April 27, 2021
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 center’s democratic resilience global research priority.
Amartya Sen
Over the past two decades, democratic institutions have faced rising contempt and challenges around the world. Sen will explore the nature of the political discord we face and how individuals, grassroots movements and institutions can take action to protect political freedoms.
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Eleanor Paynter, a researcher and postdoctoral fellow with Cornell’s Migrations initiative, received the International Studies Association’s 2021 Lynne Rienner Publishers Award for Best Dissertation in Human Rights in a ceremony on April 12.
Hundreds of thousands of migrants embark on treacherous journeys each year, yet most of their stories go untold or are reduced to statistics. Paynter is working to learn and share the lived experiences of these migrants. She completed her dissertation, “Witnessing Emergency: Testimonial Narratives of Precarious Migration to Italy,” at Ohio State University in 2020.
Paynter’s work is pathbreaking, critical and urgent, according to Rachel Beatty Riedl, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies director, the John S. Knight Professor of International Studies and professor of government in the College of Arts and Sciences.
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March 15, 2021
The program launches the new Milstein State of Democracy Addresses and will include questions from undergraduate students and an introduction by Bob Harrison ’76, chairman of the Board of Trustees at Cornell University and CEO of the Clinton Global Initiative.
Bill Clinton
Clinton and Israel will delve into the challenges faced by democracies today and what can be done to strengthen America’s democratic norms for future generations. Israel is the inaugural director of the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs, a professor of practice in government in the College of Arts and Sciences, and a former Democratic congressman from New York.
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President Clinton to speak on future of U.S. democracy
The program launches the new Milstein State of Democracy Addresses and will include questions from undergraduate students and an introduction by Bob Harrison ’76, chairman of the Board of Trustees at Cornell University and CEO of the Clinton Global Initiative.
Bill Clinton
Clinton and Israel will delve into the challenges faced by democracies today and what can be done to strengthen America’s democratic norms for future generations. Israel is the inaugural director of the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs, a professor of practice in government in the College of Arts and Sciences, and a former Democratic congressman from New York.