Past Events
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
11:25 am
Virtual
Infrastructure is at the heart of China’s growing, controversial presence in global development. In addition to economic considerations, observers see infrastructure projects as important cogs in China’s pursuit of international influence. However, debates on Chinese global infrastructure are remarkably devoid of…
Institute for European Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
12:00 pm
Weill Hall, 224
This talk discusses the geopolitics of the Single Market in financial services in the European Union (EU) by examining three crucial case studies: (1) the post-2008 crisis transatlantic tug of war, whereby the EU leveraged its Single Market vis-à-vis the US, seeking to set the rules for global finance; (2) the…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
4:45 pm
Virtual
Over 500 Cornellians have crossed the globe with the Fulbright U.S. Student Program since the 1940s. You could be the next!
The program, administered by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, supports college graduates conducting research or teaching English in more than 150 countries. The…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
South Asia Program
11:25 am
Virtual
Shannon Philip explores the gendering of everyday urban spaces and the social production of gendered violence. Through ethnographic data collected by ‘hanging out’ with young Indian men in New Delhi, he discusses the ways masculinities are constructed and performed, and how these in turn produce hostility, fear,…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
11:25 am
Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, G155
Why do people engage in vigilantism? Vigilantism is commonly understood as a functional solution to a security problem, or as "popular justice," an expression of the people's will. However, both these approaches overlook the power dynamics that are at the heart of vigilantism—and as a result, they…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
4:30 pm
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies , G-08 Uris Hall
Get involved with the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and the Language Resource Center to enhance your language skills!
Through resources on campus, students of all levels can improve global language skills, apply for funding to practice language abroad, and more.
Opportunities include…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
4:45 pm
Virtual
Learn more about Fulbright opportunities for graduate students that fund your international research or teaching from a Fulbright advisor at Cornell.
Fulbright at Cornell is administered by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. The Einaudi Center's Fulbright advisor works with you to…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
2:30 pm
Willard Straight Hall, Memorial Room
Open up a whole new world by studying abroad!
Cornellians who have studied abroad are sharing their experiences at the Office of Global Learning's study abroad fair. You'll learn about where in the world you can study, what programs work for you and your major, and how study abroad can enhance…
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
11:00 am
Weill Hall, 224
This research explores the Strauss-Eisenhower Plan, an ambitious plan designed by the United States after the Six-Day War in 1967. Now largely forgotten, the Strauss-Eisenhower Plan, named after statesman Lewis Strauss and President Dwight D. Eisenhower, followed the same logic as Eisenhower’s flagship program,…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
11:25 am
Virtual
With a focus on gang violence in El Salvador, Dr. Córdova’s book examines how organized criminal groups’ operations in the territories they control, and the incursion of the police and military, threaten women’s safety. The main argument establishes that gangs’ territorial control increases women’s daily risk of…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
4:30 pm
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, 163 Uris Hall
Stop by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies' Minors Open House to learn about adding an international minor to your degree.
The Einaudi Center offers minors in migration studies, international relations, European studies, and Latin American and Caribbean studies. The Department of Asian…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Institute for European Studies
11:25 am
Virtual
In this virtual panel discussion, Eugene Fishel and Yaropolk Kulchyckyj will provide an insider perspective into Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine. They will bring together documentary evidence and declassified materials dealing with policy deliberation, retrospective articles authored by former policymakers, and…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
12:30 pm
Kahin Center
Nick Cheesman
In 2021, a group of anti-narcotics cops in Nakhon Sawan, Thailand suffocated a man to death with plastic bags. The torture and killing would have gone unreported but that it was captured on a video, which a lawyer posted online. News reports circled around the lead protagonist, a superintendent…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
11:00 am
Virtual
Talk by Sanaa Alimia in conversation with Aziz Hakimi
In this talk, Sanaa Alimia will discuss her new manuscript, Refugee Cities: How Afghans Transformed Pakistan (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). The book is a people's history of displacement across Afghanistan and Pakistan. Weaving together…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
2:00 pm
Kendal of Ithaca Auditorium
Valerie Jane Bunce, Aaron Binenkorb Professor of International Studies Emerita
Why did Putin invade Ukraine in February, 2022? Why has the Russian military performed so badly and Ukraine’s military so effectively? Was the Western alliance right to provide military support to Ukraine? How can and should the…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
11:25 am
Uris Hall, G08
Professor Ryan Brutger explains that one of the central challenges in China-US relations is the risk of a security dilemma between China and the United States, as each side carries out actions for what it perceives to be defensively-motivated reasons, failing to realize how it is perceived by the other side. Yet…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
8:00 am
Virtual
How will we meet the most pressing demands of our time?
