Calling all current international graduate and professional students and international employees including J1 interns: join International Services (part of the Office of Global Learning) for a casual meet and greet/coffee hour on the final Friday of each month. Coffee and snacks will be provided.

Professor Mendi Obadike will sit down in conversation with Dr. Shirley Lewis

Mendi Obadike is a professor in the Cornell Department of Performing and Media Arts. She is an interdisciplinary artist who works collaboratively with Keith Obadike. Their current projects include RingShout, a musical satellite, and DreamTrain, a new video and music work commissioned by American Composers…

Las raíces que nos unen

Join us as we celebrate Latino Heritage Month with student/student organization performances, music, dinner and keynote address by Yen Ospina, President of the Latino Civic Assocation of Tompkins County (LCA).

Doors open 5:30 pm • Dinner 6:00 pm followed by program.

Tickets are free and will be availabe on a first-come-first served basis in…

Calling all current international graduate and professional students and international employees including J1 interns: join International Services (part of the Office of Global Learning) for a casual meet and greet/coffee hour on the final Friday of each month. Coffee and snacks will be provided.

Sylvana Ross, a fourth-year graduate student in Entomology, will present dissertation research on how ants in historically disinvested neighborhoods show measurable physiological and molecular adaptations. She is also developing a long term ecological research (LTER) initative in Cincinnati, Ohio that combines biodiversity monitoring, environmental justice, and community-led science. Through…

Bilingual Meeting (Portuguese / English): Ubuntu Book Club meets once each semester, bringing together students from the Federal Institute of São Paulo (Matão Campus), Cornell University, and several other Brazilian institutions to discuss works by Black authors and explore themes of identity and representation in an informal, safe and respectful environment.

BOOK: Letter to My…

Calling all current international graduate and professional students and international employees including J1 interns: join International Services (part of the Office of Global Learning) for a casual meet and greet/coffee hour on the final Friday of each month. Coffee and snacks will be provided.

Ash Kopetzky, a fourth-year graduate student in City and Regional Planning, will explore vacancy as a social and spatial condition in Seattle’s Chinatown–International District and Pioneer Square. The project seeks to understand how speculation, displacement, and uneven development shape neighborhood change, while also attending to how residents, small business owners, and communities sustain…

Hanna Lin, a fifth-year graduate student in Government, will theorize Chinese hukou (household registration) system as a central mechanism through which the Chinese state produces racialized differentiation within the ostensibly homogeneous Han majority. By binding social welfare and benefits to place of registration, hukou transforms rural Han migrant workers into a population simultaneously…