Centering BIPOC voices and creative knowledge of the natural and built environments of the Americas, this discussion will include the multiple migrations of humans, animals, plants, and other beings that have storied or narrativized this land, building on the place-based knowledge of the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ (Cayuga Nation) and their traditional homelands.

Bringing together artist-in-residence, Sandy Rodriguez (Chicana) in dialogue with Rafael Aponte (Afro-Puerto Rican) “Rocky Acres” farmer, Soledad Chango (Quechua) linguist, Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel (Kanien’kehá:ka / Mohawk Nation) filmmaker and activist, Spencer Lyons (Onoñda’gegá’/Onondaga) knowledge holder, Wayva Waterman Lyons (Onoñda’gegá’/Onondaga) AIISP, Jane Mt. Pleasant (Skarù·ręʔ / Tuscarora) scientist and David and Evelyn George-Shongo (Onöndowa’ga:’ / Seneca) traditionalists.

Please direct any questions to Jolene Rickard jkr33@cornell.edu.

Nyàwę / Thank you.

Join Wendy Wolford and Jason W. Moore for a critical conversation on our contemporary planetary predicament and how different ways of conceptualizing it might entail different strategies for transformative change.

A presentation of the Polson Institute for Global Development

Wendy Wolford is the Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global Development and Vice Provost for International Affairs at Cornell University. Her research includes work on international development, agrarian social mobilization, and critical ethnography. A prolific author, her most article, “The Plantationocene: A Lusotropical Contribution to the Theory,” Annals of the American Association of Geographers (2021), served to frame the international conference on the Plantationocene at Cornell in April 2021.Jason W. Moore is Professor of sociology at Binghamton University and author of Capitalism in the Web of Life (2015) and co-author of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (2017).Moderator: Fouad Makki, Associate Professor of Global Development and Director of the Polson Institute.

Forging Lasting Peace: Movements for Justice in a Pluralist World (Bartels World Affairs Lecture)

In our ethnically, racially, linguistically, and religiously diverse world, how do we find common ground? Amid ongoing conflict and violence, how do we foster lasting peace? In our world full of inequalities, what practices of activism and solidarity lead to transformative change? Drawing on her experiences of mobilizing, demanding, and brokering peace, 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee shares how action and activism can shape a just world.

A book signing and reception with refreshments will follow the lecture.

Lecture: 5:00–6:30 p.m. | Alice Statler AuditoriumBook signing and reception: 6:30–7:30 p.m. | Park AtriumFree ticket required for in-person attendance: Reserve your ticket. Join the lecture virtually by registering at eCornell.

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Learn more about our distinguished speaker by reading her book, Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War. Pick up your copy from The Cornell Store and bring it to the book signing! Buffalo Street Books will also have copies for sale at the event.

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How did Leymah Gbowee's protests lead to lasting peace? Read a Bartels explainer by Naminata Diabate.

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About Leymah Gbowee

Nobel Peace laureate Leymah Gbowee is a Liberian peace activist, trained social worker, and women's rights advocate. She currently serves as executive director of the Women, Peace, and Security Program at Columbia University's Earth Institute and is the founder and current president of the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa, founding head of the Liberia Reconciliation Initiative, and cofounder and former executive director of the Women, Peace, and Security Network Africa. She is also a founding member and former Liberian coordinator of Women in Peacebuilding Network/West Africa Network for Peacebuilding.

Host and Sponsors

The Bartels World Affairs Lecture is a signature event of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. Part of Einaudi's work on Inequalities, Identities, and Justice, this year's lecture is cosponsored by Einaudi's Institute for African Development and Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, in cooperation with Peace is Loud. To learn more about Peace is Loud and discover other empowering women peacebuilders, visit www.peaceisloud.org.

Bartels World Affairs Lecture

The Einaudi Center’s flagship event brings distinguished international figures to campus each academic year to speak on global topics and meet with Cornell faculty and students, particularly undergraduates. The lecture and related events are made possible by the generosity of Henry E. Bartels ’48 and Nancy Horton Bartels ’48.

