The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports U.S. citizens to study, conduct research in any field, or teach English in more than 150 countries. The program is open to graduate students, recent graduates, and young professionals. Undergraduate students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are encouraged to start the process in their junior year. Recent graduates are welcome to apply through Cornell.

The Fulbright program at Cornell is administered by the Mario Einaudi Center for International studies. Applicants are supported through all stages of the application and are encouraged to start early by contacting fulbright@einaudi.cornell.edu.

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Are you interested in the intersection of mental health and culture, global health, and community engagement? Do you want to gain field research skills and learn about indigenous communities in South India’s beautiful and fragile Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve? If so, the Cornell-Keystone Nilgiris Field Learning Program might be for you!

Are you interested in the intersection of mental health and culture, global health, and community engagement? Do you want to gain field research skills and learn about indigenous communities in South India’s beautiful and fragile Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve? If so, the Cornell-Keystone Nilgiris Field Learning Program might be for you!

This talk will discuss the theory, method, and material of “cross-cultural Harlem.” How can we remain alive to the grief of the political moment while also developing interpretive approaches that offer hope? Professor Shukla will begin to answer that question by exploring Harlem as a space for encounters among those of different backgrounds, producing important dialogues between Blackness and other forms of peoplehood, and their associated territories. The particular examples she considers involve a legendary exchange between Yuri Kochiyama and Malcolm X and the performance of a Bangladeshi comedian and playwright Alaudin Ullah. These occasions, she shall argue, produce their own dilemmas about encounter, in terms of both reading practices and affects of projection, identification and solidarity. Ultimately, this presentation proposes values of openness for our interdisciplinary enterprise.

Cosponsored by Africana Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Literatures in English, and the South Asia Program

We strive to make all our programming accessible to everyone. For accommodation requests, please email aasp@cornell.edu as soon as possible.

Sandhya Shukla is Professor of English and Chair of American Studies at the University of Virginia, where she is also an affiliate faculty member of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies. Her most recent work is Cross-Cultural Harlem: Reimagining Race and Place (Columbia University Press, 2024). She is also the author of India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England (Princeton University Press), and a co-editor of Imagining Our Americas: Toward a Transnational Frame (Duke University Press). Her work has appeared in publications such as American Quarterly, symploke, and Annual Review of Anthropology, as well as the news-oriented The Conversation.

Lund Critical Debate

Since January 2025, the United States has slashed billions in international aid—and effectively dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), responsible for administering U.S. development and humanitarian aid around the world. In what has become the largest restructuring of aid in the nation’s history, thousands of UN-administered programs have also lost funding, disrupting critical programs and services, breaking supply chains, and leading to widespread closures and layoffs.

These sweeping cuts affect food security, global health, democratic governance, and more—and the stakes have never been higher. As the landscape of international aid evolves, the world faces new questions about the impact of aid on communities, what makes international aid effective—and how to move forward.

This year's Lund debate from the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies brings together policy and practice experts for an unfiltered look at the future of international aid. Join Einaudi Center faculty Chris Barrett (Dyson/Brooks) and Muna Ndulo (Law) as they tackle these questions: Who benefits from aid? Do some types of aid work better than others? Should we pursue new approaches to international development? What are the best ways to take strategic action in the world while investing in America’s security, economy, and global position?

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Panelists

Chris Barrett is the Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Professor of Applied Economics and Management in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and a professor in the Cornell Brooks School of Public Policy. He is coeditor-in-chief of the journal Food Policy and a frequent commentator and policy advisor on food security and agricultural economics. Barrett won the USAID Science and Technology Pioneers Prize (2013), among many other awards for research, teaching, and public outreach. Read recent Chronicle coverage of Barrett's research.

Muna Ndulo is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of International and Comparative Law at Cornell Law School and an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of constitution making, governance and institution building, international criminal law, African legal systems, and human rights. Ndulo has served as consultant to the African Development Bank, World Bank, Economic Commission for Africa, United Nations Development Program, and other international organizations. He led the Einaudi Center's Institute for African Development from 2001 to 2020.

Moderator

Paul Kaiser is the Einaudi Center's practitioner in residence in fall 2025. Kaiser has extensive experience in international development, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and the Pacific Islands. His career spans roles at USAID, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, and World Bank. Previously, Kaiser taught political science and African studies at Mississippi State University and the University of Pennsylvania.

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About the Debate

The Lund Critical Debate is a signature event of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. Established in 2008, Einaudi's Lund Debate series is made possible by the generosity of Judith Lund Biggs '57.

