Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Seed Grants Grow International Collaborations
Announcing 2024 Faculty Seed Awards
Read about results from last year's awards and new awards supporting internationally engaged faculty from six colleges and schools.
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Topic
- Global Public Voices
- Inequalities, Identities, and Justice
- Migrations
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The "Socialization of Investment" (Law and Economics Papers)
Robert Hockett in World in Focus
Robert Hockett recently published a paper, The "Socialization of Investment," in CRADLE's new open-access Law and Economics Papers series.
"This has been all about reclaiming public capital for ... investment that grows the Republic’s wealth. And the Republic’s wealth is just the Citizens’ wealth—our 'Commonwealth.' This is, of course, what we owe and are owed by one another. It’s literally what we owe to ourselves."
The paper aims to demystify economist John Maynard Keynes' General Theory by interpreting some "intriguing asides" he introduced when writing about investment and capital. Hockett analyzes "three provocative phrases seemingly alluding to a common contemporary prospect": public investment financed by public finance-capital.
In Hockett's view, these "throwaway lines" offer clues toward constructing "both a plausible model and a powerful brief that Keynes might have composed—and would surely have approved—for reforming contemporary finance in certain materially productive, hence socially salutary ways."
The paper ultimately outlines a Capital Commons model that suggests a pathway to socialize investment while being attentive to private sector and public sector advantages.
Hockett's paper is one of four working papers launching CRADLE's new open-access series. Read the Law and Economics Papers and find out how to submit your paper for consideration.
Robert Hockett is cofounder of Cornell Research Academy of Development, Law, and Economics (CRADLE), an interdisciplinary research initiative based at Einaudi.
Featured in World in Focus Briefs
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- Development, Law, and Economics
- World in Focus
Cornell Helps Displaced Scholars Rebuild Careers
Series Honors Einaudi's Past Visiting Scholars
Read about Turkish sociologist Azat Gündoğan (IES), Nicaraguan cartoonist Pedro X. Molina (LACS), and Afghan artist Elja Sharifi (Johnson Museum).
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Topic
- Democratic Threats and Resilience
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International Studies Summer Institute: Plant and Animal Migration
July 9, 2024
9:00 am
Stocking Hall
Join the Cornell University Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and the South Asia Center at Syracuse University for the 2024 International Studies Summer Institute (ISSI)! This year, we will explore plant and animal migration around the world and at home. ISSI is a professional development workshop for practicing and pre-service K–12 educators.
Participants will explore the patterns and causes of plant and animal migration in a global context, as well as how they affect and are affected by human society. 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.
Object-based learning will be a specific focus. Sessions will include an introduction to the Einaudi Center’s culture kits and how they can support hands-on learning about plant and animal migration in different countries. Culture kits are a collection of cultural artifacts from around the world, tailored for use in K-12 classrooms. We will also feature an overview of Latin American and East Asian artwork on these topics at the Johnson Museum of Art and an introduction to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s eBird kits.
Who Can Participate
We welcome practicing and pre-service K–12 educators of all subjects and grade levels who work in New York State. While this year's institute will have more of a scientific focus than in past years, we believe this year’s theme will benefit educators of all subject areas, especially in developing cross-disciplinary, project-based activities with a global focus.
Benefits
As a participant, you will...
gain tools and knowledge to apply in your classroom around issues of plant and animal migration internationally and in our backyards.
connect issues affecting yourself and your students here in the U.S. with other parts of the world.
“recharge” intellectual batteries and deepen your own understanding and appreciation for plant and animal migration.
have the option to complete a lesson plan for additional CTLE hours that incorporates content from the workshop, with the support of our outreach staff.
receive a free eBird kit from the Lab of Ornithology, targeted for the grade band of choice ($70-$110 value).
Enrollment is open now!
Questions? Contact outreach coordinator Sarah Plotkin.
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Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
New: Law and Economics Papers
CRADLE Launches Paper Series
Read the first four papers and find out how to submit your paper to CRADLE's new open-access series.
