Arts & Humanities

From tattoos to circumcision, inscription as metaphor

Andrea Bachner, associate professor of comparative literature, has written “The Mark of Theory: Inscriptive Figures, Poststructuralist Prehistories.” 

Things to Do, May 4-11, 2018

Event this week include a literary festival, a Bach choral concert, TEDxCornell, a Renaissance fair, Holi, a documentary profiling Ruth Bader Ginsburg '54, and Slope Day.

Conference to explore theater in translation

“Drama Across Borders: The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary Theater in Translation” will be held May 11-12.

Mayfest features Chiaroscuro Quartet, May 18-22

The Mayfest chamber music festival brings “a shock to the ears of the best kind” to Ithaca audiences from classics to modern jazz May 18-22.

Jelani Cobb to address policing and racial justice in Krieger Lecture

Columbia University historian Jelani Cobb will deliver the 2018 Krieger Lecture in American Political Culture May 3 on police violence against black people.

Things to Do, April 27-May 4, 2018

Events this week include skating at Lynah Rink; a Tchaikovsky symphony concert; an animated portrait of Vincent Van Gogh; a runway show and designer talk, and a student-curated American landscape exhibit.

College Scholars explore Japanese cultural property to tech design

Eighteen students from the Class of 2020 have been selected as the new class of College Scholars for the College of Arts and Sciences.

For debaters, success on North Korea a question of expectations

“How should we engage with North Korea?” was the focus of the latest debate in the Lund Critical Debates Series sponsored by the Einaudi Center.

In a Word to explore writing ‘beyond the human’

On May 2, associate professors of English Joanie Mackowski and Elisha Cohn will explore how to write beyond the human.