Celebrate the start of the semester with the Latino Living Center, along with various other LatinX Cornell student organizations! We will be hosting our annual Welcome Week event which serves as a club fair with LatinX resources but also as an opportunity to connect with one another. Come enjoy music, delicious food, games, and more!

Food Provided- RSVP required for food lineup!

Note: After registration you will be redirected to sign a waiver for some of the activities we'll have a Bienvenidos! Please make sure to sign the quick waiver in order to participate. Thank you.

OPEN TO THE CORNELL COMMUNITY!

Hosted by the Latino Living Center.

Registration Link in person: https://cvent.me/dx9K9m

Registration Link online: https://cornell.zoom.us/s/93668620332

A fireside chat between Andrew Karolyi and Iván Duque about Duque's new book: "Our Future: A Green Manifesto for Latin America and the Caribbean", Planeta, 2024.

Andrew Karolyi, Charles Field Knight Dean of the Cornell SC Johnson College of BusinessIván Duque, Former President of Colombia (2018-2022)
A reception will be held after the fireside chat at Sage Hall atrium.
Please register to attend and keep posted about this event.

Registration Link in person: https://cvent.me/dx9K9m

Registration Link online: https://cornell.zoom.us/s/93668620332

If you love languages, our funding opportunities are for you! Learn one of more than 50 languages offered at Cornell with a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship or Rare and Distinctive Language Fellowship. Opportunities are open to both undergraduate and graduate students.

FLAS fellowships support students studying modern South Asian and Southeast Asian languages and related area studies. Funding is offered in collaboration with the Einaudi Center’s South Asia and Southeast Asia Programs.

RAD fellowships support students studying modern languages that are less frequently taught in the United States. Funding is offered by the Einaudi Center for intensive summer language study.

Can't attend? Contact flas@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.

POSSIBLE LANDSCAPES

Directed by Kannan Arunasalam

Produced and conceptualized by Tao DuFour and Natalie Melas

"For no one had yet written of this landscape

that it was possible.”

Derek Walcott

A collaboration between a documentary filmmaker, Kanan Arunasalam and two professors, Tao DuFour (Architecture) a spatial theorist and Natalie Melas (Comparative Literature) a postcolonial comparatist and scholar of Caribbean thought, Possible Landscapes is the outcome of the team research project, “Possible Landscapes: Documenting Environmental Experience in Trinidad and Tobago,” funded through the Cornell Migrations Initiative team research grant for the Mellon Just Futures Initiative. The aim was to develop methods of field research and representation in documentary film that foreground intergenerational lived experience of landscapes and environments in the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago, and to query the formation of environmental and climate imaginaries, with a view to getting at larger historical questions—of migration, plantation societies, extractivism, race, and the legacies of colonialism—that inform everyday practices in ways that are difficult to identify and to articulate, because they are concretely lived.

Possible Landscapes joins seven people in seven different regions of the islands in the course of their daily lives: Kevin, a fisherman on the east coast suffering the recent loss of one of his crew members at sea; four generations of the Josephs family in the steep hillsides of the northern range; Captain ‘Spaceman’ Philips and his glass-bottomed boat in Tobago from which he has witnessed the decline of the coral reefs; Crystal, a trade unionist active in supporting workers who lost their jobs when a major oil refinery was closed; Romulas, known as the “last sugar cane farmer” in the central plains and his Venezuelan workers; Stephanie a nurse who worked in the oil fields in the south starting just after World War II; Tony, originally from Jamaica, a climate change analyst, agriculturalist and rabbit farmer in St Joseph.

Co-sponsored with The College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office, The Society for the Humanities, Africana Studies and Research Center, Department of Architecture, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Literatures in English, Environment and Sustainability, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Department of Romance Studies

Possible Landscapes is supported by a grant from Cornell University’s Migrations: A Global Grand Challenge and the Mellon Foundation’s Just Futures Initiative.

All events are free and open to the public.

If you need accommodations to participate, please contact icm@cornell.edu as soon as possible.