Meet Cornell's Laidlaw scholars and Global Interns at our fall showcase. They'll present their undergraduate international summer experiences, including hands-on research and leadership-in-action.

The International Research Showcase is hosted by the Einaudi Center for International Studies and…

Most people dream of a better future. Pedro, an aspiring social worker, is no different. But as a blind, undocumented immigrant, Pedro faces political restrictions to obtain his college degree, secure a job in his field, and support his family. As he finally graduates, uncertainty looms over Pedro. What starts as a…

Most people dream of a better future. Pedro, an aspiring social worker, is no different. But as a blind, undocumented immigrant, Pedro faces political restrictions to obtain his college degree, secure a job in his field, and support his family. As he finally graduates, uncertainty looms over Pedro. What starts as a…

Around 2019 signs first emerged that China had embarked on its most significant nuclear modernization program since it became a nuclear power in 1964, but Western scholars disagree on China’s motivations for doing so. This paper offers a framework to explain major changes in China’s nuclear policy that highlights…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Mary-Collier Wilks, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at the Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will be served. For questions, contact seap…

ICM Lecture Series

Fall 2026

FADI A. BARDAWIL (Duke University)

The Institute for Comparative Modernities is pleased to welcome Fadi A. Bardawil back to campus as we host a lecture about his current research:

Difference and Power: Thinking with Edward Said and Talal Asad

Abstract…

Join us for an evening of Carnatic music featuring renowned guest artist and Indian Classical violinist Sumanth Manjunath, here for his first-ever American tour, in collaboration with violinist Ariana Kim. Co-sponsored by the South Asia Program.

Go global in summer 2027! Global Internships give you valuable international work experience in fields spanning global development, climate and sustainability, international relations, communication, business, governance, and more.

Applications are open now.

Can’t attend? Contact…

Talk by Anaar Desai-Stephens (Music, CUNY)

In this talk, I explore how Bollywood songs have become a powerful medium for dreaming, striving, and self-making in twenty-first-century India. Once dismissed as escapist fantasy, Bollywood’s emotionally charged songs now serve as tools for self-transformation in…

Speaker: Xiao Hai

Title: Sisyphus on the Wenyu River

Abstract: A native of China's Henan province, Xiao Hai left home at the age of 15 to join China's migrant labor force. He traveled across southern China, making shirts, driving delivery, selling popcorn—22 jobs in all—and eventually…

Uris Hall G-08

Why is Bukele-style punitivism gaining traction in Latin America’s least likely democracies? This talk examines Chile and Uruguay, two countries long treated as regional exceptions because of their stable party systems, stronger states, and comparatively low levels of violence. Both now face…

Take your learning to the next level with minors from the Einaudi Center for International Studies and our programs. In this session, you'll learn about international minors that can help you expand your global knowledge. View a full list of minors.

Caribbean Studies
The Caribbean Studies minor…

Medicines That Feed Us examines the relationship between toxicity and remedy in the face of the intertwined health and environmental crises that are shaping life in the twenty-first century. Through ethnographic work with organizations that use plant-based healing and sustainable farming practices in Tanzania,…

How can political actors generate geopolitical power, deterrence, and resilience without concentrating authority in a sovereign hierarchy? Dominant approaches in international relations tend to locate strategic capacity in actors and their material resources, treating relations primarily as channels for cooperation…

Speaker: Ming-Sung Kuo, University of Warwick School of Law

Title: "Justices Must Be Seen to Be Legitimate”: The (Post-Reform) Legitimacy Challenge of the Taiwan Constitutional Court, 2019-2025

Abstract: In this presentation, I take up one unasked question in the discussion of the legitimacy of…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Christina Firpo, Professor of History at California Polytechnic State University.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at the Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will be served. For questions, contact seap@cornell.edu.

"The Color of Water"
P. Sainath (Founder and editor of People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI)
Thursday, November 5, 2026
4:30pm ⋅ Lewis Auditorium (G76), Goldwin Smith Hall
Reception to follow. Open to all.

Abstract: Water-stressed India accounts for about 18% of the world’s…

Kickstart your international career at Global Careers Week!

This week of events is an opportunity for Cornell students of all levels and nationalities to meet employers from around the globe, hear from alumni working abroad, and learn about the process of finding job and internship opportunities outside of…

Please join us for the Media Studies Colloquium in Uris Library 311. Lunch provided. Graduate students welcome.
Pre-circulated reading will be available at https://cornell.box.com/v/MSColloquiumReadings.

The film cut and visual bond as anti…

Talk by Meghna Chaudhuri (History, Davidson College)

In this talk, I will present research that clues us into reframing the agrarian in colonial, and early post-colonial South Asia - as not merely a space where material production of grain and food occurs but as a key site of experiments with finance capital…

Develop your dissertation on global issues with a toolkit of resources! The Einaudi Dissertation Proposal Development Program (DPD) supports 24 PhD students annually through seminars, workshops, mentoring sessions, and up to $2,000 for international airfare for summer research. Applicants’ research projects must…

"Designing Language Courses for Healthcare: Development, Implementation, and Lessons Learned (Spanish and Bangla)"
Brisa Teutli and Razima Selim Chowdhury
Teaching Professors, Cornell University

This joint presentation explores the development and implementation of two Languages for…

Taiwan is at a crossroads, and its future is far from clear. Dan Blumenthal, Director of Asian Studies at AEI and former Senior Country Director for China and Taiwan, joins us for a discussion on recent Taiwanese history, Trump's ever-changing policy towards Taiwan, and what the future holds. This event will…

Filmed over ten years, One in a Million follows Israa from childhood to adulthood on an extraordinary journey from war-torn Syria to Germany — and back again. We first meet her at age 11 as she and her family prepare to cross the Aegean Sea, risking everything in search of safety and a better life in Europe.

In 1958, the Office of Naval Research unveiled the Perceptron, the first neural network for artificial intelligence, created by Cornell psychologist Frank Rosenblatt. The Navy expected it to read and write within a year. Nearly seventy years later, the Pentagon is again betting on AI to revolutionize war, while…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Karann Putrevu, Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in the Departmentof Molecular Biology and Genetics at Cornell University.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at the Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will be served. For questions, contact…

Go global in summer 2027! Global Internships give you valuable international work experience in fields spanning global development, climate and sustainability, international relations, communication, business, governance, and more.

Applications are open now.

Can’t attend? Contact…

Speaker: Ying Qian, Associate Professor of Chinese Cinema and Media, Columbia University

Title: Michurin-Lysenkoism and the Politics of Grafting in Early PRC

Abstract: This paper is an exploration of grafting 嫁接, a technique with a long history in Chinese horticulture and further popularized in the…

Talk by Michelle Weitzel (International Relations and Political Science, Graduate Institute of Geneva)

Since the early aughts, policy makers, states, and military strategists have shown renewed interest in better understanding the psychophysiological underpinnings of human behavior and decision-making.…

Aluminum’s Past, Contemporary Coloniality and Porter Labor in Ghana

Reading aluminum’s infrastructural history alongside Accra’s contemporary market porters, this talk argues that women porters’ embodied labor extends and exposes the same extractive logics, revealing enduring coloniality within Ghana’s built…