Things to Do, Aug. 26-Sept. 2, 2016
By Daniel Aloi
Meet the candidates
Each of the three finalist candidates being considered for Cornell’s next Dean of Students will visit and hold open forums on campus Aug. 26, Aug. 29 (both at 1:30 p.m. in G10 Biotechnology) and Sept. 2 (1:30 p.m. in the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room).
Ryan Lombardi, vice president of student affairs and campus life, invites all Cornell community members to attend the forums. A form for providing feedback about the candidates will be distributed after each session.
A national search and a screening committee of students, faculty and staff identified highly qualified candidates who will promote a cohesive campus community exemplifying Cornell’s commitment to diversity and inclusion.
More information: http://dos.cornell.edu/about-us
‘Bound for Glory’ turns 50
Singer-songwriter Mark Rust returns Sunday, Aug. 28, to the Anabel Taylor Café for the opening celebration for the 50th season of “Bound for Glory” on WVBR-FM. The program airs from 8 to 11 p.m. with three sets of live music starting at 8:30; admission at the café is free and open to all ages.
Phil Shapiro, M.A. ’69, has hosted the weekly folk music show since its inception. In addition to music by Rust, a longtime local favorite whose songs include “Ithaca Sunset,” Shapiro says there will be a proclamation from City of Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick ’09, “a whole lot of good-humored comments from a lot of people, some real surprises and some cake. Quite a party.”
Taking its name from the autobiography of Woody Guthrie, who died in 1967, "Bound for Glory" began that year when Shapiro came to Cornell as a graduate student in economics. The show is highly regarded by musicians and fans, with about 32 live concert broadcasts a year.
Admission is always free and the performers “get paid in magic,” Shapiro says. “Our live audience is known far and wide as one of the best folk audiences in the country. We have famous performers come back again and again.”
BEAR Fair
The third annual BEAR (Being Engaged And Responsible) Community Fair comes to Collegetown Aug. 30 from 6 to 8 p.m.
The Community Fair kicks off at Sheldon Court (next to the Schwartz Center) with the Big Red Band at 6:15 p.m. and remarks by Mayor Svante Myrick ’09, Student Assembly President Jordan Berger ’17 and Vice President for University Relations Joel Malina, followed by a cappella performances at 7 p.m.
The event on the 400 block of College Avenue features free ice cream and live music, Cornell mascot Touchdown the Bear, and tables featuring campus and community resources, with health and safety information and tips on being a good neighbor and member of the community.
The annual BEAR Walk and Community Fair events bring together students, neighbors, city officials, Cornell staff and local businesses to promote a greater sense of community and connection in the Collegetown neighborhood, building positive relationships between Cornell and its students and Collegetown residents.
International Fair
Undergraduate and graduate students will find information on global learning opportunities on campus and abroad at Cornell’s annual International Fair, Aug. 31 from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the Uris Hall Terrace. Admission is free.
The event showcases many options available to students to internationalize their Cornell experience as part of their academic programs.
Students can explore international majors and minors, service learning, language instruction, study-abroad options, internships, funding and fellowships. Faculty and staff will be on hand to share details of international programs offered at Cornell across various colleges and units.
The fair is organized by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell Abroad and the a For more information, email IntlFair@cornell.edu
‘Courting Memory’ with McConkey
The Department of English Creative Writing Program presents “James McConkey: Courting Memory,” a 95th birthday celebration of the life and work of the emeritus professor of English literature, memoirist, essayist and fiction writer, Thursday, Sept. 1, at 4:30 p.m. in Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall. The event opens the Fall 2016 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series and is free and open to the public.
Three of McConkey’s former students – writers Diane Ackerman ’78, Gilbert Allen ’77 and A. Manette Ansay ’91 – will read from their works in his honor.
McConkey’s autobiographical essays, appearing in The New Yorker in the 1970s and ’80s and collected in his books “The Night Stand,” “Crossroads” and “Court of Memory,” are powerful and profound meditations on his life experience and on contemporary history and culture.
The Goldwin Smith Professor of English Literature Emeritus, he came to Cornell in 1956, taught courses in modern fiction and nonfiction and was instrumental in the Creative Writing Program and Epoch magazine. He founded the Cornell Council for the Arts in 1965 and organized a campus Chekhov Festival in the late 1970s, bringing Eudora Welty, John Cheever and other prominent writers to speak about Chekhov, give readings from their work and meet with students and faculty.
Violin sonatas
The Department of Music begins its fall events season Sept. 2 at 8 p.m. in Barnes Hall Auditorium, with a duo performance on period instruments by guest artists Lucy Russell and Sezi Seskir, D.M.A. ’11. The recital is free and open to the public.
Seskir, on fortepiano, and British violinist Russell will play a program of violin sonatas by Mozart, C.P.E. Bach and Beethoven, whose “Spring” sonata is featured.
Both artists are accomplished music scholars and international performers. Seskir studied historical performance practice at Cornell and is a visiting assistant professor at Bucknell University. Russell is a recording artist, professor of baroque violin at the Royal College of Music in London and visiting professor of violin at St. Andrews University, Scotland.
The Department of Music presents free concerts on campus throughout the academic year.
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