The Department of Performing and Media Arts will stage one of William Shakespeare’s earliest and bloodiest plays Jan. 31 to Feb. 8 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.
Events this week include a film by Bobbito García on hip-hop, basketball and sneaker culture; a talk on conserving falcons in India; Jill Frank on reading Plato's "Republic"; foreign films at Cornell Cinema; and a reading by Creative Writing Program alumni.
Pioneering photographer of lesbian erotica Honey Lee Cottrell, who died recently, has given her papers to the Cornell University Library Human Sexuality Collection.
Cornell professor N'Dri Assié-Lumumba has been elected vice president of the Comparative and International Education Society for 2013-14 and will assume the society's presidency in 2015-16.
Constitutional scholars – Michael Klarman and Michael Dorf – offed their thoughts on the history of the U.S. Constitution at a panel during the May 26 Klarman Hall dedication.
Research presented at the humanities undergraduate showcase April 23 tackled the linguistics of lying, the architecture of Rio de Janeiro and violence against native Alaskan women, among other things.
Sean Patev, a graduate student in the field of plant pathology, is bringing his 3-D printer to Cornell University library events this fall as the library investigates installing "maker spaces" in several campus locations.
New research from a Cornell-led team reveals variations in the radiocarbon cycle diverging from the standard calibration curve used to achieve precise radiocarbon dating in archaeological and historical research.