Welcome, introduction to, and opening of the Fall 2021 semester's Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program's weekly seminar series.

Professor Cora Fernandez Anderson will be discussing her book "Fighting for Abortion Rights in Latin America: Social Movements, State Allies and Institutions," and analyzing the recent legalization of abortion in Argentina which happened after publication.

This chapter illustrates how after the Mexican Revolution in the 1920s, the Yucatan Peninsula became a prolific region for experimentation and development of modern apiculture in the tropics. To illustrate this aspect, I reconstruct the work of the first bee-experts that promoted the systematic relocation of the European honeybee or Apis Mellifera in the 1920s by designing what they called “tropical apiculture,” in the Yucatan Peninsula. By reconstructing the birth of the apiculturist figure in the countryside, this chapter shows how bee experts popularized this practice and installed apiaries, taught in communities the theory and practice of modern apiculture, and made the necessary adjustments to implement “modern hives” in the localities.

In-Person at G01 Stimson Hall-Cornell Community Only

and for the General Public, via Zoom registration link at:

https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_u9OHfhlqRpyiYgAQfFiFOA

The Institute for African Development (IAD) Summer Africa Internship program provides sophomores, juniors and rising senior undergraduate students with challenging practical fieldwork in Africa. Application deadline is February 28th. Internships are available in Ghana and Zambia. Those interested in applying must attend two seminars in the IAD Special Topic Seminar Series (CRP 4770) and a pre-departure meeting.

Contact: iad@cornell.edu

This LACS summer research grant provides funding for in-country research costs for graduate pre-dissertation work in Latin America or the Caribbean. (The grant does not cover international airfare; students should also apply for an Einaudi Center Travel Grant for airfare.) LACS will offer up to three research grants to qualified graduate students who need to conduct field research over the summer of 2021. Grant amounts may vary from $500 to $1,500.

The graduate minor in Latin American (and Caribbean) studies allows you to acquire in-depth knowledge of the region, which will enhance your expertise for future research and professional advancement. The main requirement is to have a Latin American studies field faculty member as a member of your committee.

Contact: lacs@cornell.edu

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports college graduates conducting research or teaching English in more than 150 countries. Applications are due in the fall; students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are encouraged to start the process in their junior year.

Contact: fulbright@einaudi.cornell.edu

Learn about the Laidlaw Undergraduate Research and Leadership Program. Open to first- and second-year students, this 2-year program provides generous support to carry out internationally-focused research, develop leadership skills, engage with community projects overseas, and join a global network of like-minded scholars from more than a dozen universities. Join us to learn more about the program, its benefits, and the application process, as well as tips for approaching potential faculty research mentors and writing a successful application

For many Cubans, Fidel Castro’s Revolution represented deliverance from a legacy of inequality and national disappointment. For others—especially those exiled in the United States—Cuba’s turn to socialism made the prerevolutionary period look like paradise lost. Michael J. Bustamante unsettles this familiar schism by excavating Cubans’ contested memories of the Revolution’s roots and results over its first twenty years. Cubans’ battles over the past, he argues, not only defied simple political divisions; they also helped shape the course of Cuban history itself. Hybrid event, join us in person in Stimson Hall G01 or through zoom.

In 1821, as insurgent forces battled Spanish royalists in what would become the last throes of the Wars of Independence in the northern Andes, representatives of the newly constituted republic of Gran Colombia (present-day Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Panama) passed a gradual emancipation law to address the problem of slavery. At the center of this law was a Free Womb law that declared legally free the children of enslaved women born after the law's promulgation while bonding these children to their mothers' masters until the age of eighteen. This presentation explores the emergence of Colombia's gradual emancipation law, in addition to the violent financial lives of Free Womb children in the autonomous rainforests and gold mines of the Colombian Black Pacific. Although gradual emancipation was ostensibly designed to destroy slavery, Barragan shows how slaveholders in Colombia came to have even greater stake in it.

Come meet students, faculty, and staff and learn about the organizations that are part of the Latinx community at Cornell.

OPEN TO THE CORNELL COMMUNITY!

Register via Campus groups: https://cglink.me/2ee/r1182710

Hosted by the Latino Living Center, Latina/o Studies Program, Latinx Student Success Office.