A new Kroch Library exhibition of documents, images and memorabilia covers 150 years of Cornell history with displays on women and diversity on campus, Cornell in the military, athletics and more.
“Expanded Communities and Posthumanity” will feature scholars from a wide range of disciplines exploring the field of posthumanities on campus Nov. 5-6.
Artist Chon Noriega, curator of a 1993 Arts Quad exhibition that led to the takeover of Day Hall by Latino students, recalled the events in a campus talk Oct. 28.
“Firing the Canon,” a College of Arts and Sciences sesquicentennial exhibit, explores how Cornell’s prized collection of plaster casts was “embraced, defaced and dethroned.”
Events on campus include the Prague Philharmonic Choir in concert, writer Todd Miller on border issues, a Messenger Lecture by theater scholar David Román, and a social entrepreneurship institute.
When he learned that Running to Places, an Ithaca youth theater company, was staging “Fame,” founding cast member Joel Malina offered to join them for some rehearsals and to share his experiences with the cast.
Algerian-Italian novelist Amara Lakhous, author of the 2014 New Student Reading Project selection, “Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio,” will speak on campus Nov. 4.
Russian-American journalist and LGBT activist Masha Gessen spoke on campus Oct. 22 about Vladimir Putin's use of homophobia to retain control of Russia.
