Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Students’ Summers Saved with Global Virtual Internships
Ecuador, Ghana, and Beyond: Einaudi's Virtual Interns
Tapping worldwide connections, the Einaudi Center matched dozens of students with paid summer internships and research in their fields.
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Faculty Research University’s Ties to Indigenous Dispossession
Jane Mt. Pleasant, LASP
Jane Mt. Pleasant is on a faculty committee that is exploring Cornell’s history as a land-grant institution and the nation’s dispossession of Indigenous peoples.
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Migration, Climate Change, and Human Adaptation
December 2, 2020
3:00 pm
Mexico-U.S. migration flow is the largest sustained movement of people between any two nations. Existing work focuses on income differentials between the two countries as the main reason underlying migration. Our work shows climate change, bilateral trade, and border enforcement policies to be critical – and underappreciated – factors in guiding people’s movements.
Presenters:
Filiz Garip, Professor of Sociology
Nancy Chau, Professor, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
Register: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XTFbNwrKT-ez3yZLjntZTg
This lecture includes presentations on the following projects:
- “On the Triggers of Hazardous Border Crossings: Evidence from the US-Mexican Border,” presented by Nancy Chau (paper coauthored with Filiz Garip and Ariel Ortiz-Bobea)
- “Human adaptation alleviates the impact of climate change on migration,” presented by Filiz Garip (paper coauthored with Julia Zhu, Nancy Chau, and Amanda Rodewald)
Part of the series "Migrations: A Global, Interdisciplinary, Multi-Species Examination"
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Migrant Citizenship: Race, Rights, and Reform in the U.S. Farm Labor Camp Program
November 5, 2020
4:00 pm
What could and should fair labor standards and social programs for “noncitizen” migrant farm workers in the United States look like?
Verónica Martínez-Matsuda, associate professor at the ILR School, addresses this question in her new book, Migrant Citizenship: Race, Rights, and Reform in the U.S. Farm Labor Camp Program (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020) by showing how between 1935 and 1946 the Farm Security Administration (FSA) worked with migrant families to provide sanitary housing, on-site medical care, nursery and primary schools, healthy food, recreational programing, and democratic self-governing councils.
In a live, virtual Chats in the Stacks talk, Martínez-Matsuda will discuss how these Farm Labor Camps became visionary experiments in democracy, and provide insights into how the public policy, federal interventions, and cross-racial movements for social justice of this era can offer a precedent for improving farm labor conditions today.
Registration is required to attend. A moderated question and answer session will follow the talk. The audience is encouraged to submit questions via the Q&A window in the webinar.
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Latin American and Caribbean Studies
"Racial Reclassification, Education Reform, and Political Identity Formation in Brazil," by David De Micheli, LASP Seminar Series, 12:40 p.m.
In his talk, David De Micheli an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Ethnic Studies at the University of Utah, he will examine the consequences of educational expansion for the politicization of racial identities and inequalities in Brazil. His current research is published or is forthcoming in World Politics and Latin American Politics and Society. Register link
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Undergraduate Student Internship Spotlight: Zoe Barr
Zoe Barr during the summer of 2019, travelled to Ecuador to work on the Ecuadorian Amazon Reforestation Project for the Ministry of Agriculture and International Agriculture and Rural Development. The focus of Zoe’s work was centered around interviewing local Shuar and Mestizo farmers, gathering input from locals on how to improve cacao agroforestry systems. After conducting interviews, she, then, drafted proposals for how the government could implement policy to solve the problems that came up in her interviews. The expenses of her internship were covered by a scholarship provided by a U.S. Department of Education grant to the Cornell Latin American Studies Program.
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A Statement on Fighting Racial and Ethnic Inequality by the Latin American Studies Program
Cornell’s Latin American Studies Program affirms our commitment to the values of racial equality and social justice as articulated by Vice Provost for International Affairs Wendy Wolford and the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. We stand in solidarity with those who work to end police violence and dismantle structures of racial and ethnic inequality in the U.S. and around the world. We are committed to the development of academic programming that helps students, faculty, and community members better understand the historical origins and contemporary manifestations of the institutions and social structures that subjugate peoples of African and indigenous descent in the Americas, and we support those who use this learning to make a more just world possible.
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Global Challenges to Democracy: Perspectives from Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America
October 2, 2020
11:00 am
Over the past decade, democracy has been in retreat in a large number of countries in different regions, at least partially reversing the wave of democratization that swept across much of the world in the late 20th century. This webinar explores patterns of "democratic backsliding" in different world regions and their implications for democratic rule and its political resiliency in the face of autocratic challenges.
Panel: Valerie Bunce, Tom Pepinsky, Rachel Riedl, and Kenneth Roberts
Co-sponsored by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Latin American Studies Program, Institute for African Development, Institute for European Studies, and Southeast Asia Program.
Please register through the following link:
https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PWKFidVjSgy3Pwxf7xmmXg
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Southeast Asia Program
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
Looking at Racial Democracy in Brazil Builds" with Patricio del Real on Thursday October 8th
October 8, 2020
5:00 pm
The Romance Studies Department is pleased to invite Dr. Patricio del Real from Harvard's History of Art and Architecture Department to give a talk from the selection of the manuscript of his new book, Inventing Latin American Architecture: Politics and Race at the Museum of Modern Art.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8th 2020
5pm
Via Zoom (see link below)
Looking at “Racial Democracy” in MoMA’s Brazil Builds
Abstract: The exhibition “Brazil Builds” is credited with launching the international celebration of Brazil’s modern architecture and the culture of brasilidade. Staged at the Museum of Modern Art in 1943, this groundbreaking show was a collaborative affair that brought together diverse actors and institutions in the United States and Brazil at a critical moment during the Second World War. With “Brazil Builds,” MoMA became a platform where architectural aesthetics met politics and culture. The exhibition built new alliances – between modern architecture and tradition, the United States and the authoritarian government of President Getulio Vargas – in an eloquent celebration of brasilidade and acted as a Trojan Horse of Brazil’s official ideology of Racial Democracy in the United States. I focus on the staging of this exhibition and explore how this multifaceted architecture seduced U.S. audiences with the spirit of brasilidade.
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Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Human Impacts, Tiny to Enormous
Migrations Research Highlights Climate Consequences
“The reality is that what is good for birds is usually good for us, too,” says LASP faculty Amanda Rodewald.