Join us for an information session to learn more about the new cycle of Migrations grants, open to all PI-eligible faculty (including tenured, tenure-track, professors of practice, senior research associates, and clinical-track faculty), irrespective of their college or school. Faculty-led programs and centers within the university are also welcome to apply.

With support from the Mellon Foundation Just Futures Initiative and Global Cornell, we are funding U.S.-focused work that has long-term and discernible benefits addressing racial and immigrant justice on campus and beyond. Research that has a broader international focus may apply for multispecies, interdisciplinary Migrations grants on any subject related to migration. We offer two tracks, based on our funding sources.

Track 1: Mellon Foundation Just Futures Initiative: Supports research and engagement focused on the United States and centered on the connections between racism, dispossession, and migration in interdisciplinary, innovative, and impactful ways.

Just Futures Team Research Grants, three grants of up to $150,000.Just Futures Small Grants, up to five grants of up to $10,000.Just Futures Engagement Grants, four to eight grants of up to $25,000.Track 2: Migrations: A Global Grand Challenge: Researching, Teaching, and Building for a World on the Move. Supports innovative, multispecies, and interdisciplinary approaches to key international migration issues. Aims to cultivate collaborations that advance science, scholarship, teaching, outreach, and engagement in ways that generate new insights into critical problems.

Migration Cross-Disciplinary Research (Team Research Grants) and Migrations Research (Individual Faculty): $10,000–$50,000 maximum awards. The objective of this funding opportunity is to promote path-breaking research on migrations at Cornell and, in particular, research with an impact that might resonate across multiple fields of study.The Cornell Migrations co-directors will address any questions about priorities, selection criteria, budgets, and other guidance on how to prepare a successful application. Proposals are due January 31, 2022.

This is a hybrid event. Please join us in person in Uris Hall G08 or register via Zoom for virtual.

European Study Abroad Pre-Departure Orientation

As you prepare to embark on your European study abroad experience, it is important to understand the cultural, historical, political, and economic landscape in Europe so you can arrive as an informed global citizen. This hour-long virtual session provides a brief overview of key information that will equip you for a successful transition into this exciting region of the world.

Thursday, December 2, 2021, 5:00-6:00 p.m. EDT

5:00 p.m.
Presentation by the Institute for European Studies (IES)

Overview of the European Studies minor and funding opportunities for undergraduate students.

5:07 p.m.
Presentation by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Overview of the International Relations and Migrations minors, Global Virtual Summer Internships, and funding opportunities for undergraduate students.

5:15 p.m.
"Spotlight on Europe"

Presented by IES Visiting Scholar, Dr. Leslie Schumacher

5:40 p.m.
Student Panel Q & A

Hear advice from students who have traveled to or lived in Europe. Ask questions to gain insight so you can hit the ground running when you arrive.

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The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, in partnership with the Society for the Humanities, presents this symposium featuring five cutting-edge researchers whose work crosses disciplinary lines to tackle some of the world’s most pressing problems.

Join postdoctoral fellows Mohamed Abdou, Eman Ghanayem, Bamba Ndiaye, Eleanor Paynter, and Grace Tran for a discussion of their work in the fields of migration studies and global racial justice. Topics will include identity, colonialism and decolonization, indigeneity and dispossession, refugee studies and mobility, economic and social justice, and critical race theory. Learn how new approaches and developments are changing scholarship in these critical fields.

Einaudi Center director Rachel Beatty Riedl will introduce the event, and Viranjini Munasinghe (Department of Anthropology) will moderate.

Speakers

Mohamed Abdou, Global Racial Justice Postdoctoral Fellow, Einaudi Center"Non-statist Indigenous and Muslim Conceptualizations of Sovereignty: The Decolonial Inseparability of Race from Religion"

Eman Ghanayem, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Comparative Literature and Society for the Humanities"Being Native, Being Refugee"

Bamba Ndiaye, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Music and Society for the Humanities"From Mbas Mi to Mbëkk Mi: Covid-Induced Migration and Social Movement Advocacy in Senegal"

Eleanor Paynter, Migrations Postdoctoral Fellow, Einaudi Center"Witnessing Migration 'Crises': Race, Coloniality, and Asylum in Italy"

Grace Tran, Migrations Postdoctoral Fellow, Migrations Initiative"What’s Love Got to Do With It?: Transformative Effects of Vietnamese-American Engagement in 'Marriage Fraud' Arrangements"

Learn about the Laidlaw Undergraduate Leadership and Research Program. Open to first- and second-year students, this 2-year program provides generous support to carry out internationally-focused research, develop leadership skills, engage with community projects overseas, and join a global network of like-minded scholars from more than a dozen universities.

Join us to learn more about the program, its benefits, and the application process, as well as tips for approaching potential faculty research mentors and writing a successful application. Sponsored by the Tatkon Center for First-Year Students and the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.

Take a break from your studies to swing by Duffield Hall Atrium for this European-focused information fair. Play a game, win prizes, and find out about the various opportunities to explore Europe as a Cornell student!

This event is presented by the Institute for European Studies as part of Global Cornell's participation in International Education Week 2021 #IEW2021 in partnership with the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and the Office of Global Learning.

Find #IEW2021 student events and opportunities on Instagram @global_cornell.

This webinar features two PhD graduates who will discuss their experience in finding alternative career paths and answer your questions about the world of think tanks. All are welcome to attend this free event hosted by Critical Ottoman & Post-Ottoman Studies (CO+POS) and co-sponsored by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, the Society for the Humanities, Near Eastern Studies, and the Department of History.

Speakers:

Howard Eissenstat

Howard Eissenstat is an Associate Professor of History at St. Lawrence University in Upstate NY. His scholarship focuses on the relationship between religious and national identity in the late Ottoman contemporary and Modern Turkey, with additional work on contemporary Turkish politics and international relations. Eissenstat served as a Turkey Country Specialist for Amnesty International, USA between 2006 – 2017 and was primary author of the Turkey section of the Freedom House Annual Report from 2018 – 2020. His current research is on the place of non-Muslims in Turkish policy and politics since 1980.

Nicholas Danforth

Nicholas Danforth is author of the book The Remaking of Republican Turkey: Memory and Modernity since the Fall of the Ottoman Empire. He has covered U.S.-Turkish relations for the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Bipartisan Policy Center. Danforth received his M.A. from the School of Oriental and African Studies and his B.A. from Yale. He completed his Ph.D. in history at Georgetown University in 2015 and has written widely about Turkey, U.S. foreign policy, and the Middle East for publications including The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, War on the Rocks, and The Washington Post.

Moderator:

Durba Ghosh

Durba Ghosh is a professor of history and the director of the Humanities Scholars Program at Cornell University. Prof. Ghosh is the author of Sex and the Family in Colonial India: the making of empire (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919-1947 (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Her next project emerges from Gentlemanly Terrorists and considers how we commemorate national heroism in the postcolony.

About CO+POS:

Housed within the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University, Critical Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies (CO+POS) highlights the latest in innovative research about Southwest Asia, North Africa, and Southeast Europe—a region encompassing the Turkic world, the Ottoman Empire, and its successor nation-states.

CO+POS gives scholars, artists, and practitioners a platform for challenging traditional understandings of this part of the world. From novel perspectives on the Ottoman Empire's architectural heritage to critical policy analyses of current events, CO+POS offers fresh approaches to the study of the dynamic region at the center of the Afro-Eurasia continent.