Latin American and Caribbean Studies
LACS and LSP Graduate Student Writing Group

April 30, 2025
5:00 pm
Big Red Barn
Join graduate student writers to share goals and write in community. The writing workshop will begin with group introductions and a moment to share what we're working on. The bulk of the time will then be dedicated to writing in community and end with the opportunity to share what you accomplished with a supportive group of peers. For those who can't make it at 5 pm, feel free to drop in at any point.
This writing group, while open to all graduate and professional students, aims to make a place for multilingual writers in particular.
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Sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program and Latina/o Studies Program.
All Welcome!
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Mauricio Funes, Former El Salvador Leader Who Fled to Exile, Dies at 65

Gustavo Flores-Macías, LACS
Gustavo Flores-Macias, professor of government, discusses Mauricio Funes.
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Spanish Conversation Hour

May 6, 2025
3:45 pm
Stimson Hall, G25
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.
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Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Maritime History from Latin American Shores (In Spanish)

March 3, 2025
4:45 pm
Uris Hall, Uris G08
Guadelupe Pinzón is one of Mexico’s leading maritime historians. Her work expands Mexico’s territory into both the Caribbean and the Pacific, thus offering an uncommon approach to Mexican history. In this conversation Dr. Pinzón and Ernesto Bassi will speak about how thinking of Mexico’s maritime space reframes Mexican history, as well as about the opportunities and challenges of doing maritime history from Mexican shores and the prospects of a maritime history of Latin America. Monday's conversation will be in Spanish, and Pinzón will also be giving a talk in English on Tuesday, March 4 titled "From the Atlantic to the Pacific: Interoceanic Connections through Tehuantepec and Nicaragua in the Late 18th Century."
Guadalupe Pinzón Ríos is a Doctor in History from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UNAM, where she is currently a researcher and professor at the Institute for Historical Research. Pinzón Ríos is also a member of the National System of Researchers and an advisor of the graduate program in history. She has been studying maritime port activities throughout the Pacific, especially in New Spain, and has published Acciones y reacciones en los puertos del Mar del Sur. Desarrollo portuario del Pacífico novohispano a partir de sus políticas defensivas (1713-1789) and Hombres de mar en las costas novohispanas. Trabajos, trabajadores y vida portuaria en el departamento marítimo de San Blas (siglo XVIII). She also has various published works, articles, and book chapters.
Co-sponsored by Romance Studies, Science & Technology Studies, and Society for the Humanities.
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Program
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Nuclear Colonialism and Its Discontents

February 6, 2025
12:00 pm
Nuclear weapons and associated technologies have been primarily developed by and for Global North nations, often using the labor and natural resources of indigenous populations around the world, and often doing violence to those populations and their environments. As a result, many scholars analyze the development of nuclear technologies–including uranium mining, the processing and production of fissile materials, nuclear weapons testing, and use–as a form of colonialism. But as a state-centric framework, colonialism does not always capture practices that transcend national boundaries; radioactivity does not respect borders. This panel will elucidate the uses and limitations of the colonial framework for understanding the social and political implications of nuclear technologies. The panel will discuss how nuclear technologies have been developed in ways that are both locally specific and globally-interconnected, and the implications of this history for social and environmental justice.
Virtual panel discussion with-
Vincent Intondi, PACS Domestic Affiliate Scholar
Myrriah Gomez, Associate Professor at University of New Mexico
Mary Mitchell, Assistant Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers Newark
Magdalena Stawkowski, Assistant Professor at University of South Carolina
Hirokazu Miyazaki, Former Director of the Einaudi Center, Professor at Northwestern University
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Host
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
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Program
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
East Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Information Session: Einaudi Center Undergraduate Opportunities

March 11, 2025
5:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Join us to learn about opportunities for undergraduate students with the Einaudi Center for International Studies! This session will discuss how to successfully apply for programs like Global Internships and Laidlaw Scholars, and how to discover or strengthen global interests, including academic minors, weekly seminars, and language study.
Can't attend? Email programs@einaudi.cornell.edu for more information.
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Program
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Migrations Program
Information Session: IES & PACS Undergrad and Grad Opportunities

February 18, 2025
3:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
This session will describe opportunties for undergraduate and graduate students in the Institute for European Studies and the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.
IES offers a minor in European Studies, Global Summer Internships, a Graduate Fellows Program, and research funding for both undergraduate and graduate students. PACS offers fellowships, funding, and research travel grants for undergraduate and graduate students.
Register for virtual attendance here. Can't attend? Contact ies@cornell.edu or pacs@cornell.edu.
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Program
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Migrations Program
Information Session: Fulbright U.S. Student Program for Undergraduates

March 19, 2025
4:45 pm
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports U.S. citizens to study, conduct research in any field, or teach English in more than 150 countries. Students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are encouraged to start the process in their junior year. Recent graduates are welcome to apply through Cornell.
The Fulbright program at Cornell is administered by the Einaudi Center for International studies. Applicants are supported through all stages of the application and are encouraged to start early by contacting fulbright@einaudi.cornell.edu.
Register here. Can't attend? Contact fulbright@einaudi.cornell.edu.
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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
Information Session: Fulbright Opportunities for Graduate Students

March 5, 2025
4:45 pm
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides full funding for graduate and professional students conducting research in any field or teaching in more than 150 countries. Open to U.S. citizens only. The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program supports doctoral students conducting research in modern languages or area studies for six to 12 months.
Open to U.S. citizens and permanent residents of the United States. Travel to Western European countries is not eligible.
Register here. Can’t attend? Contact fulbright@einaudi.cornell.edu.
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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
Weeks of Upheaval Have Paralyzed This South American Nation. Here's Why.

Gustavo Flores-Macías, LACS
“I think the average Bolivian just feels like these leaders have forgotten about the average person, that they’re more focused on holding on to power," says Gustavo Flores-Macías.