"Witness Project" art installations on sites across campus are featuring representations of and responses to police violence, including photographs from the Black Lives Matter movement.
Award-winning author and literature scholar Seth Lerer, a visiting professor at Cornell this fall, will give the 2016 M.H. Abrams Lecture, Oct. 20 in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.
Bruce Levitt, professor of performing and media arts and inaugural recipient of Cornell's Engaged Scholar Prize will deliver 'Human Again: Prison Theatre and the Possibilities of Redemption' Oct. 28.
The annual Preston Thomas Symposium, Oct. 13–15, will focus on India and feature guest speakers and the release of professor of architecture Mary Woods' new book, "Women Architects in India."
The College of Architecture, Art and Planning's New York City studios, AAP NYC, will be part of the Open House New York Weekend Oct. 15-16 with events including a film screening and panel.
The Scholarly Commons, featuring the work of faculty and researchers from Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration and used by academics and practitioners, has hit 1 million downloads.
Events on campus this week include Indigenous Peoples' Day celebrations, a screening of "Nosferatu" with live music in Sage Chapel; and exhibitions on political Americana and historic preservation.
Cornell will host 40 writing program administrators and faculty Oct. 7-8 for the Ivy Plus Writing Consortium, to discuss programmatic issues, their evolving roles on campus and trends in the field.
