Key pioneers of hip-hop, including DJ Afrika Bambaataa, will return to campus April 14-15 for an academic and musical symposium on the origins and lasting impact of the cultural movement. (April 7, 2011)
The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art will host a workshop April 13 celebrating the recent donations of two extensive video art archives, including works from the Experimental Television Center. (April 6, 2011)
Associate Professor of Philosophy Karen Bennett led listeners through the 'tricky' question of 'What's It All About?' while exploring how philosophers tackle the meaning of life, March 30 in New York. (April 6, 2011)
Poem in Your Pocket observances this month will include an Ithaca event April 28 for younger students, and Cornell has created a new companion mobile website. (April 6, 2011)
Linguistics scholar Gillian Ramchand will present 'Language and the Form-Meaning Connection,' April 14 at 4:30 p.m. at Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall. (April 4, 2011)
A.D. White Professor Lowery Stokes Sims, curator at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, spoke on curating the Global Africa Project March 29 at the Johnson Museum. (April 1, 2011)
Renowned writer Margaret Atwood gave a public reading on campus March 29. She also met with students in two small discussion groups the next day to talk about writing and to answer questions. (April 1, 2011)
Students in Jonathan Culler's Major Poets class returned from spring break March 28 to hear M.H. 'Mike' Abrams, the Class of 1916 Professor of English Emeritus, on 'The Fourth Dimension of a Poem.' (March 30, 2011)
Cornell United Religious Work will sponsor two talks by Bishop V. Gene Robinson, who will speak on religion and young people April 6 in Sage Chapel and on advocacy for gay rights April 7 in New York City. (March 30, 2011)