Assistant professor of English Ishion Hutchinson discusses his writing, and "the anguish of getting the music right,” for his new collection of poetry, “House of Lords and Commons.”
Several events on campus this month provide an opportunity for students, staff, faculty, visitors and the local community to engage in conversations around diversity, politics, higher education and other topics.
A new History of Capitalism initiative from Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences and the ILR School brings together scholars from across the university to examine the nature of capitalism.
Columbia University scholar Farah Jasmine Griffin will deliver the annual Wendy Rosenthal Gellman Lecture on Modern Literature on Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, M.A. '55, Thursday, March 5.
Music professor Cynthia Johnston Turner and Tyler Ehrlich '14 are inviting Cornellians to become official Google Glass Explorers, and are taking entries via Twitter through Dec. 15.
MSNBC host and scholar of African-American politics Melissa Harris-Perry will deliver the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture Feb. 23 in Sage Chapel.
This week’s event include a Cornell Chamber Orchestra concert; a lecture about protests in women’s soccer; a conversation with Hollywood producer and Cornell grad David Greenbaum; and a celebration of undergraduate writing competition winners.
Oren Falk, associate professor of history, says he was as intrigued by the contrast in Norse Freydis stories as by how scholars have mostly ignored the sheer weirdness of the heroic version.
Andrew Chignell, associate professor of philosophy, and two co-editors have produced a new book, “Philosophy Comes to Dinner: Arguments about the Ethics of Eating.”