Join the International Relations Minor for a virtual career information session featuring Cornell alumni working in diplomacy, education, and law. Panelists will reflect on their career paths, share advice on internships, graduate school, and professional transitions, and answer student questions about careers connected to international relations.

Register here.

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Speakers

Eric Andersen is the Political-Economic Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Maputo, Mozambique. Having joined the U.S. State Department in 2009, he previously served as Political Counselor (Acting) in Islamabad, Pakistan. His other assignments have included Cairo, Kyiv, and Khartoum, as well as in Washington, D.C. as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. Prior to entering the Foreign Service, he spent four years on Capitol Hill as a Professional Staff Member for the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. In his first stint with the U.S. Government, he flew the SH-60B “Seahawk” helicopter as an aviator in the U.S. Navy. He holds an M.A. in Security Policy from the George Washington University, and a A.B. in English Literature from Cornell University (Class of 1996).

Angie Yucht Swenson, M.S.Ed., Ed.M., is the founder and principal tutor of AYS Tutoring and Consulting, a practice she launched after more than a decade working in both private and public schools across New York City. She specializes in supporting elementary through high school students with learning challenges and has worked with families from diverse international backgrounds, including Russia, Israel, and France. Angie graduated from Cornell University in 2010, majoring in Human Development and minoring in International Relations, followed by a master’s in General and Special Education from Hunter College, and a master’s in School Leadership from Bank Street College of Education. She resides in NYC with her husband, two daughters, and a goldendoodle.

Emma Marshak is a commercial litigator in Washington, DC who specializes in judgment enforcement. She has enforced domestic and international judgments, including awards from investor-state arbitration, in federal and state courts across the United States.

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This session is presented by the Einaudi Center for International Studies. The International Relations minor is open to all Cornell undergraduate students interested in learning about the politics, economics, history, languages, and cultures of the world.

Registration Link: https://cvent.me/Qy3NxW

EMC² Distinguished Fellow Series
From BRIC to BRICS+: 25 Years That Reshaped the Global Economy. Fireside Chat Dean Andrew Karolyi and Lord Jim O'Neill

Andrew KarolyiCharles Field Knight Dean, Cornell SC Johnson College of BusinessJim O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of Gatley2026 EMC² Distinguished FellowFormer Chairman, Goldman Sachs Asset ManagementFormer Commercial Secretary to the Treasury, United KingdomKnown for coining the term BRICChair of BRICS+ ThinkingOpening by Lourdes Casanova, Gail and Roberto Cañizares Director, Cañizares Center for Emerging Markets

Lord O’Neill of Gatley
Lord O’Neill is a cross bench peer in the House of Lords. He is Chair of Northern Gritstone, and is also Chair and Co-Founder of a new Policy Platform, BRICS+ Thinking. He is Co-President and formerly Chair of, Northern Powerhouse Partnership. He is a member of the South Yorkshire Mayoral Economic Advisory Council and is Chair of the NeoTest AMC working group launched by CGD. His previous roles include, joint head of research at Goldman Sachs (1995–2000), its chief economist (2001–10) and chairman of its asset management division (2010–13); creator of the acronym BRIC; chair of the City Growth Commission (2014); chair of the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance [AMR] (2014-16); commercial secretary to the Treasury (2015-16); chair of Chatham House (2018-2021). He is a board member, and one of the founding trustees of educational charity SHINE.

Lord O’Neill is a Distinguished Fellow at both The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the 2027 Cornell Canizares Center for Emerging Markets (EMC2). He is an honorary professor of economics, University of Manchester, and holds honorary degrees from the University of Sheffield, University of Manchester, University of Hull, University of London, University of Surrey and from City University London. He received his PhD from the University of Surrey and is now a Visiting Professor there.

A reception will be held after the fireside chat.
Please register to attend and keep posted about this event.

Registration Link: https://cvent.me/Qy3NxW

"Chunking in the Second Language: Implications for Language Learning and Teaching"
Serene Wang
Language Scientist and Educator

Many second language learners attain substantial vocabulary and grammatical knowledge and perform well on standardized proficiency tests, yet they continue to experience difficulty in real-time language use despite years of studying. This discrepancy can be understood from a processing-based perspective, emphasizing the role of chunking in real-time language processing.

