Einaudi Center for International Studies
Expedition Tribuga (Expedición Tribugá) film screening and discussion with filmmaker Felipe Mesa
November 8, 2022
6:30 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Co-sponsored by: Landscape Architecture, Department of Natural Resources
The balance that the Gulf of Tribugá is due to the cosmovision of the peoples that inhabit it, as well as the struggle that the same inhabitants undertake in defense of their territory. The documentary Tribugá Expedition leaves a clear message: if the place is intervened with megaprojects, not only would the ecosystem be put at risk, which is currently one of the few in the world that is preserved in good condition, but it would also attack the beliefs and ways of life of the Afro and Embera peoples.
El equilibrio que tiene el Golfo de Tribugá se debe a la cosmovisión de los pueblos que lo habitan, así como a la lucha que los mismos habitantes emprenden en defensa de su territorio. El documental Expedición Tribugá deja un mensaje claro: si se interviene el lugar con megaproyectos, no solo se pondría en riesgo el ecosistema, que actualmente es de los pocos en el mundo que se conserva en buen estado, sino que también se atentaría contra las creencias y formas de vida de los pueblos afro y Embera.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Digitalization in Africa: Impetus for Innovations and Development
October 28, 2022
9:00 am
G-08 Uris Hall
Hybrid mode / in-person at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (USA)
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The conference will focus on the digital era as an entrepreneurial transformative prototype in Africa. Other aspects of the conference will focus on the channels utilized by Africans while navigating digital instruments, developing well-thought programs and technological innovations. Although technology is easily transferred, the context of the beneficiary nation or community has to take into account optimal application. Africans are applying technology to open all possibilities and devising ways to promote the eradication of poverty. This conference will pivot on digital trajectories and projection into the future beyond the 21st century, exhibiting African innovative competence in the digital era as part of the most critical areas of a holistic organization towards thorough and more broadly social progress.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine
November 17, 2022
2:00 pm
Kendal of Ithaca Auditorium
Valerie Jane Bunce, Aaron Binenkorb Professor of International Studies Emerita
Why did Putin invade Ukraine in February, 2022? Why has the Russian military performed so badly and Ukraine’s military so effectively? Was the Western alliance right to provide military support to Ukraine? How can and should the war end?
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://cornell.zoom.us/j/99636638188?pwd=WXBOczFVOVJVWHhocGE1c0JXd0xod…
[come anytime after 1:30 for refreshments]
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Russia’s Deadly ‘Kamikaze’ Drones Compared to Ukraine’s Unmanned Arsenal
Sarah Kreps, PACS
Sarah Kreps, professor of government and public policy, weighs the pros and cons of various drone types.
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Let Private Citizens Sponsor Refugees
Stephen Yale-Loehr, Migrations
Steve Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law, co-authors this opinion piece on private sponsorship of refugees.
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After Hurricane Ian, Can Florida Residents Build Back Better?
Linda Shi, Global Public Voices
Linda Shi, assistant professor of city and regional planning, discusses rebuilding after Hurricane Ian.
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‘Moving Backward’: In Xi’s China, Some See an Era of Total Control
Peidong Sun, EAP
Peidong Sun, associate professor of arts and sciences in China and Asia-Pacific studies, says, “The teeth of totalitarianism were inching toward me. If I still wanted to do the kind of research I liked, I would have to leave China.”
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In U.K. Fallout Lessons for a World Facing Harsh Economic Realities
Eswar Prasad, SAP
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With New Crackdown, Biden Wages Global Campaign on Chinese Technology
Jessica Chen Weiss, EAP
“Sanctions that put the United States at odds with its allies and partners today will both undercut their effectiveness and make it harder to enroll a broad coalition of states in U.S. deterrence efforts,” says Jessica Chen Weiss, professor of government and public policy.
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“De Lo Mio,” film screening with Dominican director Diana Peralta for Q&A
October 20, 2022
7:00 pm
Schwartz Performing Arts Center, Film Forum
“De Lo Mio" --Two “ride or die” sisters raised in NYC reunite with their estranged brother in Dominican Republic to clean out their late father’s childhood home. The siblings laugh, brawl, and face their demons as they come to terms with letting go of their last connection to their motherland.
Schwartz Performing Arts Center, Film Forum
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies