This year’s new international exchange student orientation began as most events do on Zoom, with an air of hesitancy, cameras off and voices muted. By the end of the orientation’s “story circle” discussion, all participants had their videos on, openly sharing their experiences, hopes and fears about setting off into their first semester at Cornell.
Launched by the Office of Global Learning…
"Home may have become a dangerous place for democracy to flourish now," said Nobel prize–winning economist Amartya Sen, this year’s Bartels World Affairs Fellow.
His May 5 lecture, “Attacks on Democracy (video),” hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, examined the history and global patterns of democracy – from Sen's home country of India to the United…
Amartya Sen, professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, will give the annual Bartels World Affairs Lecture on May 5.
His talk, “Attacks on Democracy,” will begin at 4:30 p.m.; registration is required. Hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, this year’s virtual lecture is part of the…
In the wake of last summer’s protests against racism and police violence, this year’s Lund Critical Debate, “The Police and the Public: Global Perspectives,” will explore the contested ground between social justice and security, and weigh strategies for conflict resolution – both inside and outside the policing framework. The event, hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International…
When Lisa Malloy ’17 visited China for the first time in 2018, she was amazed by the pervasiveness of artificial intelligence in everyday life. Her experience fueled her research on the region’s new generation of AI tech workers, which she aims to complete through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Malloy is one of seven Cornell students and recent alumni who received Fulbright…
Last year, Jenna Robinson ’19 was a communications major and student technical assistant at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. Now she’s an associate product marketing manager at YouTube in San Francisco. Sofia Keane ’19 was an industrial and labor relations major while working at Einaudi’s front desk, on the first floor of Uris Hall, for three academic years. Now she designs…
Cornell doctoral students Mary-Kate Long and Jiwon Baik have received Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) fellowships from the U.S. Department of Education.The prestigious fellowships, managed at Cornell by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, will take Long to Myanmar and Baik to China.Fulbright-Hays fellowships cover travel, living and research expenses…
With more than 5,000 international students, Cornell is a vibrant global community. The Office of Global Learning honored international students’ achievements May 2, sending the Class of 2019 off in style.Wendy Wolford, center, vice provost for international affairs, congratulates international graduates.More than 75 students joined Cornell staff and leadership to celebrate this milestone at an…
Twelve graduate students will spend this year refining their dissertation plans and testing the waters of global research, with help from faculty mentors and intensive workshops, in the Einaudi-SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Program. The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, partnering with the New York–based Social Science Research Council, selected this year’s awardees based…
Bollywood director Nandita Das brings her breakout 2018 film “Manto,” the story of maverick writer Saadat Hasan Manto during the Partition of India, to Cornell on Thursday, March 14.Nawazuddin Siddiqui plays the title role in the biopic, "Manto," screening March 14 at 6 p.m. in Klarman Hall (KG70). A discussion with director Nandita Das will follow. The event is sponsored by the South Asia…
