Climate change and environmental degradation is a threat for economic prosperity. In relation to its commitment to achieve the Paris Agreement goals, China is aiming to reach carbon neutrality by 2060. China is leading in renewable energy production figures. It is currently the world's largest producer of wind and solar energy and the largest domestic and outbound investor in renewable energy. At the same time, Greenhouse gas emissions by China are the largest of any country in the world both in production and consumption terms. This stems mainly from coal electricity generation, which represents 60 percent of power and mining.

Carbon neutrality refers to the elimination of carbon dioxide. China’s government supports R&D efforts for green technology innovation. A major challenge is the greening of China’s manufacturing system to create a more sustainable economy. International cooperation for the greater good of mitigating global warming is urgently needed and China’s green trajectory comes with both opportunities and challenges for the rest of the world.

What You’ll Learn:

China’s goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissionsChallenges and opportunities of green technologyInternational cooperation regarding Paris Agreement GoalsSpeakers:

Lourdes Casanova, Senior Lecturer, Director Emerging Markets InstituteHenri Li and Gari Xiao, Yingke Law FirmYan Chen, China International Capital Corporation (CICC)Crystal GENG, Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd.Moderator: Ying Hua, Director, Cornell China CenterQ&A moderator: David (Wei) Wu, Executive Project Manager and AttorneyThis event is cosponsored by the Emerging Markets Institute, the Cornell China Center, and eCornell.

Event time:
8:00-9:30 am New York time
8:00-9:30 pm Beijing time

Registration link: https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/overview/K052021/

Registration link for attendees in China: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VZn0gi57Q3WQl_5J680zTA

(Attendees in China should register and attend through the Zoom link, as the eCornell platform may not work in China.)

The Einaudi Center’s global racial justice research team presents the inaugural session of Race Matters, a new webinar series that fosters in-depth conversations on colonial questions and racial justice across international relations.

This panel brings together global experts for a candid appraisal of disciplinary instruments (methods, archives, concepts, ontologies, and epistemologies) and institutions (practices of knowledge production and incorporation as policy). The debate centers the question: How effectively do our tools for producing and shaping knowledge and policy serve the cause of advancing racial equality and justice globally?

Some of the panelists critique methods and lines of inquiries in scholarship on race and racism. Others presume an insurgency by self-determining political communities—including in the academy­—against colonizing institutional practices and in favor of the expansion of archives and imaginaries.

This conversation represents an initial framing of questions and critiques that will continue in four additional Race Matters panels through the fall 2021 semester. Read more about the series below.

Moderator: Siba Grovogui, Africana Studies, Cornell University

Panelists:

Daniel Bendix, Franziska Müller, and Aram Ziai, coeditors of Beyond the Master’s Tools? Decolonizing Knowledge Orders, Research Methods, and Teaching (2020)Mustapha K. Pasha, Meera Sabaratnam, and Robbie Shilliam, series editors of Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial QuestionsDiscussants: Oumar Ba, Political Science, Morehouse College; Sarah Then Bergh, Africana Studies PhD candidate, Cornell University

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Race Matters: A webinar series sponsored by Cornell’s Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Africana Studies and Research Center, and Department of Government

Race Matters brings together international relations experts for critical conversations on colonial questions and racial justice across international relations. Join us to explore scholarship on race and racism and the policies, institutions, and systems that perpetuate racial inequality and violence worldwide. Continuing throughout 2021, Race Matters will identify opportunities for transformative change and highlight collective and individual actions toward a more just world.

Learn about the Einaudi Center’s work on racial justice and all of our global research priorities.

Register now: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hYI75wwITDOvrOW_ZTHY6Q

Title: Transportation Policy Development in Africa , Paine Gronemeyer

Cornell AAP '24, Urban and Regional Studies

Title: African Healthcare Real Estate Outlook:

The resilience of the medical system across African Cities

Eugene Nana Kyere Afranie, MPS – Real Estate Candidate '22

Baker Program in Real Estate | The Hotel School

SC Johnson College of Business | Cornell University

Title: The Impact of COVID-19 on Africa's Development and Economic Growth

and its Impact on the Housing Market

Justina Bethune, Graduate Student, City & Regional Planning

TBA

Diane Okong'o, College of Arts and Sciences

Register https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0vd-mvqzovG9D71gp7fZrfjY8zap…

"How Can I Learn All These Words?"
Research-Based Strategies for Teaching and Learning L2 Vocabulary
Jamie Rankin
Senior Lecturer, Princeton University

Second language (L2) classrooms have undergone radical changes during the past 50 years, moving away from formal linguistic structures to drills and habit formation, then to comprehensible input, focus on form, cultural integration, sociocultural perspectives, and social networking.
Throughout all of these shifts there has been surprisingly little emphasis on one aspect of L2 learning that all teachers and all students acknowledge as a critical factor in L2 communicative proficiency and literacy: Vocabulary.
As someone once quipped: “If you don’t know any grammar, you can’t say much; if you don’t know any vocabulary, you can’t say anything.” This applies to more than rudimentary spoken communication. A knowledge of vocabulary is as critical to interpreting texts as it is to interaction and presentation – that is to say, it lies at the heart of L2 proficiency as currently conceptualized.
This talk addresses three issues in L2 vocabulary acquisition:

What is the relationship between vocabulary, text coverage, and reading comprehension?What role does vocabulary currently play in L2 textbooks?How can research into L2 vocabulary inform classroom praxis?While the talk is grounded in current research, its goal is to provide instructors and students with strategies for classroom teaching, learning, and assessment.

Bio: Jamie Rankin (Ph.D., Harvard University) is co-director of the language program in the German Department of Princeton University. With published articles in Unterrichtspraxis and The Modern Language Journal, his work focuses on the intersection of research and curriculum development; the dynamics of corrective feedback in the classroom; training and mentoring graduate student TAs; and assessing classroom materials for beginning and intermediate language learners. After completing a Ph.D. in German literature at Harvard University, he went on to specialize in second language acquisition and pedagogy in the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaii, under Michael Long, Gabi Kasper, and Graham Crookes. A co-author of the Handbuch zur deutschen Grammatik (Cengage, now in its 6th edition), he has recently developed a first-year curriculum for Beginning German that integrates culture, grammar, and high-frequency vocabulary on an interactive online platform. In 2014 he was appointed as inaugural director of the Princeton Center for Language Study.

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.

This webinar series features diverse voices from the African continent and the Diaspora on a wide range of themes, challenges, breakthroughs in cutting-edge research outcomes, innovations, and discoveries across all disciplines and area studies.

Documentary film that explores the complex identity formations of young African women living in America and West Africa who identify bi-culturally. ... Cultural identity is always complex, especially for those who straddle the lines of two worlds. Am I Too African to be American? Too American to be African? | Kanopy