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"Remembering Lincoln at Gettysburg" features a manuscript copy of the Gettysburg Address at Cornell Library, and related events marking the sesquicentennial of Lincoln's most famous speech.

Music for silents

The Alloy Orchestra returns to Cornell Cinema Nov. 8-9 to perform original scores for two silent films in Willard Straight Theatre. The trio will accompany “The General,” Buster Keaton’s 1926 comedy classic set during the Civil War, Nov. 8 at 7:30 p.m., and the 1924 Swedish drama “He Who Gets Slapped,” Nov. 9 at 7:15 p.m., with Lon Chaney as a humiliated scientist who joins the circus as a clown and finds redemption with Norma Shearer.

Advance tickets ($12 general, $10 students and senior citizens Nov. 8, $10/$8 Nov. 9) are available at CornellCinemaTickets.com and 104 Willard Straight Hall. 

An informal discussion with Alloy Orchestra members Roger C. Miller (synthesizer), Terry Donahue (junk percussion, accordion, saw, banjo) and Ken Winokur (junk percussion, clarinet) and Cornell Cinema Director Mary Fessenden is Nov. 9, 4-5:15 p.m. at the Argos Inn, 408 E. State St., Ithaca. Information: 607-319-4437.

Their visit is co-sponsored with the Cornell Council for the Arts and the Department of Performing and Media Arts.

Dino Jam

The Museum of the Earth hosts Dino Jam, a fundraiser with music by local bands, dinosaur-themed art activities and garden projects, and kid-friendly food, Sunday, Nov. 10, from noon to 5 p.m.

The family-friendly event features performances by Pete Panek and the Blue Cats, Not from Wisconsin, Technicolor Trailer Park, Harry Nichols Band and Cats Elbow, playing under the museum’s iconic whale skeleton. Dino Jam will raise funds for an outdoor archaeological dig site, designed to introduce children ages 2-5 to earth science concepts in a fun and engaging way.

Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for children; family and member discounts available. Information: http://www.museumoftheearth.org/dinojam or 607-273-6623.

Remembering Gettysburg

Cornell University Library’s new exhibition, “Remembering Lincoln at Gettysburg,” commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln’s most famous speech.

Lincoln delivered the address Nov. 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pa. Cornell has one of the five known manuscript copies of the speech in Lincoln’s handwriting.

The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (RMC) will place the original manuscript on display weekdays in Kroch Library, Nov. 12-15 and 18-22, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Saturdays, Nov. 16 and 23, 1-5 p.m. A facsimile copy will be displayed for the remainder of the exhibition through Dec. 20, alongside Lincoln documents and Civil War-era artifacts.

RMC will host related free events including the documentary “The Gettysburg Story” and a conversation with director Jake Boritt, Nov. 12, 8 p.m. in Willard Straight Theatre; the Rudin Lecture with Gabor S. Boritt, author of “The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows,” Nov. 13, 5 p.m. in Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall; and a faculty panel discussion and reading of the address by President David Skorton, Nov. 19, 5 p.m. in Milstein Auditorium, followed by a reception.

The science of coffee

Six Cornell researchers will share their perspectives on Coffea arabica – the single source of 70 percent of the coffee we drink – in “From Gene to Bean to Global Scene,” Nov. 12 from 4-7 p.m. in the School of Hotel Administration’s Beck Center.

Hosted by the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (BTI), the free event includes coffee tasting at 4 p.m. in the Park Atrium, research presentations at 5 p.m. in Room 196 and a 6 p.m. reception. Researchers will discuss consumer tastes, the social impact of development and production, ecological impacts of coffee farms, sustainable practices and the insight to be gained from the coffee plant’s genome sequence.

The presenters are Colleen Anunu, director of coffee for Ithaca-based Gimme! Coffee and a graduate student in international development in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; Miguel Gomez,the Ruth and William Morgan Assistant Professor in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management; Kathryn LaTour, associate professor of services marketing at the Hotel School; Lukas Mueller, an assistant professor at BTI whose genome sequencing projects include Coffea arabica; Amanda Rodewald, director of conservation science at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology; and Susan Strickler, a bioinformatics postdoctoral researcher in BTI’s Mueller Laboratory.

Death and ecology

In his book “Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition,” associate professor of history and American studies Aaron Sachs argues that American cemeteries embody a forgotten landscape tradition that can teach us in our current moment of environmental crisis.

Sachs discusses the history of garden cemeteries, our first urban parks, in a Chats in the Stacks book talk Nov. 12, 4:30 p.m. in Olin Library’s Amit Bhatia ’01 Libe Café. Free and open to the public. Refreshments served and books available for purchase and signing.

A former environmental journalist with Worldwatch, Sachs founded the Cornell Roundtable on Environmental Studies Topics and is a faculty fellow at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.

‘Invisible War’ film, panel

Cornell Law School’s Avon Global Center for Women and Justice and the Women’s Law Coalition present the documentary “The Invisible War” and a panel discussion, Nov. 13, 5:30-8 p.m. in the MacDonald Moot Court Room, 390 Myron Taylor Hall. Open to the Cornell community. RSVP to Karla Creech at kjc93@cornell.edu.

Director Kirby Dick’s film about sexual violence in the United States military was an Academy Award nominee for best documentary feature and won the U.S. Documentary Audience Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

Panelists include adjunct professor of law Doug Rawald ’98, J.D. ’01, a former U.S. Air Force JAG Corps member and civilian attorney with the U.S. Department of Defense; and Kristi Taylor of The Advocacy Center of Tompkins County.

Stern on meaning

Artist, writer and educator Nathaniel Stern ’99 will discuss his artistic practice and approaches to new media and interactive art in “Embodying Meaning,” Nov. 14, 12:20 p.m. in 153 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, followed by audience discussion.

Stern’s research and practice question the wonder of what is, and what could be, when we engage with the world just a bit differently. His projects include interactive installations, participatory media interventions, performative printmaking, public art, kinetic sculpture and hybrid forms of video, drawing, sculpture and text.

A textiles and apparel alumnus, Stern is an associate professor of art and design at the University of Wisconsin’s Peck School of the Arts and a research associate at the University of Johannesburg.

His talk is part of the Cornell Council for the Arts’ 2014 Biennial, “Intimate Cosmologies: The Aesthetics of Scale in an Age of Nanotechnology,” and the Department of Fiber Science & Apparel Design graduate seminar series.

Social ventures

The Center for Transformative Action hosts the second Finger Lakes Social Entrepreneurship Institute, Nov. 15-17, to help fledgling regional social ventures and values-driven businesses share ideas, grow and develop. Information, registration: http://www.centerfortransformativeaction.org/SE-Institute.html

Delmonize (Del) Smith, director of Rochester Institute of Technology’s new Center for Urban Entrepreneurship, gives a free public address, “Creating a Thriving Local Economy through Urban Entrepreneurship,” Nov. 15, 7:30 p.m., Anabel Taylor Hall Auditorium.

Artist Lily Yeh will discuss her film “The Barefoot Artist” following a screening Nov. 16, 7 p.m. at Cinemapolis.

Co-sponsored by Entrepreneurship@Cornell, Engaged Learning and Research, the Iscol Family Program for Leadership Development in Public Service and the Park Foundation.