Events this week include a community panel with police, hip-hop artists and scholars; an Oscar party; Karl Pillemer on making love last; plays at the Schwartz Center and films by Amie Siegel.
Emeritus professor Marty Hatch discusses the roles food pantries play in communities such as Brooktondale and Caroline and how the United Way in supporting them.
Faculty members and writer Amara Lakhous discussed the status of Muslims in Europe in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in France. It was the first of two discussions organized by the Einaudi Center.
Jeffrey Gettleman ’94, the East Africa bureau chief for The New York Times and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, will deliver the 2015 Krieger Lecture in American Political Culture Feb. 25.
Columbia University scholar Farah Jasmine Griffin will deliver the annual Wendy Rosenthal Gellman Lecture on Modern Literature on Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, M.A. '55, Thursday, March 5.
MSNBC host and scholar of African-American politics Melissa Harris-Perry will deliver the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture Feb. 23 in Sage Chapel.
L. Pearce Williams ’49, Ph.D. ‘52, who taught the history of Western civilization and the history of science for four decades at Cornell, died Feb. 7 in Ithaca. He was 87.
The spring 2015 Schwartz Center schedule includes famed choreographer William Forsythe at the “Sensation, Desire, and the Moving Body,” conference and Tennessee Williams' "Glass Menagerie."
The recent CCA Biennial brought attention to the arts and science at Cornell, including public television coverage of an installation on the Arts Quad by artist Kimsooja and materials scientists.
