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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 together scholars to provide thought leadership on the role of emerging markets – and emerging market multinationals – in the global economy.

On 3/24, Scott Rozelle, Stanford University

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In this seminar, we will explore promising avenues to improve the science policy interface in Africa. The seminar will cover multiple themes under this broad umbrella, including (a) reviews of productive modes of interfacing science and policy, (b) detailed explorations of the policy-making process in the region, including current obstacles to building strong S/P interfaces, (c) efforts to train the region’s scientists in policy communication, (d) the role of mass media, new media and civil society in the process, (e) the role of national and regional think-tanks, (f) advocacy efforts directed at policy-makers to promote an evidence-based culture.

This seminar is funded by the UISFL grant from the U. S. Department of Education.

Reading by V. V. Ganeshananthan (Novelist)

Jaffna, 1981. Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, a vicious civil war tears through her home, and her dream spins off course as she sees her four beloved brothers and their friend K swept up in the mounting violence. Desperate to act, Sashi accepts K’s invitation to work as a medic at a field hospital for the militant Tamil Tigers, who, following years of state discrimination and violence, are fighting for a separate homeland for Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority. But after the Tigers murder one of her teachers and Indian peacekeepers arrive only to commit further atrocities, Sashi begins to question where she stands. When one of her medical school professors, a Tamil feminist and dissident, invites her to join a secret project documenting human rights violations, she embarks on a dangerous path that will change her forever. Set during the early years of Sri Lanka’s three-decade civil war, Brotherless Night is a heartrending portrait of one woman’s moral journey and a testament to both the enduring impact of war and the bonds of home.

V. V. Ganeshananthan (she/her) is the author of the novels Brotherless Night (a New York Times Editors’ Choice) and Love Marriage, which was longlisted for the Women's Prize and named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post. Her work has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading, among other publications. A former vice president of the South Asian Journalists Association, she has also served on the board of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and is presently a member of the boards of the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies and the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota and co-hosts the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast on Literary Hub, which is about the intersection of literature and the news.

Books will be available for sale and signing from Buffalo Street Books after the reading.

We invite the Cornell community to participate in the Special Seminar and Poster Session Scaling-up Nature-based Solutions in Latin America to bring together Cornell faculty, scientists and students, international fellows, experts from Latin America, and finance specialists to find joint solutions for challenges on climate change, biodiversity conservation, water, infrastructure, and financing.. Our speakers include:

Sergio Campos - Water and Sanitation Division Chief, Inter-American Development Bank

Diana Ulloa - Hubert H Humphrey Fellow at Cornell University / Co-Founder of Adaptation Latin America

Josh Cerra - Department Chair, Landscape Architecture, Cornell University

Edgar Mora Altamirano - Director, Center for Transformative Action, University for International Cooperation, Costa Rica

Johann Delgado - Coastal Solutions Fellow and PhD student at Cornell University / Co-Founder of Adaptation Latin America

The seminar is co-sponsored by the Coastal Solutions Fellows Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell Global Development, Department of Landscape Architecture, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, the Atkinson Center for Sustainability and Adaptation Latin America.

Please register to participate by visiting our website.

As part of the seminar, we will host a Poster Session. We will discuss the different strategies in which Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are being implemented for conservation, sustainability, resiliency, and adaptation across Latin America. Calls are open for Cornell for Cornell scientists and students to participate with a poster presentation.

To submit your proposal to present a poster, please follow this link.

Register now, we have limited spaces!