Poet Dmitry Bykov was nearly killed in a poisoning, then found himself banned from teaching at Russian universities. Essayist Pwaangulongii Dauod received death threats for writing about queer culture in his native Nigeria. Cartoonist Pedro X. Molina watched as Nicaraguan state forces jailed his colleagues and…

Formerly known as the Afterschool Language and Culture Program (ALCP), The Einaudi Center’s Foreign Language Introduction Program (FLIP) has introduced thousands of children in Upstate New York to world languages and cultures. This event will gather potentially interested student volunteers to meet with each other…

Volunteer with the Foreign Language Introduction Program! FLIP has introduced thousands of children in Upstate New York to world languages and cultures. Volunteers from Cornell and surrounding communities who speak foreign languages provide fun ways for K–12 students to learn about and engage with our increasingly…

You’re invited to a hybrid event featuring distinguished scholar-practitioners of medicine, psychiatry, and law, all working to improve our understanding of how we document, adjudicate and treat migrant trauma as part of immigration proceedings. Four panels will examine topics such as the intersection of psychology…

As the war in Ukraine rages on, how is the ground shifting across Eurasia and beyond? Leading journalists and scholars covering Russia, Europe, China and the global political landscape will discuss how international relations, security, trade and economics are shifting in ways not seen since World War II.

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The Issues in African Development Seminar Series examines critical concerns in contemporary Africa using a different theme each semester. The seminars provide a forum for participants to explore alternative perspectives and exchange ideas. They are also a focal activity for students and faculty interested in…

Nicholas Kuipers

Assistant Professor of Political Science & Presidential Young Professor, National University of Singapore

Many countries select civil servants via examinations. In this talk, I argue that the outcomes of these tests prompt attitudinal shifts on the part of winners and losers—…

Dr. Levi West will articulate a framework for understanding the manner in which innovative forms of violence, narrative and communicative dynamics, and emergent information and communications technologies can be integrated by terrorists and other violent non-state actors to achieve strategic effect.

The…

The Institute for African Development (IAD) offers a summer Africa internship program that lets you undertake challenging practical fieldwork in Ghana or Zambia. If you're a sophomore or junior, join this Einaudi Center Student Info Session to find out how you can apply in the coming year.

Interns must…

Please join us for this online panel & discussion that centers queer & feminist methods for approaching Philippine martial law history: the wayward informality and queer urbanism of Manila during a time of martial law (Lopez), the revolutionary intimacies of the anti-Marcos movement in the U.S (Hanna), and…

Global Cornell is offering competitive faculty grants in collaboration with Global Hubs partners.

Apply for funding to explore potential research collaborations with colleagues at Hubs universities.

These Joint Research and Seed Grants have been established to bring faculty from partner institutions…

Is the Einaudi Center's international relations minor for you? Join this Einaudi Center Student Info Session to find out.

In the international relations minor, you study the politics, economics, history, languages, and cultures of the world and gain a fresh perspective on your major field of study.…

"Problem-Based Models for Language and Culture Instruction"
Stacey Margarita Johnson
Assistant Director at the Center for Teaching and Senior Lecturer of Spanish, Vanderbilt University

A problem-based approach to language instruction infuses the communicative classroom with current…

Talk by Faiz Ahmed

Just as a devastating humanitarian crisis, international isolation, and fraught governing regime mark the country’s present-day realities, recent years have witnessed a series of more optimistic anniversaries in Afghanistan’s modern history. As leading examples, 2019 marked the 100th…

How can we think about the relationship between cinema and the environment beyond the realm of representation? Building off the "material turn" in media studies, which attends to the substances that compose media, in this talk I explore Mexican cinema through a material lens. As an industry that has long…

Talk by Seuty Sabur

Both an Asian Development Bank (ADB) report (2016) and a World Bank report (2014) have spoken of the possibility of Bangladesh becoming an upper-middle-income country by 2021. From 1990 to 2010, the size of the middle classes expanded from 9% to 20%. Yet, despite this newfound interest…

2022 > Mexico > Directed by Juan Pablo Gonzalez
With Teresa Sanchez, Rafaela Fuentes, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo
Fifty-year-old businesswoman Mar’a Garc’a is the owner of Dos Estaciones, a once-majestic tequila factory now struggling to stay afloat as the last Mexican-owned plant in a business dominated…

View and download the final conference program here.

After some stops and starts due to the pandemic, 100 Years of Economic Development will be held at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, from September 15-17.

From the end of World War I to now, it has been a tumultuous 100 years, during which a host of…

Postcolonial discourse has called into question the historic Western Enlightenment by demonstrating its links to violent colonialism, chattel slavery, Indigenous genocide, and persistent institutional and cultural racism.

Sir Hilary Beckles suggests that the growing global reparatory justice movement—…

The Issues in African Development Seminar Series examines critical concerns in contemporary Africa using a different theme each semester. The seminars provide a forum for participants to explore alternative perspectives and exchange ideas. They are also a focal activity for students and faculty interested in…

Ruth Toulson

Professor of Anthropology, Maryland Institute College of Art

Throughout history, dead bodies have been exhumed to rewrite the past. Their burial places have justified redrawing the boundaries of nations. And preserved bodies have made visible the continuing relevance of their ideological…

The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) offers an interdisciplinary minor, summer internships, and other funding opportunities. Join this Einaudi Center Student Info Session to find out what LACS has in store for you!

The Latin American studies minor is an undergraduate minor across…

The Laidlaw Undergraduate Leadership and Research Program promotes ethical leadership and international research around the world—starting with the passionate leaders and learners found on campuses like Cornell.

Open to first- and second-year students, the two-year Laidlaw program provides generous support…

Talk by Dr. Lalitha Gopalan

Cinemas Dark and Slow in Digital India provides a sustained engagement with contemporary Indian feature films from outside the mainstream, including Aaranaya Kaandam, I.D., Kaul, Chauthi Koot, Cosmic Sex, and Gaali Beeja, to undercut the dominance of Bollywood-focused film…

2021 > Switzerland > Directed by Ramon & Silvan Zürcher

With Henrietta Confucius, Liliane Amuat, Ursina Lardi

Lisa is moving out. Mara is left behind. As boxes are shifted and cupboards built, abysses begin to open up and an emotional roller coaster is set in motion. A tragicomic catastrophe…

2021 > France > Directed by Audrey Diwan
With Anamaria Vartolomei, Kacey Mottet Klein, Luˆna Bajrami
The autobiographical drama of writer Annie Ernaux, who pursued an illegal abortion in 1960s France. A mixture of heartfelt coming-of-age narrative and crucial social critique that feels tragically…

2021 > Rwanda, United States, France, Canada > Directed by Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman
With Cheryl Isheja, Elvis Ngabo, Bertrand "Kaya Free" Ninteretse
A boisterous and idiosyncratic vision of Afrofuturist techno-revolution, in a tale of labor organization, intersexuality and…

This conference focuses on Kashmiri literature through extensive discussions of forms, genres, ecologies, and poetics that inhabit literary landscapes in Kashmir. By exploring multiple forms, genres, and languages of literary expression across disparate te mporalities and historical contexts the conference aims to…

Through an interdisciplinary curriculum that you can mold to your interests, the European studies minor provides the opportunity to explore Europe’s past, present, and future.

You will cultivate a knowledge of European languages, culture, history, politics, and international relations. The minor offers the…

Community involvement in public services delivery is widely acknowledged in the literature and practice as being pivotal to local development initiatives especially in cities of the global south. However, the nature and role of social composition of communities is rarely explored. This presentation applies a case…