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.

Civil wars become international conflicts when outside states provide support to rebel groups. Sometimes, external intervention is driven by affinity for the rebel group and a desire to achieve the rebel group’s goals.

Update: This lecture has been canceled. Gatty Lecture Series Join us for a talk by Maria Hwang, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies from McGill University.

What did Soviet empire look like in intimate terms—as experienced and perceived through the lens of interpersonal relations?

Join us for a virtual discussion with Adam Bobbette, author of The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java and winner of the 2025 Benda Prize. This virtual conversation is open to the broader public, and is hosted by GETSEA.

Are you studying abroad in Italy in the upcoming spring semester? Need help with your visa application? The Office of Global Learning is holding a session on the visa application process.

Speaker: Wah Guan LIM Associate Professor of Transcultural Theatre National Chung Hsing University Description:

Talk by Jason Cons (Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin)

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.

Speaker: Eno Pei-Jean Chen (Associate Professor, Taiwanese Literature at the National Chengchi University) Description: