Perspectives in Global Development: Fall 2022 Seminar Series Speaker: Hubert H. Humphrey Panel Agricultural sustainability and climate change are inextricably intertwined. Agriculture is highly vulnerable to adverse effects from climate change including higher incidence of extreme weather events, invasive weeds and…

Brenda Yeoh (National University of Singapore) gives the 12th Frank H. Golay Memorial Lecture.

The prevailing neoliberal labour migration regime in Asia is underpinned by principles of enforced transience: the overwhelming majority of migrants—particularly those seeking low skilled, low-waged work—are…

The Einaudi Center's Research Travel Grants for Graduate Students provide international travel support for Cornell graduate students conducting short-term research or fieldwork outside the United States.

If you’re traveling between the United States and a host country for activities directly related to…

Historical thinking is one of the most critical skills a college student can acquire. Teaching globally is a vital approach to understanding our contemporary world.

How do we combine the resources available to us from archives, libraries, and online collections to inform our understanding of the past and…

Sunisa Manning

Writer

Sunisa Manning’s work challenges us to consider how fiction can translate movements across borders while remaining loyal to their origin stories. Her recent novel A Good True Thai describes the Thai 1970s student radicalization and revolution. This reading and talk will extend…

The Lingua Mater competition invites students to translate Cornell's Alma Mater into a different language and submit a video of the performed translation. The inaugural Lingua Mater student competition took place in 2018 as part of Cornell's Global Grand Challenges Symposium. The top three videos received…

Tania Li and Pujo Semedi

Tania Li: Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto

Pujo Semedi: Associate Professor of Anthropology, Gadjah Mada University

Plantation Life examines the structure and governance of Indonesia’s contemporary oil palm plantations, which supplies 50% of the world’s…

Tacet(i) performs “Global Sound,” a music curation of diverse composers: Daniel Sabzghabaei (Iran/US), Thanakarn Schofield (Thailand), Jia Yi Lee (Singapore), Miles Jefferson Friday (US), Travis Christopher Johns (US), Laura Cetilia (US), and John Eagle (US). Featuring Ariana Kim on violin.

Part of Extended…

If you love languages, our funding opportunities are for you! Learn one of more than 50 languages offered at Cornell with a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship or Rare and Distinctive Language Fellowship. Opportunities are open to both undergraduate and graduate students.

FLAS fellowships support…

In the early decades of the twentieth century, the Smithsonian Institution, in collaboration with the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and various federal agencies, sought to oversee the preparation of a Philippine flora; that is, a taxonomical catalogue of the islands’ botanical riches. Boosters originally…

The Lingua Mater competition invites alumni to translate Cornell's Alma Mater into a different language and submit a video of the performed translation. The inaugural Lingua Mater alumni competition took place in 2018 as part of Cornell's Global Grand Challenges Symposium. Winners included the Cornell…

Eddy Malesky

Professor of Political Economy, Duke University

Are the poor ambivalent about globalization? Do they fail to understand the new economic opportunities and constraints associated with greater market integration? Despite the effects of trade liberalization on job opportunities and losses,…

Hitomi Fujimura

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at York Centre for Asian Research, York University in Toronto

In this talk, Hitomi will lecture on how the Karen Baptists who later established the KNA nurtured the idea of claiming national identity through multi-layered settings. The analysis entails a…

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…

Talk by Dr. Natali Pearson

In 1998, the Belitung, a ninth-century western Indian Ocean–style vessel, was discovered in Indonesian waters. Onboard was a full cargo load, likely intended for the Middle Eastern market, of over 60,000 Chinese Tang dynasty (619–907) ceramics, gold, and other precious objects. It…

Victoria Reyes

Associate Professor, Gender & Sexuality Studies, University of California, Riverside

Many enter the academy with dreams of doing good; this is a book about how the institution fails them, especially if they are considered "outsiders."

Tenure-track, published author…

Develop your dissertation on global issues with a toolkit of resources!

The Einaudi Dissertation Proposal Development Program (DPD) supports 12 PhD students annually. Applicants’ research projects must focus on global issues, but the proposed research setting may be international or domestic.

Over the…

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports college graduates conducting research or teaching in any field in more than 150 countries. Join this Einaudi Center Student Info Session to find out if Fulbright is right for you!

Applications are due in the fall. Students who wish to begin the program immediately…

Contributing authors of Children and Youths’ Migration in a Global Landscape (Emerald, 2022) are joining the Migrations initiative to speak about their work and writing.

The edited volume asks how transnational mobility shapes the lives of young people and in each chapter, scholars present the stories of…

Meredith Talusan

Sarah Lawrence College and Condé Nast author and editor

Trans and Filipinx identities have the common quality of existing in liminal and contested spaces as they encompass wildly divergent understandings of gender, sexuality, nationality, race, and origin. Talusan explores the…

Are you interested in a possible career in public service, and maybe specifically with the U.S. Department of State? Ever wondered what it's like to work in various capacities at State -- ranging from a Foreign Service Officer to policy analyst and intelligence officer -- or how to go about preparing yourself…

Volunteer with the Foreign Language Introduction Program! FLIP has introduced thousands of children in Upstate New York to world languages and cultures. Volunteers from Cornell and surrounding communities who speak foreign languages provide fun ways for K–12 students to learn about and engage with our increasingly…

Nicholas Kuipers

Assistant Professor of Political Science & Presidential Young Professor, National University of Singapore

Many countries select civil servants via examinations. In this talk, I argue that the outcomes of these tests prompt attitudinal shifts on the part of winners and losers—…

Please join us for this online panel & discussion that centers queer & feminist methods for approaching Philippine martial law history: the wayward informality and queer urbanism of Manila during a time of martial law (Lopez), the revolutionary intimacies of the anti-Marcos movement in the U.S (Hanna), and…

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.

These Joint Research and Seed Grants have been established to bring faculty from partner institutions…

Is the Einaudi Center's international relations minor for you? Join this Einaudi Center Student Info Session to find out.

In the international relations minor, you study the politics, economics, history, languages, and cultures of the world and gain a fresh perspective on your major field of study.…

Ruth Toulson

Professor of Anthropology, Maryland Institute College of Art

Throughout history, dead bodies have been exhumed to rewrite the past. Their burial places have justified redrawing the boundaries of nations. And preserved bodies have made visible the continuing relevance of their ideological…

The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) offers an interdisciplinary minor, summer internships, and other funding opportunities. Join this Einaudi Center Student Info Session to find out what LACS has in store for you!

The Latin American studies minor is an undergraduate minor across…

Dr. Robert S. Wicks, Professor Emeritus and Former Director of the Miami University Art Museum, will speak on “Numismatic Method in the Study of Early Southeast Asian Coinage” as part of the “Curatorial Practicum: Commerce, Currencies, and Commodities: Reconfiguring the Archive” (ARTH 4110/6010) course. The lecture…

The Laidlaw Undergraduate Leadership and Research Program promotes ethical leadership and international research around the world—starting with the passionate leaders and learners found on campuses like Cornell.

Open to first- and second-year students, the two-year Laidlaw program provides generous support…