For the summer 2026 Leadership in Action experience, students will be placed with the Pachaysana Foundation exploring what it means to be an intercultural leader in today’s complex, fractured world. Please attend this Q+A webinar with Pachaysana Foundation to learn more about their work and how the Laidlaw Scholars explore leadership as something we live—grown in relationship and rooted in the wisdom of agrarian, Indigenous, and activist communities.

Attendance and participation in the Q+A are highly recommended for Laidlaw Scholars applicants. Applications are due January 12, 2026.

Register here. Can’t attend? Another Q+A webinar is scheduled for November 5.

Contact programs@einaudi.cornell.edu with questions.

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The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies hosts info sessions for graduate and for undergraduate students to learn more about funding opportunities, international travel, research, and internships. View the full calendar of fall semester sessions.

Thasnai Sethaseree will discuss his work in conversation with Dr. Tamara Loos in conjunction with the exhibition Cold War: The Mysterious.

An artist and professor of media arts and design at Chiang Mai University, Sethaseree holds a master’s degree in visual arts from the University of Chicago and a PhD in social sciences from Chiang Mai University. In the series Cold War: The Mysterious (2019–22), Sethaseree focuses on specific authoritarian actors, freedom-fighters, political uprisings, and violent crackdowns, but also those that draw more generally from the press and popular culture to convey the complications and chaos of this period.

All are encouraged to visit the exhibition (in the Gold Gallery, also on Floor 2L) prior to the program. The exhibition will also be open after the talk during a public reception, free and open to all.

The annual Stoikov Lecture on Asian Art at the Johnson Museum is funded by a generous gift from Judith Stoikov, Class of 1963, and is cosponsored this year by the Southeast Asia Program.

Please join us for an event in our Digital Humanities Initiative Colloquium Series: a presentation by and conversation with Karen Jaime, Associate Professor of Performing and Media Arts and Latina/o Studies at Cornell. Professor Jaime's talk will focus on the Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library (HIDVL), the first major digital video library of performance practices in the Americas, and queer Nuyorican performance and poetry.

Lunch will be served! All are welcome.

For the summer 2026 Leadership in Action experience, students will be placed with the Pachaysana Foundation exploring what it means to be an intercultural leader in today’s complex, fractured world. Please attend this Q+A webinar with Pachaysana Foundation to learn more about their work and how the Laidlaw Scholars explore leadership as something we live—grown in relationship and rooted in the wisdom of agrarian, Indigenous, and activist communities.

Attendance and participation in the Q+A are highly recommended for Laidlaw Scholars applicants. Applications are due January 12, 2026.

Register here. Can’t attend? Another Q+A webinar is scheduled for November 6.

Contact programs@einaudi.cornell.edu with questions.

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The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies hosts info sessions for graduate and for undergraduate students to learn more about funding opportunities, international travel, research, and internships. View the full calendar of fall semester sessions.

You are warmly invited to join us for a special event with President Laura Chinchilla, 2025-2026 John W. Nixon ’53 Distinguished Policy Fellow, in conversation with Professor Rachel Riedl, Peggy J. Koenig ’78 Director of the Center on Global Democracy, and Zarifa Ghafari, Human Rights Activist, former Afghan mayor, and Cornell MPA ’26.

Event registration: Please scan the QR code on the attached flyer or register via this link.

We hope you will join us for this timely and engaging conversation.