Join the Cornell University Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and the South Asia Center at Syracuse University for the 2024 International Studies Summer Institute (ISSI)! This year, we will explore plant and animal migration around the world and at home. ISSI is a professional development workshop for practicing and pre-service K–12 educators.

Participants will explore the patterns and causes of plant and animal migration in a global context, as well as how they affect and are affected by human society. Scholars from Cornell University and Syracuse University will share their research and expertise from across different regions of the world, including Africa, East Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.

Object-based learning will be a specific focus. Sessions will include an introduction to the Einaudi Center’s culture kits and how they can support hands-on learning about plant and animal migration in different countries. Culture kits are a collection of cultural artifacts from around the world, tailored for use in K-12 classrooms. We will also feature an overview of Latin American and East Asian artwork on these topics at the Johnson Museum of Art and an introduction to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s eBird kits.

Who Can Participate

We welcome practicing and pre-service K–12 educators of all subjects and grade levels who work in New York State. While this year's institute will have more of a scientific focus than in past years, we believe this year’s theme will benefit educators of all subject areas, especially in developing cross-disciplinary, project-based activities with a global focus.

Benefits

As a participant, you will...

gain tools and knowledge to apply in your classroom around issues of plant and animal migration internationally and in our backyards.

connect issues affecting yourself and your students here in the U.S. with other parts of the world.

“recharge” intellectual batteries and deepen your own understanding and appreciation for plant and animal migration.

have the option to complete a lesson plan for additional CTLE hours that incorporates content from the workshop, with the support of our outreach staff.

receive a free eBird kit from the Lab of Ornithology, targeted for the grade band of choice ($70-$110 value).

Schedule

9:00-9:15, Introductory remarks with Sarah Plotkin, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

9:15-10:05, Seeds of Survival and Celebration: Plants and the Black Experience, with Sarah Fiorello, Jakara Zellner, and Lauren Salzman, Cornell Botanic Gardens

10:10-11:05, Breakout sessions:

Art and Climate Struggle: Visual Interpretations of Plant and Animal Migration, with Carol Inge Hockett and Carina D’Urso, Johnson Museum of Art

eBird and Migration: Empowering Students with Participatory Science and Birds, with Kelly Schaeffer, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

11:10-12:00, Breakout sessions repeated

12:00-12:30, Networking and reflection exercise with Sarah Plotkin, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

12:30-1:30, Lunch (Thai food from Tamarind!)

1:30-2:15, Plant and Animal Migration Shaping European Societies and Diets, Dr. Daniel Mason D’Croz, Department of Global Development

2:20-3:05, How Global Fisheries Connect Us All – Environmental Change Impacts on Health and Well-being, Dr. Kathryn Fiorella, Department of Public and Ecosystem Health

3:15-4:00, Linking the Power of Bioacoustics to Locally Led Research Initiative: Monitoring Migratory Birds at a Regional Scale, Ashakur Rahaman, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

4:00-4:20, Introduction to Einaudi Culture Kits, Dr. Thamora Fishel, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

4:20-4:30, Closing Remarks, Dr. Daniel Bass, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Questions? Contact outreach coordinator Sarah Plotkin.

Part of the Immigration Seminar Series

HOSTED BY

International Migration StudiesADMISSION PRICE

Free

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FEATURED SPEAKER

Shannon Gleeson is the Edmund Ezra Day Professor at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She also holds a co-appointment with the Brooks School of Public Policy and is co-director of the Cornell Migrations Initiative. Gleeson earned her Ph.D. in Sociology and Demography from the University of California, Berkeley and was previously on the faculty of the Latin American & Latino Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her recent books include Scaling Migrant Worker Rights: How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power (with Xóchitl Bada, University of California Press, 2023) and Precarious Claims: The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States (University of California Press, 2016). With Els de Graauw, she has examined the implementation of the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, and the challenges of coalition building and local governance. Her current book manuscript with coauthors examines immigration, race, and the low-wage workplace.

LOCATION

This is a hybrid event, taking place online and in person in the Sociology Student Lounge (Room 6112) at the CUNY Graduate Center.

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ABOUT THIS TALK

This co-authored book (with Kate Griffith, Darlène Dubuisson, and Patricia Campos-Medina) is a David and Goliath story that illuminates how power operates in the low-wage workplace. In it, we draw on 50 interviews with immigrant worker advocates and over 300 Haitian and Central American low-wage workers, across three different immigration statuses. We argue that immigrant worker precarity is driven by three intersecting vectors of state power: under-regulation of class relations, exclusionary immigration policy, and long legacies of legalized racisms. Status at Work bridges labor scholarship on low-wage worker precarity, immigration scholarship on liminal legal status, and race scholarship on the long legacies of transatlantic slavery and white supremacist colonization. We contend that scholars, advocates, and policymakers must center workers’ voices and acknowledge these intersecting power dynamics when assessing or addressing the roots of widespread injustice in the low-wage workplace.

**Co-sponsored by the M.A. program in International Migration Studies and the Ph.D. program in Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center, as well as the Labor Studies Department, School of Labor and Urban Studies**