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South Asia Program

Art and Migration

June 9, 2023

9:00 am

Goldwin Smith Hall, G64

The often-fraught pathways of human migration come alive through art. From storytelling to innovative sculpture, theater, cartoons, and painting, students, faculty, and artists supported by the Migrations Global Grand Challenge will tell their stories and showcase their art.

Anindita Banerjee, associate professor of comparative literatureDebra A. Casillo, Emerson Hinchliff Professor of Hispanic Studies and professor of comparative literatureJuan Harmon, MFA creative writing candidatePedro Molina, Nicaraguan cartoonist and journalistNatasha Raheja, assistant professor of anthropologySharifa Sharifi, Afghan artistGemma Rodrigues (Herbert F. Johnson Art Museum) and Eric Tagliacozzo (history) will moderate.

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Program

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Comparative Muslim Societies Program

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

South Asia Program

Testimonies of Migration: International Studies Summer Institute 2023

June 27, 2023

9:00 am

A.D. White House

Registration for this event is now closed. You can ask to be put on the waitlist be emailing SBP84@Cornell.edu(link sends email)

The 2023 International Studies Summer Institute (ISSI) will explore testimonies of migration. The ISSI is a professional development workshop for practicing and pre-service K–12 educators hosted annually by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, in collaboration with the South Asia Center at Syracuse University.

During this cross-curriculum conference, educators will engage in discussions, workshops, and lectures that explore and amplify personal narratives of migration. Professors, postdoctoral fellows and other scholars from Cornell University and Syracuse University will share their cutting-edge research on migrant experiences from across different regions of the world, including South Asia, Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Speakers will focus on individual narratives, as well as systemic reasons for migration, such as politics, conflict, and climate change.

Sessions will also explore culturally responsive practices when working with migrant students and discussing migrant narratives. Teachers will gain tools for leading conversations and developing projects with their students about migrant experiences.

Teachers will leave the conference with concrete resources to use in their classrooms, a deeper awareness of how to enter into conversation with students about their own and others’ migration experiences, and an understanding of contemporary migrant experiences from across the world.

The 2023 ISSI will be applicable for elementary, middle, and high school educators from all subject areas. Participating teachers will have the option to complete a lesson plan for PD credit that incorporates content from the workshop, with the support and guidance of our outreach staff.

Conference Schedule:

8:45-9:00 Breakfast and check-in

9:00-9:15 Introductory Remarks by Rachel Beatty Riedl

9:15-10:20 Panel: "Ethical and culturally responsive engagement with migrant narratives"

Panelists: Farah Bakaari, Juhwan Seo, Rose Anderson

Moderator: Shannon Gleeson

10:20-10:30 Break

10:30-11:30 Workshop with Mary Jo Dudley, “Supporting Immigrant Families in Schools”

11:30-12:00 Networking and reflection activity

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-1:45 Breakout Sessions

Focus: Project-based learning around themes of migration (same sessions offered twice)

Option 1: Nicole Thuzar Tu-Maung, “Photovoice Methodology” Option 2: Maria Gimma, “Understanding the Global Phenomenon of Migration, a Project-Based Curriculum” Option 3: Nausheen Husain, “Storytelling With Data” 1:45-1:50 Break

1:50-2:35 Breakout Sessions, repetition of above options

2:35-3:00 Break / walk to Johnson Art Museum

3:00-4:00 Workshop with Carol Hockett and Maryterese Pasquale-Bowen, “How the Light Gets In: Contemporary Art and Migration”

4:00-4:20 Introduction to Einaudi Resources with Sarah Plotkin

4:20-4:30 Closing remarks with Sarah Pattison

Sponsored by: Syracuse University, Moynihan Institute for Global Affairs, South Asia Center, Cornell University’s Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Southeast Asia Program, South Asia Program, Institute for African Development, East Asia Program, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Institute for European Studies, Migrations Initiative, TST-BOCES, U.S. Department of Education Title VI Program

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Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Institute for African Development

Institute for European Studies

South Asia Program

Announcing 2023 Awards

Aquaculture ponds near Iquitos, Peru. July 2022.
May 11, 2023

Einaudi Seed Grants Finding Fertile Soil

Read about new awards and research funded in 2022, including Alex Flecker (Amazon aquaculture) and Victoria Beard (Global Survey of City Leaders).

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13 Cornellians Awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Awards

Laura Chang headshot
May 18, 2023

Thirteen Cornell students have been selected to research and teach English abroad with funding from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.

Cornell's 2023–24 Fulbright students include six graduate students and seven graduating undergraduates whose time abroad will increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. 

They will join the ranks of over 500 Cornellians who have traveled across the globe as Fulbrighters since the 1940s. 

Fulbright Students 2023–24

Graduate Students

Michael Cary headshot

Michael Cary, Development Sociology

Paraguay

Project Title: Remaking Ñeembucú: Infrastructure, Rice Production, and Wetland Conversion in Paraguay


Duncan Eaton headshot

Duncan Eaton, History

Slovak Republic

Project Title: Nation-Building and Agrarian Politics in Interwar Eastern Slovakia


Jarvis Fisher headshot

Jarvis Fisher, Development Sociology

Senegal

Project Title: Rice Production and Agroecology in the Senegal River Valley


Giselle Hobbs headshot

Giselle Hobbs, Painting and Print Making

France

Project Title: The Aftermath of the Lockdown: Comparative Study of Paris, France, and the U.S.


Sasha Prevost headshot

Sasha Prevost, Religious Studies

Israel

Project Title: On the Path of Two Abrahams: Contemporary Jewish Sufism in Israel


David Rubinstein headshot

David Rubinstein, History

Poland

Project Title: Coal Town Cosmopolitanism: Jews, Germans, and Poles's Visions of Home in Postwar Walbrzych


Undergraduate Students

Laura Chang headshot

Laura Chang '23, Anthropology

Ecuador

Project Title: Intersections in Reproductive Health: The Integration of Kichwa and Western Medicines


Maria DiGiovanni headshot

Maria DiGiovanni '23, Development Studies

Italy

Project Title: How Young Italians in Cosenza, Calabria Maintain Sustainable Rural Livelihoods


Farzana Hossain headshot

Farzana Hossain '23, Architecture

India

Project Title: Cultivated Landscapes: The Making and Remaking of Agriculture


Sarah Hughner headshot

Sarah Hughner '23, Government and English

Timor-Leste

English Teaching Assistantship


Catherine Kopp headshot

Catherine Kopp '23, Applied Economics and Management

Czech Republic

English Teaching Assistantship


Dylan Rodgers headshot

Dylan Rodgers '23, Agriculture

Nepal

Project Title: Feasibility of Small-Scale Recirculating Aquaculture Systems in Nepal


Evan Sierra headshot

Evan Sierra '23, Government

Kazakhstan

English Teaching Assistantship


Will you be next? 

Fulbright at Cornell is administered by the Einaudi Center. There are opportunities for undergraduate students, graduate students, and recent Cornell alumni to apply—Einaudi supports you throughout the process!

Learn More about Fulbright

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India map on digital screen
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“If you look at the overall data — GDP growth, the entire national income growing, India’s doing moderately well. The bottom end of India is not doing well. The key reason for that is in terms of employment, India is doing rather poorly,” says Kaushik Basu, professor of economics. 

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