Events this week include networking at the Johnson Museum, a composers' forum, 'Monk With a Camera' at Cornell Cinema and School's Out! programming at the Museum of the Earth.
The Music and Medicine Initiative, a partnership between the Juilliard School and Weill Cornell, gives medical students the chance to continue their musical lives. The spring concert was held March 10 at Lincoln Center.
Events this week include a dance festival and hip-hop symposium at the Schwartz Center, Cornell Cinema's Elegant Winter Party, a Messenger Lecture by Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña and Dragon Day.
A recent book by associate professor María Fernández, exploring Mexico’s visual culture over the past four centuries, has received an award as a work of Latin American art history.
Cornell professor of musicology Judith Peraino will speak at Charter Day: A Festival of Ideas and Imagination, Sunday, April 26, 9-10:30 a.m., at Alice Statler Auditorium.
About 57 years after Cornell opened, Willard Straight Hall opened its doors Nov. 18, 1925. The building, bustling with music, dance and club meetings, achieved instant success and a richer student social life unfolded.
Tamara Loos, associate professor of history and an expert on gender and sexuality in 19th-century Siam, has consulted on an upcoming revival of "The King and I" at Lincoln Center.
Palestinian-Israeli writer Sayed Kashua, who writes in Hebrew, has a hit Israeli TV series and several novels to his credit. He will speak at Cornell on "The Foreign Mother Tongue" on March 25.
ILR School student J. Lowell Jackson ’17 will study Bahasa Indonesian for three months this summer through the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship Program.
