What can maps reveal about movement, displacement, and mobility? What are applications and limits of migration data? And how can we use digital tools to map migration?

This hands-on workshop introduces participants to using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to visualize and analyze human migration data. We will begin with an overview of key migration data sources and discuss why mapping is a tool for understanding migration patterns, drivers, and impacts. Participants will then learn how to use GIS tools to create visualizations, explore spatial relationships, and conduct basic analyses using real migration datasets. We will conclude with a discussion of how mapping techniques can support your own research or professional work, along with the possibilities and limitations of using GIS to study migration.

Speakers

Keith Jenkins, GIS & Geospatial Applications Librarian

John Zinda, Associate Professor, Global Development

This event is hosted by the Migrations Program's graduate fellows, part of the Einaudi Center for International Studies. For questions, please contact Kate Foster (kef72@cornell.edu) and Nicole Venker (ntt22@cornell.edu).

Join Einaudi Center experts for World in Focus Talks on global events in the news and on your mind. Our faculty's research and policy insights put the world in focus.

This year we’re hosting informal campus discussions on many Tuesday afternoons. This week’s topic:

In the United States and around the world, strict immigration enforcement and violence are being wielded as political tools. Recent U.S. actions include surveillance of communities, indiscriminate detainment, and violence against protestors. Despite being framed as necessary for the safety of citizens, these tactics are rooted in histories of slavery, the prison industrial complex, and xenophobia.

Does this type of enforcement infringe on rights? How can we understand current events through the lens of global and historical contexts? Do present-day immigration policies make communities safer?

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Featured Faculty

Shannon Gleeson (Migrations) | Industrial and Labor RelationsTristan Ivory (EAP, IAD) | International and Comparative LaborJaclyn Kelley-Widmer | LawNatasha Raheja (SAP) | AnthropologyIan Kysel | Law

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Conversations Matter at Einaudi

This conversation is hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and its regional and thematic programs. Find out what's in store for students at Einaudi!

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.

Register for the virtual session.

Can’t attend? Contact fulbright@einaudi.cornell.edu.

Learn and explore at our exhibition open house celebrating The Hum of Life: A Thousand and One Tales From Bali, free and open to all!

Exhibition cocurator Kaja McGowan will offer an introductory lecture, illuminating the cultural background, narrative elements, and visual aesthetics of the artwork on view. This portion of the event will be available as a live stream.

Afterward, explore the exhibition galleries and connect with members of the Indonesian Students Association at Cornell, who will be highlighting traditions, daily life, and religious practices in traditional attire. Enjoy Indonesian snacks, and taste Balinese coffee served by the Cornell Coffee Club.

Support for this program was provided by the Stoikov Asian Art Lecture Fund.