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 Cornell.

The Fulbright program at Cornell is administered by the Mario Einaudi Center for International studies. Applicants are supported through all stages of the application and are encouraged to start early by contacting fulbright@einaudi.cornell.edu.

Register for the information session. Can’t attend? Contact fulbright@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 for spring semester sessions.

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 Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program supports doctoral students conducting research in modern languages or area studies for six to 12 months. Open to U.S. citizens and permanent residents of the United States. Travel to Western European countries is not eligible.

Register for the information session. Can’t attend? Contact fulbright@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 for spring semester sessions.

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" (Cambridge University Press, 2023). The volume addresses the success of conservative parties in non-authoritarian contexts in contemporary Latin America. It places the core case of Argentina's Republican Proposal (PRO) party in comparative perspective with Argentina's Recrear and with Colombia's Democratic Center party and the Bolivia's Social Democratic Movement in an effort to understand their differing degrees of success in adverse circumstances. Based on long-term research using a variety of methods, this Element shows that success has been driven by three factors: programmatic innovation by personalistic leaders; organizational mobilization of both core and noncore constituencies; and elite fear of the 'Venezuela model.'

After the talk, Professors at ILR Santiago Anria and Candelaria Garay will briefly reflect on Vommaro’s book in light of the rise of an even more radical right-wing alternative in Argentina.

Gabriel Vommaro is Professor of Political Sociology at the EIDAES, Universidad de San Martín and Researcher at the Argentinian National Research Council, CONICET. He received his PhD from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He has published on political activism and political parties, political clientelism and the state, and political communication. His books include Conservatives against the Tide (Cambridge University Press, 2023), Diminished Parties. Democratic Representation in Contemporary Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2021; with JP Luna, R. Piñeiro & F. Rosenblatt); La larga marcha de Cambiemos (Siglo XXI, 2017) and Sociologie du clientélisme (La découverte, 2015; with H. Combes). His research has been published by Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales, Party Politics, LAPS and JLAS.

Talk by Mahruba Mowtushi (English and Humanities, BRAC University, Bangladesh)

'Wireless Broadcasting in Eastern Bengal: Sound, Nation, Modernity 1939-1979’ tells the story of forty years of expanding wireless soundscape in the eastern regions of Bengal. The wireless has been instrumental in Bengal in exploring modernist ideas about nation and identity. The wireless’ remarkable reach across the airspace of Bengal was responsible for creating an ‘imagined community’ among Bengalis, especially during and after the partitions of 1947 and 1971. This project, the first of its kind in examining radio culture in eastern Bengal, brings together original archival research on wireless to bear on the expanding scholarly interest in the history of broadcasting, its connection to nationalist imaginaries, and the semiotics of sound. The project is being reworked into a book that is divided into six chapters that are somewhat chronologically arranged: each chapter surveys a particular facet of radio culture in East Bengal involving a myriad moving and moveable elements — of people, equipment, ideas, practices, and sound — that created a new kind of awareness to mediated sound and the art of listening among Bengalis.

Mahruba Mowtushi completed her BA (2007-10) and MA (2010-11) in English literature from Queen Mary, University of London, and PhD in comparative literature from King’s College, University of London (2017). She writes for the Journal of Commonwealth Literature (JCL), Research in African Literature (RAL), and South Asian Review (SAR). In recent years, Mowthushi has published articles and book chapters on Bengali cinema, street art in Dhaka, South Asian Muslim food culture, and ‘transnational’ African writers of Bengali descent. She works in English and Bengali, and her research and writing interests cut across South Asian and African literature and cultural history. Her first monograph, Africa in the Bengali Literary Imagination: From Calcutta to Kampala, 1928-1973, is coming out in 2024 from Routledge. Dr. Mowtushi is currently working on two book-length projects on wireless broadcasting in Bengal and the rise of modern nation-states in South Asia.

Lecture by Aruni Kashyap (English and Creative Writing, University of Georgia)

Aruni Kashyap’s career as a writer, editor, translator, and academic has articulated the tension between the state and the individual, the public and the private, the fragility of democracy, and how storytelling is a politically charged engagement with society. Stories are at the heart of human rights work. By reading reports, fiction, poems, and essays about others, we are moved to take democratic action. This talk will discuss Kashyap’s journey as a writer from Assam and share how growing up under the duress of state violence has shaped the literature of his home state. By drawing on the works of internationally renowned and critically acclaimed writers such as Indira Goswami and much lesser-known writers, assassinated writers, and incarcerated writers, Kashyap will discuss how insurgency and state violence have shaped not only Assamese literature but also South Asian Literature and is re-shaping global perceptions about Indian Literature.

Aruni Kashyap is the author of His Father’s Disease: Stories and the novel The House With a Thousand Stories. Along with editing a collection of stories called How to Tell the Story of an Insurgency, he has also translated two novels from Assamese to English, published by Zubaan Books and Penguin Random House. Recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Faculty Research Grants in the Humanities and Arts Program, Arts Lab Faculty Fellowship, and the Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship for Creative Writing to the University of Edinburgh, his poetry collection, There is No Good Time for Bad News was nominated for the 58th Georgia Author of the Year Awards 2022, a finalist for the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize and Four Way Books Levis Award in Poetry. His short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in Catapult, Bitch Media, The Boston Review, Electric Literature, The Oxford Anthology of Writings from Northeast, The Kenyon Review, The New York Times, The Guardian UK, and others.

The Rabindranath Tagore Lecture Series in Modern Indian Literature is made possible by a gift from the late Cornell Professor Emeritus Narahari Umanath Prabhu and his wife, Sumi Prabhu. Inspired by Rabindranath Tagore’s expansive imagination, unbounded by geopolitical boundaries, the series has regularly featured prominent writers from across South Asia and its diasporas.

Cosponsored by the Departments of Comparative Literature and Literatures in English.

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 writing, several recent judgements of the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court, the highest body of constitutional interpretation, have significantly developed the content of the rights of Nature provisions recognized within the Constitutional text. However, these cases have not received extensive consideration by English-speaking academia. Pursuant to this, the primary purpose of this talk is to offer a critical evaluation of the main judgements that have developed the content of the rights of nature in Ecuador, focusing in particular on the judgements concerning the violation of the rights of Nature of forests, mangroves, rivers, and wild animals.

Andrés Martínez Moscoso is Associate Professor in Law, Director of the Institute of Legal Research of the College of Jurisprudence and Executive Secretary of ICON•S, International Society of Public Law. His main lines of research are Water Law; Environmental law; and Public Management. He is national and international consultant on issues related to water management and environmental law and participated to international research projects with the PNUD, Cornell University and European universities (such as the Antwerp University and the KULeuven) on topics of circular economy, waters, ecosystem of urban life and food supply chain. He is also a member of the World Commission on Environmental Law (CMDA) of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Co. Sponsor by by Dept. Of City & Regional Planning & Dept of Global Dev.