The initiative, a project of the Cornell Institute for European Studies, will provide a multidisciplinary platform for the study of the Ottoman Empire. Inaugural events begin March 14.
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.
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.
The Luce Scholars Program, aimed at increasing awareness of Asia among future leaders in American society, provides stipends and placement in one-year internships in Asia.
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."
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.