ICM NEW BOOKS SERIES

Fall 2025

ATREYEE GUPTA (University of California, Berkeley)

Non-Aligned: Art, Decolonization, and the Third World Project in India + Postwar Revisited: A Global Art History

This talk brings into dialogue two recent book projects by Atreyee Gupta: Postwar – Towards a Global Art History (coedited with Okwui Enwezor, Duke 2025) and Non-Aligned: Decolonization, Modernism, and the Third World Project in India (Yale, forthcoming Nov 2025). Casting the years between 1945 and 1965 onto a broad intellectual canvas, Postwar assembles a global constellation of scholarly perspectives to interrogate the entanglements of art and politics in a period when the aftermath of the Second World War and the eclipse of colonial empires spurred efforts to reimagine the world in a future tense. Traversing an expansive terrain, Postwar challenges Westernist art historical paradigms to situate modernism within broader processes of decolonization and global realignment. Non-Aligned turns to India to reconcile globally expansive postwar histories with the specificities of South Asian modernism. Beginning with the anti-fascist movements of the 1930s, it traces the emergence of an anti-imperialist aesthetic imagination that was elaborated in India during the Cold War era and within the decolonizing Afro-Asian context of the Non-Aligned Movement. Together, these books ask how the cultural politics of decolonization might reshape our understanding of twentieth-century modernism and its afterlives. Collectively, they advance a methodology for global art history that is attentive to the entangled genealogies of aesthetics and politics, one that does not simply add new geographies to existing narratives but reimagines the very terms of modernism and world-making.

BIO

Atreyee Gupta is Associate Professor of Art History at UC Berkeley. Gupta’s area of expertise is Global Modernism, with a special emphasis on the aesthetic and intellectual flows that have cut across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America from the twentieth century onwards. She is the author of Non-Aligned: Art, Decolonization, and the Third World Project in India, ca. 1930–1960 (Yale University Press, forthcoming in 2025), which focuses on the artistic and intellectual resonances of the Non-Aligned Movement during the Cold War era and the interwar anti-colonial Afro-Asian networks that preceded it. With the late Okwui Enwezor, she has also edited Postwar—Towards a Global Art History, 1945–1965 (Duke University Press, forthcoming in 2025). Her current book, tentatively titled One Hundred Years in Present Tense: Art in South Asian America, ca. 1893–1993, links Third World political, artistic, and cultural currents to the long diasporic arc of South Asian art in the United States.

Lecture by Jessica Mayberry, Founding Director, Video Volunteers

Across the world, people feel their voices no longer matter in public life. In the United States as in India, institutions are losing legitimacy, debates feel hollow, and digital platforms reward outrage more than understanding. But there are proven ways to change this. For two decades, Video Volunteers has worked with marginalized communities in India to tell their own stories and demand accountability, showing that when people speak on their own terms, democracy responds. These community-made videos have helped reopen schools, fix water systems, stop illegal factories, and shift local officials’ priorities—improving the lives of more than 40 million people. The lesson is clear: empowerment begins when those most excluded from the system are given real channels to be heard. This talk argues that the United States, too, must look beyond partisan divides and start investing in models that elevate grassroots voices as a force for democratic renewal. It will share stories of ordinary citizens who became leaders through storytelling, and highlight how new tools like AI can surface patterns from thousands of such stories—making the knowledge of everyday people visible to policymakers, activists, and communities themselves. For students, the invitation is to reflect on whose stories shape society today—and how we might build democracies that truly listen.

Jessica Mayberry is the Founding Director of Video Volunteers (VV), an NGO advancing the “right to voice” for marginalized communities as a foundation of inclusive democracy. Under her leadership, VV has become one of the world’s largest grassroots media organizations, training more than 2,000 community creators and improving the lives of over 40 million people through citizen storytelling. Based in India for 20 years, Jessica has worked alongside local leaders to pioneer models that transform grassroots stories into systemic change.

Her work has been featured by the BBC, Al Jazeera, PBS MediaShift, and The Economist. She is a Fellow of Ashoka, TED, and Echoing Green, and has received global recognition including the Waldzell Institute’s Architect of the Future award, the Knight News Challenge, the Edelgive Social Innovation Award, and finalist honors for the Indian Social Entrepreneur of the Year. Jessica studied Modern History and Languages at Oxford University.

Mayberry will be in conversation with Professor Durba Ghosh (A&S, History) and Associate Professor Christopher Csikszentmihalyi (Bowers, Info Sci). This talk is organized by the Humanities Scholars Program and co-sponsored by the Milstein Program.

Join this info session to learn about 2026 Global Hubs Faculty Research Seed Grants offered by Global Cornell as part of our Global Hubs initiative. Info session attendees will learn about the grant opportunity and application tips through a short presentation and Q&A.

Through these seed grants, Cornell faculty from across the university are invited to apply for research funds to work with collaborators at Hubs partner institutions. Funded projects should lead to tangible outcomes, including the submission of at least one co-authored peer-reviewed publication and at least one application for external grant funding.

Up to 20 applications for research with a Global Hubs collaborator will be funded.

Successful proposals will receive up to $5,000 from Cornell, with the potential for matching funds from some Global Hubs partner universities.

Application deadline: October 15, 2025, 4:00 p.m. ET

Project duration: January 1–December 31, 2026

Virtual information sessions:

September 18, 2025, 12:00–1:00 p.m. ET (register)

October 1, 2025, 12:00–1:00 p.m. ET (register)

Learn more and apply for a Global Hubs joint seed grant.