Join us on Zoom to practice your Spanish 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 learn…

Join us on Zoom to practice your Portuguese 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…

Come to the LRC 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 learn…

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EMC² Distinguished Fellow Series
From BRIC to BRICS+: 25 Years That Reshaped the Global Economy. Fireside Chat Dean Andrew Karolyi and Lord Jim O'Neill

Andrew KarolyiCharles Field Knight Dean, Cornell SC…

Join the International Relations Minor for a virtual career information session featuring Cornell alumni working in diplomacy, education, and law. Panelists will reflect on their career paths, share advice on internships, graduate school, and professional transitions, and answer student questions about careers…

This talk examines the history of the environmental clauses in Chile’s constitution. That constitution was imposed at gunpoint by the Pinochet dictatorship and has been widely assailed for preserving the “guardrails” of Chile’s neoliberal economic model. Surprisingly, the 1980 constitution, designed in a…

"Chunking in the Second Language: Implications for Language Learning and Teaching"
Serene Wang
Language Scientist and Educator

Many second language learners attain substantial vocabulary and grammatical knowledge and perform well on standardized proficiency tests, yet they continue to…

Come and explore international research from students at the Einaudi Center for International Studies. Our undergraduate Global Scholars will present posters on their international aid projects.

Global Scholars Showcase

Global Scholars will present a showcase of their capstone projects providing…

"Controvérsias e Breve História Sobre a Linguagem Inclusiva no Brasil"

by

Brume Dezembro Iazzetti

​Ph.D. Student in Science and Technology Studies (STS)

Cornell University

WHEN: April 17, 2026 at 12:20PM (EST)

WHERE: Uris Hall G08

Lecturer in Portuguese.…

The Latina/o Studies Program Fridays with Faculty luncheon seminar offers an opportunity for Latina/o and non-Latina/o students of all levels and disciplines to meet faculty and administrators from across the university for informal conversation about their current research/work in progress. All welcome!

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Bartels World Affairs Lecture

In this year’s Bartels lecture, Ambassador Samantha Power examines the causes and consequences of dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). While reductions in United States foreign assistance have inflicted harm on millions of people, the principal…

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports U.S. citizens to study, conduct research in any field, or teach English in more than 150 countries. The program is open to graduate students, recent graduates, and young professionals. Undergraduate students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are…

A roundtable discussion on centering Indigenous voices in Abiayala (Latin America) with Luis Cárcamo-Huechante, María de los Ángeles Aguilar Velásquez, and Polly Lauer, addressing questions about Indigenous representation both in the media and the field of Latin American Studies. Hosted by the Romance Studies,…

Possible Landscapes joins seven people in seven different regions of the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago in the course of their daily lives: Kevin, a fisherman on the east coast suffering the recent loss of one of his crew members at sea; four generations of the Josephs family in the steep hillsides of the…

"Advancing Second Language Proficiency and Intercultural Competence in Postsecondary Education"
LRC Signature Speaker
LeAnne Spino
Associate Professor of Spanish, Proficiency Coordinator, and Director of International Studies and Diplomacy, University of Rhode Island

This is a…

This presentation examines Milestones of Latin American Democracy, a graphic novel by Pedro X. Molina, as an innovative and accessible medium for narrating the historical struggles and achievements of democracy across the region. Developed as part of a broader initiative to engage public audiences—particularly…

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports U.S. citizens to study, conduct research in any field, or teach English in more than 150 countries. The program is open to graduate students, recent graduates, and young professionals. Undergraduate students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are…

More Auspicious Shores chronicles the migration of Afro-Barbadians to Liberia. In 1865, 346 Afro-Barbadians fled a failed post-emancipation Caribbean for the independent black republic of Liberia. They saw Liberia as a means of achieving their post-emancipation goals and promoting a pan-Africanist agenda while…

Recent U.S. military actions in Venezuela—including strikes on civilian boats, the seizure of oil tankers, and the abduction of President Nicolas Maduro—have raised questions about U.S. ambitions in Latin America and their implications for peace and international order. This panel brings together five prominent…

High rates of micronutrient deficiency persist in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and disproportionately impact populations with limited access to nutrient-rich foods. In response, national agricultural research programs and international organizations are prioritizing biofortification as a strategy to…

An evening of contemporary chamber music brings together works by Haitian and Dominican composers in performances by faculty and guest artists. The concert features modern musical voices in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and the diaspora, highlighting how composers of the twentieth century shaped distinctive…

This half-day symposium brings together scholars, performers, and graduate students to examine the music, history, and cultural contexts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Through papers, panel discussions, and an archival presentation, participants explore topics including musical exchange, nationalism, folklore…

Faculty and guest performers bring chamber music from Haiti and the Dominican Republic into close focus in this Center for Historical Keyboards Salon. Performance unfolds alongside commentary by Claude Dauphin, PhD, curator of the Society of Haitian Classical Music Research, and Cornell Music Professor Gabriela…

Student musicians step into the spotlight with chamber and vocal music from Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Featuring works by Rafael “Bullumba” Landestoy, Julio Alberto Hernández, Werner Jaegerhuber, and Julio Racine.

In this talk, I analyze the relationship between criminal governance and citizen claim-making for public goods. Millions of people across Latin America live in urban peripheries marked by uneven state presence but where criminal organizations are often present and govern everyday life. What impact does this…

The Cornell Chamber Orchestra, Gabriela Gómez Estévez, conductor, performs Margarita Luna’s Miniaturas Quisqueyanas (orch. Gómez), Stravinsky's Suites for Small Orchestra Nos. 1 & 2, and Schubert’s Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major.

photo credit: Manifesto Designs

Join us for a Chats in the Stacks book talk with Alex Nading, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology, as he discusses his latest book, The Kidney and the Cane: Planetary Health and Plantation Labor in Nicaragua (Duke University Press, 2025). Nading follows activists, scientists, and residents in the…

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports U.S. citizens to study, conduct research in any field, or teach English in more than 150 countries. The program is open to graduate students, recent graduates, and young professionals. Undergraduate students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are…

Faced with a past that seems to repeat itself ad infinitum, through the dynamics of colonialism, neocolonialism, and neoliberalism, we ask ourselves about the past, present, and future of Latin America and Caribbean. The slogan “Otro futuro es posible” –another future is possible– has been appropriated in a wide…

Faced with a past that seems to repeat itself ad infinitum, through the dynamics of colonialism, neocolonialism, and neoliberalism, we ask ourselves about the past, present, and future of Latin America and Caribbean. The slogan “Otro futuro es posible” –another future is possible– has been appropriated in a wide…