The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, in partnership with the Society for the Humanities, presents this symposium featuring five cutting-edge researchers whose work crosses disciplinary lines to tackle some of the world’s most pressing problems.

Join postdoctoral fellows Mohamed Abdou, Eman Ghanayem, Bamba Ndiaye, Eleanor Paynter, and Grace Tran for a discussion of their work in the fields of migration studies and global racial justice. Topics will include identity, colonialism and decolonization, indigeneity and dispossession, refugee studies and mobility, economic and social justice, and critical race theory. Learn how new approaches and developments are changing scholarship in these critical fields.

Einaudi Center director Rachel Beatty Riedl will introduce the event, and Viranjini Munasinghe (Department of Anthropology) will moderate.

Speakers

Mohamed Abdou, Global Racial Justice Postdoctoral Fellow, Einaudi Center"Non-statist Indigenous and Muslim Conceptualizations of Sovereignty: The Decolonial Inseparability of Race from Religion"

Eman Ghanayem, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Comparative Literature and Society for the Humanities"Being Native, Being Refugee"

Bamba Ndiaye, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Music and Society for the Humanities"From Mbas Mi to Mbëkk Mi: Covid-Induced Migration and Social Movement Advocacy in Senegal"

Eleanor Paynter, Migrations Postdoctoral Fellow, Einaudi Center"Witnessing Migration 'Crises': Race, Coloniality, and Asylum in Italy"

Grace Tran, Migrations Postdoctoral Fellow, Migrations Initiative"What’s Love Got to Do With It?: Transformative Effects of Vietnamese-American Engagement in 'Marriage Fraud' Arrangements"

Learn about the Laidlaw Undergraduate Leadership and Research 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. Sponsored by the Tatkon Center for First-Year Students and the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.

Join us for a presentation by Anh V. Vu, Lydia Wilson, Yi Ting Chua, Ilia Shumailov, Ross Anderson of Cambridge University as they discuss their extensive data set on extremism and misogyny, compiled by scraping the web looking for cyber criminals. Paper available here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.04479

In 2001, the Global War on Terror (GWOT) was inaugurated under U.S. leadership. Since then, U.S. Armed Forces have conducted significant operations in at least ten countries and been implicated in military operations and incarceration in dozens more. Several other countries have also waged their own GWOT security-state campaigns. But to what ends? This year's 20th anniversary of the GWOT is an opportunity for timely, nuanced reflection.

In this webinar, a panel of leading scholars, journalists, and activists take stock of the GWOT era and its widespread consequences. In the U.S. and elsewhere, “homeland security” has intersected with struggles over official Islamophobia, cross-border migration, Indigenous dispossession, and mass incarceration. Join us as war reporter Anand Gopal, Judith LeBlanc (Native Organizers Alliance), veteran and writer Lyle Jeremy Rubin, Samar Al-Bulushi (UC Irvine), and Tejasvi Nagaraja (ILR School) look back on the previous two decades and ahead to the future.

This is the second of two sessions offering expert reflection on the Global War on Terror, hosted by Tejasvi Nagaraja and cosponsored by Cornell’s Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, American Studies Program, and the ILR School. See the first session on November 30.

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Class, Race, Global: An event series sponsored by Cornell’s Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Class, Race, Global brings together scholars, journalists, and activists for dynamic conversations on diverse topics in history and politics. We ask: How do class, race, and global inequalities and struggles intersect with one another? What links can be revealed between “domestic” issues and “foreign” regions?

The series is part of the Einaudi Center’s inequalities and social justice global research priority. Email ClassRaceGlobal@gmail.com for more information.

In 2001, the Global War on Terror (GWOT) was inaugurated under U.S. leadership. Since then, U.S. Armed Forces have conducted significant operations in at least ten countries and been implicated in military operations and incarceration in dozens more. Several other countries have also waged their own GWOT security-state campaigns. But to what ends? This year, the 20th anniversary of the GWOT is an opportunity for timely, nuanced reflection.

In this webinar, a panel of leading scholars, journalists, and activists take stock of the GWOT era and its widespread consequences. In the U.S. and elsewhere, “homeland security” has intersected with struggles over official Islamophobia, cross-border migration, Indigenous dispossession, and mass incarceration. Join us as Adam Hanieh (University of Exeter), Rachel Herzing (Center for Political Education), writer Richard Seymour, Rozina Ali (New York Times Magazine), and Tejasvi Nagaraja (ILR School) look back on the previous two decades and ahead to the future.

This is the first of two sessions offering expert reflection on the Global War on Terror, hosted by Tejasvi Nagaraja and cosponsored by Cornell’s Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, American Studies Program, and the ILR School. See the second session on December 7.

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Class, Race, Global: An event series sponsored by Cornell’s Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Class, Race, Global brings together scholars, journalists, and activists for dynamic conversations on diverse topics in history and politics. We ask: How do class, race, and global inequalities and struggles intersect with one another? What links can be revealed between “domestic” issues and “foreign” regions?

The series is part of the Einaudi Center’s inequalities and social justice global research priority. Email ClassRaceGlobal@gmail.com for more information.

The Biden Administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan on August 31st focused attention on the plight of Afghans who supported U.S. and allied forces. In December 2001, shortly after the 9/11 attacks, Farid Ferdows '21 was hired by the U.S. Army to work as an interpreter/translator. He received a special immigration visa in 2007 and enlisted in the U.S. Army. He was awarded the bronze star and became a student at Cornell University in 2017. Mr. Ferdows' family, however, remained in Afghanistan at the time of the withdrawal.

This special event offers unique insight and perspective on how the withdrawal impacted men and women who supported the global war on terror in Afghanistan. Co-sponsored by Congregation L’dor V’dor in Long Island, NY.

This is an in-person event in the NYC Metro Area. Alumni most welcome! Location: Congregation L'Dor V'Dor, 11 Temple Ln, Oyster Bay, NY 11771.

A video recording will be made available 24 hours after the event to those who register to participate virtually.

Registration required for both in-person and virtual option. This event is organized by the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs, part of the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy.

POSTPONED

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we will have to postpone our event with Farid Ferdows that was set for Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 7 p.m., ET at Congregation L’dor V’dor. We have rescheduled for Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 7 p.m., ET at the same location. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.