Professor Marilyn Migiel has studied the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio for years. Her newest book explores how one of Boccaccio's most famous works challenges readers to think.
Jorge "Popmaster Fabel" Pabon led the first of five workshops this semester at the Schwartz Center in the popping style he’s famous for, electric boogaloo.
Events this week include the 2016 Cornell arts biennial, a concert kicking off a 'Technologies of Memory' series, a a reading by writer Joy Harjo, new and classic films, and jazz pianist Fred Hersch.
British fashion designer Helen Storey brings some of her innovative work in art and science to campus Sept. 12-24 as the Department of Fiber Science and Apparel Design's first designer-in-residence.
English professor George Hutchinson is the fifth director of the John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines, whose programs serve Cornell students in every school and college.
Cornell host two major events honoring the Africana Center: a screening and panel discussion of the film "Agents of Change," and the dedication of the original Africana Center site, which was destroyed by suspected arson in 1970.
A new collaboration between Cornell's Jewish Studies Program and the Center for Jewish History in New York City will launch Sept. 27 with a three-part lecture series featuring Cornell faculty.
Performing and media arts faculty members Nick Salvato and Aoise Stratford have co-written an innovative new play weaving truth and fiction, inspired by local history and a 1909 novel set in Ithaca.
Svetlana Alexievich, an investigative journalist and nonfiction writer who won the 2015 Nobel Prize in literature, will speak on "The Rise and Fall of the Russian-Soviet Dream," Sept. 12 at 4:30 p.m.
