Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Kenneth Roberts
Richard J. Schwartz Professor, Government
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Role
- Faculty
- LACS Core Faculty
- LACS Steering Committee
- DTR Faculty Steering Committee
- Einaudi Faculty Leadership
Contact
Email: kr99@cornell.edu
May 2024 Einaudi Center News
Faculty and Student Kudos and a Farewell
Learn about Einaudi's faculty seed grant awards, CRADLE's new Law and Economics Papers, and over 100 students conducting international research this summer with Einaudi support.
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Americans Are Critical of Today's Immigrants
María Cristina García, LACS
María Cristina García, professor of history, notes that Americans had the same complaints about immigrants 50 years ago.
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Book Celebrates Cornell's Global Past and Future
Beyond Borders: Exploring the History of Cornell's Global Dimensions features chapters on the Einaudi Center and several regional and thematic programs.
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Cornell Helps Displaced Scholars Rebuild Careers
Series Honors Einaudi's Past Visiting Scholars
Read about Turkish sociologist Azat Gündoğan (IES), Nicaraguan cartoonist Pedro X. Molina (LACS), and Afghan artist Elja Sharifi (Johnson Museum).
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Topic
- Democratic Threats and Resilience
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International Studies Summer Institute: Plant and Animal Migration
July 9, 2024
9:00 am
Stocking Hall
Join the Cornell University Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and the South Asia Center at Syracuse University for the 2024 International Studies Summer Institute (ISSI)! This year, we will explore plant and animal migration around the world and at home. ISSI is a professional development workshop for practicing and pre-service K–12 educators.
Participants will explore the patterns and causes of plant and animal migration in a global context, as well as how they affect and are affected by human society. Scholars from Cornell University and Syracuse University will share their research and expertise from across different regions of the world, including Africa, East Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
Object-based learning will be a specific focus. Sessions will include an introduction to the Einaudi Center’s culture kits and how they can support hands-on learning about plant and animal migration in different countries. Culture kits are a collection of cultural artifacts from around the world, tailored for use in K-12 classrooms. We will also feature an overview of Latin American and East Asian artwork on these topics at the Johnson Museum of Art and an introduction to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s eBird kits.
Who Can Participate
We welcome practicing and pre-service K–12 educators of all subjects and grade levels who work in New York State. While this year's institute will have more of a scientific focus than in past years, we believe this year’s theme will benefit educators of all subject areas, especially in developing cross-disciplinary, project-based activities with a global focus.
Benefits
As a participant, you will...
gain tools and knowledge to apply in your classroom around issues of plant and animal migration internationally and in our backyards.
connect issues affecting yourself and your students here in the U.S. with other parts of the world.
“recharge” intellectual batteries and deepen your own understanding and appreciation for plant and animal migration.
have the option to complete a lesson plan for additional CTLE hours that incorporates content from the workshop, with the support of our outreach staff.
receive a free eBird kit from the Lab of Ornithology, targeted for the grade band of choice ($70-$110 value).
Enrollment is open now!
Questions? Contact outreach coordinator Sarah Plotkin.
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Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
International Fair
August 28, 2024
11:00 am
Uris Hall, Terrace
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.
Register on CampusGroups to receive a reminder. Registration is not required.
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Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Latina/o Studies Fridays with Faculty luncheon seminar
November 22, 2024
12:00 pm
Rockefeller Hall, 429
The Latina/o Studies Program Fridays with Faculty luncheon seminar offers an opportunity for Latina/o and non-Latina/o students of all levels and disciplines to meet faculty and administrators from across the university for informal conversation about their current research/work in progress. All are welcome!
Fridays at 12 noon @ 429 Rockefeller Hall
September 20 TBD
September 27
Derek Chang
Associate Professor
Department of History/Asian American Studies
College of Arts and Sciences
October 25
Elizabeth Jonas, MSW
International Student Community Liaison Therapist, CAPS
Cross Campus Collaborator For Student Thriving
Leslie Whitcomb, Ph.D.
International Student Inclusion Specialist
OVPIA/Office of Global Learning
Cross Campus Collaborator for Student Welcome and Succe
November 1
Karen Jaime
Associate Professor
Latina/o Studies/Performing and Media Arts
College of Arts and Sciences
November 15
Raymond Craib
Professor
Department of History
College or Arts and Sciences
November 22
Tejasvi Nagaraja
Assistant Professor of Labor History
School of Industrial and Labor Relations
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Latin American and Caribbean Studies
The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth
April 30, 2024
5:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
In The Culture Trap, Derron Wallace argues that the overreliance on culture to explain Black students' achievement and behavior in schools is a trap that undermines the historical factors and institutional processes that shape how Black students experience schooling. This trap is consequential for a host of racial and ethnic minority youth in schools, including Black Caribbean young people in London and New York City.
Since the 1920s, Black Caribbeans in New York have been considered a high-achieving Black model minority. Conversely, since the 1950s, Black Caribbeans in London have been regarded as a chronically underachieving minority. In both contexts, however, it is often suggested that Caribbean culture informs their status, whether as a celebrated minority in the US or as a demoted minority in Britain.
Drawing on rich observations, interviews and archives in London and New York City schools, Wallace suggests that the use of culture to justify Black Caribbean students’ achievement obscures the very real ways that school structures, institutional processes, and colonial conditions influence the racial, gender and class inequalities Black youth experience in schools. Wallace reveals how culture is at times used as an alibi for racism in schools, and points out what educators, parents and students can do to change the beliefs and practices that reinforce racism.
Derron Wallace is the Jacob S. Potofsky Chair in Sociology and Associate Professor of Sociology and Education at Brandeis University in Boston, USA. He is also a Research Fellow at the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity at the University of Manchester. From 2022 to 2023, Wallace was a Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Sociology at Durham University. A sociologist of race, ethnicity and education, Wallace’s research focuses on structural and cultural inequalities in urban schools and neighbourhoods as experienced by Black youth. In 2023, Wallace received the American Educational Research Association’s Early Career Award for research on the social context of education. He also received the Doris Entwisle Early Career Award from the American Sociological Association for research on the sociology of education.
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Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Agrarian Studies, Climate Change, and the Future of Work
April 26, 2024
9:00 am
Cornell University
This inter-disciplinary conference brings together experts on questions of climate change, agrarian transformations and labor to help us reflect on the future of work.
Overview
The future of work is hot. Literally. Unpredictable seasons, droughts, floods, warming temperatures, rising seas, and a host of other climatic factors are changing what work is, what it means, and what it does to the body. These effects are unevenly felt across geographies and forms of difference.
These effects spill out beyond the factories, fields, and construction sites scholars conventionally associate with legible acts of labor. Self-employed or “informal” workers in cities face new threats from the compounding factors of rising heat and air pollution. Ecotourism sectors have been reconfigured to make climate crisis, extinction, and other consequences of planetary change into sites for “disaster tourism” and consumption. A low-paid service industry coalesces around climate dystopia. The bodily effects of heat and work are newly burdening women, who disproportionately perform unremunerated, devalued reproductive labor in domestic spaces. Questions about the future of work in the context of climate crisis, then, are as much about techno-fixes as they are about home and family.
See the full list of speakers on the registration page.
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Program
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
South Asia Program