The migration studies minor is a university-wide, interdisciplinary undergraduate minor that prepares students to understand the historical and contemporary contexts and factors that drive international migration and shape migrant experiences around the globe. This minor draws on the rich course offerings found across the humanities and social sciences at Cornell, and is designed to draw students outside of their major fields and to extend their knowledge beyond a single country.

Contact: migration-minor@einaudi.cornell.edu,

Is the Einaudi Center's International Relations minor for you? Here's a chance to find out. Graduates go on to successful careers in fields like international law, economics, agriculture, trade, finance, journalism, education, and government service.

Contact: irm@einaudi.cornell.edu; https://einaudi.cornell.edu/academics/international-relations-minor

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides full funding for graduate and professional students conducting research or teaching in any field in more than 150 countries. Open to U.S. citizens only.

The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program supports doctoral students conducting research in modern languages or area studies for six to 12 months. Open to U.S. citizens and permanent residents of the United States. Travel to Western European countries is not eligible.

Contact: fulbright@einaudi.cornell.edu, https://einaudi.cornell.edu/fulbright-us-student-program

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports college graduates conducting research or teaching in any field in more than 150 countries. Applications are due in the fall; students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are encouraged to start the process in their junior year.

United States citizens in any field of study are eligible.

Contact: fulbright@einaudi.cornell.edu, https://einaudi.cornell.edu/fulbright-us-student-program

The LACS summer research grant provides funding for in-country research costs for graduate pre-dissertation work in Latin America or the Caribbean. (The grant does not cover international airfare; students should also apply for an Einaudi Center Travel Grant for airfare.) LACS will offer up to three research grants to qualified graduate students who need to conduct field research over the summer of 2022. Grant amounts may vary from $500 to $1,500. The Graduate Minor in Latin American Studies graduate minor in Latin American (and Caribbean) studies allows students to acquire in-depth knowledge of the region, which will enhance their expertise for future research and professional advancement. The main requirement is to have a Latin American studies field faculty member as a member of a student’s committee.

Contact: lacs@cornell.edu, https://einaudi.cornell.edu/programs/latin-american-and-caribbean-studi…

Want to learn a language this summer? Learn about Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships and Critical Language Scholarships, which provide fully funded opportunities for Cornell undergraduate and graduate students to study South and Southeast Asian languages in the summer, and even in the academic year.

The Latin American Studies Minor is an undergraduate minor across disciplines that will allow students to explore the history, culture, government, politics, economy and languages of Latin America and the Caribbean. Qualifying courses can be found in almost every college. LACS is happy to offer engaged and/or research internships in Ecuador for summer 2022.

Contact: lacs@cornell.edu, https://einaudi.cornell.edu/programs/latin-american-and-caribbean-studi…

Kale Bantigue Fajardo is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Fajardo completed his undergraduate studies Cornell (Developmental Psychology/Feminist Studies/Southeast Asian Studies) and his MA and PhD in cultural anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Fajardo is the author of Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities and Globalization (2011) and a Co-Editor of Q&A: Queer Voices from Asian North America (2021.) He has been published in books and journals such as Mains'l Haul: A Journal of Pacific Maritime History; Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity; Filipino Studies: Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora; GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies; and The Transgender Reader 2; among others. He has a new essay in Hydro-Humanities: Water Discourse and Environmental Futures (2021.) Fajardo is currently a Deputy Editor at The Island Studies Journal, a member of the editorial board of the Critical Ethnic Studies Journal, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies in Chicago.

In this talk, Fajardo will lecture on different kinds of boats, waters, and queer river-and-seafaring Filipino/a/x figures in contemporary Philippine Cinema. He will specifically discuss and closely read films such as Sagwan (Oar/Paddle) (2009), Marino (Seaman) (2009), Muro-Ami (Reef Hunters) (1999) and Thy Womb (2012), and he will draw from Southeast Asian/Philippine/global maritime histories of seafaring, boat-building, and fishing and queer/trans/feminist theories, as well as oceanic/archipelagic/island studies. In doing so, Fajardo will reveal the postcolonial and decolonial implications of these films in relation to indigeneity, tourism, neoliberal economics, global Filipino/a/x migration, and heteropatriarchy.

This Gatty lecture will take place in person at the Kahin Center, but people are also welcome to join us on Zoom. Please register here if you wish to attend via Zoom: https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkf-6qrzkoE9JnC6QyUxpkU33AtG…

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Co-sponsored by SAAGA and Performing and Media Arts

In 1934, a U.S. production company released a film set in the southern Philippines called Brides of Sulu, about a pair of star-crossed lovers (one Muslim, one not) risking their lives to elope. In 2011, two Filipino film archivists began investigating whether Brides of Sulu was, in fact, two lost Philippine silent films from 1931, Moro Pirates and Princess Tarhata, edited together “to meet the U.S. demand at the time for movies that showcasted the exotic Orient” (San Diego Jr. 2011) and to justify the U.S.’s colonization of the Philippines. Archivist Teddy Co called Hollywood’s possible appropriation of the Philippine films an act of “piracy.” In this lecture, Professor De Kosnik will explore the multiple forms of piracy at work in and around the extant version of Brides of Sulu – not only the U.S. movie industry’s potential copying of Filipino silent works, but other forms of copying and plundering by Americans of Filipinos and of Filipinos by Americans, and the characterization of each group as piratical by the other, at the time of the U.S. colonization of the Philippines and beyond.

Abigail De Kosnik is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) and the Department of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies. She is also the Director of BCNM, and is the 2020-2025 craigslist Distinguished Chair in New Media. She is the author of Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom (MIT Press, 2016) and co-editor, with Keith Feldman, of #identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation (University of Michigan Press, 2019). She has published articles on media fandom, popular digital culture, social media, and performance studies in Third Text, Cinema Journal (now Journal of Cinema and Media Studies), The International Journal of Communication, Modern Drama, Transformative Works and Cultures, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Performance Research, and elsewhere. She co-organizes The Color of New Media, a working group focusing on technology and intersectionality. De Kosnik is Filipina American.

This Gatty lecture will take place in person at the Kahin Center, but people are also welcome to join us on Zoom. Please register here if you wish to attend via Zoom: https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwqc-isqjwuGNCVr2WzYAqlZLCtuS…

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Dr. Kathryn Fiorella is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health at Cornell University. She leads the Food Systems and Health Concentration area of the Master of Public Health Program. She is also a faculty fellow of the Atkinson Center for Sustainable Future and the Center for Health Equity. Dr. Fiorella holds a PhD in Environmental Science, Policy and Management and Masters in Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB from Princeton University in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Dr. Fiorella was an Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University and a Postdoctoral Immersion Fellow at the Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC). Dr Fiorella is an environmental scientist and epidemiologist, and her research aims to understand the interactions among environmental change and livelihood, food, and nutrition security. Her work is focused on global fisheries and the households that are reliant on them to access food and income. She uses interdisciplinary methods and her work aims to foster a deeper understanding of how ecological and social systems interact, the ways communities and households adapt to and mitigate environmental change, and the links between human well being and ecological sustainability.

This Gatty lecture will take place in person at the Kahin Center, but people are also welcome to join us on Zoom. Please register here if you wish to attend via Zoom: https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqfuGsrDIiHNWiTqgWnOqiFtLdLf…

For questions, please contact seapgatty@cornell.edu.

In accordance with university event guidance, all campus visitors who are 12 years old or older must also present a photo ID, as well as proof of vaccination for COVID-19 or results of a recent negative COVID-19 test. If you are not currently participating in the Cornell campus vaccination/testing program, please bring proof of vaccination or the results of a recent negative test.

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