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 disciplines and allows you to explore the history, culture, government, politics, economy, and languages of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Register here.

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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.

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 Caribbean. For specialized research in planning or gender, the Lourdes Benería Award provides support for summer research costs.

At this session, you will also learn about the Latin American studies graduate minor.

Register for the event here.

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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.

Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) Seminar Series.

Bolivian writer Liliana Colanzi will read excerpts from her short story book Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro (You Glow in the Dark, New Directions 2024, winner of the Ribera del Duero Prize 2022), and will talk to Rosamaría Durán about her relationship with science fiction, horror, and the fantastic, and her interest in nuclear power and timescales. There will be a Q&A. Conducted in Spanish.

Liliana Colanzi is an Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature at the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University. Her research focuses on popular genres in Latin American literature (science fiction, horror, the fantastic); she teaches creative writing in Spanish as well. She has published the short story books Vacaciones permanentes (2010), Nuestro mundo muerto (Our Dead World, Dalkey Archive Press, 2017), and Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro (You Glow in the Dark, New Directions, 2024), which won the Ribera del Duero prize in 2022. In 2015 she won the Aura Estrada prize (Mexico). The Hay Festival Cartagena included her among the best Latin American writers under 40 (Bogota39, 2017).

Learn more about the Laidlaw Leadership and Research Program for undergraduates, tips for connecting with faculty research mentors, and advice for writing a successful application.

Laidlaw 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 program provides generous support to carry out internationally focused research, develop leadership skills, engage with community projects overseas, and become part of a global network of like-minded scholars from more than a dozen universities.

Register for the information session here.

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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.

Learn more about the migration studies minor and international relations minor—offered by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. Both minors are open to all Cornell undergraduates and include courses from across the university.

With a focus on global migration experiences, the migration studies minor prepares students to understand the historical and contemporary contexts and factors that drive international migration.

The international relations minor offers students the chance to study the politics, economics, history, languages, and cultures of the world.

Register here.

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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.

This talk emphasizes the significance of kabaklaan, or irreverent queer performances often dismissed as lower class, to the Philippine Pink Power Movement (PPM). The PPM was comprised of nationwide rallies, viral new media, and other forms of solidarity building that sought to elect former Vice-President Leni Robredo to the Philippine presidency. Crucial to PPM’s longevity were expressions of kabaklaan, including drag shows, campy videos, and beauty pageant satires. These wayward performances inspired diverse Filipinos to participate in national politics and to memorialize martial law. They also cultivated “queer echo chambers,” or systems of informational exchange that foregrounded sexual minority histories, cultures, and knowledges. PPM’s kabaklaan served as a fitting response to the scenes of normative domesticity that Ferdinand Marcos Jr. celebrated. They also critiqued the forms of toxic masculinity that Rodrigo Duterte's administration espoused. At its core, this talk offers a reparative reading of the 2022 presidential elections. It argues that despite Robredo’s loss, much can be learned from "Pink revolutions" that center queer pleasure, joy, and hope. Such revolutions can continue to fuel demands for social change and continue to replenish dreams of better worlds.

Dr. Robert Diaz is Associate Professor in the Women and Gender Studies Institute (WGSI) and Director of the Canadian Studies Program at University of Toronto. His research examines how queer cultures in the United States, Canada, Asia, and the Philippines negotiate and resist marginalization. He is co-editor of Diasporic Intimacies: Queer Filipinos and Canadian Imaginaries (Northwestern University Press, 2017) and Beauty and Brutality: Manila and Its Global Discontents (Temple University Press, 2023). His writing has also appeared in Signs, GLQ, TSQ, Journal of Asian American Studies, Asian Diasporic Visual Culture and the Americas, and Canadian Literature. Dr. Diaz has also collaborated with diverse artists, activists, and community organizations to address the systemic barriers to access and equity.

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 authoritarian contexts where their ability to produce art was violently suppressed.

These artists have all found haven at Cornell. Their art speaks to the trauma of authoritarianism and the hope for change.

Speakers:

Sharifa “Elja” Sharifi, Afghan visiting scholar and 2022–23 Artist Protection Fund Fellow at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art

Pedro X. Molina, Nicaraguan political cartoonist and visiting critic with the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Khadija Monis '24, Afghan student, poet and artist

Rachel Beatty Riedl (moderator), director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and John S. Knight Professor of International Studies

The event is sponsored by the Johnson Museum and Global Cornell as part of the university’s theme this year on The Indispensable Condition: Freedom of Expression at Cornell. The event will be held in person and livestreamed.

"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 end." Targeted outcomes and their assessment form the basis for making the many decisions that belong to the process of curricular design and development. In this workshop, a reverse design model will be introduced, and its components defined and described. Multiple concrete examples of how reverse design was applied to solve curricular challenges at the course, course sequence, and programmatic level will be shared.

Bio: Catherine C. Baumann is a Senior Instructional Professor and Director of the University of Chicago Language Center (CLC). She received her Ph.D. in Second Languages and Cultures Education at the University of Minnesota, specializing in reading comprehension and language testing. She directed the German language program at the University of Chicago from 1999-2019, and now oversees all programs in the CLC. She consults for language programs in higher education on a variety of curricular and assessment-related issues.

This event will be held in person in G25 Stimson and will also be streamed live over Zoom (registration required). Join us at the LRC or on Zoom.

The event is free and open to the public. Campus visitors and members of the public must adhere to Cornell's public health requirements for events.

In Remnants, tattooed and scar-bearing bodies reveal a larger history, as the lived trauma of genocide is understood through bodies, skin, and—in what remains of those lives a century afterward—bones. Gathering individual memories and archival fragments of women survivors, Elyse Semerdjian offers a feminist interpretation of the Armenian Genocide, and issues a call to break open the archival record in order to embrace affect and memory.

Elyse Semerdjian is the Robert Aram and Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen and Marian Mugar Chair of Armenian Genocide Studies at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. She was a past recipient of Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities Fellowship on the theme of "Skin" from 2016-2017.