Princeton historian Kevin Kruse will deliver the LaFeber-Silbey Lecture, "Make America Born Again: Religion and Politics in the 2016 Campaign,” Nov. 3, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 165 McGraw Hall.
Events this week include Chocolatada! at Cornell Botanic Gardens; Halloween film screenings and costume parties at Cornell Cinema; a concert of train songs, and a podcast recording at the Johnson Museum.
Events on campus from this week to the end of winter break include the Recognition Ceremony for December Graduates, a winter solstice garden tour, exhibits coming down soon and the first Soup & Hope of 2019.
Michael R. Van Valkenburgh ’73 endowed an annual memorial lecture in honor of the late Marvin I. Adleman, professor emeritus of landscape architecture.
Performance artist Porsha "O" Olayiwola, who focuses on the injustice of violence against black women and girls and how it is too often ignored, will perform her spoken-word poetry March 9 at Cornell.
Art historian Benjamin Anderson's book "Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art" compares cosmological art between 700 and 1000 A.D. and what distinguishes it in each of three cultural spheres.
Professor Barry Strauss details the intense ambition and human failings of 10 of history’s most famous men in his latest book, “Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine.”
The 2016 winners of the Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature have been announced in fiction and poetry. Winners hail from Tanzania and Kenya.
Events this week include the Chorus and Glee Club’s annual Commencement Concert; scientists discussing cosmic particles and volcanoes at Science on Tap; and the 2019 Ithaca Festival Parade.
The new history course, Statues and Public Life, is part of the classics department’s participation in Cornell’s Active Learning Initiative, administered through the Office of the Provost.