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The 2023 International Studies Summer Institute (ISSI) will explore testimonies of migration. The ISSI is a professional development workshop for practicing and pre-service K–12 educators hosted annually by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, in collaboration with the South Asia Center at Syracuse University.

During this cross-curriculum conference, educators will engage in discussions, workshops, and lectures that explore and amplify personal narratives of migration. Professors, postdoctoral fellows and other scholars from Cornell University and Syracuse University will share their cutting-edge research on migrant experiences from across different regions of the world, including South Asia, Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Speakers will focus on individual narratives, as well as systemic reasons for migration, such as politics, conflict, and climate change.

Sessions will also explore culturally responsive practices when working with migrant students and discussing migrant narratives. Teachers will gain tools for leading conversations and developing projects with their students about migrant experiences.

Teachers will leave the conference with concrete resources to use in their classrooms, a deeper awareness of how to enter into conversation with students about their own and others’ migration experiences, and an understanding of contemporary migrant experiences from across the world.

The 2023 ISSI will be applicable for elementary, middle, and high school educators from all subject areas. Participating teachers will have the option to complete a lesson plan for PD credit that incorporates content from the workshop, with the support and guidance of our outreach staff.

Conference Schedule:

8:45-9:00 Breakfast and check-in

9:00-9:15 Introductory Remarks by Rachel Beatty Riedl

9:15-10:20 Panel: "Ethical and culturally responsive engagement with migrant narratives"

Panelists: Farah Bakaari, Juhwan Seo, Rose Anderson

Moderator: Shannon Gleeson

10:20-10:30 Break

10:30-11:30 Workshop with Mary Jo Dudley, “Supporting Immigrant Families in Schools”

11:30-12:00 Networking and reflection activity

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-1:45 Breakout Sessions

Focus: Project-based learning around themes of migration (same sessions offered twice)

Option 1: Nicole Thuzar Tu-Maung, “Photovoice Methodology” Option 2: Maria Gimma, “Understanding the Global Phenomenon of Migration, a Project-Based Curriculum” Option 3: Nausheen Husain, “Storytelling With Data” 1:45-1:50 Break

1:50-2:35 Breakout Sessions, repetition of above options

2:35-3:00 Break / walk to Johnson Art Museum

3:00-4:00 Workshop with Carol Hockett and Maryterese Pasquale-Bowen, “How the Light Gets In: Contemporary Art and Migration”

4:00-4:20 Introduction to Einaudi Resources with Sarah Plotkin

4:20-4:30 Closing remarks with Sarah Pattison

Sponsored by: Syracuse University, Moynihan Institute for Global Affairs, South Asia Center, Cornell University’s Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Southeast Asia Program, South Asia Program, Institute for African Development, East Asia Program, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Institute for European Studies, Migrations Initiative, TST-BOCES, U.S. Department of Education Title VI Program

Dr. Anil Menon argues that "forced migration can foster a strong group identity among refugees, which can mobilize them toward political parties that champion their identity-based grievances." Join us to discuss and hear Dr. Menon present his methodologies, analysis, and results of this argument in his recently published work The Political Legacy of Forced Migration: Evidence from Post-WWII Germany.

Dr. Anil Menon is a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Government at Cornell University. His research examines how traumatic experiences – ranging from interstate wars and forced migration to public health crises – shape short- and long-term political attitudes, behaviors, and institutions. Dr. Menon's work on these issues has been published at both academic and policy journals – American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, The Economic Journal, PLOS ONE, International Journal of Public Health, and Current History – and has been featured in popular press outlets like the Washington Post: Monkey Cage and The Conversation.

In-person capacity for this event will be limited, please register using the Zoom link below. Lunch will be provided.

The Armistice of Mudros was signed on 30 October 1918 and on the morning of 13 November 1918, a mighty fleet of battleships from Britain, France, Italy and Greece sailed to Istanbul, and dropped anchor without encountering resistance. This day marked the beginning of the end of the Ottoman Empire, a dissolution that would bring great suffering and chaos, but also new opportunities for all Ottomans, Muslim and non-Muslim alike. In this lecture, drawing upon a previously untouched collection of Armenian and Ottoman Turkish primary sources, Ari Şekeryan will analyze these understudied post-war years. Examining the Armenian community as they emerged from the aftermath of war and genocide, Şekeryan will outline their shifting political position and the strategies they used to survive this turbulent period. By focusing on an oft-neglected period in history, the Ottoman Armistice (1918–1923), Şekeryan presents a case study for understanding the political reactions of ethnic groups to the fall of empires and nation-states.

Speaker
Ari Şekeryan received his PhD from the University of Oxford in 2018 and has since held post-doctoral and visiting professorship positions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, California State University-Fresno, the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and the University of Cambridge. His articles have been published in the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Turkish Studies, the Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, and War in History. His latest book, The Armenians and the Fall of the Ottoman Empire: After Genocide, 1918-1923, published by the Cambridge University Press in January 2023.

