Events this week include J.P. Sniadecki's new film on trains and transformation in China, book talks on Project Puffin and renewing cities after natural disaster, and Cayuga's Waiters' Spring Fever.
In a new book about Babylonian laborers of the 14th and 13th centuries, B.C., assistant professor Jonathan Tenney asserts that whether they were slaves or not, they lived in nuclear families. (Jan. 5, 2012)
Postcolonial theorist Leela Gandhi delivered a range of approaches to ethics March 30 in Goldwin Smith Hall, in the inaugural talk in the College of Arts and Sciences' Humanities Lecture Series.
A new series of courses, to be co-taught by faculty and Johnson Museum educators and curators, will use the museum's collections and Cornell resources to engage students and new faculty in connecting research with practice.
A gift from the estate of architect Edgar Tafel, a member of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Fellowship, will establish an endowed professorship in architecture and a lecture series in his name. (June 16, 2011)
Events this week include a legal debate on voting rights, a Cornell astronomy-themed family night at the Museum of the Earth, a classic horror film in Sage Chapel and "Sweeney Todd" in Risley Theatre.
Puppets used in the Awaji Puppet Theater performances Feb. 24-25 on campus are used in Japan in religious rites and other rituals, according to Professor Jane Marie Law. (March 2, 2009)
Fourteen prominent women from 13 countries toured the Law School March 15 and forged ties with faculty leaders of the Avon Global Center for Women and Justice. (March 17, 2010)
Fiction writers Lydia Peelle '00 and Rattawut Lapcharoensap '01 are winners of 2010 Whiting Writers' Awards, a prestigious $50,000 award given to up-and-coming writers of poetry, fiction and nonfiction. (Nov. 2, 2010)