The Africana Studies and Research Center will host a 40th anniversary conference, 'Looking Back/Moving Forward: The Future of Africana/Black Studies,' April 15-17. (April 8, 2010)
Near Eastern studies professor Kim Haines-Eitzen explores how natural desert sounds influenced monastic texts, from tropes like the wind as God's voice to demons sounding like thunder.
More than 200 books published by the Negro Universities Press, reprinting rare historical materials on the black experience, have been donated to the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library.
The College of Architecture, Art and Planning’s New York City program has moved into a new space in the Standard Oil Building, a historic landmark overlooking lower Manhattan.
Student fashion designers are sketching and making patterns, finding and fitting models, and cutting and sewing fabrics for the 31st Cornell Fashion Collective runway show, Saturday, April 11 at 8 p.m. in Barton Hall.
"A Needle Woman," artist Kimsooja's project with materials scientists that was displayed on the Arts Quad in the Cornell Council for the Arts Biennial, is the subject of a new "Art21" documentary.
Original dance work by student, alumni and faculty choreographers, along with community members and visiting artists, will be featured March 5-13 in the 2012 Locally Grown Dance Festival.
Katherine Howe writes about young women under pressure with a parallel story of an accuser at the Salem witch trials in her first young adult novel, “Conversion,” inspired by actual events.
The Classical Works Knowledge Base, developed by Cornell University Library and the Department of Classics, is a boon to scholars in citing and accessing primary sources among Greek and Latin texts. (Sept. 12, 2012)