Things to Do, March 7-14

Events this week include plays about love and sexuality, films about math and physics, Concerto Competition winners in concert, and a Community-Supported Agriculture Fair.

Grad student helps Chinese city foster an identity

Graduate student Arielle Levy took part in a design "camp" to help the Chinese city of Shenzhen develop an identity through design.

Professor unearths a jazz age memoir

While researching a book, faculty member George Hutchinson discovered the memoir of a woman who mingled with famous writers and artists in the 1920s and '30s, unbound by race or class.

Cognitive scientist pens philosophical fiction e-book

In his first work of fiction, Shimon Edelman, professor of psychology, has published his first fiction e-book. “Beginnings” is an eclectic collection of narratives, poems and essays.

'Kollywood': Nepalese film shoots at Cornell

On the Cornell campus to film "Buddha, born in Nepal," a Nepalese director learns about the shortage of blondes and the plethora of snow; Cornellian "extras" learn the concerns of international students among them.

Things to Do, Feb. 28-March 7

Events on campus this week include a discussion of women and equality; Asia Night; professor Harry Greene on field biology; "Wonder Women" author Debora Spar and baroque orchestra Tempesta di Mare.

Book offers look at evolution of queer life on TV

Professor Amy Villarejo new book, “Ethereal Queer: Television, Historicity, Desire,” offers a look at the ways that TV representations of queer life have changed since the 1950s.

Freshmen, city kids make masks at Johnson Museum

Cornell freshmen spend time with kids from Ithaca's Southside Community Center at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Feb. 22, where they made masks.

Book explores new resurgence of Chinese script

Andrea Bachner, assistant professor of comparative literature, has written a book about the resurgence of interest in Chinese script.