Clark Center for Global Engagement

James M. Clark Center for Global Engagement

The purpose of the Clark Center for Global Engagement is to advance international education, service and scholarship on the SUNY Cortland campus; to provide an integrated framework to organize and promote all aspects of international education, service and scholar-ship; and to promote a full appreciation of and involvement with the global community. The center shall be concerned with both on campus and off campus, academic and non-academic programs.

News

• Publication by Clark Center Director and International Studies Coordinator, Dr. Balas, won Syracuse University, Maxwell School E-PARCC Negotiation Simulation Competition for "European Agenda on Migration"
  July 3, 2018
• New book "A Soldier's Kipling" published by Clark Center for Global Engagement Scholar-in-Residence, Dr. Edward Erickson
• May 17, 2018
• Holocaust Remembrance Events at SUNY Cortland
• April 19, 2018
• Clark Center for Global Engagement Council Member and Previous Director, Prof. Sharon Steadman (Sociology/Anthropology), was appointed a SUNY Distinguished Professor
• April 18, 2018
• Model European Union Team Represents SUNY Cortland at 2018 SUNY MEU Conference in Brussels, Belgium
  April 2, 2018
• Nuclear North Korea and Iran. Practitioners' View. - Panel discussing current events featured in the local media
• November 14, 2017
• Four International Studies students (Brandon Canady, Alexandra Cicero, Katera McKay, and Jacob Gosier) represented SUNY Cortland at the 2nd Annual Forum on Contemporary Issues in International Affairs at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University 
• November 2, 2017
• Cuban Scholar & Artist to Lecture at SUNY Cortland
• September 12, 2017
• Edward Erickson, PhD has joined the Clark Center for Global Engagement as a Scholar in Residence for 2017-2018
• September 12, 2017
• International Studies Program Coordinator, Prof. Balas, Wins International Studies Association-Midwest 2017 Book Award
  August 28, 2017
• SUNY Cortland President's Delegation to Cuba
• July 1, 2017
• Cortland Students Participate in Model EU Conference in NYC
  April 15, 2017
• Andreas Kotelis, PhD, has joined the Clark Center for Global Engagement as a Scholar in Residence and the International Studies Program as a Visiting Instructor for 2017
• January 15, 2017
• Clark Center's European Union Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Coordinator, Dr. Alexandru Balas, interviewed by Radio Romania about the "Brexit"
• June 4, 2016
• SUNY Cortland part of the European Union Jean Monnet Network in the US
  May 6, 2016
• SUNY Cortland mentioned in Internationalization in Action. Connecting Classrooms: Using Online Technology to Deliver Global Learning
  April 25, 2016
• SUNY Cortland, one of four SUNY colleges, which received Stevens' Initiative Award for Developing Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) courses
  April 20, 2016
• Clark Center for Global Engagement Director Interviewed by Radio Romania about the European Union, Security Threats, and the Immigration/Refugees Crisis
• March 24, 2016
• Clark Center for Global Engagement Awarded European Union Grant - New Course on Introduction to the European Union for Spring & Fall 2016 & Spring 2018
  October 30, 2015
• Clark Center for International Education Director quoted on CNBC talking about "Global Walls: The Migration and Refugee Crisis"
  October 9, 2015
• Clark Center for International Education's event "Turkey&ISIS" mentioned in the local media
  September 16, 2015
• SUNY Cortland Wins the American Council on Education Leaders in Internationalization Through Technology Award
  March 11, 2014
• Syrian Scholar talks to International Relations students via Skype 
• October 7, 2013

Upcoming Events

When Good People Do Something. The Actions of Two Romanians and an El Salvadorian during the Holocaust, Wednesday, May 2, 2018 @ 12:30pm, Jacobus Lounge, Brockway Hall, Lecture by Alexandru Balas, Assistant Professor and Coordinator, International Studies Program, SUNY Cortland 

Lecture, Demonstration, and Performance of the Shostakovich String Quartet # 8 by the Clinton String Quartet, Sunday, April 29 @ 1 pm, Corey Union, Fireplace Lounge

Rethinking Poles and Jews. Steps Forward, Steps Backward, Wednesday, April 25, 2018 @ 5:00pm, Sperry 106, Lecture by Prof.Anna Orla- Bukowska, Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University in Krakow and currently Skalny Center Fellow, University of Rochester

Central Europe Swinging Right, Wednesday, April 25, 2018 @ 12:30pm, Old Main Colloquium 220, Lecture by Prof.Anna Orla- Bukowska, Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University in Krakow and currently Skalny Center Fellow, University of Rochester

Turkish Invasion of Syria. Afrin, Syria: An Experiment, Lecture by Edward Erickson, PhD, Scholar-in-Residence, Clark Center for Global Engagement, Wednesday, April 18, 2018 @ 12:30pm, Brockway Hall, Jacobus Lounge, SUNY Cortland

Mushrooms (Termitomyces) Farmed by Termites in Africa:  Diversity, Utilization, Ethnomycology, Thursday, March 22, 2018 @ 6pm, Bowers Hall 1129, Lecture by Dawit Abate, (Professor of Mycology, Department of Microbial and Cellular Biology, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia)

Call of Duty in the Congo: Conflict Minerals and the Kivus, Tuesday, February 27, 2018 @ 4:30pm, Brockway Hall Jacobus Lounge, Lecture by Joshua Kennedy (Associate Director, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University)

Important Links

International Studies Major
International Programs Office
International Awareness Club
Modern Languages Department