Cornell University Library and Tompkins County Public Library are hosting their annual Art + Feminism Wikimedia edit-a-thon! Art+Feminism is a global Wikimedia project that aims to address information gaps on Wikipedia and Wikidata. This year’s campaign focuses on the question “What would a feminist internet look like?”

The event will be held in two locations: Olin Library 107 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and in Tompkins County Public Library's BorgWarner East Room from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. The edit-a-thon will be open to all, including the Ithaca and Tompkins County community. Learn more about editing Wikipedia and what we plan to work on this year on our LibGuide: https://guides.library.cornell.edu/artandfeminism

This event is co-sponsored by the Tompkins County Public Library, Cornell University Library, and the following Cornell programs: the Department of Art; Department of History of Art and Visual Studies; Department of Romance Studies; Department of Literatures in English; Department of Science and Technology Studies; Asian American Studies program; Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program; Latin American and Caribbean Studies program; Media Studies program; Medieval Studies program; Society for the Humanities; Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity; and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.

Tuesday, April 22, 2025, at 4:45pm, 165 Statler Hall

A.D. White Professor-at-Large Martín Caparrós will be joined by Department of Global Labor and Work Professors Santiago Anria and Candelaria Garay for a discussion in Spanish that examines Argentine President Javier Milei through the lens of emerging Latin American fascisms.

Martín Caparrós (Buenos Aires, 1957) earned a degree in history in Paris, and worked as a journalist in print, radio, and television. He directed book and cooking magazines, translated Voltaire, Shakespeare, and Quevedo, and received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Planeta and Herralde novel prizes, as well as the Tiziano Terzani, Roger Caillois, and Caballero Bonald essay awards. He also won the Rey de España, Moors Cabot, and Ortega y Gasset journalism prizes. He has published more than forty books in over thirty countries. His most recent works include the novels Sinfín and Sarmiento, the essays Ñamérica and El mundo entonces, and a peculiar semi-posthumous memoir titled Antes que nada. In 2023, Random House launched the “Biblioteca Martín Caparrós,” reissuing most of his works, starting with about 15 previous titles.

Santiago Anria is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Labor and Work at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. His research focuses on the relationships between social movements, labor unions, and political parties in Latin America. He is the author of When Movements Become Parties: The Bolivian MAS in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics, 2018) and Polarization and Democracy: Latin America After the Left Turn (co-authored with Kenneth M. Roberts, forthcoming with The University of Chicago Press). Santiago received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2015. He has held fellowships at Harvard University (2021-22) and Tulane University (2015-17).

Candelaria Garay is an associate professor in the Department of Global Labor and Work at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Her research interests include social policy, labor and social movements, and environmental policy. She is the author of Social Policy Expansion in Latin America, which received the 2017 Robert A. Dahl Award of the American Political Science Association and an honorable mention for the 2018 Bryce Wood Book Award of the Latin American Studies Association. She is working on a book titled Labor Coalitions in Unequal Societies. Previously, she was an associate professor at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina) and at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

Caparrós visits Cornell as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large April 21-25, 2025.

The talk will address the main contents of my recent book “Latin America: the vision of its leaders” (Planeta, June 2024), which is the result of an intense and dedicated analyses on the region's main present and future challenges in six thematic areas: poverty and inequality, growth and productivity, environment, democracy, regional integration, and international insertion. It focuses on the main traps and systemic challenges that the region must address to achieve a green, digital, and inclusive development (G+D+I formula) under the strict respect of democratic rules. The book presents a plural and balanced vision of Latin America through a series of 30 interviews conducted by the author with leaders of the region (presidents, former presidents, ministers of state, presidents of multilateral and international organizations, and renowned journalists). It also includes 55 articles written especially for this volume by leading academics, experts and authorities. This text is an indispensable source of reference and consultation, due to its comprehensiveness, dimension and thoroughness. In total, it includes the participation of 106 personalities. Dr. Lourdes Casanova from Cornell participated in this publication.

Andres Rugeles is a political scientist from the Universidad de los Andes, with an emphasis in economics and Latin American studies. He holds a master's degree in international political economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). In 2023 he was an academic visitor of the Latin America Center at University of Oxford and completed advanced studies in negotiation and leadership at Harvard University. He is currently the vice president of the Colombian Council on Foreign Affairs (CORI). In addition, he is an associate member of the Latin America Center at the University of Oxford, and member of the advisory board of the Global South Unit at the London School of Economics. He has served as Ambassador and DPR of Colombia to the United Nations in New York; Secretary of Transparency of the Presidency of Colombia; Secretary General of CAF - Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean; Chief of Staff of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia; among many others. He is the author of the books "Latin America: the vision of its leaders" (Planeta, 2024), and “Latin America in the world: 21 ideas for reflection and action” (Planeta, 2024). He writes opinion columns and articles for national and international newspapers and media and is a member of the editorial board of Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica, and Latin Trade Magazine.

Join the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies’ undergraduate global scholars for a showcase of their capstone presentations providing public commentary and perspectives on global democracy.

Undergraduate global scholars advocate for building democracy on campus and around the world. They have partnered with the Einaudi Center's democratic threats and resilience faculty fellow Kenneth Roberts and Lund Practitioner in Residence Thomas Garrett—expert researchers and practitioners on building democracy—to design their projects.

Join Einaudi Center and Brooks School researchers for three-minute speed talks and community conversation on our contemporary moment.

