciences Building (PSB) 401 FULL SCHEDULE HERE

A territory, understood as a site to be defended, is anchored by parameters of exclusivity and control. Territory is…

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

5:00 pm

Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Film Forum

Join us for a Professional Directions: A Conversation with Gabriella Moses on Thursday, Feb 16 at 5pm in the Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. (430 College Ave.)

Free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Latina/o Studies Program

Gabriella A. Moses is an award-winning…

Einaudi Center for International 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

4:30 pm

Uris Hall, G-02

What do you do when the site where you planned to do your research has a major disruption making your research infeasible? What do you do when a loved one gets sick and you need to find more time for caregiving in the last semester of your program? What do you do when you get a job—a year earlier than you…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

5:00 pm

Stimson Hall, G25

"Language and Peace: Joining Peace Pedagogies and Peace Linguistics in Language Education"
Larisa Kasumagic- Kafedzic
Fulbright Visiting Scholar Fellow, Cornell University
Associate Professor, University of Sarajevo

Efforts toward peacebuilding in language education around the…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

12:25 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Joshua Savala relates that the War of the Pacific (1879–1883) looms large in the history of Peru and Chile, and has been the structuring element in historical scholarship. In this talk, based on my recent book Beyond Patriotic Phobias, I explore points of collaboration and parallel histories shared between…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Institute for African Development

South Asia Program

2:00 pm

Virtual

Borderlands, migrations, and movement are prevalent themes in post-secondary education. They connect students to seemingly disparate experiences in an increasingly inter-connected world. How do we engage with these topics to teach effectively about diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice? In this workshop…

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

4:30 pm

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies , G-08 Uris Hall

Get involved with the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and the Language Resource Center to enhance your language skills!

Through resources on campus, students of all levels can improve global language skills, apply for funding to practice language abroad, and more.

Opportunities include…

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

Learn more about Fulbright opportunities for graduate students that fund your international research or teaching from a Fulbright advisor at Cornell.

Fulbright at Cornell is administered by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. The Einaudi Center's Fulbright advisor works with you to…

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

2:30 pm

Willard Straight Hall, Memorial Room

Open up a whole new world by studying abroad!

Cornellians who have studied abroad are sharing their experiences at the Office of Global Learning's study abroad fair. You'll learn about where in the world you can study, what programs work for you and your major, and how study abroad can enhance…

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

4:30 pm

B20 Lincoln Hall

Tarcísio Ramos is a Brazilian musician, poet, writer. This event will be lecture and performance.

This event is free. Everybody is welcome. Come and join us!

This event is sponsored by LACS (Latin American and Caribbean Studies), Department of Music and Romance Studies.