Institute for European Studies
Learn more about becoming a minor in European Studies!
November 10, 2020
5:00 pm
The Institute for European Studies is excited to let you know that students currently enrolled in Comparative Literature, Government, History, History of Art, and Romance Studies courses have already completed the first requirements for a European Studies (ES) Minor.
Through an interdisciplinary curriculum, you can mold the ES Minor to your interests. You’ll have the opportunity to explore Europe’s past, present, and future and demonstrate a knowledge of European languages, culture, history, politics, and international relations.
The minor offers the chance to take courses across colleges on subjects that shape your understanding of a globalizing world, while also providing you with an area of expertise. You will gain critical thinking skills, language abilities, and helpful frameworks for assessing today’s most pressing issues in Europe and around the world.
Join us for an information session on Tuesday, November 10th at 5:00 pm to chat about your interests and learn more about the European Studies minor from IES faculty, staff, and student representatives.
If you’re already enrolled in the minor, join us on Thursday, November 12th at 5:00 pm to learn what opportunities are available to you and to meet other students interested in European Studies.
Take a 2-minute mini-quiz to see how far along you are in completing the minor.
Contact the Institute for European Studies directly for an advising appointment.
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Program
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for European Studies
The Police and the Public: Global Perspectives (Lund Critical Debate)
December 9, 2020
6:30 pm
Protests against racism and police violence crescendoed in the United States and around the world in 2020. In the United States and internationally, how can we balance social justice, accountability, and personal freedom with demands for order and security?
This Lund Critical Debate brings together the United Nations’ police commissioner and a noted expert on political conflict resolution to discuss strategies—both inside and outside the policing framework—for public safety and law enforcement. The conversation will address current questions around security and policing, including political violence, racial injustice and Black Lives Matter, and global responses to unlawful use of force.
The panel welcomes questions in advance and during the event. Registration is required.
Panelists
Luís Carrilho, United Nations Police Adviser. He has served since November 2017 as police commissioner and director of the UN’s Police Division. He previously served as the police commissioner in multidimensional United Nations peacekeeping operations in Timor Leste, Haiti, and the Central African Republic.
Christian Davenport, Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Policy, University of Michigan. His research focuses on racism, social movements, and political conflict, including human rights violations, genocide, torture, political surveillance, and civil war. His most recent book is The Peace Continuum: What It Is and How To Study It (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Moderator
Sabrina Karim, Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies; Hardis Family Assistant Professor for Teaching Excellence, Department of Government, A&S. Her research focuses on conflict and peace processes, international involvement in post-conflict security, and state building in the aftermath of civil war.
About the Debate
This year’s Lund Critical Debate is hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, part of the Einaudi Center. Established in 2008, the Einaudi Center's Lund Critical Debate Series is made possible by the generosity of Judith Lund Biggs ’57.
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Program
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Semi-Study Break: World Music of the Moment with Global Cornell
November 16, 2020
11:00 am
Celebrate International Education Week #IEW2020 with Global Cornell!
Join DJ Daniel Bass of WRFI's Monsoon Radio for world music of 2020—from coronavirus and mass incarceration, to migration, love, dancing, and beyond. Jonathan Miller of Homelands Productions cohosts.
For semi-finals: It's a semi-study break. See you there.
Registration is required.
Daniel Bass (South Asia Program) has been a radio DJ for nearly 30 years. As an undergraduate at Carleton College, he was music director of KRLX, the student-run radio station, and hosted a weekly show. In graduate school at the University of Michigan, he cohosted a weekly show of South Asian music on WCBN, the college/community radio station in Ann Arbor. In 2013, he started Monsoon Radio on WPKN in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He brought the show to Ithaca's WRFI in 2017. Monsoon Radio features music of South Asia, its influences and diasporas, branching out to music of the Indian Ocean and the Muslim world and fusions from all over the globe. Until the pandemic forced the show into hiatus, Monsoon Radio aired every other Tuesday night on WRFI, 88.1 FM, and wrfi.org.
Jonathan Miller's work as a journalist, writer, and editor has taken him to more than 20 countries in Asia, the Americas, Africa, Europe, and the Pacific. His radio and television reports have been broadcast on NPR, Marketplace, BBC, PBS NewsHour, and other outlets. As executive director of the journalism collective Homelands Productions, he has designed and produced multi-platform projects on cultural change, globalization and work, and the future of food. He serves as board chair of Ithaca City of Asylum. From 2016 to 2018 he was associate director of communication at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.
Register here: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hjkj48IdQ7yEVetaG1QFlA
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Program
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Barrett Honored by National Geographic
Einaudi-Funded Researcher Studies Daily Life in Pompeii
Caitlín Barrett (IES) received a 2019 Einaudi seed grant to reconstruct a garden of Pompeii.
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IES Graduate Research Grant
Details
The IES Graduate Research Grant is available to graduate students in any field of study whose research is focused on the study of Europe.
Criteria
- Quality of the research proposal within the field
- Validity and feasibility of the project
- Research and professional qualifications
- Strength of academic performance and letter of recommendation
Requirements
- 4-5 page research proposal (double-spaced) with bibliography
- Project budget
- 1 letter of recommendation*
Winners receive up to $4,000 in funding, distributed through their bursar account. The IES Graduate Research Grant application is conducted together with the Manon Michels and Michele Sicca Grant competitions. Candidates submit a single application and are automatically considered for each of the awards.
Contact IES with questions about this award.