Chunking refers to the cognitive process by which smaller elements are grouped into larger units, such as from syllables to words, from words to phrases, and beyond. Differences between first (L1) and second language (L2) learning often lead the latter to rely more heavily on word-by-word processing, constraining comprehension and production in the face of rapid speech rates, transient speech signals, and inherent limitations of the human sensory and working memory systems.

Recent empirical findings suggest that chunking facilitates real-time language processing in L1 and L2 speakers alike. These findings invite a reconsideration of common instructional practices that treat language as a system of knowledge to be studied, emphasizing vocabulary words and grammatical structures as categorically distinct areas of instruction. Instead, I argue that a chunk-based language pedagogy that uses multiword units as important building blocks for language may better support real-time processing skills in L2 learners.

Bio: Dr. Serene Wang is a language scientist and educator. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology (Psycholinguistics) from Cornell University, with her dissertation research focusing on the cognitive science of second language learning, chunking, and processing. Outside of the laboratory, she also worked closely with second language learners and speakers in the classroom and language support settings. During her time at Cornell, she taught a reading and writing course for heritage Chinese speakers, two Mandarin Language Across the Curriculum sections attached to Psychology courses, and facilitated English and Mandarin Conversation Hours at the LRC for three years. Dr. Wang is currently working as a local language instructor in Ithaca, teaching ESL at TST BOCES and Mandarin at Raft Education.

This event will be held in person in G25 Stimson and will also be streamed live over Zoom (registration required). Join us at the LRC or on Zoom.

The event is free and open to the public.

Come and explore international research from students at the Einaudi Center for International Studies. Our undergraduate Global Scholars will present posters on their international aid projects.

Global Scholars Showcase

Global Scholars will present a showcase of their capstone projects providing public commentary and perspectives on international aid.

Undergraduate global scholars consider the multiple perspectives that shape the global landscape of international aid and the communities impacted. They have partnered with Einaudi Center practitioner in residence Paul Kaiser and faculty mentor Ed Mabaya—expert researchers and practitioners on international development—to design their projects. Applications for the next cohort will open in fall 2026.

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The Einaudi Spring Showcase is hosted by the Einaudi Center for International Studies.

International Fair showcases Cornell's global opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. Explore the fair and find out about study abroad, international studies programs, funding opportunities like Global Internships, Laidlaw Scholars Program, graduate student fellowship and research awards, international minors, language study, and more.

The International Fair is sponsored by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and Office of Global Learning (both part of Global Cornell) in partnership with the Language Resource Center.

This talk will explore the social, environmental, and economic legacies of plywood across the Americas, focusing on Honduras and the U.S. South. During and after World War II, demand for southern pine lumber created patterns of inequality that continue to shape the contemporary world. In 1964, the Georgia Pacific Corporation invented a process to create glued plywood from southern pine, transforming the political economy of forests across the hemisphere. Using ethnographic and archival research in rural Honduras, Arkansas, and Florida, this talk will explore how the search for building materials transformed and connected places across the Americas in surprising ways.

Daniel Reichman is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Rochester. A specialist in contemporary Latin America, he earned his PhD from Cornell and has conducted anthropological research in Honduras and Brazil. He is the author of two books, The Broken Village: Coffee, Migration, and Globalization in Honduras and Progress in the Balance: Mythologies of Development in Santos, Brazil. In addition to his academic writing, he writes for popular media outlets and has spoken on immigration policy at the White House, United Nations, and the Interamerican Development Bank. He is co-editor of the Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, the longest running anthropology lecture series in North America, which is published by Duke University Press.

"Controvérsias e Breve História Sobre a Linguagem Inclusiva no Brasil"

by

Brume Dezembro Iazzetti

​Ph.D. Student in Science and Technology Studies (STS)

Cornell University

WHEN: April 17, 2026 at 12:20PM (EST)

WHERE: Uris Hall G08

Lecturer in Portuguese.

In person.

Open to the public. Everybody is welcome.

To see the flyer, please click HERE.

Contact:

Dr. Denise Osborne

dmo67@cornell.edu

Senior Lecturer

Romance Studies

Cornell University