Over 70 undergraduate students will present their international summer experiences in a poster session. Their work includes conducting research, working in Global Internships, and putting leadership into action as Laidlaw scholars.

The poster session will be in the Baker Portico & Atrium of the Physical Sciences Building. Light refreshments will be served.

Applications for Global Internships are open now. Applications for the Laidlaw Scholars Program will open on November 15.

Global Internships give undergraduate students valuable international experience in fields spanning global development, climate and sustainability, international relations, communication, business, governance, and more. They are managed by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and Office of Global Learning, both part of Global Cornell.

The Laidlaw Undergraduate Leadership and Research Scholarship Program provides generous funding to first- and second-year undergraduates over two years as they pursue internationally focused research, engage in leadership training and a leadership-in-action experience, and join a global network of like-minded peers. The program is managed by the Einaudi Center.

The Laidlaw Undergraduate Leadership and Research Program promotes ethical leadership and international research around the world—starting with the passionate leaders and learners found on campuses like Cornell. Open to first- and second-year students, the two-year Laidlaw program provides generous support to carry out internationally focused research, develop leadership skills, engage with community projects overseas, and become part of a global network of like-minded scholars from more than a dozen universities. We’ll also share tips for approaching potential faculty research mentors and writing a successful application.

Register for the virtual session.

Can’t attend? Contact laidlaw.scholars@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.

The East Asia Program (EAP) offers several categories of fellowships and grants to support student and faculty research and study related to East Asia:

EAP Graduate Area Studies Fellowships East Asian Language Study Grants EAP Research Travel GrantsCan’t attend? Contact eap@cornell.edu.

Come to the LRC 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.

Come learn more about this spring opportunity with spring break travel, developed in partnership with Universidad San Francisco de Quito and as part of the Jeb E. Brooks School’s Global Policy Exchange Lab. This 3-credit collaborative online international learning (COIL) and community-based global learning (CBGL) course allows a unique bilateral exchange as highlighted in our overview of the Spring 2024 program. The program invites Cornell students to explore the complexities of education policy and practice in the United States and Ecuador with students and faculty from Universidad San Francisco de Quito as well as with teachers, administrators, and policy makers in both contexts.

In the mid-nineteenth century, decades after independence in Latin America, borderlands presented existential challenges to consolidating nation-states. This talk examines how and why these spaces became challenging to governments and what their meaningfulness is for our understanding of the development of a global world by examining one of those spaces: the Trans-Andean, an Argentine-Chilean borderland connected by the Andes mountains and centered on the Argentine region of Cuyo. It answers these questions by interweaving three narratives: Chilean migration to western Argentina; mountain-crossing Argentine rebels; and the formation of plans for railroads to cross the mountains.

Out of these narratives emerges a twofold argument that, on the one hand, locates the causes and stakes of foundational national conflicts in Argentina in a Pacific-facing Trans-Andean and, on the other hand, sees the Trans-Andean as part of mid-nineteenth-century globalization, thus connecting national conflicts, non-national geographies, and globalization. As a result, this history challenges dominant narratives about social and political conflicts at this formative moment in Argentine and Latin American history while opening up discussion on the methodologies and meaningfulness of transnational, borderlands, and global histories.

Kyle E. Harvey is an Assistant Professor of History at Western Carolina University. He is a social historian whose current research focuses on spatial histories of Argentina and Chile. His research engages with broad questions of historical geography, human mobility, capitalism, technology and expertise, and materialist interpretations of history. He received his BA in History from the University of Michigan and his MA and PhD from Cornell University. His research has been published in the Journal of Latin American Studies and Historia Crítica. His book, In Place of Mobility: Railroads, Rebels, and Migrants in an Argentine-Chilean Borderland, was published in 2024 by the University of North Carolina Press as part of its David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History.

POSSIBLE LANDSCAPES PROJECT

Mario Lewis, an artist and agriculturalist practicing in Trinidad and Berlin, is one of several Trinidadian collaborators in the documentary film project making its debut at Cornell Cinema on Wednesday, September 25. On Wednesday September 25, just before the debut screening at Cornell Cinema, Mario Lewis will give an artist talk at Toboggan Lodge, with a micro exhibit of selected works connected to his talk.

More details about Possible Landscapes screening:

https://events.cornell.edu/event/possible-landscapes-world-premiere-scr…

More details about Possible Landscapes project:

https://as.cornell.edu/news/professors-feature-length-documentary-film-…