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Cornell Cinema salutes the centenary of filmmaker Orson Welles (seen here in a still from "The Third Man") this fall, with a retrospective of his best work.

Heavy metal fashion

A new student-curated exhibition examining the use of metal as fabric, embellishment, structure and cultural symbol – “Heavy Metal: The Malleability of Fashion” – is on display through Dec. 1 in the Human Ecology Building Terrace Level (first floor).

Fiber science and apparel design major Samantha Stern ’17 has assembled bustles and corsets, styles from heavy metal music culture and everyday metal clothing, alongside a selection of work by fashion designers Paul Poiret, Paco Rabanne, Charles Frederick Worth and Rudi Gernreich.

A reception with light refreshments is Tuesday, Sept. 1, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. The project was supported by the Charlotte A. Jirousek Undergraduate Research Fellowship in the Cornell Costume and Textile Collection.

Orson Welles at 100

Cornell Cinema celebrates the centenary of legendary filmmaker Orson Welles’ birth with a selection of his best work – from his magnum opus “Citizen Kane” (1941), screening Aug. 27 and 29, to lesser-known adaptations of William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” (1948) on Sept. 8 and Franz Kafka’s “The Trial” (1962) on Oct. 8.

Screenings in Willard Straight Theatre also include Chuck Workman’s 2014 documentary “Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles,” Aug. 30; the wildly inventive 1948 noir “The Lady from Shanghai,” Sept. 5-6; the director’s masterful “Kane” follow-up “The Magnificent Ambersons” (1942), Sept. 12-13; a new restoration of Carol Reed’s “The Third Man” (1949), with Welles as Harry Lime, Sept. 26-27; “Touch of Evil” (1958), Oct. 24-25, a revised version with previously unseen footage and other changes reflecting Welles’s intentions for the film; and the 1975 sleight-of-hand documentary “F for Fake,” Nov. 21-22.

“Orson Welles: A Centenary Celebration” is cosponsored with Cornell in Hollywood.

Think global

New and returning students can explore the array of Cornell’s language and international studies programs at the International Fair, Wednesday, Sept. 2.,11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Uris Hall Terrace.

The fair, organized by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell Abroad and the Language Resource Center, will feature faculty and staff from internationally focused programs at Cornell providing information about ways to gain international experience on campus and abroad. These include more than 30 languages taught at Cornell, international majors and minors, language houses on campus, study abroad and area studies programs, and service-learning, travel, funding and fellowship opportunities.

Wisdom from plants

Cornell Plantations begins its Fall Lecture Series Sept. 2 with the annual Harder Lecture, featuring renowned botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer, award-wining author of “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants.”

The lecture begins at 5:30 p.m. in Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall, followed by a garden party in the Plantations botanical garden. Both events are free and open to the public.

Kimmerer directs the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Her book offers reflections on how other living beings – from strawberries to salamanders – offer us gifts and lessons; and on ecological consciousness requiring the acknowledgement and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world.

Jane Goodall praised “Braiding Sweetgrass” as “an extraordinary book, showing how the factual, objective approach of science can be enriched by the ancient knowledge of the indigenous people.”

Reading series begins

Poet and translator Ilya Kaminsky reads from his work Sept. 3 at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall. The reading kicks off the Fall 2015 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series, organized by the Creative Writing Program and Department of English. Free and open to the public.

Kaminsky was born in Odessa in the former Soviet Union in 1977 and emigrated with his family to America in 1993 when his family was granted asylum.

Poems from his manuscript ”Deaf Republic” received the Pushcart Prize and Poetry magazine's Levinson Prize. His 2004 collection “Dancing In Odessa” was named ForeWord Magazine’s Best Poetry Book of the Year, and won the Whiting Writer’s Award and the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award.

Latinos at Cornell

Law School Dean Eduardo Peñalver ’94 and other Cornellians instrumental in shaping the Latino community on campus will participate in “Latin@s at Cornell: Then and Now,” a panel discussion Sept. 4 at 6:30 p.m. at the Latino Living Center (LLC) in Anna Comstock Hall, 530 Thurston Ave.

Joining Peñalver are Maria Cristina Garcia, professor of history and the Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies; Vilma Santiago-Irizarry, associate professor of anthropology; and Héctor Vélez, Ph.D. ’83, adjunct associate professor of sociology. All three also have teaching appointments in Latina/o studies.

The event is organized by students as part of the Café con Leche series at LLC, with support from the Latina/o Studies Program and La Asociación Latina.