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Nationalism Unsettled presents a critical exploration of national imaginaries that disturb, defy or deviate from mainstream nation-state narratives, demanding renewed consideration of the nature of nationalism. In tackling this subject, we bring to the table speakers with cross-disciplinary expertise, spanning history, sociology, geography and the arts, and consider case studies spanning the Caribbean of the late 18th century, China under Mao, and contemporary Venezuela and Russia. At a time when nationalism globally is being re-energized through shifting and newly affecting forms, we invite you to join us in taking a deep dive into this vital subject, harnessing the power of a comparative perspective.

Discussant: Begüm Adalet, Department of Government

Format: 10 minute talk by each panelist on their individual research topic, followed by a 20 minute talk by the discussant, and up to 60 minutes for responses to the discussant and Q&A.

Presentations:

Ernesto Bassi, Department of History: Economic proto-nationalism or creole patriotism? Eighteenth-century visions of prosperity and the broken promises of empire

Mara Yue Du, Department of History: What Was Loving China: Revolutionizing Patriotism under Mao

Irina R. Troconis, Department of Romance Studies: Nation, Unsettled: Translucency, Memory, and Materiality in the Venezuelan Diaspora

Leila Wilmers, Department of Sociology: The myth of national resilience and non-statist imaginaries of the Russian nation

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This event is hosted by the Institute for European Studies as part of the Einaudi Center's democratic threats and resilience research priority. It is co-sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the East Asia Program.

Migration has defined human activity for millennia, illustrated by the fact that it constitutes the basis of many foundational texts: the Sanskrit Ramayana, the Old Testament, Homer’s Odyssey, the Aeniad, Icelandic sagas. In Poetics of Relation (1990), Martinican philosopher and poet Édouard Glissant distinguishes between "root identity," and "relation identity." While root identity is founded on plantedness in the past, claims to legitimacy, and entitlement to the possession of land, relation identity places emphasis on contact and circulation between cultures: "network of relation." In her presentation, Finburgh Delijani will demonstrate the centrality to contemporary theatre of the theme of migration. Exiles, immigrants, and refugees featuring across the plays examined by Finburgh Delijani show how belonging, legitimacy, and identity are uprooted via the often violent severance of migration. Concurrently, they illustrate how the trauma that characters suffer – which cannot be underestimated – is counterbalanced by the relational, transnational, cosmopolitan citizens they are able to become. With particular emphasis on women characters, Finburgh Delijani demonstrates how Glissant's notion of relation enables an appreciation of how theatre is promoting an understanding of the twentieth- and twenty-first-century worlds of mass migration, as post-national, transnational and fluid.

Hosted by the Einaudi Center as part of its inequalities, identities, and justice and migrations global research priorities, this event is co-sponsored by Migrations: A Global Grand Challenge.

Speaker

Clare Finburgh Delijani (Goldsmiths, University of London) is the recipient of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2023-26) and Professor in the Department of Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has edited many books and articles on theatre from the UK, France, and the French-speaking world. She is currently writing Spectres of Empire: Performing Coloniality in France (contracted with Liverpool University Press) on theatre that addresses France's colonial past, and postcolonial present.Moderator

Eleanor Paynter (Einaudi Center)Respondents

Sabine Haenni (Performing & Media Arts, A&S)Natalie Melas (Comparative Literature, A&S)Imane Terhmina (Romance Studies, A&S)

World in Focus: Einaudi Center Democracy Roundtable

Join the Einaudi Center and Bakhti Nishanov of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe for this dinnertime discussion about how human rights and democracy are faring in the former Soviet republics and across Eurasia.

We encourage undergraduate and graduate students to attend Nishanov's expert briefing from the policy world, with food, conversation, and informal Q&A. Hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, the event is part of Einaudi's work on democratic threats and resilience.

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Speaker

Bakhti Nishanov joined the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE)—also known as the U.S. Helsinki Commission—in 2021 as a senior policy advisor specializing in Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, and the Mediterranean. Previously Nishanov served as deputy director for Eurasia at the International Republican Institute, where he helped oversee a portfolio of democracy and governance programs. He has also held numerous consulting positions with the World Bank, USAID, and other organizations.

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About Democratic Threats and Resilience

Democratic threats and resilience is one of the Einaudi Center's global research priorities. Researchers across the Einaudi Center are monitoring evolving democratic norms and threats to democracy in the United States and around the world. This work is vital today, as our ability to address a range of global challenges—from pandemics and climate change to human rights—often hinges on the strength of representative institutions that provide voice and access to diverse societal interests and actors.

Speakers
Dr. Soner Çağaptay, Beyer Family Fellow & Director of Turkish Research Program, The Washington Institute For Near East Policy

Dr. Lisel Hintz, Assistant Professor of European & Eurasian Studies School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins Univeristy

Moderator
Dr. Esra Akcan, Michael A. McCarthy Professor of Architecural Theory
Architecture Art and Planning, Cornell Univeristy

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