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Luigi Einaudi Graduate Dissertation Fellowship
Details
The Luigi Einaudi Graduate Dissertation Fellowship is a semester-long or year-long fellowship available to graduate students in modern European government, history, economics, and related social science fields. The award consists of a graduate student stipend for one or two semesters, in-absentia fees, and enrollment in Cornell's student health insurance plan.
Criteria
This fellowship is designed to enable graduate students to conduct field and archival research focused on Europe for an extended period (4-8 months). To be eligible, applicants must have completed the "A" exam in their department or have an exam date scheduled prior to submitting their application and have a dissertation project approved by their dissertation committee.
- Quality of the research proposal in a social science field
- Validity and feasibility of the applicant’s research project
- Research and professional qualifications
- Strength of the student’s academic performance and letters of recommendation
Requirements
- 8-10 page project proposal (double-spaced) with bibliography
- 2 letters of recommendation
Contact IES with questions about this award.
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Susan Tarrow Fellowship for Research in Europe
Details
The Susan Tarrow Fellowship for Research in Europe was established in 2005 in honor of the associate director of the Institute for European Studies from 1985-2005. One of Tarrow's priorities was to establish funding to enable Cornell undergraduate students to pursue summer field research in Europe and to provide them with the intellectual and practical advising they need at all stages of their projects.
Undergraduate students from all fields of study are invited to submit applications to pursue research projects focused on Europe. In light of Tarrow’s passion for France and Italy, students planning a project in those countries are particularly encouraged to apply, though the fellowship is open to all Europeanists.
Requirements
- 4-5 page project proposal (double-spaced) with bibliography
- Budget listing estimated costs for airfare, lodging, food, etc.
- 1 letter of recommendation from Cornell Faculty
- Transcript
The winner will receive up to $4,000 in funding, distributed through their bursar account.
Contact IES with questions about this award.
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Manon Michels Einaudi Grant
Details
This graduate research grant honors the memory of Manon Michels Einaudi, a Cornell faculty wife and mother. One award is given each year for graduate research in a field close to Mrs. Einaudi's interests: European art and architecture, art history, literature, philosophy, and culture.
Graduate students in those fields whose research is in Europe and who are recommended by their faculty committee are eligible.
The primary aim of the Manon Einaudi Grant is to help Cornell doctoral candidates explore possible topics or otherwise launch their dissertation work, although applications from students whose dissertations are already in progress may also be considered if funding is available.
Criteria
- The quality and feasibility of the applicant's research proposal
- Evidence that funded research focused on Europe will advance the applicant’s doctoral program
- Applicant's academic performance and qualifications to complete the proposed project
- Strength of the applicant's letters of recommendation
Requirements
- 4-5 page project proposal (double-spaced) with bibliography
- Project budget
- 1 letter of recommendation
Winners receive up to $4,000 in funding, distributed through their bursar account. The Manon Michels Einaudi Grant competition is conducted together with the IES Graduate Research Grant and Michele Sicca Grant competitions. Candidates submit a single application and are automatically considered for each of the awards.
Contact IES with questions about this award.
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Michele Sicca Research Grant
Details
The Michele Sicca Research Grant was created by the late Mario Einaudi, Goldwin Smith Professor of International and Comparative Politics and former director of the Center for International Studies. Michele Sicca was an antifascist physician with whom Einaudi worked in exile during the Mussolini period.
The primary aim of the Sicca grant program is to help Cornell doctoral candidates explore possible research topics in European studies or otherwise launch their dissertation work via preliminary summer fieldwork in Europe. Applications from advanced doctoral students for completion of Europe-related dissertations may also be considered if funding is available.
Criteria
- The quality and feasibility of the applicant's Europe-focused research proposal
- Evidence that field research in Europe will advance the applicant’s doctoral program
- Applicant's academic performance and qualifications to complete the proposed project
- Strength of the applicant's letters of recommendation
Requirements
- 4-5 page project proposal (double-spaced) with bibliography
- Project budget
- 1 letter of recommendation
Winners receive up to $4,000 in funding, distributed through their bursar account. The Michele Sicca Grant competition is conducted together with the IES Graduate Research Grant and Manon Michels Einaudi Grant competitions. Candidates submit a single application and are automatically considered for each of the awards.
Contact IES with questions about this award.
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Repatriation of Museum Objects
October 19, 2020
3:00 pm
This panel is organized to bring together museum directors, curators, architects, and scholars to comment on the recent discussions on repatriation and restitution as a form of reparation to colonized and looted lands.
While museums in Europe and North America have occasionally returned objects to their native communities or lands of arrival, the issue of repatriation gained an accelerated epistemological and ethical momentum at the end of 2018. What is the responsibility of museums to objects taken into their collections by violence or deceit during the colonial times or wars? What is the role of museum-object-repatriation in the recognition of colonial and military violence? What are the procedural and ethical differences between repatriation, restitution, and other possible forms of reparations? What are the legal structures that prohibit or allow deaccession in the museums of different countries? Once the objects are parted from their communities and no longer serve their original sacred functions, where are they returned back to? What determines how far back museums consider repatriation claims legitimate and why? What is the future of “universal museums” around the world?
Speakers will each make a 15-minute presentation, commenting on the contemporary debates from the perspectives of their own work and study area. A question and answer session will follow the presentations.
Speakers:
Souleymane Bachir Diagne | Columbia University | New York
Jonathan Fine | Humboldt Forum | Berlin
Cecile Fromont | Yale University | New Haven
Moderator:
Esra Akcan | Cornell University | Ithaca
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Program
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for European Studies