A new play is part of the Hope and Optimism initiative at Cornell and Notre Dame, which explores the theoretical, empirical and practical dimensions of hope, optimism, despair and pessimism.
Eugene O'Neill's 1924 play "All God’s Chillun Got Wings," mounted by the Department of Performing and Media Arts, plays April 29-May 7 at Cornell's Schwartz Center.
Members of the Cornell community are invited to explore issues of race in America during six simultaneous small group discussions of the Ta-Nehisi Coates book “Between the World and Me” April 28.
Kenneth Clarke and Ross Brann led an April 18 event, “Blacks and Jews in America: A Conversation,” that considered the history of a complex relationship.
Events on campus this week include a gender-reversed Gilbert and Sullivan play, Renaissance and compost fairs, and talks on building healthy housing and legal responses to catastrophic events.
Jonathan Sacks, professor, philosopher and former Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom, lectured on his most recent best-selling book, “Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence” April 20.
Four Cornell faculty members are among 213 national and international scholars, artists, philanthropists and business leaders elected new fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
At the Central New York THAT (The Humanities and Technology) Camp in Olin Library, there were no official presenters, while participants voted on workshop topics and met in collaborative sessions.
Rachel Bezner Kerr, associate professor of development sociology, and Thomas Pepinsky, associate professor of government, have been named International Faculty Fellows.