Speakers will jump off from interdisciplinary and international research, experiences, and world events to provide a fresh perspective on current U.S. politics and public policy. Together we'll look at challenges faced and solutions found in a variety of academic fields and places around the world—to help us think through how to address emerging issues at home.

The event features clusters of speed talks on related topics—including free speech, U.S. elections, and international aid—with time for Q&A and conversation on each topic.

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Faculty Speakers

Lessons from Latin America

Kenneth Roberts, Democratic Threats Fellow (LACS) | GovernmentGustavo Flores-Macías (LACS) | Government and Public PolicySantiago Anria (LACS) | Global Labor and Work

International Implications

Magnus Fiskesjö (EAP/SEAP/PACS) | AnthropologyBryn Rosenfeld (IES) | GovernmentWilliam Lodge II (SAP) | Health Equity and Public Policy

Domestic Consequences

Mabel Berezin, IES Director | SociologyGautam Hans | LawMoon Duchin | MathematicsEllen Lust, Einaudi Center Director | Government and Public Policy

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Sponsors

This conversation is hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, partnering with Cornell Brooks School of Public Policy's Governance and Local Development Institute and Data and Democracy Lab.

Find out how graduate and undergraduate students can get started at Einaudi.

ECUADORCome visit a collaborative poster session featuring visiting students fromEcuador’s Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ)! Students fromCornell and USFQ will present their collaborative research on comparativeeducation policy related to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal(SDG) 4: Quality Education. Together, they’ve examined two of the sevenoutcome targets: elimination of all discrimination in education, andeducation for sustainable development and global citizenship in thecontext of the United States and Ecuador. Stop by anytime 3-4:30 pm to see what they’ve discovered! Email Dr. Julie Ficarra (jmf389@cornell.edu)with questions or to request accommodations.

Why do we see the country and the city as intrinsically different spaces and ways of being? Almost 50 years after Raymond Williams (1973) argued that this contrast is “one of the major forms in which we become conscious of a central part of our experience and of the crises of our society,” we continue to see agrarian economies and life as relics of an idyllic past, dissolving at the hands of the forward-marching cities. Against perspectives that saw the development of capitalism as an urban/industrial set of forces slowly gnawing away at rural/agrarian harmonious and simple living, Williams saw industrial capitalism as intrinsically connected to feudalism and agrarian capitalism, the urban to the rural. Rather than reflecting a historical reality, he argued that this spatial and ideological binary was constructed in direct response to the growth of capitalism and imperialism.

Today, more than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas—but agrarian livelihoods and lives are not merely withering away. The country-versus-city binary continues to govern our efforts to find solutions to the grave crises of our times. Contemporary solutions, such as agroecology as an antidote to industrial agriculture or green energy as a foil to fossil fuels, invoke the return to a pristine, sustainable past.

This conference will showcase graduate student papers that explore how the country and city constitute each other and investigate how capital, labor, imaginaries, and sentiments flow between the two.

10-11:30 am - Constructing Nature

Presentations by: Michael Cary, Jessie Mayall, Suraj Kushwaha and Finn Domingo

Discussant: Nataya Friedan

Constructions of nature, Williams reminds us, often contain veiled arguments about people, societies and social relations. This panel asks what kinds of social arguments are embedded in ideas of environmental instability and what kinds of politics emerge from them. We begin in England, where romanticized understandings of ‘the countryside’ underlie contemporary visions for landscape ‘optimization’ for food production and carbon sequestration. We then move to the remote Siachen glacier, where representations of the world’s highest battlefield by the Indian Army mediate public consent for militarization through appeals to martyrdom and national pride. From there we move to the aftermath of wildfires in Los Angeles, where the financial mechanisms and socio-economic effects of homeowners insurance are exacerbating an already unaffordable housing market. Finally, we turn to Paraguay, where the infrastructures of defense from destructive floods—and the politics of blame for when they happen—shape the relationship between an expanding city and neglected countryside.

12:30 -2pm - Morality of Improvement

Presentations by: Yui Sasajima, Maria Paula Espejo and Allen Huang

Discussant: Paul Kohlbry

These four papers examine the construction of rural spaces and urban fringes, paying attention to the flexible ideas of home that often lie behind the creation of certain spaces as desirable or ideal. At the heart of this question is the issue of improvement, which Raymond Williams points us to as a driver behind the subjection of tenants and the landless.Drawing on varying methodologies, these papers examine how rural and urban spaces are bridged—or thought to be bridged—through social reproduction, how home is made in new spaces, and who benefits from the drive to “improve.”

2:15-3:45pm - Structures of Feeling

Presentations by: Liam Greenwell, Georgia Koumantaros , Andrew Colpitts and Grace Myers

Discussant: Katharine Lindquist

Raymond Williams invites us to investigate the dialogic relationship between the rural and urban through the unspoken, shared, and historically contingent “structures of feeling” that emerge from cultural texts. This panel examines Williams’s contribution in relation to the moral, symbolic, representational, and material assemblages by which the rural is imagined. In doing so, we ask how the country and the city become sites of imagined dystopia and utopia alike by which people reimagine life in generative ways. These papers track imagined promises of the countryside—from a site for family values, national becoming, future imagination, and self-actualization—in contexts from rural evangelicalism in New York, queer reckonings with both limitation and thriving, folklore and placemaking in coal country, and the contradictions of village life in Greece. The unclear lines between utopia and dystopia trouble the position of the figures involved and promise—or threaten?—collective self-fashioning.