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Einaudi Center events feature lectures, workshops, and global discussions on international studies and research topics.

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

East Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Institute for African Development

Institute for European Studies

South Asia Program

Migrations Program

Southwest Asia and North Africa Program

11:00 am

Uris Hall, Terrace

International Fair showcases Cornell's global opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. Explore the fair and find out about study abroad, international studies programs, funding opportunities like Global Internships, Laidlaw Scholars Program, graduate student fellowship and research awards,…

Southeast Asia Program

Einaudi Center for International Studies

3:30 pm

Kahin Center

The Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) is excited to hold its inaugural Undergraduate Open House on Thursday, August 27 from 3:30-6:00pm at the Kahin Center (640 Stewart Ave).

This Open House will showcase all the SEA-related opportunities and organizations on campus, including languages, courses, study abroad,…

Southwest Asia and North Africa Program

12:00 pm

Uris Library, 311

Please join us for the Media Studies Colloquium in Uris Library 311.

Palestinian Laboratories Of The Future: In Vitro For A Dying World
Hoda El Shakry (Comparative Literature, University of Chicago)

Pre-circulated readings are available at…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

South Asia Program

12:15 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Talk by Robert Travers

In around 1818 in Allahabad, an ageing munshi, Sadasukh ‘Niyazi’ Dihlawi, formerly in the employ of the British East India Company, wrote an unusual and salacious Persian history of the age of Mughal decline and British expansionism. This talk reads Munshi Sadasukh’s little-known text,…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

3:30 pm

Virtual

Cornell’s international community faces evolving questions about rights and mobility. To help our students, faculty, and staff navigate immigration policy changes, Global Cornell hosts regular webinars featuring legal and immigration experts. These virtual sessions provide guidance on recent policy updates, legal…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

4:45 pm

Rockefeller Hall, 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)

Come learn more about our winter study abroad in Cambodia. In collaboration with the Center for Khmer Studies (CKS), Cornell's Southeast Asia (SEAP, Einaudi) Study Abroad program in Cambodia will provide an in-depth focus on the cultural heritage of Cambodia both past and present. This highly interactive…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

12:15 pm

Kahin Center

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Juno Salazar Parreñas, Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University.

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

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

4:45 pm

Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, 2250

Come learn more about this spring opportunity with spring break travel, developed in partnership with Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), National University of Singapore (NUS), and as part of the Jeb E. Brooks School’s Global Policy Exchange Lab. This collaborative online international learning (COIL) and…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

11:30 am

Uris Hall, G08

A moving and humane portrait of the abolitionist revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who led Haiti’s fight for independence from French colonial rule

“My name has become a horror to all those who want slavery,” declared Jean‑Jacques Dessalines as he announced the independence of Haiti, the most radical…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

3:30 pm

Rockefeller Hall, 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)

Speaker: Sean Cronan, Assistant Professor of History, University of Virginia

Abstract: In 1382, armies of the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644/62) completed their conquest of Yunnan, the last stronghold of the Mongol-Yuan Empire (1260–1368/88) south of the Eurasian Steppe. Over the previous century, Chinggisid…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

12:15 pm

Kahin Center

Gatty Lecture Series

*Please note this Gatty Lecture takes place on Wednesday, not Thursday*

Join us for a talk by Amitav Acharya, Distinguished Professor at the School of International Service, American University.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at the Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch…

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

4:45 pm

Mann Library, 102

Find out more about our winter program exploring the Tiputini Biological Station in the Yasuni National Park in the Amazon in Ecuador. Tropical forests have a stunning array of diversity, and adaptations to strong species interactions, while species in alpine ecosystems have highly-specialized adaptations to…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

East Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

Institute for European Studies

Institute for African Development

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

South Asia Program

Migrations Program

Southwest Asia and North Africa Program

12:00 pm

Clark Hall, 700

Global politics are undergoing a radical rupture. The post-WWII rules-based international order, which prohibits most uses of military force, provides collective security, and respects human rights, has always been imperfect. But today several prominent governments appear to be explicitly repudiating these norms.…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

4:30 pm

Willard S. Hall , 414

Todo Cuba: Public Lecture, Community Dialogue and Dance Workshop

In collaboration with The Committee on U.S. Latin American Relations (CUSLAR), the Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) program is sponsoring this three-part event series on the contemporary crisis in Cuba. The series seeks to analyze…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

South Asia Program

12:15 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Talk by Uzma Zafar (Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies, University of Rochester)

This talk explores nationalist temporalities of gender in Muslim transmasculine religiosity. Granted citizenship by the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act 2018, transgender people have become an affective…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Institute for European Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

