Scholar offers talk about Brazilian crackdowns and feminist response

Angela Figueiredo's talk is one of three in the African Diaspora Knowledge Exchange Series.

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Noted archaeologist to speak on new discoveries in Israel in Cornell lecture

Aviam and colleagues made headlines by finding possible evidence, near the Sea of Galilee, of the house of St. Peter. 

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Asian American Studies celebrates 35th anniversary

Cornell's Asian American studies program, founded in 1987, was the first of its kind within the Ivy League.

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Library exhibit explores fraught history of textile industry

The exhibit “Social Fabric: Land, Labor, and World the Textile Industry Created,” features people and places that supported the textile industry in the U.S. throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

'Words as battle axes': A&S professors appear in Frederick Douglass film

Derrick R. Spires, Edward Baptist, and Gerard Aching add their voices to a chorus of experts telling the story of how a man born into slavery around 1818 became an advocate for freedom for African Americans. 

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Juliana Hu Pegues wins ASA book prize for ‘Space-Time Colonialism’

The prize recognizes the best first book in American Studies released during 2021.

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New Muses Project injects diversity into classical music choices

The New Muses Project is a platform that provides recommendations of composers based on a person’s current preferences, with a focus on composers that have been historically excluded from the canon.

Crowd gathers to wish ‘happy birthday’ to Fuertes telescope

The Fuertes Observatory and its Friday night open houses, where visitors can marvel at the starry sky through “Irv,” the Irving Porter Church Telescope, were bright spots in a dark pandemic freshman year for Gillis Lowry ’24.

‘Blood Novels’ explores material, metaphor in Spanish realist fiction

Blood plays an important role – as both plot element and metaphor – in novels by Spain’s most prominent writers of the 19th century, according to literary scholar Julia Chang.