Past Events
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
12:20 pm
Uris Hall, G08
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CANCELLED--A legacy of the transatlantic slave trade, Brazil is home to the largest number of African descendants outside Africa and the greatest number of domestic workers in the world. Drawing on ten years of interviews and ethnographic research, Dr. Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman examines…
Mario 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 Einaudi Dissertation Proposal Development Program (DPD) supports 12 PhD students annually by offering seminars, workshops, mentoring sessions, and up to $5,000 for summer research. Applicants’ research projects must focus on global issues, but the proposed research setting may be international or domestic.…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
4:45 pm
Uris Hall, G-08
Learn about global summer interships from the Institute for African Development and Latin American and Caribbean Studies program, part of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.
Annual internships from these programs send undergraduate students to Ghana, Zambia, or Ecuador for 6-8 weeks over the…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:45 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) Public Issues Forum.
In 1979, the Caribbean island of Grenada became the first and so far only nation in the history of the English-speaking world to declare itself revolutionary, oust its elected government, and adopt socialist approaches. Visits from…
Mario 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
In this info session for graduate students, learn about Fulbright at Cornell.
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides full funding for graduate and professional students conducting research in any field or teaching in more than 150 countries. Open to U.S. citizens only.
The Fulbright-Hays…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:45 pm
Uris Hall, G-08
Get connected with the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program (LACS) to learn more about undergraduate opportunities at this information session.
LACS offers an interdisciplinary minor, summer internships, summer language grants, and other funding opportunities. The undergraduate minor spans across…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:45 pm
Uris Hall, G02
Get connected with the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program (LACS) to learn more about graduate opportunities at this information session.
Opportunities include research funding like the LACS summer research grant, which provides between $500 to $1,500 for predissertation work in Latin America or the…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:00 pm
Stimson Hall, G25
"Reverse Design and its Role in Curricular and Programmatic Articulation"
Catherine Baumann
Senior Instructional Professor and Director, University of Chicago Language Center
Reverse design, also called backward design, is a framework for curricular planning that begins "at the…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
2:00 pm
Virtual
Two of Latin America’s most forceful dissident voices will explore the power and limits of fiction and other forms of creative expression in a public online conversation organized by Ithaca City of Asylum and co-hosted by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS).
Sergio Ramírez Mercado (born…
Mario 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
5:30 pm
Cornell University, Rhodes Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall
Bartels World Affairs Lecture
Fantasy author N. K. Jemisin discusses how she learned to build unreal worlds by studying our own—and how we might in turn imagine a better future for our world, and reshape it to fit that dream.
Jemisin's lecture kicks off The Future—a new Global Grand Challenge at…
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:30 pm
Olin Library, 107
Sometimes dismissed as mere fantasies, utopian capitalist experiments by the ultra-rich have in fact been tried in many places on earth, often with disastrous consequences for the local inhabitants, according to Ray Craib, Marie Underhill Noll Professor of American History.
In a live, hybrid (in-person and…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:45 pm
165 McGraw Hall
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) Seminar Series, Co-sponsored by: City and Regional Planning (CRP) and the Cornell Center for Health Equity (CCHEq).
A discussion with three Puerto Rican community leaders from Caño Martín Peña CLT, Taller Salud and La Colmena Cimarrona who will be speaking…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:45 pm
165 Mc Graw Hall
A discussion with three Puerto Rican community leaders from Caño Martín Peña CLT, Taller Salud and La Colmena Cimarrona who will be speaking about strategies of resistance, community solidarities and emancipatory processes to advance collective land ownership and land-based repair mechanisms that improve access to…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:45 pm
Stimson Hall, G25
"Fail Better: Learning to Participate in Another Culture"
Mari Noda
Professor Emeritus in Japanese, The Ohio State University
Learning a language is like learning to play a new game. Since the rules of the game are determined by the culture, players new to the culture will experience…
Mario 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
3:30 pm
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art - Cornell University, Wing Lecture Room, Floor 2L
Artistic freedom is a fundamental democratic right.
