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.

International Fair showcases Cornell's global opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. Explore the fair and find out about international majors and minors, language study, study abroad, funding opportunities, global internships, Cornell Global Hubs, and more.

The International Fair is sponsored by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and Office of Global Learning (both part of Global Cornell) in partnership with the Language Resource Center.

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In the heated political climate of 1970s Italy, the first and longest-lived underground journal—Re nudo—aimed to link American radicalism with Italian extra-parliamentary politics.An arbiter of underground culture until the late 70s, Re nudo embraced the liberation of the individual from capitalism’s yoke by promoting psychedelics, sexual liberation, gay rights,feminism, and the revision of the institution of the family. Its audience was a new class in the making: a marginalized suburban proletariat made up of wage laborers, absentee students, and disaffected, angry youth. Its project went beyond the page: it even organized the largest music festival in Italian history. This talk will address the uses and limits of underground culture in creating a class aware of its revolutionary potential.

Informal meet-and-greet with students:
Friday, April 26 at noon in Klarman K164

Events sponsored by Romance Studies & the Institute for European Studies

IES Graduate Fellows Research Symposium – April 20, 2024

Light breakfast: 10am.

Panel 1: Collective Action and Politics (10:15am-11:30am)

Counter-Propaganda, Social Ties, and Autocratic Resistance: Evidence from Radio Free Europe (Frances Cayton, Government)

Image ethics in worship in late medieval / Early Modern Europe (Savannah Emmons, Medieval Studies)

A Most Fascist War: Revisiting the Italian Invasion of Ethiopia (Chris Mingo, History)

Lunch break: 11:30pm-12:30pm

Panel 2: Trade, Business, Law, and Culture (12:30pm-2pm)

Chaucer, Gower and the Bounds of the European World (Thari Zweers, Medieval Studies)

The impacts of artificial intelligence on worker ownership in tech companies. (Stefan Ivanovski, Industrial and Labor Relations)

Cultural history (music) of financial capitalism; the South Sea Bubble of 1720. (Morton Wan, Musicology)

Protecting Antiquities in a Civilized Manner: Ottoman antiquities regulations and international legal thought in the late nineteenth century (Emre Susamci, History)

Fatima El-Tayeb is Professor of Ethnicity, Race & Migration and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University.

Her research interests include comparative diaspora studies, queer of color critique, critical Muslim studies, decolonial theory, transnational feminisms, visual culture studies, race and technology, and critical European studies. Her publications deconstruct structural racism in “colorblind” Europe and center strategies of resistance among racialized communities, especially those that politicize culture through an intersectional, queer practice. She is the author of three books, Schwarze Deutsche. ‘Rasse’ und nationale Identität 1890 – 1933 (2001), European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe (2011) and Undeutsch. Die Konstruktion des Anderen in der postmigrantischen Gesellschaft (2016), and numerous articles on the interactions of race, gender, sexuality, religion and nation. Here current research projects explore the intersecting legacies of colonialism, fascism, and socialism in Europe and the potential of (queer) people of color alliances in decolonizing Europe. She is active in black feminist, migrant, and queer of color organizations in Europe and the US.

When internationally renowned Italian novelist and journalist Alain Elkann gave his papers to Cornell University Library in January, he opened up a trove of materials for scholars of contemporary Italian literature, as well as anyone interested in the art of fiction and journalism.

At this talk and presentation, Elkann will discuss his motivations for entrusting his papers to Cornell. He will also share insights about his historical novels that explore various facets of the Italian Jewish experience, and discuss his approach to interviewing prominent public figures ranging from artists to politicians.

After the talk, audience members will get a chance to view examples of Elkann’s books as well as his archival materials donated to the library’s Rare and Manuscript Collections, including handwritten drafts of novels and interview notebooks.

The event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited to the first 50 attendees. The talk will also be livestreamed.

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