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The International Fair is sponsored by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and Office of Global Learning (both part of Global Cornell) in partnership with the Language Resource Center.

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New Year is a major cultural event celebrated across South Asia, and this campus-wide celebration highlights the rich languages and traditions associated with this festival. The event will serve as an opportunity for students of all backgrounds to engage through music, dance, food, and language-focused activities featuring the diverse ways New Year is celebrated across South Asia. It will promote awareness and appreciation of South Asian cultures and the less commonly taught languages within the Cornell community, foster cultural exchange and inclusivity, and strengthen the sense of community among South Asian students and beyond.

The event will feature:

Language Workshops: Interactive language sessions featuring greetings, common phrases, images of rituals and traditions, calligraphy, regional calendars, etc.Food Fair: A showcase of authentic cuisines from South Asian regions, small plates featuring traditional New Year's foodArts & Crafts Corner: Hands-on activities, including alpana (folk art), mask-making, mandala drawing and coloring activity, etc.Cultural Performances (starting at 5:00 pm in Klarman Auditorium): Poetry recitations, traditional music, and dance performances by student groups and artists from the Cornell Community

Event featuring Naila Kabeer
- Talk: 4-5:30 p.m. (Sage Hall, B09)
- Reception: 6-8 p.m. (Statler)
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About the Speaker:

Naila Kabeer is Professor of Gender and Development at the Department of International Development. Naila is also a Faculty Associate at LSE’s International Inequalities Institute and on the governing board of the Atlantic Fellowship for Social and Economic Equity. She has done extensive advisory work with international agencies (World Bank, ADB, UNDP, UN Women), bilateral agencies (DFID, SIDA, CIDA, IDRC) and NGOs (Oxfam, Action Aid, BRAC, PRADAN and Nijera Kori). Her most recent projects were supported by ERSC-DIFD Funded Research on Poverty Alleviation: Gender and Labour Market dynamics in Bangladesh and West Bengal. She is on the editorial boards of Feminist Economics and Gender and Development and on the international advisory board of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies She is also a member of the Inequalities Advisory Group, Bosch Foundation and a member of the Advisory Board of the United Nations University Institute for Global Health.

Supported By:

Polson Institute for Global Development, EQUAL Lab, Brooks School of Public Policy

Join the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies’ undergraduate global scholars for a showcase of their capstone presentations providing public commentary and perspectives on global democracy.

Undergraduate global scholars advocate for building democracy on campus and around the world. They have partnered with the Einaudi Center's democratic threats and resilience faculty fellow Kenneth Roberts and Lund Practitioner in Residence Thomas Garrett—expert researchers and practitioners on building democracy—to design their projects.