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Visiting critic and award-winning political cartoonist Pedro X. Molina joined LACS this fall as a visiting critic and IIE-Artist Protection Fund fellow.

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“For any young refugee sitting in a camp, whether it’s on the Island of Lesbos in Greece or in Tajikistan, who has a dream—Cornell is your place. Ezra’s motto to welcome any person in any field is not abstract; it’s very real and it’s something Cornell lives by every day.”—Farid Ferdows '21

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Gunisha Kaur, Einaudi's Migrations faculty fellow, in Time Magazine: "For advocates of migrant rights, recognizing the sources of trauma is a critical first step."

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A Cornell-led international team of researchers has received a $65,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for its project, “The Next Monsoon: Climate Change and Contemporary Cultural Production in South Asia.”

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Global Public Voices fellow Karim-Aly Kassam works with Indigenous and rural people to create community-specific ecological calendars that integrate local cultural systems with seasonal indicators.

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New program directors Ernesto Bassi (LACS), Mabel Berezin (IES), and Tom Pepinsky (SEAP) share their programs' plans for this academic year.

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Einaudi Center students and recent alumni joined faculty-led research last summer to reduce climate threats in Haiti, East Africa, and Tajikistan.

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Protecting already vaccinated Americans from contracting mild Covid shouldn't be more important than the lives and human rights of people in poorer countries, writes Dr. Gunisha Kaur, physician and human rights researcher with the Migrations initiative. 

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As the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan unfolded, Einaudi Center and Institute of Politics and Global Affairs events kept pace and brought Afghan and congressional national security experts to the campus conversation.  

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The Global Strategic Litigation Council for Refugee Rights was launched by legal experts, including Migration initiative grantee Ian Kysel. The council is dedicated to developing strategic litigation and related legal advocacy to advance the protection of refugee or migrant rights.

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