Karen Pinkus, professor of Romance studies and comparative literature, has written "Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary," to scramble our thinking about fuel as distinct from energy.
Events this week feature four-hand piano scholar-performers, undergraduates' bird research on the Isles of Shoals, new documentaries at Cornell Cinema and interactive tours at the Johnson Museum.
Time, says Shelley Wong, "is socially constructed, continually made and remade in culturally specific ways." Wong’s book project focuses on race, time and narrative.
Hundreds of rare photographs documenting the journey of African-Americans from the slavery era to the 20th century are digitized and freely accessible to students and scholars around the world.
Faculty writers Alice Fulton and Helena María Viramontes will read from their recent work, including poetry and a novel in progress, Feb. 9 in Klarman Hall.
Cornell in Rome will celebrate its 30th anniversary in March, gathering program alumni, faculty and friends including architect Peter Eisenman for tours, panel discussions and receptions.
Events this week include a Lego expo with local student teams, jazz bassists Christian McBride and Edgar Meyer, and a new film on rethinking public education.
In his new book “An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies and New Granada’s Transimperial Greater Caribbean World,” historian Ernesto Bassi traces the “transimperial Greater Caribbean.”
