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.