Mongolian music comes to campus

Concerts set for Oct. 20 and 22 will highlight the musical legacy of composer Byambasurengiin Sharav, a household name in Mongolia.

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Performance and conference honor Viramontes

Held Oct. 20-21, “Lest Silence Be Destructive" will feature readings, discussions and the first public performance of a musical album based on the work of Helena María Viramontes.

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Author Jemisin builds ‘the world from scratch’

Fantasy author N.K. Jemisin spoke Oct. 4 at the Bartels World Affairs Lecture, hosted by the Einaudi Center, in a talk focused on how to investigate our world and beliefs about it, and how to use what we learn to imagine and construct a better future.

Poet and scholar of digital media to deliver annual Digital Humanities Lecture

Tung-Hui Hu will talk on “The Grid vs. the Set: Early Attempts at Classifying Data” October 18.

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Manuel Muñoz, MFA ’98, wins MacArthur ‘genius grant’

Novelist and short-story writer Manuel Muñoz, M.F.A. ’98, has been awarded a $800,000 “genius grant” from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Coming home: Gayogohó:nǫˀ language programs expand reach

Four Cornell-funded projects are expanding efforts to preserve and highlight the Gayogohó:nǫˀ (Cayuga Nation) language and culture, in western New York and throughout the country.

Laurie Anderson visit offers a glimpse of her world

Multimedia artist Laurie Anderson took a captivated Cornell audience on a trip through the arc of her career during a Sept. 26 talk at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.

Prominent Thai author speaks about her new novel

Veeraporn Nitiprapha's book tells the story of one family from the beginning of the 20th century until the 1970s.

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$13.5M gift to Human Ecology supports design across disciplines

The College of Human Ecology has received a $13.5 million gift commitment to support cross-college design research and collaboration across disciplines.