Einaudi Center for International Studies
Info Session: Community College Faculty Professional Development Opportunity
January 12, 2022
3:00 pm
Join us for an information session to learn more about the Cornell Migrations initiative’s Community College Fellowships on Racism, Dispossession, and Migration (RDM) for faculty of any discipline at two-year institutions in upstate New York.
With support from the Mellon Foundation Just Futures Initiative and Global Cornell, this opportunity is a year-long supported program that provides $1,000 for community college faculty to integrate issues of racism, dispossession, and migration into their curricula.
RDM projects may include a new course, a new unit for an existing course, or a service-learning component to an existing course that encourages discussion on issues of racism, dispossession, and migration. Understanding the historical and contemporary relationships between the displacement of people, including through the dispossession of Indigenous lands and rights, and racism, xenophobia, opposition to immigration, and anti-immigrant violence.
The Cornell Migrations co-directors will address any questions about priorities, selection criteria, budgets, and other guidance on how to prepare a successful application. Proposals due on February 22, 2022, by email to Mary Ball, Migrations initiative program manager, mjn3@cornell.edu. Consultation on proposal ideas is strongly encouraged and questions about this fellowship are wholly welcome.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
More Americans Than Usual Have Been Changing Parties. Why?
Landon Schnabel in Washington Post
Landon Schnabel, assistant professor of sociology, co-authors this opinion piece about why more Americans have been changing political parties.
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Princess Mako’s Revolution
Kristin Roebuck, EAP
“It’s really striking to me when I look at family forms and how the royal family is this bastion of older norms that no one else in Japan is required to live by,” says Kristin Roebuck, assistant professor of history. “Why is it that the lawmakers who govern that institution think it’s so important that they want to maintain gender inequality at the highest symbolic level of society?”
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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.”