Anindita Banerjee, associate professor of comparative literature, launched a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund translation of Russian science fiction spanning the revolution to the 1990s.
Assistant professor of English Mukoma Wa Ngugi discusses the work in his second collection of poetry, "Logotherapy," as "playful and personal" as well as political.
Cornell's "Freedom on the Move" project will compile all 18th and 19th century North American runaway slave advertisements into a collaborative database of information.
Maureen Quilligan, the Department of English’s M.H. Abrams Distinguished Visiting Professor, will present “When Women Ruled the World: the Synergies of Female Sovereignty in the Renaissance” Nov. 5.
More than 500 middle and high school students from across New York gathered at Cornell’s Ithaca campus June 26-28 to participate in workshops taught by Cornell faculty, staff and graduate students during the annual 4-H Career Explorations conference.
Olúfémi Táíwò, professor of Africana studies, explores problems that African countries are currently facing and the progress of those nations in recent years in his new book, "Africa Must be Modern."
Researchers analyzed the contents of 500 years of European and American food paintings and found indulgent, rare and exotic foods popular in paintings were not available to the average family.
Anne Blackburn is a professor in the Department of Asian Studies and a faculty member in Cornell's South Asia Program, Southeast Asia Program and the Religious Studies Program.
Hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa makes his last official visit to Cornell in his role as a visiting scholar Oct. 26-28, when he'll meet with students on campus and speak at public events in Ithaca.