Issues in African Development Seminar Series examines critical concerns in contemporary Africa using a different theme each semester. The seminars provide a forum for participants to explore alternative perspectives and exchange ideas. They are also a focal activity for students and faculty interested in African development. In addition, prepares students for higher level courses on African economic, social and political development. The presentations are designed for students who are interested in development, Africa’s place in global studies, want to know about the peoples, cultures and societies that call Africa home, and explore development theories and alternate viewpoints on development.

Take a break from your studies to swing by Duffield Hall Atrium for this European-focused information fair. Play a game, win prizes, and find out about the various opportunities to explore Europe as a Cornell student!

This event is presented by the Institute for European Studies as part of Global Cornell's participation in International Education Week 2021 #IEW2021 in partnership with the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and the Office of Global Learning.

Find #IEW2021 student events and opportunities on Instagram @global_cornell.

Laidlaw Scholars at Cornell will present research posters from their first summer of the Laidlaw Undergraduate Research and Leadership Scholarship Program. In summer 2021, they worked with faculty mentors on research projects on topics ranging from migration and big data to animal science, engineering, and communications.

The Laidlaw Scholars Program provides generous funding to first- and second-year undergraduates over two years as they pursue internationally focused research, engage in leadership training and a leadership-in-action experience, and join a global network of like-minded peers.

Learn more about the program, which is administered by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, with leadership training support from the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement.

This webinar features two PhD graduates who will discuss their experience in finding alternative career paths and answer your questions about the world of think tanks. All are welcome to attend this free event hosted by Critical Ottoman & Post-Ottoman Studies (CO+POS) and co-sponsored by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, the Society for the Humanities, Near Eastern Studies, and the Department of History.

Speakers:

Howard Eissenstat

Howard Eissenstat is an Associate Professor of History at St. Lawrence University in Upstate NY. His scholarship focuses on the relationship between religious and national identity in the late Ottoman contemporary and Modern Turkey, with additional work on contemporary Turkish politics and international relations. Eissenstat served as a Turkey Country Specialist for Amnesty International, USA between 2006 – 2017 and was primary author of the Turkey section of the Freedom House Annual Report from 2018 – 2020. His current research is on the place of non-Muslims in Turkish policy and politics since 1980.

Nicholas Danforth

Nicholas Danforth is author of the book The Remaking of Republican Turkey: Memory and Modernity since the Fall of the Ottoman Empire. He has covered U.S.-Turkish relations for the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Bipartisan Policy Center. Danforth received his M.A. from the School of Oriental and African Studies and his B.A. from Yale. He completed his Ph.D. in history at Georgetown University in 2015 and has written widely about Turkey, U.S. foreign policy, and the Middle East for publications including The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, War on the Rocks, and The Washington Post.

Moderator:

Durba Ghosh

Durba Ghosh is a professor of history and the director of the Humanities Scholars Program at Cornell University. Prof. Ghosh is the author of Sex and the Family in Colonial India: the making of empire (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919-1947 (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Her next project emerges from Gentlemanly Terrorists and considers how we commemorate national heroism in the postcolony.

About CO+POS:

Housed within the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University, Critical Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies (CO+POS) highlights the latest in innovative research about Southwest Asia, North Africa, and Southeast Europe—a region encompassing the Turkic world, the Ottoman Empire, and its successor nation-states.

CO+POS gives scholars, artists, and practitioners a platform for challenging traditional understandings of this part of the world. From novel perspectives on the Ottoman Empire's architectural heritage to critical policy analyses of current events, CO+POS offers fresh approaches to the study of the dynamic region at the center of the Afro-Eurasia continent.