Arturo Escobar Location: Warren B74 and Zoom This talk examines emerging narratives of life that differ significantly from dominant anthropocentric perspectives of the world and their associated extractive modes of global development. Based on the notion of radical interdependence, these narratives propose a new foundation for social life and for designing worlds relationally, which is indispensable for confronting the terracide produced by mono-humanism. The talk will focus on one such emergent narrative – centered on notions of territoriality, communality, autonomy, re-existence, and pluriversality. Arturo Escobar is an activist-researcher from Cali, Colombia, working on territorial struggles against extractivism, post-developmentalist transitions, and 'ontological design'. He was the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Political Ecology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and is currently affiliated with the PhD Program in Design and Creation at Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia; and the PhD program in Environmental Sciences, Universidad del Valle, Cali. Over the past twenty-five years, he has worked closely on these issues with several Afro-Colombian, environmental and feminist organizations. Professor Escobar is the author of the celebrated study, Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (1995, 2nd edition, 2011). His more recent books include Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds (2018), and Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the Possible (2020). He is currently working on a book, Designing Relationally: Making and Restor(y)ing Life), with Michal Osterweil and Kriti Sharma. Featured image: "Energías Libres" by Angie Vanessita Sponsors: Polson Institute for Global DevelopmentLatin American and Caribbean Studies Program

Registration Link: https://cglink.me/2cm/r1538464

Lancet Citizens’ Commission
Pathways to Universal HealthCare for India’s 1.3 billion

The Lancet Citizens’ Commission on Reimagining India’s Health System is a cross- sectoral research endeavor to lay out a policy roadmap to achieving universal health coverage (UHC) for India’s 1.3 billion, after 75 years of failed efforts. A guiding principle for the Commission is that structural change towards UHC can only be attained through consultative and participatory engagement with the diverse sectors involved in health care and, most importantly, with India’s citizenry.

The Commission’s ‘big tent’ approach transcends traditional boundaries of expertise to actively engage stakeholders whose voices have rarely been heard in previous reports: those who deliver healthcare and those who receive it. It is thus a Citizens’ Commission in as complete a sense as we can envisage.

A consequence of this framing is that the Commission is explicitly confronting several hitherto-ignored schisms in the provision of Indian healthcare: between the public and private sectors in the delivery of care; between allopathic medicine and traditional medicine; between aficionados and sceptics of the role of technology in attaining UHC.

Our working hypothesis half-way through is that a (dramatic) shift in mental models at all levels is needed for India to be on a path towards UHC. Two overarching mindset changes include (a) Citizens shifting from being passive consumers of healthcare to an active and more informed participatory role, demanding access but also sharing responsibility and (b) Recognizing the role of the private sector in the health system and holding it accountable, rather than only relying on the state.

Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School. For over two decades, he has studied entrepreneurship as a means to social and economic development in emerging markets. At HBS since 1993, after obtaining degrees from Princeton and Harvard, he has taught courses on strategy, corporate governance and international business to MBA and Ph.D. students and senior executives.

Este seminario tiene como ambito de mejor entender como funciona el programa de la Tarjeta del Trabajador Fronterizo (TTF) en Mexico, su desarollo y sus efectos sobre los trabajadores, la industria y la sociedad.

Los apresentadores incluyen Dra. Martha Rojas Wiesner (El Colegio de la Frontera Sur), Dra. Antonieta Barron (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), Dra. Martha Garcia (El Colegio de la Frontera Sur) y Dr. Manuel Angel Castillo (El Colegio de Mexico).

La discusion tendra lugar en espanol y sera traducido en ingles.

La Migration Initiative, la Farmworker Legal Assistance Clinic y The Center for the Study of Inequality apoyan a este evento.

This workshop seeks to understand working mechanism of the agricultural temporary foreign workers program entitled 'Tarjeta del Trabajador Fronterizo' in Mexico, its development and effects on workers, the industry and society.

Speakers include Dra. Martha Rojas Wiesner (El Colegio de la Frontera Sur), Dra. Antonieta Barron (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), Dra. Martha Garcia (El Colegio de la Frontera Sur) y Dr. Manuel Angel Castillo (El Colegio de Mexico).

The event will take place in Spanish and will be translated into English.

The event is supported by the Migration Initiative, the Farmworker Legal Assistance Clinic and the Center for the Study of Inequality.