New Orleans surrounded by excess and humanity is the theme of this year's Locally Grown Dance Festival, created by dance senior lecturers Byron Suber and Jumay Chu, March 17-19 at the Schwartz Center.
In the Society for the Humanities Annual Invitational Lecture March 2, Gerard Aching drew parallels between the calls to action in two books and the unfolding of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Wolf Gruner, director of the USC Shoah Foundation Center Center for Advanced Genocide Research and a USC professor, will talk about defiance and protest of the Nazi regime by Jews on March 17.
Three abstract 1940s murals featured at the Johnson Museum are being conserved after their removal from a Roosevelt Island hospital, and will be reinstalled at Cornell Tech.
Events on campus this week feature women filmmakers educated at Cornell, and others include a keyboard concert, a a talk by 'Mad Men' writer and producer Semi Chellas, and book talks.
In his new book "How to Succeed in College and Beyond: The Art of Learning," Cornell English professor Daniel Schwarz draws on 48 years of teaching experience to offer advise for college success.
Cornell faculty will share the impact of a work on her or his life and career as part of the “Transformative Humanities” series of talks and brown bag lunches that starts Friday, March 4.
National Endowment for the Humanities Chair William Adams spoke on the past and future of the humanities in Klarman Hall Feb. 24. He said this is a moment of increasing pressure for the field.
Events on campus include the Internet Cat Video Festival; talks on social justice, service and community engagement; classical concerts, lectures and a 'Keyboard Networks' symposium.
