Institute for African Development
Africa, China, and the Middle East: Financing, Trade, and Development
November 3-4, 2023 Statler Hotel Cornell
The symposium will explore investment and development finance which is an important area of policy discussions in Africa and other developing areas of the world, as well as those that will give a brief overview of the scale of both Chinese and Middle Eastern investment in Africa. Multifaceted and multidisciplinary analytical approaches that will consider the role of Chinese and Gulf State investments in the development of Africa, especially Africa’s efforts to create a free trade area are welcomed. Furthermore, the symposium will look at the role foreign investment can play in resource mobilization for infrastructure development as well as the links between law, trade, and regional integration.
Winter Program in Zambia Info Session
September 27, 2023
2:00 pm
Come find out more about our Winter Study Abroad program in Zambia. The program will examine the history of European settlement in southern Africa, the liberation wars and the independence process, Apartheid and post-Apartheid democracy in South Africa, as well as the turn to electoral democracy in Zambia, Botswana and Malawi. It then turns to an analysis of the politics, economies, and societies of contemporary southern Africa.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
IAD Distinguished Africanist Scholar: Dr. Kouame Kouadio, Researcher, Head of Eco Epidemiology unit, Department of Environmental Health, Pasteur Institute (Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire)
Kouamé Kouadio is an Ivorian senior researcher and the Head of the eco epidemiology unit within the Department of Environmental Health at Pasteur Institute (Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire).
IAD DAS Lecture
Hospital Waste Management in the Context of Pandemics: case of the Covid 19 (Wednesday, September 20, @2:30pm G-08 Uris Hall)
The Challenge of Neglected Tropical Diseases in Africa: From the Diagnostic State to the Prospect of their Eradication (Thursday, September 21, @4:30-6:00pm Africana Center and Research Center)
Institute for African Development Seminar: Women's Land Rights and Rural Climate Adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa
September 27, 2023
2:30 pm
Uris Hall, G-08
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The seminar series for fall 2023 explores the future of African land, agriculture and food, digging into the contestations, conflicting and converging visions from a wide range of perspectives. How might land be used, valued and lived in, across cities, rural communities, forests, deserts and grasslands on the continent in the future? Who is proposing different visions of land futures in Africa, what are the histories, politics, socio-cultural, environmental and economic implications of these potential visions? In one of the regions with the most youthful populations, how are young people considering possible futures? What are ways that land, agriculture and food systems could be resilient, healthy, ecological, thriving and just? Can there be a decolonial agriculture and food future in Africa that celebrates Indigenous and local foodways?
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
IAD Seminar Series: Hospital Waste Management in the Context of Pandemics: case of the Covid 19
September 27, 2023
2:30 pm
Uris Hall, G-08
Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023 2:30pm Uris Hall G-08
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
Information Session: Travel Grants & Global PhD Research Awards
November 15, 2023
4:45 pm
Uris Hall, G02
The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies funds international graduate student research!
Research travel grants provide international travel support for graduate and professional students to conduct short-term research or fieldwork outside the United States. Global PhD Research Awards fund fieldwork for 9 to 12 months of dissertation research.
Contact einaudi_center@einaudi.cornell.edu for more information.
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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.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
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Five Cornell PhD students have received Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad awards, with support from Einaudi.