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Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Marcos Pérez Cañizares

Marcos ( Grad Fellow)

LACS Graduate Fellow '24-'25

Marcos Pérez Cañizares is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History. He focuses on Colonial Latin America, and his dissertation is a spatial history of the North Pacific and the Pacific Northwest within the Spanish Empire from the 1600s to the 1810s. It examines the two century spanning construction of a Spanish North Pacific space that was intimately tied to Continental North America. He was born in Havana, grew up in Toronto, and is happy to join LACS to help enrich the intellectual community of Latin Americanists and Caribbeanists at Cornell. 

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Bienvenidos BBQ

September 6, 2024

7:00 pm

Anna Comstock Hall (Latino Living Center)

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.

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Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Fireside Chat Dean Andrew Karolyi and Former President of Colombia, Iván Duque

September 4, 2024

5:00 pm

Sage Hall, B01

Registration Link in person: https://cvent.me/dx9K9m(link is external)

Registration Link online: https://cornell.zoom.us/s/93668620332(link is external)

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(link is external)

Registration Link online: https://cornell.zoom.us/s/93668620332(link is external)

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Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Information Session: Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships and Rare and Distinctive (RAD) Language Fellowships

November 12, 2024

5:00 pm

Uris Hall, G08

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(link sends email).

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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.

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Program

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

East Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Institute for African Development

Institute for European Studies

South Asia Program

Migrations Program

Possible Landscapes -- Debut Screening

September 25, 2024

7:00 pm

Willard Straight Theatre, 104 Willard Straight Hall

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(link sends email) as soon as possible.

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Program

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Migrations Program

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Information Session: Graduate Opportunities

November 4, 2024

5:00 pm

The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies funds international graduate student research!

Research travel grants provide international travel support for graduate and professional students to conduct short-term research or fieldwork outside the United States.

Global PhD Research Awards fund fieldwork for 9 to 12 months of dissertation research.

Register for the virtual session.

Can’t attend? Contact einaudi_center@einaudi.cornell.edu(link sends email).

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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.

Additional Information

Program

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

East Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Institute for African Development

Institute for European Studies

South Asia Program

Migrations Program

Global Hubs Info Session: Joint Seed Grants with Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador)

September 4, 2024

12:00 pm

Global Cornell is offering competitive faculty grants in collaboration with Global Hubs partners.

Apply for funding to explore potential research collaborations with colleagues at Hubs universities.

Global Hubs collaborative research seed grants bring together Cornell and partner institution faculty to develop joint projects with the potential to create new or expanded research partnerships and cutting-edge scholarship with academic and societal impact. These international seed grants provide initial financial support for early-stage research projects or capacity-building efforts to create and sustain long-term collaborations and secure external funding.

Please join us on September 4 at 12:00 p.m. EDT / 11:00 a.m. ECT for a joint info session to learn more about the Cornell–USFQ grant opportunity to collaborate with colleagues in Ecuador. Q&A and collaboration matchmaking will follow a short presentation.

Up to five (5) research proposals will be funded.

Each successful proposal may receive up to $5,000 from each university for a total of $10,000.

Application deadline: October 6, 11:59 p.m. EDT

Project duration: January 1–December 31, 2025.

Register for the USFQ-Cornell Joint Info Session on Zoom.

Learn more and apply for a USFQ-Cornell joint seed grant.

Sign up for the USFQ-Cornell collaboration matchmaking.

Learn about additional seed grants available with other Global Hubs partners.

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Program

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Information Session: Global Internships

December 13, 2024

12:00 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Go global in summer 2025! Global Internships give you valuable international work experience in fields spanning global development, climate and sustainability, international relations, communication, business, governance, and more.

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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.

Additional Information

Program

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

East Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Institute for African Development

Institute for European Studies

South Asia Program

Migrations Program

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