Institute for European Studies
Information Session: Laidlaw Research and Leadership Program

October 1, 2024
5:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
The Laidlaw Undergraduate Leadership and Research Program promotes ethical leadership and international research around the world—starting with the passionate leaders and learners found on campuses like Cornell. Open to first- and second-year students, the two-year Laidlaw program provides generous support to carry out internationally focused research, develop leadership skills, engage with community projects overseas, and become part of a global network of like-minded scholars from more than a dozen universities. We’ll also share tips for approaching potential faculty research mentors and writing a successful application.
Can’t attend? Contact laidlaw.scholars@cornell.edu.
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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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Program
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Migrations Program
Information Session: Global Internships

September 17, 2024
5:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Go global in summer 2025! Global Internships give you valuable international work experience in fields spanning global development, climate and sustainability, international relations, communication, business, governance, and more.
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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.
Additional Information
Program
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Migrations Program
Information Session: Undergraduate Global Scholars Program

September 4, 2024
5:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Undergraduate Global Scholars are student leaders in the campus community. This competitive fellowship program is open to students from all colleges and majors with a passion for big global questions and speaking across differences. The Global Scholars program provides a toolkit of resources for weighing challenging questions and builds your practical skills in public debates. For the 2024-2025 school year, Scholars will bring their skills as writers, scholars, activists and artists, poets, hands-on practitioners, and more to study and promote democracy building. By the end of the program, you'll be an active global citizen and champion for social impact.
Applications are due Friday, September 20.
Can’t attend? Contact programs@einaudi.cornell.edu.
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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.
Additional Information
Program
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Migrations Program
Alican Taylan

IES Graduate Fellow 2024-2025
Alican Taylan, MArch, MEng, is a Ph.D. student in the History of Architecture and Urban Development (HAUD) at Cornell University, where he studies nineteenth-century environmental and colonial history. His dissertation committee is co-chaired by Esra Akcan and María González Pendás (HAUD), and Aaron Sachs (History) is his third committee member. Recently, he curated Strategic Landforms (2024) at Cornell AAP, an exhibition about French military architectural production in Senegal over the nineteenth century.
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Spring Break Environmental Justice Program in London Info Session

October 2, 2024
12:30 pm
Uris Hall, 153
Learn more about this spring break opportunity in collaboration with Global Hub partner, King’s College London (KCL), this program examines London as a global financial capital, a center of health research and policy, and a site where the consequences of climate change, including extreme heat events, are distributed in radically uneven ways. Beginning as part of the spring semseter course, this program will prepare students for research topics related to issues of environmental justice. Student will travel onsite during spring break to conduct field work at various sites across the city and return to synthesize those experiences as part of their larger research projects.
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Institute for European Studies
Aidan E. Kelly

Administrative Assistant
Aidan Kelly is the administrative assistant for the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies and the Institute for European Studies. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English literature and rhetoric from Binghamton University. She first came to Cornell in May 2018 as a program assistant in the College of Arts & Sciences.
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Spring Break Environmental Justice Program in London Info Session

September 26, 2024
5:30 pm
Learn more about this spring break opportunity in collaboration with Global Hub partner, King’s College London (KCL), this program examines London as a global financial capital, a center of health research and policy, and a site where the consequences of climate change, including extreme heat events, are distributed in radically uneven ways. Beginning as part of the spring semseter course, this program will prepare students for research topics related to issues of environmental justice. Student will travel onsite during spring break to conduct field work at various sites across the city and return to synthesize those experiences as part of their larger research projects.
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Program
Institute for European Studies
Victoria Pihl Sørensen

IES Graduate Fellow 2024-2025
Victoria E. Pihl Sørensen is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Performing and Media Arts. Her doctoral research examines population control and eugenics in Danish popular culture from an anti-racist feminist point of view. She holds an MA in Women’s and Gender Studies from the CUNY Graduate Center. She recently published "'In Women’s Hands': Feminism, Eugenics, and Race in Interwar Denmark" (2023), in the feminist journal Women, Gender & Research.
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IES 2024 Awards and Fellowships

We are pleased to announce that the Institute for European Studies has awarded $100,000 in 2024 to graduate and undergraduate students.
Unearthing and Reckoning with Ukrainian History

September 4, 2024
12:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
A Book Talk on Ukraine Is Not Dead Yet
Growing up in Cleveland in the final years of the Cold War, writer Megan Buskey understood little about her Ukrainian family’s traumatic history. It was only well into adolescence that she learned that her mother had grown up in a gulag exile settlement in Siberia because her grandparents had been deported there from their Ukrainian village after the Second World War.
As an adult, Megan spent years researching her family’s experience for her award-winning book, Ukraine Is Not Dead Yet: A Family Story of Exile and Return (ibidem, 2023). In this talk, Megan Buskey will discuss the political significance of Ukrainian family histories in light of the restrictions placed on memory during the Soviet period, share what she learned about her family’s experience, and connect their story to current politics, specifically Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for European Studies