Join the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs for a panel discussion examining the political and economic consequences of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement.

Our expert panelists include:

Virginia Doellgast, Associate Professor of Comparative Employment Relations in the ILR School at Cornell University

Antony Phillipson, British Consul General in New York and HM Trade Commissioner for North America

Graham Wilson, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Initiative on Cities, Boston University; former chair of the British Politics Group of the American Political Science Association

Thomas Wright, Director of the Center on the United States and Europe and Senior Fellow in the Project on International Order and Strategy, Brookings Institution

The panel discussion will be moderated by Alexandra Cirone, Assistant Professor and Himan Brown Faculty Fellow in the Department of Government at Cornell University

The displacement of populations due to climate change forecasts an unprecedented phenomenon in human history. Neither international law nor nations are prepared to face up to this challenge in a way that would secure refugee’s human rights or their appropriate resettlement. This panel brings together different academic disciplines to bear on the question of rehabilitation and resettlement as a form of reparation to current and future climate refugees. How is it possible to think of restitutions to climate refugees by acknowledging the accountability of the first industrializing countries of the Global North in imposing this displacement on the peoples of the Global South? The intention is to start a conversation with scholars working in the areas of migration, transitional justice, art, architecture, and environmental humanities on the possibility of a just response to the displacement of climate refugees.

Speakers

Ashley Dawson | City University of New YorkAnne Mc Clintock | Princeton UniversityBronwyn Leebaw | University of California, RiversideAnooradha Iyer Siddiqi | Barnard College, Columbia UniversityBilly Fleming | University of PennsylvaniaModerated by Esra Akcan | Cornell University

The panel is sponsored by the IES of Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University. It is organized as part of IES’ Migration Series for its AY 2020-21 theme Repair and Reparations. You may find information about the past events including their video recordings here: https://einaudi.cornell.edu/programs/institute-european-studies/events/….

This panel will explore proposals in the early post-Soviet period to honor the memory of, and perhaps provide reparations to, the victims of Stalinist repression. They were replaced by official government efforts to rehabilitate Stalin’s reputation and even rewrite the history of World War II. Organizations such as Memorial, formed to maintain the memory of Stalin’s crimes, have been declared “foreign agents” and obliged to curb their activities. This event brings together an interdisciplinary panel of experts to discuss the initiatives and missed opportunities in post-Soviet reparations.

Speakers:

Ivan Kurilla | European University at St. PetersburgNina Tumarkin | Wellesley CollegeEgle Rindzevičiūtė| University LondonNikolay Epplee | Independent Researcher

Moderated by Matthew Evangelista | Cornell University

The panel is sponsored by the IES of Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University. It is organized as part of the IES Migration Series for its AY 2020-21 theme Repair and Reparations. You may find information about the past events including their video recordings here: https://einaudi.cornell.edu/programs/institute-european-studies/events/….

This panel will bring together scholars who provide new perspectives on the material and moral reparations of the postcolonial, post-Nazi and post-communist eras in Germany, as well as the significance of these restitutions in serving as models for transitional justice and international law. It will explore both material and moral reparations, such as return and restitution of property that had been confiscated, monetary payments as compensation, and educational steps to take accountability for the past. The panel will not only acknowledge these reparations to ex-citizens and refugees, but also question the limits of established formulas and the lack or inequality of restitutions throughout the history of today’s Germany.

Speakers List:

Ruti Teitel | New York Law SchoolRebecca Boehling | U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, University of MarylandNicholas Mulder | Cornell UniversityTiffany Florvil | The University of New MexicoModerated by Esra Akcan | Cornell University

The panel is sponsored by the IES of Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University. It is organized as part of IES’ Migration Series for its AY 2020-21 theme Repair and Reparations. You may find information about the past events including their video recordings here: https://einaudi.cornell.edu/programs/institute-european-studies/events/….

This panel will explore the theme of reparations and restitutions to bring justice to the residual inequalities caused by slavery and colonization. It will focus on the recent developments to institute a sort of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Belgium, which was approved in Summer 2020 in the form of a parliamentary Special Commission to scrutinize the country’s colonial past. The multidisciplinary panel puts into conversation scholars who will comment on the history of Belgium colonization in Congo, on the recent movements in conjunction with Black Lives Matter including the toppling of the King Leopard II Monument that sparked the demand for accountability, and on the current debate around truth and reconciliation in Belgium, as well as its place in other transitional justice processes around the world.

Speakers’ list:

Pablo de Greiff, New York University

Amah Edoh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Pedro Monaville, New York University Abu Dhabi

Liliane Umubyeyi, Avocats Sans Frontières

Moderated by Esra Akcan, Cornell University

The panel is sponsored by the IES of Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University. It is organized as part of IES’ Migration Series for its AY 2020-21 theme Repair and Reparations. You may find information about the past events including their video recordings here: https://einaudi.cornell.edu/programs/institute-european-studies/events/…