After an eight-month study, a task force of 16 faculty members has chosen “Migrations” as the theme of the first Cornell Global Grand Challenge, which will tackle the issue with resources from across the university.
Tracy McNulty, Cornell professor of French and comparative literature, will explore the analytic act and its legacy through clinical examples and a reading of Freud's "Moses and Monotheism."
"A Tale of Three Cities: Reading Turin, Trieste and Rome," a talk by Kora von Wittelsbach, will be held at the Center for Jewish History, 15 W. 16th St. in New York City.
Students in the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity were treated to a special Q&A session Sept. 26 with Chinese artist and A.D. White Professor-at-Large Xu Bing.
More than a hundred scholars and librarians from 12 countries celebrated the centennial of the Wason Collection at the seventh International Conference of the World Confederation of Institutes for Libraries and Libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies, Sept. 27–28.
A committee formed by the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program is exploring Cornell’s history as a land-grant institution and the nation’s dispossession of Indigenous peoples.
A 10-day journey to cities in the Brazilian rainforest gave students a firsthand look at the complexities of urbanization in the Amazon, as part of the interdisciplinary seminar Forest Cartographies.
English professor Jane Juffer looks at children’s television, online gaming and political expression in her new book, “Don't Use Your Words! Children’s Emotions in a Networked World.”
Photographer Catherine Opie shares thoughts on a new piece from a body of work-in-progress and photographic practice as a mode of looking at the world in the moment.