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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Why did Denmark develop mass education for all in 1814, while Britain created a public-school system only in 1870 that primarily educated academic achievers? Cathie Jo Martin argues that fiction writers and their literary narratives inspired education campaigns throughout the nineteenth-century. Danish writers imagined mass schools as the foundation for a great society and economic growth. Their depictions fortified the mandate to educate all people and showed neglecting low-skill youth would waste societal resources and threaten the social fabric. Conversely, British authors pictured mass education as harming social stability, lower-class work, and national culture. Their stories of youths who overcame structural injustices with individual determination made it easier to blame students who failed to seize educational opportunities. Novel and compelling, Education for All? uses a multidisciplinary perspective to offer a unique gaze into historical policymaking.

Hosted by the Government Department and co-sponsored by the Institute for European Studies.

New Perspectives in European Studies: IES Graduate Fellows 2025 Spring Research Symposium

IES Graduate Fellows will be presenting their work in conference style presentations followed by time for discussions.

Lunch: 11:30am

Panel 1: Texts and Translation (11:45am - 12:30pm)

"Biblical Translation and Courtly Assimilation: the Socio-Political Imagination of 12th-Century Anglo-Norman Biblical Translations"
Chiara Visentin, Medieval Studies

"Iberia and the Partisan: Locating the Spanish Mind of Carl Schmitt"
Madeleine Lemos, History

5 minute break

Panel 2: Civic Engagement and Contemporary Challenges (12:35pm-1:20pm)

"Civic Engagement, Depolarization, and Crisis"
Frances Cayton, Government

"The International Political Economy of Contemporary Surveillance Technologies"
Amelia C. Arsenault, Government

10 minute break

Panel 3: Interpreting the Twentieth Century (1:30pm - 2:30pm)

"The Origins of Mussolini’s Decade of War"
Chris Mingo, History

"Straight Making as Organized Crime"
Angela Elissa Kothe, Government

"Diaspora and Displacement: Tracking the 1972 Ugandan Asian Expulsion in Empire's Aftermath"
Priyanka Sen, History of Architecture and Urban Development

Paper Presentations (each paper followed by discussion):

Aiduosi Amantai, Binghamton University. History.
"Negotiating Power: White Bones and Black Bones in the Kazakh Khanate, 17th–18th Centuries".

Katrina Nousek, Cornell University Department of German Studies
“(Mis)recognition: Ethnicity, Society, and Postsocialist Poetics”

Yulia Antonian, Yerevan State University, Faculty of History, Dept. of Cultural Studies
“Assembling the socialist industrial city: urban environment, social structure and belonging in Charentsavan (Armenia).”

Jeffrey Gettleman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and foreign correspondent for The New York Times, has covered major global conflicts and issues throughout his career. A 1994 graduate of Cornell University with a major in philosophy, Jeffrey took a wide range of classes at Cornell, including sculpture, economics, and creative writing. He has reported from some of the world's most challenging locations, including Ukraine, where he recently covered the ongoing war, and from remote areas like Papua New Guinea and the Amazon. With years of experience in conflict zones, including living in Kenya, Jeffrey has also written extensively for outlets such as GQ, National Geographic, and The New York Review of Books. In addition to his work as a journalist, he authored the memoir Love, Africa and frequently appears on national networks like CNN and NPR. Jeffrey also holds a master's degree in anthropology from Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar. He will discuss his recent experiences reporting on the war in Ukraine, Eastern Europe's challenges with Russia, and the geopolitical competition for dominance in the Arctic. Having recently returned from Greenland, he is open to questions on topics related to Europe, journalism, and any other matters of interest.

Join the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies’ undergraduate global scholars for a showcase of their capstone presentations providing public commentary and perspectives on global democracy.

Undergraduate global scholars advocate for building democracy on campus and around the world. They have partnered with the Einaudi Center's democratic threats and resilience faculty fellow Kenneth Roberts and Lund Practitioner in Residence Thomas Garrett—expert researchers and practitioners on building democracy—to design their projects.