On Sept. 27, a forum in downtown Ithaca with Cornell faculty, staff, and partners offered stories of experiences and answered questions about implementing community-engaged initiatives.
Events include two Carl Becker Lecture Series talks by historian and author Michael Kazin; a lecture by wildlife conservationist and A.D. White Professor-At-Large Laurie Marker; Cornell Cinema’s screening of “Dragnet Girl,” accompanied live by the electronic group Coupler; and Swiss artist Elisabeth Masé in a conversation at the Johnson Museum.
Amjad Atallah, executive vice president for content for Al Jazeera America and an expert on conflict, will deliver the Daniel W. Kops Freedom of the Press lecture Thursday, Oct. 15, at 4:45 p.m.
A day after President-elect Donald Trump’s Nov. 8 victory, Cornell students, senior administrators, faculty and staff gathered for a meal while processing the election results as a community and discussing how to move on in post-election America.
Historian Raymond Craib's "The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile" offers a vivid view of the early and difficult history of Chile’s student anarchists.
Cornell will host the Conference in Laboratory Phonology, an international meeting for researchers taking experimental approaches to the study of human speech sounds, July 13-17. It will addresses sounds in human language as part of a linguistic, cognitive and communicative system.
An update from the Office of the Assemblies, including brief reports from the Student Assembly, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Employee Assembly and University Assembly. (Oct. 6, 2011)
Bruce Levitt delivered the Engaged Scholar Prize lecture Oct. 28 about his time with the Phoenix Players Theatre Group and his corresponding documentary, "Human Again."
Roger Moseley's new book, "Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo," considers the playing of keyboards as a primary mode of musical behavior.