Faculty, students and staff gathered March 12 to discuss the recent acts of heritage destruction in northern Iraq by Islamic State group and what, if any, response would be appropriate.
“Expanded Communities and Posthumanity” will feature scholars from a wide range of disciplines exploring the field of posthumanities on campus Nov. 5-6.
“Poetry & Pastry: an elegant soiree of Near Eastern & New York Poetry" on April 16 will combine literature, art, pastry and the launch of a book of poetry. The event will be held at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.
“Firing the Canon,” a College of Arts and Sciences sesquicentennial exhibit, explores how Cornell’s prized collection of plaster casts was “embraced, defaced and dethroned.”
Associate professor of English Ernesto Quiñonez discussed authors using similar themes and characters in "The Fingerprints of Influence," a talk in the Creative Writing Program's "In A Word" series.
Cornell professors Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò and Elizabeth Anker explored "Humanitarianism and its Discontents" in Klarman Hall's Groos Family Atrium on April 25.
Stephen Cole, who helped establish one of the nation’s first master’s programs in acting at Cornell in the 1960s and whose students included Jimmy Smits and Christopher Reeve, has died.
The Prudence Risley Residential College for the Creative and Performing Arts celebrates its 100th anniversary with a series of centennial events Nov. 21-24.