Europe
Although it may be over 3000 miles across the Atlantic, Cornell has always maintained close ties to the continent of Europe. From the Cornell in Rome program, which sends undergraduates and graduates to study in Italy, to language instruction in 18 European languages, to official exchange agreements with universities in 16 European nations, Cornell is intensely involved in the study and research of Europe whether it takes place abroad or on the Ithaca campus.
The centerpiece of Cornell’s involvement in Europe is its Institute for European Studies. The U.S. Department of Education has designated the Institute a National Resource Center, which places Cornell among a select group of universities that carry this distinction for the field of European studies. Cornell has established leadership in "trans-European" scholarship by examining the whole of a rapidly expanding and transforming Europe beyond the traditional East/West divide, and through its formation of the Upstate New York Consortium for Trans-European Studies in partnership with Syracuse University.
The Institute for European Studies promotes and coordinates multidisciplinary curricula, research projects, initiatives, and events centering on Europe. Through its program of lectures, conferences, seminars, international exchanges and scholarships, the Institute focuses particular attention on trans-national and trans-cultural European issues, encouraging new approaches to the study of an area whose contours are constantly being redefined. The Institute seeks to both broaden the Cornell community's view of Europe and to make the study of European languages, culture, and society an integral part of graduate and undergraduate education on the campus.
The Institute hosts scholars-in-residence and Regional Visiting Fellows whose work focuses on Europe, manages an active program of fellowships and grants for graduate and undergraduate students, and provides support for faculty research as well.
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Financial Resources
FLAS Fellowships
The Area Studies Programs at Cornell have been awarded federal funding to support Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships. This Title VI program of the U.S. Department of Education provides academic year and summer fellowships to Cornell and other institutions of higher education to assist graduate students in foreign language and area or international studies.
International Agreements
Search Exchange Agreements
The Mario Einaudi Center has been charged by the Provost with maintaining a database of all international exchange agreements Cornell faculty, departments, and Colleges have entered into with other academic institutions around the world.
Library Resources
Icelandic Collection
The Fiske Icelandic Collection, located in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, is the largest repository of works on Iceland and on Nordic medieval studies in North America. The collection, which Cornell University Library acquired in 1905, contains over 32,000 titles in a variety of European languages and in diverse media, from vellum and paper manuscripts to CD-ROMs. The Fiske Icelandic Collection is particularly rich in printed works of contemporary Icelandic belles lettres, medieval sagas, and literary criticism of the latter.
Slavic and East European Collections
The Slavic and East European Collections contain over 300,000 volumes, both in vernacular languages of the area and in Western European languages. East European language holdings are about 56% Russian, 13% Polish, 8% Czech and Slovak, 10% Serbian, Croatian, and Serbo-Croatian, 5% Ukrainian and Belorussian. The remaining 8% consists of Bulgarian, Hungarian, Romanian, and other Eastern European languages. The overall collection grows by more than 10,000 items per year.
Outreach
Cornell Educational Resources in International Studies
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College of Arts and Sciences
The Cornell Einaudi Center for International Studies in partnership with Area Programs is committed to extending its resources to the wider community. Outreach programs in International Studies offer post-secondary conferences, professional development opportunities for teachers, public programming, business workshops, speakers bureaus, and much more.
Programs, Centers, and Institutes
French Studies Program
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College of Arts and Sciences
The French Studies Program has been established thanks to a grant from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy designating Cornell University as a "Centre Interdisciplinaire," and with the support of the College of Arts and Sciences. It has a double mission: one academic, the other as a resource center for teachers of French in upstate New York.
Institute for European Studies (NRC)
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College of Arts and Sciences
The Institute for European Studies promotes and co-ordinates multidisciplinary curricula, research projects, initiatives, and events centering on Europe to both broaden the Cornell community's view of Europe and to make the study of European languages, culture, and society an integral part of graduate and undergraduate education.
Institute for German Cultural Studies
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College of Arts and Sciences
Through the Institute for German Cultural Studies, Cornell students and faculty members from various fields, as well outside scholars and intellectuals, participate in transdisciplinary study, discussion, and exploration of German culture.
Netherlandic Language and Cultural Studies
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College of Arts and Sciences
The Netherlandic Language and Cultural Studies program has a history dating as far back as WWII. The program aims to provide Cornell students, faculty and staff as well as students from colleges and High Schools of the Upstate New York Region with skills and knowledge of Dutch and Flemish.
Projects and Initiatives
Central European Human Resource Education Initiative
Unit:
School of Industrial and Labor Relations
The Central Europe Human Resource Education Initiative (CEHREI) was created in 1991 as an outgrowth of a project to internationalize the ILR Schools Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS). It was founded through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to assist colleges, universities, businesses, and other stakeholders with the development of human resource management, organizational development and change, labor relations, and training practices in organizations in Central and Eastern Europe.
Publications
New German Critique
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College of Arts and Sciences
A leading journal of German studies, produced by the Cornell German Studies department, that covers issues ranging from twentieth century social and political theory to film and art.
Study Abroad
Cornell Abroad in Europe
Each year hundreds of students study abroad in European countries. The EDUCO program in Paris, jointly run by Cornell, Duke, and Emory Universities enables students to enroll directly in Parisian universities while the Cornell-Michigan-Penn program in Seville gives students the same opportunity in Spain. Students may directly enroll in many British universities and receive the support of the Cornell-Brown-Penn Centre in London. Cornell students may also choose from programs run both other universities or study abroad providers. The Cornell Abroad website maintains links to many programs, and walk-in advising is available every day from 1:30-3pm at 300 Caldwell Hall.
Cornell in Rome
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College of Architecture, Art, and Planning
The Cornell in Rome program provides students with a submersive experience in Italian culture to study art, architecture, or urban planning in the context of the city.
Cornell-Michigan-Penn Sevilla Program
Paris Summer Institute
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Law School
The Summer Institute of International and Comparative Law is an opportunity to study and compare the American, European, and Asian legal systems in a European setting. It combines the strengths of Cornell's faculty with the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, offering instruction in a uniquely international and culturally rich setting.
