Princeton historian Kevin Kruse will deliver the LaFeber-Silbey Lecture, "Make America Born Again: Religion and Politics in the 2016 Campaign,” Nov. 3, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 165 McGraw Hall.
The Ithaca premiere of "The Classical Style: An Opera (of Sorts)," the last large-scale work by the late professor emeritus of composition Steven Stucky, will be staged Oct. 30 by Triphammer Arts.
"Bones Around My Neck: The Life and Exile of a Prince Provocateur" by Tamara Loos, associate professor of history, focuses on Prince Prisdang Chumsai of Siam, which reads like a modern soap opera.
Nick Admussen, assistant professor of Chinese literature and culture, has written a new book on contemporary Chinese prose poetry, which interprets and translates modern Chinese prose poems.
"Sustaining the Antique: a 21st-Century Festival of Classics" Oct. 28-29 in Klarman Hall's Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, examines how the ancient world impacts the modern.
George Scangos '70 will discuss how innovative biopharmaceutical companies are developing transformative therapies and working to ensure patients' access to them while meeting the demands of shareholders.
Events on campus include a Cervantes conference, guest filmmaker Tia Lessin '86, a collaborator of Michael Moore; and book talks on Icelandic history and the ghostlike photography of postwar Spain.
