Unity Across Language: Multilingual organizing for social change
Unidad en Lenguaje: Lucha multilingüe para el cambio social

An online panel discussion on the politics, opportunities, challenges, and necessity of multilingual organizing for social change, with a focus on English-Spanish dynamics.
Panel virtual sobre la política, las oportunidades, desafíos y necesidad de la lucha multilingüe para el cambio social, con enfoque en la dinámica inglés-español.

From the fight to stop climate change and police abuse, to the struggles for immigrant rights, dignified housing and healthcare, the poor must lead the battles to create a just society. This requires organizing together across the many languages we speak.
Desde la lucha contra el cambio climático y el abuso policial, hasta las luchas por los derechos de lxs inmigrantes, vivienda digna y atención médica, lxs pobres tienen que liderar las batallas para crear una sociedad justa. Esto requiere luchar juntxs en los muchos lenguajes que hablamos.

This forum highlights lessons and experiences of some of the leading organizations building unity across differences in languages and identities.
Este foro resalta lecciones y experiencias de algunas de las organizaciones líderes que construyen unidad a través de diferencias en lenguajes e identidades.

Featuring leaders from/Con líderes de:
Los Angeles Tenants Union (California)/Sindicato de inquilinos de Los Ángeles (California)
Migrant Justice (Vermont)/Justicia Migrante (Vermont)
Movimiento Cosecha
Vecinos Unidos (Wisconsin)

Simultaneous interpretation in English and Spanish via Zoom.
Interpretación simultánea en inglés y español a través de Zoom.

Register at/Regístrese en cuslar.org/ual
Contact cuslar@cornell.edu for more information.
Escribe a cuslar@cornell.edu para más información.

Organized by CUSLAR and University of the Poor.
Organizado por CUSLAR y Universidad de los Pobres.

Funded in part by the Cornell University Student Activities Funding Commission and Language Resource Center.
Financiado en parte por Cornell University Student Activities Funding Commission y Language Resource Center.

"la frontera piñera: pineapple and water in the making and unmaking of the Nicaragua/Costa Rica border"

Rachel’s research explores how rivers, lakes, wetlands, and different people’s relationships with these bodies of water have made, remade, and unmade the Nicaragua/Costa Rica border through time. Her project looks at how despite state border-making projects, local residents’ crossborder mobilizations over water, as well as the flows and stops of water, disrupt and destabilize the border, challenging the notion of a fixed or fixable boundary.

Rachel received her bachelor’s degree in cultural anthropology from the University of Rochester in 2010. Prior to beginning graduate school, she spent two years traveling and working in rural South America, and then volunteered as a Peace Corps Volunteer in northern Nicaragua. There she became interested in water issues amid seasonal cycles of food availability and the everyday realities of farmers in a drought-prone community in a country abundant with water.

Her research is supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, the US Student Fulbright program, and the National Geographic Society.

CUD Talk, Caribbean Updates and Demands, CSA & LASP Townhall Meeting:

Join the Caribbean Students' Association & the Faculty of the Latin American Studies Program for a short presentation on the beginning of the CSA demands to the University and our progress so far.

To be followed by an informal discussion led by the CSA for the community to express their concerns, comments, etc.

Join us for a conversation with Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Molly O'Toole '09, moderated by the undergraduate migrations scholars and Shannon Gleeson, professor of industrial and labor relations and Migrations initiative taskforce co-chair.

Her talk, "Extracontinental: How the Global Refugee Crisis Is Colliding with Immigration Policies," will be an interactive forum about the global refugee crisis, migration at the U.S.-Mexico border, immigration policy, its effects on people on the move, and the work of journalists covering these situations. O'Toole is the Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences and an immigration and security reporter with the Los Angeles Times.

This conversation, presented by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and Cornell’s Migrations initiative, is part of Beyond Borders: Undergraduate Migrations Symposium.

Nobel prize–winning economist Amartya Sen joins Cornell’s Kaushik Basu for the 2021 Bartels World Affairs Lecture, hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.

At the turn of the millennium, many would have said that understanding the need for democracy was the most important change in the world over the preceding century. Yet in the past 20 years, democracy has been treated with contempt and hostility in many parts of the world—including countries in the West (such as Hungary, Poland, and others), but also elsewhere.

It is important to ask why this is happening and how we should deal with it, Sen advises.

“Some countries seem to be undergoing a big transition in this respect, and my own country, India, may be a significant example—despite its being often described as the largest democracy in the world, which in some sense it still is,” Sen said. “As someone who is dismayed by recent developments, I would like to discuss the nature of the problems we may be facing and what can be done about them.”

Sen’s talk, “Attacks on Democracy,” will kick off a discussion with Cornell faculty and students moderated by Basu. Three faculty commentators and audience members, including several students, will join Sen for conversation and Q&A on democratic challenges—and ways forward. The event is part of the Einaudi Center’s democratic resilience global research theme.

Amartya Sen is Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University. He has served as president of the Econometric Society, American Economic Association, Indian Economic Association, and International Economic Association. Translated into more than 40 languages, Sen’s books include Collective Choice and Social Welfare (1970, 2017), Development as Freedom (1999), Identity and Violence (2006), and The Idea of Justice (2009). Sen’s awards include the Bharat Ratna (India); Commandeur de la Legion d'Honneur (France); National Humanities Medal, George Marshall Award, and Eisenhower Medal (USA); Bodley Medal and Edinburgh Medal (UK); Ordem do Merito Cientifico (Brazil); Aztec Eagle (Mexico); and the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Moderator:
Kaushik Basu is the Carl Marks Professor of International Studies, professor of economics in the College of Arts and Sciences, and former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank.

Faculty Commentators:
Robert Hockett, Edward Cornell Professor of Law, Cornell University

Marco Battaglini, Edward H. Meyer Professor of Economics, Cornell University

Rachana Kamtekar, Professor of Philosophy, Cornell University

The Bartels World Affairs Lecture was established in 1984 to foster a broadened worldview among Cornell students, especially undergraduates. The lecture and related events are made possible by the generosity of Henry E. Bartels ’48 and Nancy Horton Bartels ’48.

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