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.  

A team of Cornell students and faculty and Ithaca schoolchildren will begin an archeological dig this weekend at St. James A.M.E. Zion Church. “We’re assisting St. James to tell its story,” said Gerard Aching, a Cornell Migrations task force member and professor of Africana and Romance studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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.

Cornell Migrations postdoctoral fellow Eleanor Paynter joins TRT World to answer the question, Do border walls prevent migration? “The question of whether walls work shifts the focus away from what we could view as a more fundamental question about what happens to people’s rights in those situations.”

Global Public Voices fellow Karim-Aly Kassam remembers lives lost in Afghanistan, saying in an opinion piece that those who died in service "will be remembered by an entirely new generation of young Afghans."

The Einaudi Center's newly renamed Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program is expanding its Caribbean focus—thanks to a collaboration with Caribbean undergraduates.

Einaudi Center faculty discuss the U.S. withdrawal and Taliban takeover in Afghanistan.

The inaugural symposium gave students a platform to share their interdisciplinary work with faculty. 

On July 20, a town hall for international students was held to discuss the fall 2021 semester, vaccine mandate, and return to campus.

Op-ed by Wendy Wolford about efforts within Congress to boost U.S. innovation and compete with China, arguing that bills passed minimize international collaboration—a key ingredient for innovation.