Scholar Stephanie W. Jamison will speak on “Adulterous Woman to Be Eaten by Dogs: Women and Law in Ancient India” as a part of the University Lecture Series. The talk, Sept. 21 at 4:30 p.m. in Cornell’s Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall, is free and open to the public.
Events on campus this week include a gender-reversed Gilbert and Sullivan play, Renaissance and compost fairs, and talks on building healthy housing and legal responses to catastrophic events.
Cornell’s Center for Teaching Innovation is offering the campus’ teaching community an online course that explores strategies for building and sustaining inclusive classrooms.
Geoffrey W. Coates, the Tisch University Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Cornell in Rome will celebrate its 30th anniversary in March, gathering program alumni, faculty and friends including architect Peter Eisenman for tours, panel discussions and receptions.
Cornell is celebrating the Bombay poets, who transformed English-language Indian poetry from flowery to gritty in the second half of the 20th century, with an exhibition and symposium.
A movable outdoor seating system designed by architecture faculty members Leslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovic and made from 3D-printed concrete will be unveiled July 12 at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens.
Events this week include a Schubert recital with Malcolm Bilson, Ariana Kim and Shin Hwang; a Black History Month film series, and exhibitions and talks with alumni architect William Lim and artist Doug Hall.
Events on campus include four new exhibitions at the Johnson Museum, Cornell Cinema reopening after renovations with free films for students, and the first-ever Animal Health Hackathon.
As inequality continues to grow in the United States, a national conference at Cornell Oct. 25-26 shined the spotlight on creating equality of opportunity for children.