The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides full funding for graduate and professional students conducting research or teaching in any field in more than 150 countries. Open to U.S. citizens only.

The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program supports doctoral students conducting research in modern languages or area studies for six to 12 months. Open to U.S. citizens and permanent residents of the United States. Travel to Western European countries is not eligible.

Contact: fulbright@einaudi.cornell.edu

Is the Einaudi Center's International Relations minor for you? Here's a chance to find out. Graduates go on to successful careers in fields like international law, economics, agriculture, trade, finance, journalism, education, and government service.

Contact: irm@einaudi.cornell.edu

The migration studies minor is a university-wide, interdisciplinary undergraduate minor that prepares students to understand the historical and contemporary contexts and factors that drive international migration and shape migrant experiences around the globe. This minor draws on the rich course offerings found across the humanities and social sciences at Cornell, and is designed to draw students outside of their major fields and to extend their knowledge beyond a single country.

Contact: migration-minor@einaudi.cornell.edu,

Through an interdisciplinary curriculum that you can mold to your interests, the European Studies (ES) Minor provides the opportunity to explore Europe’s past, present, and future. You will cultivate a knowledge of European languages, culture, history, politics, and international relations. The minor offers the chance to take courses across colleges on subjects that shape your understanding of a globalizing world, while also providing you with an area of expertise. You will gain critical thinking skills, language abilities, and helpful frameworks for assessing today’s most pressing issues in Europe and around the world.

Several funding opportunities are available for you to pursue undergraduate research projects focused on Europe. Join the information session to learn about application requirements, deadlines, and how to construct a strong proposal.

Contact: ies@cornell.edu

When he settled in 1565 in the port-city of Cebu, in the Visayas (Central Philippines), Miguel López de Legazpi had only 350 men in arms under his command. And even after the Spaniards conquered the coastal sultanate of Maynilad (Manila) in 1571, they could not muster more than a few hundreds settlers and warriors to build and maintain their colonial dominance over a vast and densely populated archipelago. Hence the « Spanish Philippines » were by no means an impregnable fortress of untainted Christian-European high culture, but an unstable mosaic of contrasting religious worldviews and overlapping ethno-linguistic identities. Despite the efforts of Legazpi and his successors to tame it, the Islamization process of the Northern and Central Philippines (that may have started only a few decades before the arrival of the Spaniards) kept unfolding, even if in a subterranean way – all the more so since it was fueled by Brunei-based preachers and textured by long-distance connections with the Moluccas and the Malay Peninsula. In such a situation of chronical colonial weakness, identity borders could be nothing but porous, and religious hybridity became the rule. Starting in the 1580s, Borneo became a sanctuary for Spanish renegades who converted to Islam and took service with Muslim power-holders. In Manila’s surrounding countryside, some impoverished Spanish soldiers « went native » and started eating, dressing, feasting and praying like « Mohammedans ». Even inside Manila’s walls, the wives or mistresses of high-ranking Spanish officials hosted curing and bewitching maganito rituals that had more to do with the art of local babaylan healers than with Christian angelology – or that unproblematically appealed to both. By peering through Inquisition trials’ folders kept in the Archivo General de la Nación in Mexico City, one can get a sense of Manila’s late 16th and early 17th century multi-faceted ritual world, and of the role that Islam played in subaltern lives and imaginations.

Our CMS seminar today will be led by the curator of the Middle Eastern Collection in Olin Library, who will be hosting us to see precious objects in the library's collection about Islam. We have many world-class books, some of them centuries old, which show the history and evolution of Islam over a long period, and across many cultures. This is a wonderful opportunity to see some of the treasures of Cornell’s collection that are rarely seen, and which span centuries of time and thousands of miles of geography in Islamic lands, from Morocco to Indonesia.

The annual International Fair showcases Cornell's global opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. Explore the fair and find out about international majors and minors, language study, fellowships, internships, study abroad, exchanges, service learning, and more.

Due to capacity limitations at the venue, we invite you to register now to reserve priority access to this event. Walk-ins are also welcome, but there may be a wait if we reach capacity. Please wear a face mask during the event.

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