Exhibition features pioneering erotic magazine

On Our Backs' first decade highlighted by library show.

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Cornell celebrates Morrison’s birthday with screening, roundtable

Cornell will celebrate the birthday of alumna and Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison MA ’55 from 3-5 p.m. Feb. 18 with a screening of the film “The Foreigner’s Home” (2017), followed by a roundtable discussion.

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Anne R. Kenney, former university librarian, dies at 72

Kenney, university librarian emerita, a charismatic visionary who led Cornell University Library through a decade of transformation and growth, died Feb. 5 at Hospicare in Ithaca.

Professor named chair of state humanities organization

Timothy Murray, professor of comparative literature and literatures in English, has been elected chair of the board of directors of Humanities New York (HNY), a nonprofit humanities council founded in 1975 that supports and advocates for public humanities across the state.

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A&S announces third cohort of Klarman Fellows

Seven exceptional early-career scholars will be awarded three-year fellowships to pursue independent research in the arts and humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.

MLK speakers: Embrace, occupy your Black stories

Speakers at the 2022 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture Feb. 3 spoke about topics including their writing, their families, Black history and literature, and what it means to be Black and American.

Naminata Diabate wins ASA book prize for ‘Naked Agency’

Diabate hopes her book will reframe the terms of the conversation on defiant disrobing by inviting readers to take seriously the circulation of women’s grievances and hopes and the (mis)use of their bodies’ images in our hyper-visual world.

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Freedom seekers speak on Underground Railroad website

The stories of fictional freedom seekers ring out on the new “Voices on the Underground Railroad” website, a collaborative effort between Cornell students and community members.

Cornell ReSounds presents play | pen symposium Feb. 4-5

Cornell ReSounds  welcomes an esteemed slate of musicians, composers, and instrument builders for a two-day virtual symposium.

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