Feminist author and editor Susie Bright delivered her Sexual State of the Union Jan. 23, in which she advocated that parents let their children be themselves.
Associate professor of English Dagmawi Woubshet finds a "poetics of compounding loss" among mourners responding to AIDS deaths in the U.S. and Ethiopia in his new book, "The Calendar of Loss."
The Cornell Council for the Arts is accepting applications for its next grant cycle, to support new creative projects during fall 2013 and spring 2014. Online applications are due March 14.
Right-wing parties in Europe, like France's National Front, are taking advantage of anti-Muslim sentiment in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris, panelists said Feb. 27.
Events this week include a Laurie Anderson evening at Cornell Cinema; a romp through Shakespeare at the Schwartz Center; 'The Vagina Monologues,' and a book talk on reverie in Victorian novels.
British fashion designer Helen Storey brings some of her innovative work in art and science to campus Sept. 12-24 as the Department of Fiber Science and Apparel Design's first designer-in-residence.
In his new book, "The Death of Caesar: The Story of History’s Most Famous Assassination," Barry Strauss says Caesar's propensity for taking risks led him to the Roman Senate on the Ides of March, the day of his assassination.
The relationship between law enforcement and minority communities was viewed through the lens of hip-hop music at a panel discussion in Ithaca Feb. 20, "WOOP WOOP! That's the Sound of da Police!"
Events this week include the annual Biotech Open House, Community Day at Museum of the Earth and Cayuga Nature Center, and an exhibition on falconry at Mann Library.
Takuma Itoh, Christopher Stark and Eric Nathan, Ph.D. students in the field of composition, have been selected to receive American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers young composer awards. (Aug. 24, 2011)