Creative expression, from poetry to street art, theater, and literature, is often at the vanguard of political resistance and change, and so artists are some of the first to be silenced. In this panel, speakers discuss their own experiences as artists in…
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: Romance Studies & Department of Performance & Media Studies
Through a long-term personal project called What Remains, Lexi Parra has been documenting the effects of violence, repression by the State, and power of…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
12:00 pm
Virtual
An Environmental and Technological History of Cold War Mega-Projects in Latin America
Weaponizing Geography demonstrates the consequences of unbuilt mega-projects. Sebastian Diaz Angel will discuss the untold story of how a series of high modernist Cold War projects came into being and what their proponents…
Mario 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, Uris Hall Terrace
The annual 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…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
3:30 pm
Stimson Hall, G25
"Language Revitalization, Cultural Reclamation, and Global Indigeneity"
Américo Mendoza-Mori
Lecturer and Faculty Director for the Latinx Studies Working Group, Harvard University
In recent decades, revitalization and reclamation programs for Indigenous languages have emerged at…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:30 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Find out more about this study abroad opportunity in Ecuador. Politics of Sustainable Development in Latin America is a multi-term, four-credit course that will bring students onsite in Ecuador during the January term. Students will travel to Quito, Ecuador to begin their field study at Cornell's Global Hub…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard (English Language and Literature, University of Chicago)
“Is the ‘Coolie Woman’ A Banker?” revisits the figure of the “coolie woman” during Indian indenture in the British West Indies. Histories of indentured Indian women have focused on the experience of recruitment, labor…
Mario 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
A.D. White House
Registration for this event is now closed. You can ask to be put on the waitlist be emailing SBP84@Cornell.edu
The 2023 International Studies Summer Institute (ISSI) will explore testimonies of migration. The ISSI is a professional development workshop for practicing…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
South Asia Program
9:00 am
Goldwin Smith Hall, G64
The often-fraught pathways of human migration come alive through art. From storytelling to innovative sculpture, theater, cartoons, and painting, students, faculty, and artists supported by the Migrations Global Grand Challenge will tell their stories and showcase their art.
Anindita Banerjee, associate…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
11:00 am
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Film Forum
How might we learn to redream dangerously again?
Join us for a two-day symposium that brings together scholars, creative writers, and activists to discuss and envisage how the theories, practices, and visions of the roles of love, identity, and land are complexly intertwined with (trans)national structured…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
12:30 pm
Sage Hall, 134
Registration Link: https://cglink.me/2cm/r2042285
The Cornell S.C. Johnson College of Business Emerging Markets Theme, in collaboration with China Institute for Economic Research (CICER), the Cornell China Center, and the Emerging Markets Institute, brings…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
12:25 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Dr. Dolors Armenteras will present her analysis of the patterns and impacts of forest degradation in the Colombian Amazon for more than 20 years. Her presentation will share insights and updates from the remote sensing of forest dynamics and land use patterns following the 2016 peace process in Colombia.
…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:30 pm
Uris Hall, G-08
A Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program Public Issues Forum Panel.
About the Panelists and the Moderator:
Beth Geglia is a public anthropologist focused on processes of privatization in urban and rural settings, tech capitalism, and social movements. Her research examines the development of…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
12:25 pm
Stocking Hall, 201
In Latin America, dairy production faces serious challenges such as low-quality forage, diseases (infectious, metabolic, and parasitic), climate change, and insufficient access to technology, markets, infrastructure, and resources. Nevertheless, the dairy industry directly impacts the socioeconomic status of…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:30 pm
Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, G155
A LACS 60th Anniversary Special Seminar
In this event, historians Tessa Murphy (Syracuse) and Heather Roller (Golgate) will join LACS director Ernesto Bassi in a conversation about Murphy’s and Roller’s recently published, award-winning books The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for European Studies
3:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Nationalism Unsettled presents a critical exploration of national imaginaries that disturb, defy or deviate from mainstream nation-state narratives, demanding renewed consideration of the nature of nationalism. In tackling this subject, we bring to the table speakers with cross-disciplinary expertise, spanning…