Music industry expert Matthew Knowles, father to singers Beyoncé and Solange, will participate in a panel discussion at the Africana Studies and Research Center Sept. 27.
The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies awarded grants to faculty to support new collaborative research on international topics and fund workshops or other activities.
Poet and scholar Fred Moten will deliver the Society for the Humanities' 2018 Invited Society Scholar Lecture on “The Gift of Corruption,” March 21 in Lewis Auditorium.
New research by Sturt Manning, professor of classical archaeology, points to the need for refinements in radiocarbon dating, the standard method for determining the dates of artifacts in archaeology and other disciplines.
Isabel Wilkerson, journalist and author of “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” on Oct. 21 delivered the Cornell Center for Social Sciences’ annual Distinguished Lecture in the Social Sciences.
In “The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity and Ownership,” Mukoma Wa Ngugi addresses the critical reception of African literature and its beginnings.