5:00 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Emily Apter is Julius Silver Professor of French and Comparative Literature at New York University. She earned her BA from Harvard University and PhD from Princeton University. In 2012, she was appointed Remarque-Ecole Normale Supérieure Visiting Professor; she has also taught at the University of California, Los…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

12:20 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Protecting forests is about much more than protecting trees. It is about people, culture, livelihoods, and understanding the local realities that shape how conservation actually works. Drawing from experiences in different countries, this session will explore what we can learn when research meets practice—and how…

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

4:45 pm

Mann Library, 102

Find out more about our winter program exploring the Tiputini Biological Station in the Yasuni National Park in the Amazon in Ecuador. Tropical forests have a stunning array of diversity, and adaptations to strong species interactions, while species in alpine ecosystems have highly-specialized adaptations to…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

12:15 pm

Rockefeller Hall, 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)

Come learn more about our winter study abroad in Cambodia, lunch provided. In collaboration with the Center for Khmer Studies (CKS), Cornell's Southeast Asia (SEAP, Einaudi) Study Abroad program in Cambodia will provide an in-depth focus on the cultural heritage of Cambodia both past and present. This highly…

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

6:00 pm

Cornell Cinema, Auditorium

This event is part of the “Something Going Wrong with the Bomb”: Rethinking Nuclear Weapons and Global Security conference, taking place on September 17, 2026.

Eighty years after the devastating atomic bombings that ushered in the nuclear age, BOMBSHELL explores how the U.S. government manipulated the…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

10:00 am

Biotechnology Building, G10

Join us for a screening of the documentary Bombshell (2026) on Wednesday, September 26, at 6:00 p.m.

In the acclaimed 1964 film Dr. Strangelove, an American president calls a drunken Soviet Premier with bad news: “…Dimitri, you know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

Institute for European Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

12:15 pm

Kahin Center

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Michał Lubina, Associate Professor at the South and Southeast Asia Unit, Institute of Middle and Far East, Jagiellonian University (JU), Kraków, Poland

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

South Asia Program

4:30 pm

120 Mary Ann Wood Drive, B21

The Village is a Scandal: Sexual Politics and the Making of the Rural in Modern India This talk offers a critical analysis of one of anthropology’s iconic conceptual categories: the village. Drawing on ethnographic work in the Indian Himalaya, this talk explores how scandals or kaand emanating from ungovernable…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

East Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Institute for African Development

Institute for European Studies

South Asia Program

Migrations Program

4:30 pm

Virtual

Do you need to travel internationally for your graduate research or fieldwork?

The Einaudi Center sponsors international travel for individual Cornell graduate students. If you’re traveling between the United States and a host country for activities directly related to your dissertation or thesis research,…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

4:30 pm

Stimson Hall, G25

"Including Pronunciation Practice in All Language Classes: Why and How"
LRC Signature Speaker
Anne Violin-Wigent
Associate Professor of French and Director of the Basic Language Instruction Program, Michigan State University

Pronunciation instruction tends not to be included in…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Institute for African Development

5:00 pm

Cornell Cinema, Auditorium

Founded in the wake of war, the East Nimba Nature Reserve shelters some of West Africa’s most endangered species. With exclusive, on-the-ground access, OVERBURDEN follows rangers, scientists, and forest defenders, including ranger Moses Darpey, biologist Grace Kotee Zansi, chief park warden Catherine Kuku Dolo, and…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Migrations Program

12:00 am

Atkinson Hall, 121

The Migrations Program is bringing together migration scholars for a conference about migration, sustainability, and belonging in the contemporary moment. Students, scholars, and researchers from the Cornell community will share work that examines human mobility as a sociolegal and political process shaped by…

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

4:45 pm

Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, 2250

Come learn more about this spring opportunity with spring break travel, developed in partnership with Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), National University of Singapore (NUS), and as part of the Jeb E. Brooks School’s Global Policy Exchange Lab. This collaborative online international learning (COIL) and…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

Institute for European Studies

12:00 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Author of Death Is Our Business: Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025).

In 2014, a well-trained, mysterious band of mercenaries arrived in Ukraine, part of Russia's first attempt to claim the country as its own. Upon ceasefire, the “Wagner Group” faded…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

12:15 pm

Kahin Center

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Doreen Lee, Professor of Anthropology, Director of Global Asian Studies, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Northeastern University.

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

Past Events

East Asia Program

4:00 pm

Virtual

Join us on Zoom this summer to practice your Mandarin skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills…

Southeast Asia Program

4:00 pm

Virtual

Join us on Zoom this summer to practice your English skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills…

Southeast Asia Program

7:00 pm

Virtual

Join us on Zoom this summer to practice your Thai skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps…

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

2:00 pm

Klarman Hall, Atrium

Join us this summer to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you…

East Asia Program

1:00 pm

Stimson Hall, G25

Join us this summer to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you…