Jeffrey Masten of Northwestern University delivers the annual Paul Gottschalk Memorial Lecture Oct. 27, on "Christopher Marlowe’s Queer Reformations: Heresy, Theory, Book History."
Princeton historian Kevin Kruse will deliver the LaFeber-Silbey Lecture, "Make America Born Again: Religion and Politics in the 2016 Campaign,” Nov. 3, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 165 McGraw Hall.
The Ithaca premiere of "The Classical Style: An Opera (of Sorts)," the last large-scale work by the late professor emeritus of composition Steven Stucky, will be staged Oct. 30 by Triphammer Arts.
"Bones Around My Neck: The Life and Exile of a Prince Provocateur" by Tamara Loos, associate professor of history, focuses on Prince Prisdang Chumsai of Siam, which reads like a modern soap opera.
Founded three years ago, the Cornell library witchcraft collection now consists of around 1,200 items – mostly posters, but also related movie memorabilia and advertising such as still photographs and flyers.
A three-part exhibition examining the art and legacy of the Blaschka glass marine animal collection will open at Mann Library Oct. 27, launched with a talk by Drew Harvell on her new book at 4 p.m.
Nick Admussen, assistant professor of Chinese literature and culture, has written a new book on contemporary Chinese prose poetry, which interprets and translates modern Chinese prose poems.
"Sustaining the Antique: a 21st-Century Festival of Classics" Oct. 28-29 in Klarman Hall's Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, examines how the ancient world impacts the modern.
Events on campus include a Cervantes conference, guest filmmaker Tia Lessin '86, a collaborator of Michael Moore; and book talks on Icelandic history and the ghostlike photography of postwar Spain.
