Einaudi Center for International Studies
Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum on the College Campus: Challenges and Opportunities
May 11, 2022
10:00 am
The Mellon Central New York Humanities Corridor Working Group on Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) invites you to attend a panel discussion on starting or growing a CLAC program. Dr. Stephen Straight and Dr. Suronda Gonzalez will discuss administrative, logistical, and cultural challenges and opportunities that affect CLAC programs.
CLAC is a curricular framework that provides opportunities to develop and apply language and intercultural competence within all academic disciplines through the use of multilingual resources and the inclusion of multiple cultural perspectives.
Dr. Stephen Straight is Professor Emeritus at Binghamton University and one of the original promoters and leading voices of the CLAC movement.
Dr. Suronda Gonzalez is Executive Director of the Upstate New York Collaboration and former Chair of the CLAC Consortium.
The panel will meet on Zoom on Wednesday, May 11, 2022 from 10 am to 12 pm ET.
Please register for the event and submit any questions you may have for the panelist here: https://skidmore.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcocu2spzwsH9aL7f-8-n_HCD3dA…
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Protests in Sri Lanka Unprecedented
Media Tip from SAP's Daniel Bass
“The current government appears to be trying to wait these protests out, hoping that the crowds will disperse in time," says SAP program manager.
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Yen's Historic Fall Signals Rewrite of Global Currency Playbook
Eswar Prasad, SAP
“The desire of many reserve managers to diversify away from dollar-denominated assets might help to marginally bolster the yen’s share in the coming years,” says Eswar Prasad, professor of economics and international trade policy.
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Domestic and Global Politics of Police Violence
Sabrina Karim, PACS/SAP/IAD
Awarded an NSF Career award, Professor Sabrina Karim in the Government Department is developing research on the domestic and global politics of police violence to confront the challenge of excessive and/or illegitimate violence around the world.
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Can Russia Be Prosecuted for War Crimes?
May 3, 2022
4:00 pm
Join the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs as we welcome Jens David Ohlin and Neta Crawford to discuss Russian war crimes in Ukraine. The event is moderated by Rep. Steve Israel and Prof. Doug Kriner. Speakers Neta Crawford, Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science, Boston University Prof. Crawford's teaching focuses on international relations theory, international ethics, and normative change. Her research interests include international relations theory, normative theory, foreign policy decision making, sanctions, peace movements, discourse ethics, post-conflict peacebuilding, research design, utopian science fiction, and emotion. Crawford is also interested in methods for understanding the costs and consequences of war and is co-director of the Eisenhower Study Group “Costs of War” study (www.costsofwar.org) based at Brown University. Jens David Ohlin, Allan R. Tessler Dean and Professor of Law, Cornell Law SchoolDean Ohlin's scholarly work stands at the intersection of four related fields: criminal law, criminal procedure, public international law, and the laws of war. Trained as both a lawyer and a philosopher, his research has tackled questions as diverse as criminal conspiracy and the punishment of collective criminal action, the philosophical foundations of international law, and the role of new technologies in warfare, including cyberwar, remotely piloted drones, and autonomous weapons. Moderators Steve Israel, Director, Institute of Politics and Global Affairs at Cornell Brooks School of Public Policy and former U.S. Representative (D-NY)Douglas Kriner, Clinton Rossiter Professor in American Institutions in the Department of Government and Faculty Director, Institute of Politics and Global Affairs at Cornell UniversityThe Institute of Politics and Global Affairs is a non-partisan institute dedicated to elevating public discourse and stimulating civic engagement.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for European Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
US, Cuba Talk About Accepting More Deportees
Maria Cristina García, LACS
“You’ll recall that after the Mariel Boatlift of 1980, thousands of Cubans were detained indefinitely, across the United States, because Cuba refused to take them back. It wasn’t until the early 1990s that the Castro regime began accepting a small number of these Cuban detainees,” says Maria Cristina García, professor of history.
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The World Braces for Shortages and Higher Prices as Export Giant China Doubles Down on its Zero-Covid Strategy
Eswar Prasad, SAP
“The already extensive disruptions to global supply chains are being exacerbated by the lockdowns in China, adding to inflationary pressures and difficulties in procuring a broad range of consumer goods,” says Eswar Prasad, professor of economics and international trade policy.
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Don't Expect Sanctions to Win the Ukraine War
Nicholas Mulder, IES
Nicholas Mulder, assistant professor of history, writes this opinion piece on why sanctions on Russia won’t win the war.
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White House Puts Out a Playbook to Help Rural Areas get Infrastructure Funding
Mildred Warner, IES/LACS
Mildred Warner, professor of global development and city & regional planning, says that local governments will need help from state governments to get federal infrastructure money. “What’s been happening in the last - I don’t know - 20 years is this cooperative federalism has become a little less cooperative. And I would call that an uncooperative federalism.”
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- Development, Law, and Economics
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China's Zero-Covid Strategy will have a 'fairly devastating effect': Former IMF China Head
Eswar Prasad, SAP
Eswar Prasad, professor of international trade policy and economics, discusses the impact China’s zero-COVID policy will have on its economy.