Bruce Levitt delivered the Engaged Scholar Prize lecture Oct. 28 about his time with the Phoenix Players Theatre Group and his corresponding documentary, "Human Again."
Roger Moseley's new book, "Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo," considers the playing of keyboards as a primary mode of musical behavior.
Physician Wayne Waz '84 spoke with students in professor Stephen Hilgartner's class on "Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine" to share his experience with the changing medical profession.
On Oct. 28 Interim President Hunter Rawlings led a faculty panel discussion, "My Parents Say I Can't Study That: Helping Students Find Their Intellectual Home in an Era of Parental Skepticism."
Events on campus this week include Cornell Library's Punkfest: "Anarchy in the Archives;" song cycles performed in Klarman Hall and the Johnson Museum; and a gathering of robotics enthusiasts.
The Alloy Orchestra will return to Cornell Cinema Nov. 3-5 to accompany four classic European silent films in Willard Straight Theatre, including Fritz Lang's "Metropolis."
At the China-Asia Pacific Studies Program roundtable Oct. 19 in Kaufman Auditorium, Cornell faculty members discussed the implications of the American election on U.S. relations with Asia.
"Forms, Figures and Difference: A Conference in Honor of Fredric Bogel" will include presentations of new work and panels that reflect and develop Bogel’s contribution to literary theory Nov. 4-5.
In her new book, "How Things Make History: The Roman Empire and Its Terra Sigillata Pottery," Astrid Van Oyen argues the ubiquitous Roman pottery doesn't imply cultural Romanization.
