Join us this summer to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn more than you might think. Conversation Hours are open to any learner, including the public.

In conjunction with Cornell Reunion, join us for a special talk featuring Dr. Florencio Delgado, a leading scholar of Ecuadorian art and professor at Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador.

Fresh from his work consulting on the renovation of the Ancient Americas galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Dr. Delgado will share insights from his pioneering archeological fieldwork and discuss new approaches to museum practice.

The Johnson Museum’s important collection of ancient Ecuadorian art makes it well-placed to showcase how thoughtful scholarship and innovative museum practices can reshape our understanding and appreciation of Indigenous cultural heritage, past and present. Hugo C. Ikehara-Tsukayama, the Harris Family Curator of the Arts of the Americas, will share his own exciting plans for reimagining displays of ancient American art at the Johnson.

Free and open to all, this event is cosponsored by the Department of Anthropology and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program.

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 welcome!

Fridays at 12 noon @ 429 Rockefeller Hall

September 12
Monica Cornejo
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

September 19
Vivian Zayas
Professor
Department of Psychology
College of Arts and Sciences

October 24
Ariel Ortiz-Bobea
Associate Professor
Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
Jeb. E. Brooks School of Public Policy

October 31
Jon W. Parmenter
Associate Professor
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences

November 7
D. Alexander Bateman
Associate Professor
Department of Government
College of Arts and Sciences

Undergraduate Global Scholars are student leaders in the campus community. This competitive fellowship program is open to students from all colleges and majors with a passion for big global questions and speaking across differences. The Global Scholars program provides a toolkit of resources for weighing challenging questions and builds your practical skills in public debates. For the 2025-26 school year, scholars will bring their skills as writers, scholars, activists and artists, poets, hands-on practitioners, and more to study and promote the impacts of international aid. By the end of the program, you'll be an active global citizen and champion for social impact.

Applications are due Sunday, September 14.

Can’t attend? Contact programs@einaudi.cornell.edu.

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The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies hosts info sessions for graduate and for undergraduate students to learn more about funding opportunities, international travel, research, and internships. View the full calendar of fall semester sessions.

Please join the Cornell University Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and the South Asia Center at Syracuse University for the 2025 International Studies Summer Institute (ISSI)! ISSI is a professional development workshop for practicing and pre-service K-12 educators. This year we will explore the theme of global media literacy.

Participants will engage in sessions that explore both the challenges that new media technologies and practice have enabled globally, as well as how to assist students in the US to understand and analyze information from around the world. 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. Sessions will include a workshop that will introduce K -12 educators to the key principles and practices related to media literacy education from a global perspective, connecting it to questions of power structures, global flows of media, and democratic practices. Another session will focus on the role of artificial intelligence and cultural bias in social media content moderation in international contexts. This year’s ISSI will also feature presentations by staff from the Johnson Museum of Art and the Cornell University Library, sharing resources for teachers.

Speakers include:

Wunpini Mohammed, Assistant Professor of Comunication, Cornell Univesity

Srivi Ramasubramanian, Newhouse Professor and Endowed Chair, Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University

Hannah Toombs, Engaged Learning Librarian and Librarian for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Olin Library, Cornell University

Farhana Shahid, PhD Candidate, Information Science, Cornell University

Carol Hockett, Hintsa Family Manager of School and Family Programs, & Krystyna Piccorossi, Post-Baccalaureate Fellow in Pre-K–12 Museum Education, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University

Brian Sengdala, PhD Candidate, Performing & Media Arts, Cornell University

EXTENDED deadline: 20

ISSI program schedule:

Morning

8:30 - Check-in & breakfast

9:00 - Welcome: Dr. Ellen Lust, Einaudi Center Director

9:15 - Hannah Toombs, PhD, Engaged Learning & LACS Librarian, Cornell University

10:00 - Dr. Srivi Ramasubramanian, Newhouse School, Syracuse University

11:00 - Breakout sessions with Code^Shift team

11:40 - Report out with Dr. Srivi Ramasubramanian

Afternoon

12:10 - Lunch offered to all participants

1:15 - Carol Hockett & Krystyna Piccorossi, Johnson Museum, Cornell University

2:00 - Dr. Wunpini Mohammed, Dept of Communication, Cornell University

3:05 - Farhana Shahid, PhD Cand, Information Science, Cornell University

3:50 - Brian Sengdala, PhD Cand, PMA, Cornell University

4:30 - Closing: Sarah Pattison, PhD, Einaudi’s Assoc Director of Academic Programs

(photo credit: Adam Cohn)