What could and should fair labor standards and social programs for “noncitizen” migrant farm workers in the United States look like?

Verónica Martínez-Matsuda, associate professor at the ILR School, addresses this question in her new book, Migrant Citizenship: Race, Rights, and Reform in the U.S. Farm Labor…

"Inclusive by Design: Universal Design for Learning and the World Language Classroom"
Christopher Hromalik
Professor of Spanish and Coordinator of Spanish and French, Onondaga Community College

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a research-based framework for designing instruction…

In this talk, I develop a critical approach to the concept of “nation-ness” through an analysis of the work of two contemporary performance artists from the Venezuelan diaspora: Deborah Castillo (Caracas, 1971) and Violette Bule (Valencia, 1980). Forced to leave Venezuela because of political repression, fear of…

The Lingua Mater competition invites alumni to translate Cornell's Alma Mater into a different language and submit a video of the performed translation. The inaugural Lingua Mater alumni competition took place in 2018 as part of Cornell's Global Grand Challenges Symposium. Winners included the Cornell…

The Lingua Mater competition invites students to translate Cornell's Alma Mater into a different language and submit a video of the performed translation. The inaugural Lingua Mater student competition took place in 2018 as part of Cornell's Global Grand Challenges Symposium. The top three videos received…

Although it took several decades of armor-piercing scholarship, now that the road is paved and rap has claimed its place within scholarly discourse, more central issues than the irritating (though inevitable) task of constantly proving rap’s (self-evident) artistic nature can finally be addressed. In this talk I…

In recent years Brazilians have demonstrated a sudden and newfound tendency to change their racial identifications and adopt nonwhite (and especially black) identities. I argue this sudden change can be attributed to state-led educational expansion for lower classes, which has increased their personal exposure to…

This event is part of the Cine con Cultura Latinx American Film Festival!

Join filmmaker Cathy Lee Crane after viewing a special Central New York regional screening of her latest feature film, Crossing Columbus, a unique take on the US/Mexico border. Crane has been charting a speculative history on film…

This film screening is part of the Cine con Cultura Latinx American Film Festival!

2020 > USA > Directed by Cathy Lee Crane

"History haunts the border town of Columbus, N.M. when Mexican riders on horseback cross the line to commemorate Pancho Villa's 1916 raid. As border dwellers and…

The Romance Studies Department is pleased to invite Dr. Patricio del Real from Harvard's History of Art and Architecture Department to give a talk from the selection of the manuscript of his new book, Inventing Latin American Architecture: Politics and Race at the Museum of Modern Art.

THURSDAY,…

This film screening is part of the Cine con Cultura Latinx American Film Festival!

2018 > Chile > Directed by Joaqu’n Cocina, Cristobal Leon
With Amalia Kassai, Rainer Krause

Inspired by the actual case of Colonia Dignidad (The Dignity Colony, a remote, Chilean Nazi sect founded after WWII…

"Multiliteracies Pedagogy and Teacher Professional Development: From Research to Practice"
Kate Paesani
Director of the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA), University of Minnesota

Recent scholarship foregrounds multiliteracies pedagogy as a viable approach for…

After the fracture of the Republic of Colombia in 1831, a first civil war that took place in the Republic of New Granada—known as the War of the Supremes (1839-1842)—pitted slaveholding elites in New Granada’s Cauca region against the central government in Bogotá, whose republican platform centered egalitarian and…

Over the past decade, democracy has been in retreat in a large number of countries in different regions, at least partially reversing the wave of democratization that swept across much of the world in the late 20th century. This webinar explores patterns of "democratic backsliding" in different world…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty series

Darin Sanders Self, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Cornell University

From taking direct control of politics, to setting conditions on democratization, or to yielding entirely to civilians, there is substantial variation in how militaries behave…

Global flows of workers from Central America and the Caribbean to sustain agricultural production in the US are highlighted in this presentation. Based on interviews with farmworkers, we will examine their motivations for leaving home, their experience in the US, long term goals and structural challenges. We will…

What impact will the U.S. elections have on Latin America and U.S.-Latin American relations? A panel of Cornell professors will discuss how the Trump and Biden foreign policy teams approach Latin America and how they are likely to address hemispheric issues like trade and economic integration, criminal violence and…

In his seminar presentation, Aching proposes that we think of processes of racialization as ways of measuring the tolerance that societies possess for their own practices of dehumanization during specific historical periods. In examining this proposition, he will describe his training as a scholar of race and…

In addition to the expropriation of lands that belonged to native communities, one of the most consequential outcomes of settler colonialism in the Americas was the invention, speciation, and treatment of enslaved people of African ancestry as subhuman. As a clandestine network of perilous migration routes, the…

Join us for the launch of the Emerging Markets Theme within the SC Johnson College of Business! The theme will focus on an important cross-cutting and interdisciplinary topic and focus on research, broad teaching/learning initiatives, and external engagement.

Please register here to join us:…

Lecture will be given in Español and not sub-titled.

Recent reconfigurations of political subjectivities in South America that gave impulse to the new rise of the right gravitate around hate as the political affect that infuses new tonalities in the public sphere. These reconfigurations of subjectivity,…

El “Simposio Latinoamericano de Avances de Investigación en SARS-CoV-2” es un evento académico virtual a realizarse los días 16 y 17 de septiembre de 2020, de 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (NYC/Ottawa) o 13:00 a 17:00 (COT, Colombia (UTC-5:00) ), que busca brindar un espacio en el cual investigadores en…

El “Simposio Latinoamericano de Avances de Investigación en SARS-CoV-2” es un evento académico virtual a realizarse los días 16 y 17 de septiembre de 2020, de 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (NYC/Ottawa) o 13:00 a 17:00 (COT, Colombia (UTC-5:00) ), que busca brindar un espacio en el cual investigadores en…

The current era of immigration policy reflects a tradition of virulent racism and xenophobia. Research by ILR Professor Shannon Gleeson examines the function of these policies in the workplace, and how they impact not only the 8 million undocumented immigrant workers in the United States, but also documented…

El “Simposio Latinoamericano de Avances de Investigación en SARS-CoV-2” es un evento académico virtual a realizarse los días 16 y 17 de septiembre de 2020, de 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (NYC/Ottawa) o 13:00 a 17:00 (COT, Colombia (UTC-5:00) ), que busca brindar un espacio en el cual investigadores en…

Join the Latino Living Center, Latina/o Studies Program and Latinx Student Success Office for a virtual welcome back event. Meet new and returning students, mingle with faculty, staff and friends, learn how you can enhance your degree with a LATINA/O STUDIES MINOR and hear from Latinx student organizations.

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"The Effects of Instruction on Heritage Language Learners"
Julio Torres
Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism, University of California, Irvine

Heritage language learners are individuals who enroll in classes to (re)learn their family language in an instructed…

The annual International Fair showcases Cornell's global opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. Explore our virtual fair on September 8 and find out about international majors and minors, language study, fellowships, internships, study abroad, exchanges, service learning, and more.

The…

Learn how the coronavirus crisis is affecting immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees, including new healthcare, public benefits, and detention policies these populations face. Einaudi Center Migrations faculty fellows Steve Yale-Loehr and Gunisha Kaur will discuss Weill Cornell and Cornell University’s efforts to…

Join us on Zoom throughout the summer for LRC Summer Happy Hour. 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 great!Bring your own coffee, tea, or mystery beverage…