Assistant professor of music Ariana Kim found inspiration among a group of refugees and asylum seekers in Italy for her CCA Biennial arts and empathy project, to be presented on campus April 29.
Architects Jacques Herzog and Peter Eisenman ’54, B.Arch. ’55, will visit campus to discuss their work Sept. 10-11 as part of the 2013 Preston H. Thomas Memorial Lecture Series and Symposium in Milstein Hall.
National Endowment for the Humanities Chair William Adams spoke on the past and future of the humanities in Klarman Hall Feb. 24. He said this is a moment of increasing pressure for the field.
The Common Ground writing seminar includes a partnership with Boynton Middle School that helps Cornell students see that their community extends beyond campus and helps Boynton students see possibilities beyond high school.
Four generations of punk luminaries will gather at Cornell Nov. 1-5 for a weeklong celebration of the cultural, political and historical impact of punk.
Cornell will mark the launch of its access to the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archives with a talk by columnist and Rwandan genocide expert Philip Gourevitch '86, Nov. 3.
Jonathan Boyarin, director of the Jewish Studies Program, and Kim Haines-Eitzen, incoming director of the Religious Studies Program, discussed "Jewish Studies at Cornell, Today and Tomorrow."
The 2015 Atkinson Forum in American Studies, Oct. 16-17, explores music spanning continents and centuries that signifies cultural tradition and identity in contemporary Mexican-American communities.
Panelists from across the political spectrum spoke passionately about immigration and incarceration reform Sept. 26 at Educate the Vote, a campus discussion preceding the first presidential debate.