Join us on Zoom throughout the summer for LRC Summer Happy Hour. We'd love to hear how it’s going! All of it.

Bring your (language instruction) stories whether they be good, bad, amazing, or unusual. It takes all kinds of stories to make a Happy Hour great!Bring your own coffee, tea, or mystery beverage.While we can't serve lunch, the LRC will provide fun, jokes, and laughs free of charge.Also, we just want to see your smiling faces, because we miss you.

More details and link posted on our website: https://lrc.cornell.edu/online-hybrid#live-help-sessions

Protests against police violence and racial inequality have spread across the United States in recent weeks, attracting large crowds not only in major cities, but also in smaller cities and towns. The demonstrations place racial justice and civil rights at the center of political debate heading into the November 2020 elections. In this session of our webinar series, three experts on U.S. politics will analyze the protests and their implications for U.S. democracy.

Moderator:

Kenneth Roberts, Government, Cornell University. He teaches comparative and Latin American politics, with an emphasis on political parties, populism, and labor and social movements.

Panelists:

Megan Ming Francis, Political Science, University of Washington. She specializes in the study of American politics, including criminal punishment, black political activism, philanthropy, and the post-Civil War South.

Daniel Gillion, Platt Presidential Distinguished Professor, University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on racial and ethnic politics, political behavior, political institutions, public policy, and the American presidency.

Lara Putnam, History, University of Pittsburgh. She researches U.S. social movements and political participation in local, national, and transnational dimensions.

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Democracy 20/20

A webinar series sponsored by the American Democracy Collaborative, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, and the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs

Recent global and national events—including the COVID-19 pandemic and mass antiracist protests in the wake of the highly publicized police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery—have deepened what was already a looming crisis for American democracy.

The American Democracy Collaborative is a group of scholars of American political development and comparative politics who have come together to examine the state of democracy in the United States today. We aim to integrate insights from previous crises in American political history with understanding of the conditions that have threatened democracies around the world, to foster discussion and writing around these topics, and to provide analysis and commentary that is useful for fellow scholars, teachers, journalists, and citizens.

The Democracy 20/20 webinar series brings together historical and comparative experts to promote deeper understanding of the challenges these unsettling times pose for American democracy. The series goes beyond the day-to-day rush of events to convene conversations that help us understand the broader context of our times and advance the search for constructive answers to our society’s most urgent questions.

Beginning in June 2020, the series will continue through the 2020 election. It will consider topics such as:

Can the United States Have Free and Fair Elections This Fall?
Already Authoritarian? Policing and the Use of Force
Evaluating the Health of Checks and Balances
Polarization, Political Parties, and the Health of Democracy
Whither the “Deep State”? Administration, Expertise, and Democracy

The stakes for American democracy have never been higher—so please join us for these critical conversations.

The Cornell International Human Rights Clinic (Policy Advocacy) submitted an amicus brief for a case filed in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on behalf of a community in Ecuador that has been in voluntary self-isolation (even before COVID-19). How does one represent a community that you cannot communicate with? What does right to health mean for indigenous communities for whom contact could mean death? We will discuss these and other questions in this panel co-sponsored by the Human Rights Centre at the Catholic University of Ecuador. Participants include a lawyer who filed the case, the Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples in the Inter-American Commission, and a human rights professor from Cornell Law School. There will be simultaneous English and Spanish interpretations. For a copy of the amicus brief, click here.

The webinar will be conducted through Zoom: https://bit.ly/2MxdKBd

The Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation in the Context of Covid-19 and Beyond with Cornell Professor Sital Kilantry and Cornell Alum David Cordero Heredia.

Students: Join Einaudi Center regional experts for this #SummerPassport webinar--for all undergraduate and graduate students interested in global thinking and action.

The outbreak of a novel coronavirus may be the most significant world event of our century. It's a pandemic--a Greek word that means "all people." Around the world, all of us are experiencing this shared breakdown of public health, economics, and international cooperation.

Experts representing Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America will discuss the big questions facing our major world regions during this global crisis. What are reforms, new ways of thinking, and new challenges that will emerge out of the pandemic?

Moderator:

Rachel Beatty Riedl, Director, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Panelists:

Esra Akcan, 2019-2020 Frieda Miller Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University; Associate Professor, Michael A. McCarthy Professor of Architectural Theory, Department of Architecture, Cornell University; Member, Cornell Institute for Comparative Modernities.
Marcelo Borges, Professor of History; Boyd Lee Spahr Chair in the History of the Americas at Dickinson College, and Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Nantes.
Expedit Ologou, Founder, Civic Academy for Africa’s Future, and Director of Politics and Governance Programs at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Benin.
Jenny Goldstein, Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Development at Cornell University, an Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future Faculty Fellow, and a core faculty member of Cornell's Southeast Asian Studies Program at Cornell University.

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Studies, Nantes.

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