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Events

Our events include the LACS seminar series, public issue forums, LACS distinguished annual lecture, and more.

Upcoming Events


5:00 pm

Virtual

The Laidlaw Scholars 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 to carry out…

12:20 pm

Uris Hall, G08

The Caribbean has been identified as a region particularly vulnerable to changing climates, where conservation imperatives have advocated for the protection of fragile ocean ecosystems. As shifting ocean environments refigure marine ecosystems, making fish scarce in the shallows, diver fishermen along the coasts of…

5:00 pm

Goldwin Smith Hall, G76, Lewis Auditorium

Lund Critical Debate

Since January 2025, the United States has slashed billions in international aid—and effectively dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), responsible for administering U.S. development and humanitarian aid around the world. In what has become the largest…

4:30 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Go global in summer 2026! Global Internships give you valuable international work experience in fields spanning global development, climate and sustainability, international relations, communication, business, governance, and more.

Applications will open in the fall.

Can’t attend? Contact…

12:00 pm

Olin Library, 703

Please join us for an event in our Digital Humanities Initiative Colloquium Series: a presentation by and conversation with Karen Jaime, Associate Professor of Performing and Media Arts and Latina/o Studies at Cornell. Professor Jaime's talk will focus on the Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library (HIDVL…

4:30 pm

Warren Hall, B25

You are warmly invited to join us for a special event with President Laura Chinchilla, 2025-2026 John W. Nixon ’53 Distinguished Policy Fellow, in conversation with Colleen Barry, Dean of the Brooks School, and Zarifa Ghafari, Human Rights Activist, former Afghan mayor, and Cornell MPA ’26.

Event…

6:30 pm

Physical Sciences Building, 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…

10:00 am

Stimson Hall, G25

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…

12:00 pm

Rockefeller Hall, 429

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!

12:15 pm

Stimson Hall, G25

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…

8:00 pm

Virtual

Join us on Zoom 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…

12:00 pm

Virtual

For the summer 2026 Leadership in Action experience, students will be placed with the Pachaysana Foundation exploring what it means to be an intercultural leader in today’s complex, fractured world. Please attend this Q+A webinar with Pachaysana Foundation to learn more about their work and how the Laidlaw Scholars…

2:30 pm

Stimson Hall, G25

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…

4:30 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Resisting Authoritarianism: The Political Journey and Mysterious Deaths of Two Young Americans in Pinochet’s Chile.

Allende’s revolution promised real democracy and real social change. It inspired idealistic young people from all over to travel to Chile to participate. Many who came were political exiles…

11:00 am

Cornell Tech, TBD

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12:20 pm

Go8, Uris Hall

The tender longing for the stars, an impulse familiar to many, has unfolded alongside another trajectory in modernity: from Captain Cook’s pursuit of Venus to NASA’s Space-Age invocation of Christopher Columbus, tracing a historical course intertwined with imperial expansion. The cultural imagination of space…

4:30 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Go global in summer 2026! Global Internships give you valuable international work experience in fields spanning global development, climate and sustainability, international relations, communication, business, governance, and more.

Applications will open in the fall.

Can’t attend? Contact…

4:45 pm

Virtual

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…

4:00 pm

Virtual

Go global in summer 2026! Global Internships give you valuable international work experience in fields spanning global development, climate and sustainability, international relations, communication, business, governance, and more.

Applications will open in the fall.

Can’t attend? Contact…

4:45 pm

A.D. White House

National security discourses have profoundly permeated the film industry in the United States for decades. Through direct and indirect intervention in major film productions, US security institutions (including the Pentagon, DEA, CIA, and FBI) have pushed for what Matthew Alford and Tom Secker call “national…