For threatened artists, free expression is political and personal

An event featuring threatened artists from Nicaragua and Afghanistan kicks off Global Cornell’s contribution to this year’s campuswide theme, “The Indispensable Condition: Freedom of Expression at Cornell.”

Legal experts to discuss scope, boundaries of free expression

On Sept. 26 at Cornell Law School, a conversation between First Amendment scholars Jameel Jaffer and Eugene Volokh headlines the universitywide theme year's first Milstein Symposium, presented by the Howard and Abby Milstein Foundation.

Artist Laurie Anderson visits campus Sept. 26-27

Pioneering multimedia artist Laurie Anderson will offer a public talk in the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts as part of the College of Arts and Sciences’ Arts Unplugged series during her two-day visit to campus.

Forum examines free expression basics and the law

A forum hosted by Cornell Law School on Sept. 7, “The Fundamentals of Freedom of Expression,” served as the kickoff event for the academic year’s theme, “The Indispensable Condition: Freedom of Expression at Cornell.”

NYT columnist to be featured at Kops Lecture

Jamelle Bouie, columnist for the New York Times, will be the featured speaker at the 2023 Daniel W. Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture, Sept. 12 at 5 p.m. in Klarman Hall’s Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium.

Theme year kickoff to explore free expression fundamentals

Cornell legal experts will review the fundamentals of free expression during a Sept. 7 panel discussion kicking off the university’s theme year, “The Indispensable Condition: Freedom of Expression at Cornell.”

Pollack welcomes students, previews theme year

President Martha E. Pollack welcomes students to the 2023-24 academic year and introduces the first universitywide theme year, “The Indispensable Condition: Freedom of Expression at Cornell.”

‘Be curious, not judgmental,’ Pollack tells new Cornellians

Thousands of first-year and transfer students gathered Aug. 20 at Schoellkopf Field for New Student Convocation, where they were told there is no better place than Cornell to feed and grow a curious mind.

Cornell joins nationwide free-expression initiative

Cornell is among 13 higher-education institutions that have joined the Citizens & Scholars Campus Call for Free Expression, a commitment by college presidents to spotlight the principles of critical inquiry and civic discourse on their campuses.