In this eCornell Keynotes event, Nicole Salgado '98, an advocate for environmental conservation and migrants’ rights based in Querétaro, México, and journalist Nathaniel Hoffman '99 will discuss their chronicle of a highly underreported aspect of our country’s punitive immigration system: the often…

The Einaudi Center’s global racial justice research team presents the inaugural session of Race Matters, a new webinar series that fosters in-depth conversations on colonial questions and racial justice across international relations.

This panel brings together global experts for a candid appraisal of…

"Developing an Open and Inclusionary Language Textbook for Portuguese"
Eduardo Viana da Silva
Associate Teaching Professor of Portuguese, University of Washington

This presentation describes the development of an e-textbook for first-year Portuguese classes. This pedagogical initiative…

Join us on Zoom throughout the spring for LRC Happy Hour. Every second Tuesday of the month (third Tuesday in April). We'd love to hear how it’s going! All of it.

Bring your (language instruction) stories whether they be good, bad, amazing, or unusual. It takes all kinds of stories to make a Happy Hour…

Unity Across Language: Multilingual organizing for social change
Unidad en Lenguaje: Lucha multilingüe para el cambio social

An online panel discussion on the politics, opportunities, challenges, and necessity of multilingual organizing for social change, with a focus on English-Spanish dynamics.…

"la frontera piñera: pineapple and water in the making and unmaking of the Nicaragua/Costa Rica border"

Rachel’s research explores how rivers, lakes, wetlands, and different people’s relationships with these bodies of water have made, remade, and unmade the Nicaragua/Costa Rica border through time…

Join us for a conversation with Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Molly O'Toole '09, moderated by the undergraduate migrations scholars and Shannon Gleeson, professor of industrial and labor relations and Migrations initiative taskforce co-chair.

Her talk, "Extracontinental: How the Global…

The research seminar series is an initiative of the Emerging Markets Theme of the Cornell S.C. Johnson College of Business, which focuses on engaging students and faculty in discourse over the role of emerging markets in an increasingly connected world.

Every month, we will host a speaker to expand our…

CUD Talk, Caribbean Updates and Demands, CSA & LASP Townhall Meeting:

Join the Caribbean Students' Association & the Faculty of the Latin American Studies Program for a short presentation on the beginning of the CSA demands to the University and our progress so far.

To be followed by an…

Nobel prize–winning economist Amartya Sen joins Cornell’s Kaushik Basu for the 2021 Bartels World Affairs Lecture, hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.

At the turn of the millennium, many would have said that understanding the need for democracy was the most important change in the…

Journalist and translator Alice Driver is joining the Latin American Studies Program seminar series to share her work on migration, human rights, and gender equality.

Alice Driver is a writer and investigative journalist who covers immigration and labor rights. She is based in Mexico City, and she is the…

Sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Feature documentary follows Multi Grammy Award winners Arturo O’Farrill and Kabir Sehgal, as they prepare to record a live album at the U.S.-Mexico border wall. The project is inspired by the annual…

Our changing climate poses great challenges for humanity around the world: extreme weather events, sea level rise, flooding, drought, wildfires and more. How are countries in areas most affected by climate change responding to these and other challenges? In honor of Earth Day 2021, this special edition of Verdant…

Over the last decade, India has become the fifth-biggest economy in the world, taking an innovative approach to digitalization with the unique combination of large-scale diffusion of bank accounts for the unbanked, a nationwide biometric database for 1.3 billion citizens, and the widespread adoption of mobile…

Traditional interpretations of Spanish imperial consolidation in the 16th-century Atlantic place heavy emphasis on official maritime structures regulated by authorities based in Seville. But despite their central position in Caribbean historiographies, the Indies fleets and slave trade asientos accommodated…

This virtual conference, sponsored by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and Migrations: A Global Grand Challenge, brings together a diverse group of scholars, activists, and practitioners to discuss the role that plantations and plantation agriculture have played in shaping the nature, structure,…

Sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Professor Vázquez Enríquez writes at the intersection of the environmental humanities and the fields of border and migration studies. Her first book project theorizes the concept of border biomes to think…

This virtual conference, sponsored by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and Migrations: A Global Grand Challenge, brings together a diverse group of scholars, activists, and practitioners to discuss the role that plantations and plantation agriculture have played in shaping the nature, structure,…

"Barriers to Innovation in Language Teaching"
Bill VanPatten

We have all heard about revolutions in language teaching - big leaps in thinking that offer insights and new methods for the classroom (e.g., The Direct Method, ALM, Communicative Language Teaching). Yet, such revolutions wither…

Please register at the Zoom link below:

https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dpOtKElOQsCh6KBQPYTcLw

Speaker: Wendy Young, President, Kids in Need of Defense (KIND)
Co-sponsored by Cornell's Migrations…

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports college graduates conducting research or teaching in any field in more than 150 countries. Applications are due in the fall; students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are encouraged to start the process in their junior year.

United States…

Is it possible to motivate front-line bureaucrats to exert effort in their work without relying on traditional punitive forms of oversight? We examine the motivation and performance of school principals in their administration of a free meal program targeted at school children in an Argentine province. We work…

Keynote Speaker: Nanjala Nyabola
Cornell Students: Critical Reflections

Nanjala Nyabola, author of Travelling While Black-Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move, will be in conversation with professors Rachel Beatty Riedl, Kim Yi Dionne, and postdoc Eleanor Paynter.

Nanjala Nyabola is a writer,…

Come and meet with our Brazil contact and LASP Program Manager to get information and your questions answered about the Summer 2021 digital internship program with Brazil. We call it digital and not virtual because there is nothing virtual (unreal) about it! If you apply and are accepted for this paid, $1,500 for a…

There’s no such thing as the Ivory Tower. Colleges and universities are not isolated enclaves, and they probably never were. Public engagement is an essential part of the core mission of higher education.

But how do we reach the public? This age of constant media babble and a vast explosion of online and…

This is a brief "lunch break" info session. Come and meet with our Brazil contact and LASP Program Manager to get information and your questions answered about the Summer 2021 digital internship program with Brazil. We call it digital and not virtual because there is nothing virtual (unreal) about it! If you apply…

Come and meet with our Brazil contact and LASP Program Manager to get information and your questions answered about the Summer 2021 digital internship program with Brazil. We call it digital and not virtual because there is nothing virtual (unreal) about it! If you apply and are accepted for this paid, $1,500 for a…

This is a brief "lunch break" info session. Come and meet with our Brazil contact and LASP Program Manager to get information and your questions answered about the Summer 2021 digital internship program with Brazil. We call it digital and not virtual because there is nothing virtual (unreal) about it! If you apply…

Sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Oscar A. Pérez is an assistant professor of Spanish language and Hispanic studies at Skidmore College, in Saratoga Springs, New York. He holds a PhD in Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and…

Take your learning to the next level with regional and thematic minors from the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and our programs. Whatever your major and career goals, our wide geographical reach and interdisciplinary focus provide opportunities for you to expand your global knowledge and broaden…