Please join the Cornell University Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and the South Asia Center at Syracuse University for the 2025 International Studies Summer Institute (ISSI)! ISSI is a professional development workshop for practicing and pre-service K-12 educators. This year we will explore the…

This event has been postponed until fall 2025.

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Join the Einaudi Center and researchers from across campus for three-minute speed talks and community conversation on ways to organize and push back against fast-moving federal actions.

Speakers will jump off from interdisciplinary and…

New Perspectives in European Studies: IES Graduate Fellows 2025 Spring Research Symposium

IES Graduate Fellows will be presenting their work in conference style presentations followed by time for discussions.

Lunch: 11:30am

Panel 1: Texts and Translation (11:45am - 12:30pm)

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Are you considering starting a career that utilizes regional expertise, language skills, or experience with foreign policy? Ever wondered what it's like to work in various capacities in governments, how to prepare yourself to be a successful applicant for jobs, or what work will let you utilize your knowledge…

Paper Presentations (each paper followed by discussion):

Aiduosi Amantai, Binghamton University. History.
"Negotiating Power: White Bones and Black Bones in the Kazakh Khanate, 17th–18th Centuries".

Katrina Nousek, Cornell University Department of German Studies
“(Mis)recognition…

IES Luigi Einaudi Distinguished Lecture
Building on her recent book Seeing Others, on her recent work on the urban/rural divide across EU countries, and on the non-college educated young workers (18-30) in Manchester New Hampshire, and Manchester UK, Michèle Lamont discusses the challenges of addressing…

Why did Denmark develop mass education for all in 1814, while Britain created a public-school system only in 1870 that primarily educated academic achievers? Cathie Jo Martin argues that fiction writers and their literary narratives inspired education campaigns throughout the nineteenth-century. Danish writers…

From Local Voices to Global Impact: The Power of Civic Engagement in Peacebuilding

This lecture will examine the role of youth, women, and community-based movements in advancing peace and reconciliation, focusing on deliberative processes, alternative conflict resolution tools, and civic-led initiatives that…

Today's society faces challenges of great complexity. Some of these problems are the result of modern society's past successes (such as climate change, the aging of the population, the impact of robotization on the workforce, or disinformation), and that is why they have proven so difficult to solve. The…

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…

Jeffrey Gettleman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and foreign correspondent for The New York Times, has covered major global conflicts and issues throughout his career. A 1994 graduate of Cornell University with a major in philosophy, Jeffrey took a wide range of classes at Cornell, including sculpture,…

Join Einaudi Center and Brooks School researchers for three-minute speed talks and community conversation on our contemporary moment.

Speakers will jump off from interdisciplinary and international research, experiences, and world events to provide a fresh perspective on current U.S. politics and public…

The global history of the interrelationship between race, migration, and real estate is still in its infancy, even as it promises a particularly rewarding angle on histories of how mobility and inequality have been intertwined. The Argentine capital of Buenos Aires, which during the second half of the nineteenth…

Historians have long been interested in the questions of how and why multinational empires gave way to nation-states. As revisionist scholars of various empires have lamented during the last few decades, post- imperial nationalist historiographies all too frequently construed the transition from empire to nation-…

Winston Churchill famously quipped, “There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them.” For generations, the United States has wrestled with the complexities that come with international alliances. Nonetheless, ever since the early days of the Cold War, America's…

Join us for a discussion of RIVERINE CITIZENSHIP: A BOSNIAN CITY IN LOVE WITH THE RIVER. Featuring the book's author, Azra Hromadzic (Syracuse University), Kristin Doughty (Rochester University), Saida Hodzic (Cornell University), and the Cornell Proseminar in Anthropology. Lunch will be served and everyone is…

Why do we see the country and the city as intrinsically different spaces and ways of being? Almost 50 years after Raymond Williams (1973) argued that this contrast is “one of the major forms in which we become conscious of a central part of our experience and of the crises of our society,” we continue to see…

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. 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…

Film Screening of "From Where We Stand" and discussion with Lucy Kaye and Adrian Favell

Lucy Kaye's one hour documentary and deep dive into the life and times of residents of three post industrial towns in the North of England is at once moving, visually haunting, and (in parts) disturbingly…

In a world of massive inequalities between nations, and where citizenship at birth is the biggest determining factor of anyone's life chances, migration and international mobility are often seen as dramatic mechanisms of change. Yet strict borders and hierarchies between nations persist. The recently initiated…

Based on years of ethnographic research on France’s present antiracist movement and mobilization against state violence, I introduce a framework of “suspect citizenship” which demonstrates how ethnoracial minorities are constantly outside of the boundaries of full societal inclusion. I argue that postcolonial…

Join us to learn about opportunities for undergraduate students with the Einaudi Center for International Studies! This session will discuss how to successfully apply for programs like Global Internships and Laidlaw Scholars, and how to discover or strengthen global interests, including academic minors, weekly…

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides full funding for graduate and professional students conducting research in any field or teaching 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…

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. 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…

The Amit Bhatia ’01 Global PhD Research Awards fund international fieldwork to help Cornell students complete their dissertations. Through a generous gift from Amit Bhatia, this funding opportunity annually supports at least six PhD students who have passed the A exam. Recipients hold the title of Amit Bhatia ’01…

This session will describe opportunties for undergraduate and graduate students in the Institute for European Studies and the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.

IES offers a minor in European Studies, Global Summer Internships, a Graduate Fellows Program, and research funding for both…

Find out more about our summer public policy program in Turin. Nestled between the Alps and the Mediterranean in the magnificent Piedmont region of northern Italy, the city of Turin provides an inspiring background to explore the causes and consequences of population change, the debates unfolding in Europe around…

Nuclear weapons and associated technologies have been primarily developed by and for Global North nations, often using the labor and natural resources of indigenous populations around the world, and often doing violence to those populations and their environments. As a result, many scholars analyze the development…

Find out more about our summer public policy program in Turin. Nestled between the Alps and the Mediterranean in the magnificent Piedmont region of northern Italy, the city of Turin provides an inspiring background to explore the causes and consequences of population change, the debates unfolding in Europe around…

The undergraduate minor in Latin American Studies spans across disciplines and allows you to explore the history, culture, government, politics, economy and languages of Latin America and the Caribbean. Qualifying courses can be found in many of the colleges.

Register here. Can’t attend? Contact…