Events this week include Indonesian culture and gamelan music at Indo Night; South Asian dance at Pao Bhangra; and a new documentary from environmental artist Andy Goldsworthy.
Simone Pinet in the Department of Romance Studies will research medieval Spanish literature with a 2010 Latin American and Caribbean Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. (June 15, 2010)
A.E. Stallings, award-winning poet and translator, will present three lectures, Oct. 15, 17 and 18, as one of this year's Messenger lecturers. (Oct. 4, 2012)
Assistant professor of music Joseph Lin has been selected to join the Juilliard String Quartet as first violinist. He also will join the Juilliard School of Music faculty in fall 2011. (Oct. 26, 2010)
The new book by anthropologist Marina Welker is an ethnographic study of the Denver-based Newmont Mining Corp. and its Batu Hijau Copper and Gold Mine in Sumbawa, Indonesia.
In his new history of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, historian Fredrik Logevall draws on new sources to tell the story of disastrous foreign policy decisions. (Sept. 28, 2012)
Students drew from Cornell's photography and textile collections to curate exhibitions as they developed research, critical thinking and writing skills in a pair of first-year writing seminars.
A Feb. 25 concert in Bailey Hall will celebrate the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and conductor Karel Husa, who taught composition at Cornell from 1954 to 1992.
An open symposium on ancient Iraq to honor David Owen, professor of ancient Near Eastern and Judaic studies, is slated for Oct. 29, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the A.D. White House. (Oct. 18, 2010)