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Immigration Seminar Series - Status at Work: Power, Race, and the Law in the Immigrant Workplace by Dr. Shannon Gleeson
May 6, 2024
4:15 pm
Sociology Student Lounge (Room 6112) at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Part of the Immigration Seminar Series
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International Migration StudiesADMISSION PRICE
Free
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If you'd like to participate online, please register here to receive the Zoom link.
FEATURED SPEAKER
Shannon Gleeson is the Edmund Ezra Day Professor at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She also holds a co-appointment with the Brooks School of Public Policy and is co-director of the Cornell Migrations Initiative. Gleeson earned her Ph.D. in Sociology and Demography from the University of California, Berkeley and was previously on the faculty of the Latin American & Latino Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her recent books include Scaling Migrant Worker Rights: How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power (with Xóchitl Bada, University of California Press, 2023) and Precarious Claims: The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States (University of California Press, 2016). With Els de Graauw, she has examined the implementation of the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, and the challenges of coalition building and local governance. Her current book manuscript with coauthors examines immigration, race, and the low-wage workplace.
LOCATION
This is a hybrid event, taking place online and in person in the Sociology Student Lounge (Room 6112) at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Review our Building Entry Policy for in-person events.
ABOUT THIS TALK
This co-authored book (with Kate Griffith, Darlène Dubuisson, and Patricia Campos-Medina) is a David and Goliath story that illuminates how power operates in the low-wage workplace. In it, we draw on 50 interviews with immigrant worker advocates and over 300 Haitian and Central American low-wage workers, across three different immigration statuses. We argue that immigrant worker precarity is driven by three intersecting vectors of state power: under-regulation of class relations, exclusionary immigration policy, and long legacies of legalized racisms. Status at Work bridges labor scholarship on low-wage worker precarity, immigration scholarship on liminal legal status, and race scholarship on the long legacies of transatlantic slavery and white supremacist colonization. We contend that scholars, advocates, and policymakers must center workers’ voices and acknowledge these intersecting power dynamics when assessing or addressing the roots of widespread injustice in the low-wage workplace.
**Co-sponsored by the M.A. program in International Migration Studies and the Ph.D. program in Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center, as well as the Labor Studies Department, School of Labor and Urban Studies**
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Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Afghan Visual Artist Elja Sharifi
Series Profiles Scholars and Artists Under Threat
Sharifi is completing her second year as a visiting scholar at the Johnson Museum, with support from Global Cornell and IIE-APF.
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Blinken Goes to China With Potential Trouble on Horizon
Allen Carlson, CMSP/EAP/SAP
“There are already so many irritants and issues of mistrust within the relationship. If you have a pot which is already close to boiling, it only takes adding a degree or two to push things over the edge,” says Allen Carlson, associate professor of government.
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International Fair
August 28, 2024
11:00 am
Uris Hall, Terrace
International Fair showcases Cornell's global opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. Explore the fair and find out about international majors and minors, language study, study abroad, funding opportunities, global internships, Cornell Global Hubs, and more.
The International Fair is sponsored by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and Office of Global Learning (both part of Global Cornell) in partnership with the Language Resource Center.
Register on CampusGroups to receive a reminder. Registration is not required.
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Program
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
IAD Spring Symposium: Imagining Just Environmental and Climate Futures in Africa
May 4, 2024
8:00 am
Mann Library, 160 (Friday) and 102 (Saturday)
On Friday, May 3 and Saturday, May 4, 2024, the Institute for African Development, in collaboration with the Polson Institute for Global Development and the Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University, will host a symposium on Imagining Just Environmental and Climate Futures in Africa. Please see our website for the schedule on Friday and Saturday! The event is fully hybrid, so join us in Mann in person or remotely via zoom.