Join us for a two-day symposium that brings together the Cornell community and international partners to discuss the most urgent challenges around the world and how we can work together to address them.
Building on the first Global Grand…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for European Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
4:30 pm
Klarman Hall, Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium
With a population of 376,000—less than half the size of Cyprus—and land area of 40,000 square miles (103,000 square km), lceland is one of Europe's smallest states.
In his lecture "Can Small States Make a Difference? The Case of Iceland on the International Scene," President of Iceland Guðni…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Institute for African Development
5:30 pm
109 Tower Rd., G-08 Uris Hall
Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony is a 2002 documentary film depicting the struggles of black South Africans against the injustices of Apartheid through the use of music.
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
4:45 pm
Virtual
The Einaudi Center's Research Travel Grants for Graduate Students provide international travel support for Cornell graduate students conducting short-term research or fieldwork outside the United States.
If you’re traveling between the United States and a host country for activities directly related to…
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
4:45 pm
White Hall, 106
Levinson China & Asia‐Pacific Studies Program Guest Seminar
China and the United States are heading toward a cold war. How should we explain this development? What is likely to happen in the foreseeable future? What needs to be done to avoid a disastrous confrontation? The talk will try to address these…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
11:25 am
Virtual
War in space is not inevitable. Outer space is not ‘wild west.’ There are fundamental rules of international law that govern all space activities, including military space activities. Outer space must be used for the benefit and interest of all states and for peaceful purposes. Outer space must be explored and used…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
4:45 pm
Uris Hall, G-08
If you love languages, our funding opportunities are for you! Learn one of more than 50 languages offered at Cornell with a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship or Rare and Distinctive Language Fellowship. Opportunities are open to both undergraduate and graduate students.
FLAS fellowships support…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
11:00 am
Virtual
Talk by Harshana Rambukwella
This talk explores what solidarity might mean in the current geo-political context through the specific example of postcolonial Sri Lanka, which is experiencing an existential threat unprecedented in the country's contemporary history. Mired in a deep and intractable…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
8:30 am
ILR Conference Center
Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) in collaboration with the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs, the Gender and the Security Sector Lab, Department of Government, and the Brooks School of Public Policy will be hosting a two-day meeting at Cornell…
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
12:15 pm
Myron Taylor Hall, Cornell Law School, 277
Please join us for a lunchtime seminar given by our guest Tawab Danish, a Visiting Scholar here at Cornell Law School.
SEMINAR: Circling Back to Zero after 20 years of Achievements: How the Legal System of Afghanistan has Been Affected More than Any Other Institution under the Taliban Regime
DATE:…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
South Asia Program
11:25 am
Virtual
Many contemporary theorists and practitioners of disobedience have questioned whether civility and nonviolence ought to be requisite components of legitimate dissent. While sharing their skepticism of overly narrow, prescriptive formulations of a moral or legal right to disobedience, Professor Karuna Mantena…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
4:45 pm
Virtual
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides full funding for graduate and professional students conducting research or teaching in any field in more than 150 countries. (Open to U.S. citizens only.)
The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program supports doctoral students conducting…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
4:45 pm
Virtual
Develop your dissertation on global issues with a toolkit of resources!
The Einaudi Dissertation Proposal Development Program (DPD) supports 12 PhD students annually. Applicants’ research projects must focus on global issues, but the proposed research setting may be international or domestic.
Over the…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Institute for African Development
11:25 am
Virtual
Professor Kristen Harkness will discuss her book When Soldiers Rebel: Ethnic Armies and Political Instability in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2018). The book argues that the processes of creating and dismantling ethnically exclusionary state institutions engender organized and violent political resistance.…