Come to the LRC this summer 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 more than you might think. Conversation Hours are open to any learner, including the public.

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 challenging questions and builds your practical skills in public debates. For the 2025-26 school year, scholars will bring their skills as writers, scholars, activists and artists, poets, hands-on practitioners, and more to study and promote the impacts of international aid. By the end of the program, you'll be an active global citizen and champion for social impact.

Applications are due Sunday, September 14.

Can’t attend? Contact programs@einaudi.cornell.edu.

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The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies hosts info sessions for graduate and for undergraduate students to learn more about funding opportunities, international travel, research, and internships. View the full calendar of fall semester sessions.

Please join the Cornell University Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and the South Asia Center at Syracuse University for the 2025 International Studies Summer Institute (ISSI)! ISSI is a professional development workshop for practicing and pre-service K-12 educators. This year we will explore the theme of global media literacy.

Participants will engage in sessions that explore both the challenges that new media technologies and practice have enabled globally, as well as how to assist students in the US to understand and analyze information from around the world. Scholars from Cornell University and Syracuse University will share their research and expertise from across different regions of the world, including Africa, East Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Sessions will include a workshop that will introduce K -12 educators to the key principles and practices related to media literacy education from a global perspective, connecting it to questions of power structures, global flows of media, and democratic practices. Another session will focus on the role of artificial intelligence and cultural bias in social media content moderation in international contexts. This year’s ISSI will also feature presentations by staff from the Johnson Museum of Art and the Cornell University Library, sharing resources for teachers.

Speakers include:

Wunpini Mohammed, Assistant Professor of Comunication, Cornell Univesity

Srivi Ramasubramanian, Newhouse Professor and Endowed Chair, Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University

Hannah Toombs, Engaged Learning Librarian and Librarian for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Olin Library, Cornell University

Farhana Shahid, PhD Candidate, Information Science, Cornell University

Carol Hockett, Hintsa Family Manager of School and Family Programs, & Krystyna Piccorossi, Post-Baccalaureate Fellow in Pre-K–12 Museum Education, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University

Brian Sengdala, PhD Candidate, Performing & Media Arts, Cornell University

EXTENDED deadline: 20

ISSI program schedule:

Morning

8:30 - Check-in & breakfast

9:00 - Welcome: Dr. Ellen Lust, Einaudi Center Director

9:15 - Hannah Toombs, PhD, Engaged Learning & LACS Librarian, Cornell University

10:00 - Dr. Srivi Ramasubramanian, Newhouse School, Syracuse University

11:00 - Breakout sessions with Code^Shift team

11:40 - Report out with Dr. Srivi Ramasubramanian

Afternoon

12:10 - Lunch offered to all participants

1:15 - Carol Hockett & Krystyna Piccorossi, Johnson Museum, Cornell University

2:00 - Dr. Wunpini Mohammed, Dept of Communication, Cornell University

3:05 - Farhana Shahid, PhD Cand, Information Science, Cornell University

3:50 - Brian Sengdala, PhD Cand, PMA, Cornell University

4:30 - Closing: Sarah Pattison, PhD, Einaudi’s Assoc Director of Academic Programs

(photo credit: Adam Cohn)

As the semester wraps up, the Cornell Korean Language Program celebrates our students’ achievements at the 16th Annual Showcase—a vibrant gathering of language enthusiasts, performers, and supporters. The event featured creative student projects highlighting Korean culture and language, recognized outstanding students with certificates and gifts, and showcased dynamic Korea-related performances blending traditional percussion with modern K-pop and K-hip hop. Marking 16 years of excellence, the showcase reflected our program’s growth and the strong sense of community we continue to build, looking ahead to an even brighter future. Baked goods from Paris Baguette will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Doors open at 7:15pm.

This event has been postponed until fall 2025.

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Join the Einaudi Center and researchers from across campus for three-minute speed talks and community conversation on ways to organize and push back against fast-moving federal actions.

Speakers will jump off from interdisciplinary and international research to provide a fresh perspective on current U.S. public policy and the potential for effective collective action. Together we'll look at challenges faced and solutions found in a variety of academic fields and places around the world—to help us think through how to unify disparate interests and find allies to resist democratic backsliding.

The event features clusters of speed talks on related topics, with time for Q&A and conversation on each topic.

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Speakers

David A. Bateman | GovernmentSidney Tarrow (IES) | GovernmentPrisca Jöst | Public Policy

More speakers to be confirmed.

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Sponsors

This conversation is hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, partnering with Cornell Brooks School of Public Policy's Governance and Local Development Institute and Data and Democracy Lab.

Find out how graduate and undergraduate students can get started at Einaudi.