Keynote talks include:
Edmond Totin, Universite Nationale d'Agriculture (Benin): "Positive failures: rethinking climate resilience planning by understanding the legacy of interventions in food production systems ” (May 3, 9-9:45am EST)Nadège Compaoré, University of Toronto, Mississauga: "African Climate Solidarities: Beyond Boundaries" (May 3, 1-2:30pm EST)Timothy Raeymaekers, University of Bologna: "Rural Work: What Future for Social and Ecological Reproduction" (May 3, 1-2:30pm EST)Siri Eriksen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences: "Between a rock and a hard place: Exploring the lived experience of climate change and social injustice" (May 4, 9-9:45am EST)Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong, University of Denver: "Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Change and the Reproduction of Maladaptation in Africa" (May 4, 1-2:30pm EST)Paper discussion sessions:
1. “Environmental governance and transformative policy in Africa,” Chuan Liao & Edmond Totin, discussants (May 3, 10-noon)
Nehemias Horacio, Observatório do Meio Rural, “Vulnerability and Adaptation of smallholder farmers to salinity intrusion in Mozambique: Case of Lower Limpopo Irrigation Scheme”Assefa Berhanu, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia, “Gender-Disaggregated Vulnerability and Resilience to Climate Change among Smallholder Farmers in Ethiopia”Jerry Owusu Banahee, University of Cape Coast, Ghana, “Private sector involvement in climate change adaptation action in developing countries: evidence from Ghana”Allan Basajjasubi, Natural Justice, “Right of Nature and its Utility in Climate Change Litigation”Alain Elegbe, Texas State University, “Water justice in Benin”2. "Scales and time: extractive economies and agrarian change," Nadège Compaoré and Timothy Raeymaekers, discussants (May 3, 2:45-4:45pm)
Olufemi Olamijulo, Harvard University, “Beyond Extraction: Cobalt, Local Refining, and Environmental Equity in the DRC”Dumisani Moyo, Cornell University, “Plutocratic Narrativization and the Danger of a Black Psycho-oneiric Complex in Malawi’s Crop Agriculture, 1500s to 2022"Sidney Madsen, Cornell University, “Class dynamics of agroecology: Case study from Malawi”Brandon Marc Finn, University of Michigan, “End-of-life informality: assessing the negative externalities of the decarbonization circular economy”3. "Lived experiences of precarity and calls for climate justice," Siri Eriksen and Wendy Wolford, discussants (May 4, 10-noon) - use main zoom room
Sylvia Hagan, University of Ghana, “Voices of the Vulnerable: exploring perceived cliamte change impacts and mental health in poor urban coastal communities in Ghana”Emily Baker, Cornell University, “Imagining justice at the conflict-climate nexus”Michelle Pressend, University of Cape Town, “Racing the land history memory of a wind farm in South Africa on colonised reclaimed land”Anesu Makina, University of Cape Town, “Informality and climate futures in Africa: of justice, global policies, and African urban realities”Tom Tom, University of South Africa, “Futuring Rural Zimbabwe: Artisanal Gold Mining, Tobacco Production and Environmental Sustainability in Resettlements Areas”4. "(Mal)adaptation in socioecological systems and institutions," Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong and Natacha Bruna, discussants (May 4, 10-noon) Breakout zoom link for this session
Seongmin Shin, Cornell University, “Everyday climate adaptations enhance smallholder agriculture and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa”Loveth C. Ode-Omenka, Covenant University, Nigeria, “Impact of Climate Change on Livelihood and Food Security of Female Farmers in Burkina Faso and Nigeria”Adele Woodmansee, Cornell University, “Water resources in the High Atlas: Adaptation and change in local irrigation systems”Benedicta Quarcoo, Luiss University, “The Carbon Tax in Ghana: Barriers and Prospects”Hayford Bokpin, University of Ghana, “Climate Justice and Ghana's Emission Tax Policy: A critical review”Bob Manteaw, University of Ghana, “Climate Justice and Post Carbon Futures: How might a just-transitioned Africa look on the ground?”Organized by the Institute for African Development, Polson Institute for Global Development, and the Einaudi Center for International Studies.
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Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development