Smoke dancers, American Sign Language poetry and explorations of endangered languages will highlight a series of events Oct. 15-Nov. 6 that celebrate the importance of language throughout U.S. history.
Upshaw, winner of five Grammys and a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, will present “Salon Solèy: Inhabiting Text & Music in Contemporary American Art Song,” at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 22 in Barnes Hall.
At a talk hosted by Cornell University’s Program on Freedom and Free Societies on Oct. 19, Brian T. Allen will discuss how democracies judge art and architecture.
A. Reeve Parker, professor emeritus of literatures in English in the College of Arts and Sciences and a scholar of British Romanticism, died Sept. 16 in Ithaca, New York, at age 89.
Cornell faculty members, academic departments and groups of departments are invited to submit nominations for the A.D. White Professors-at-Large Program in the fields of arts, humanities, life sciences and physical sciences.
Cornell Cinema and the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program suggest films for the Cornell community to watch and reflect on for Orange Shirt Day.
In his new book, “How to Speak Freely,” classicist Michael Fontaine of the College of Arts and Sciences shows that thousands of years ago, Athenians were struggling with the same topics societies struggle with today.
Cornell’s Society for the Humanities marked its 60th anniversary Sept. 18-19 with events celebrating six decades of humanities research and collaboration.
