Noted authors, scholars and poets will celebrate Toni Morrison, M.A. ’55, as the College of Arts and Sciences hosts a livestreamed reading of her first novel “The Bluest Eye,” celebrating the 50th anniversary of its release.
Unearthed, digitized and soon to be repatriated, artifacts from two Native American towns are beginning to share their rich stories online thanks to a collaborative project by anthropologists, librarians and Indigenous community members.
Maps are more than two-dimensional representations of three-dimensional terrain – they are also powerful political tools to control territory, as sociologist Christine Leuenberger explains in her new book.
The Cornell Symphony Orchestra will host young musicians from the Ithaca High School Chamber Orchestra and the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra’s Youth Orchestra in a concert performance Sunday, March 11.
When Mary Fessenden, Cornell Cinema director, sits down to think about what films to show each semester, she has lots of movies in mind, but she also works closely with professors to find ties to the classes they’re offering.
Deborah Starr, associate professor of modern Arabic and Hebrew Literature and Film, will take part in a film screening and discussion on writer Jacqueline Kahanoff, Feb. 18 at Cornell Cinema.
Changes make the curriculum easier for students to navigate, simplify the graduation requirements and expand student opportunities for interdisciplinary work and faculty opportunities for innovative teaching.
The College Scholar Program in the College of Arts & Sciences allows students to design their own interdisciplinary major, organized around a question or issue of interest, and pursue a course of study that cannot be found in an established major.
Lisa Pincus, an expert in seventeenth-century Dutch art and a visiting assistant professor of art history and visual studies at Cornell University, comments on a two-week intensive study of the 1665 painting, "Girl With a Pearl Earring."
