Einaudi Center for International Studies
Omicron Shows the Covid Vaccines Work.
Gunisha Kaur, Migrations Faculty Fellow
Migrations faculty fellow Gunisha Kaur co-writes this article, outlining how "breakthrough case" is a misleading term.
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How Does This End? Where the Crisis in American Democracy Might Be Headed.
Tom Pepinsky, SEAP
“That has always been my view: we’ll wake up one day and it’ll just become clear that Democrats can’t win,” says Tom Pepinsky, a political scientist at Cornell who studies democracy in Southeast Asia.
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Capitol Rioters Got Tougher Sentences in 2021 From Obama's Judges Than From Trump's
Jens David Ohlin, PACS
Jens David Ohlin, dean and professor of law at Cornell Law School, told Newsweek that judges factoring in individual specifics of cases before issuing a sentence limit a defense attorney's ability to predict how a judge will rule in their client's case.
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Virtual Info Session: Humanities Scholars Program Postdoctoral Associate positions
January 20, 2022
12:00 pm
(Note: this event was rescheduled from Tues. 1/18)
The Humanities Scholars Program, an undergraduate research initiative in the College of Arts & Sciences, invites applications from Cornell PhD candidates and recent Cornell PhDs for one-year postdoctoral associate positions beginning August 1, 2022. HSP Postdocs teach, mentor, and run workshops for advanced undergraduates in the Humanities Scholars Program. The two positions offer annual salaries of $58,000.
Join faculty director, Durba Ghosh (HIST), and HSP program coordinator Julie McLean for a virtual information session about these two position openings and get your questions answered!
Applications are due February 1, 2022. See the call for applicants on HSP's website:
https://as.cornell.edu/research/humanities-scholars-program#call-for-po…
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Cash is Out. Crypto is In. Can We Trust What's Happening to Money?
Eswar Prasad, SEAP
This opinion piece quotes Eswar Prasad, professor of economics and international trade policy. Prasad says, “We are at an interesting juncture. It is a period of a great degree of concern about what happens to traditional forms of money and whether these technological developments we see around us are going to benefit us in some way or just create more disruption and turmoil.”
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American Democracy is Tottering, It's Not Clear Americans Care.
Tom Pepinsky, Government
“We’ll wake up one day, and it’ll become clear that Democrats can’t win,” says Tom Pepinsky, professor of government.
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As Joe Biden's 'Summit for Democracy' Convenes, Questions Arise About How 'Democracy' Is Defined
Sarah Kreps, PACS
"China, I won’t say it’s winning the PR war, but it’s very competitive,” says Sarah Kreps, professor of government. “Some 90 per cent of the Netherlands has Western vaccines, but it’s got higher levels of Covid than in the history of the pandemic. They’re trying to poke holes in the democratic system.”
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Engaging Communities, Empowering Students: Fostering Cross-Cultural Connections Through Dress, 1936-1958
January 31, 2022
8:00 am
Human Ecology Building (HEB), Terrace Level Display Cases
In this exhibition, graduate student curators Lynda May Xepoleas '23 and Emily Hayflick '25 explore the different ways international students helped to foster cross-cultural understandings of dress on Cornell's campus in the mid-twentieth century.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for European Studies
Language Resource Center Speaker Series - Christina Rocha
February 15, 2022
12:30 pm
Stimson Hall, G25
"Inquiry-Based Language Learning"
Christina Rocha
ACS Athens
This talk will focus on inquiry-based learning within the language classroom, more specifically WHY it is important as well as HOW we can successfully engage our students to ask more questions, sparking their curiosity and motivation to learn more about the language, culture, and people we teach about. Inquiry-based learning helps build intercultural communicative awareness and competence while fostering student agency and a sense of connection to our community through conscious global citizenship.
Bio: Christina Rocha has been teaching languages (ESL, Greek, French, and Spanish) since 1999. She started her career in the U.S. public school system before moving internationally; she currently teaches Spanish and ESL at the American Community Schools (ACS) in Athens, Greece. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Applied Linguistics and Language and Communication with a research interest and focus on inquiry-based language learning and global citizenship. She has recently authored two chapters in the 2021 IGI publication on this topic in the Handbook of Research on K-12 Blended and Virtual Learning Through the i²Flex Classroom Model.
This event will be held in person in G25 Stimson and will also be streamed live over Zoom. Join us at the LRC or on Zoom.
The event is free and open to the public. Campus visitors and members of the public must adhere to Cornell's public health requirements for events, which include wearing masks while indoors and providing proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
‘Bitcoin Itself May Not Last that Much Longer,’ Cornell Professor Says
Eswar Prasad, SAP
Eswar Prasad, professor of economics and trade policy, discusses the pros and cons of Bitcoin as a currency.