Eighteen ongoing faculty research projects, ranging from Greek archaeology to studies in early and contemporary Islam and modernist poetry, have been awarded grants by the Society for the Humanities.
Events on campus this week include music of the Irish-American experience from Solas, a book talk on Abraham Lincoln's rhetorical power, a Glee Club collaborative concert and new foreign films.
Events this week include a one-day exhibit of three historic Lincoln documents at Cornell; a concert exploring the Thirty Years’ War, and documentaries at Cornell Cinema and Cinemapolis.
Events on campus include a Halloween party at Cornell Cinema, the Cornell University Chorus Twilight Concert, book talks, and a lecture by author and Paris Review editor Philip Gourevitch '83.
Musician Wynton Marsalis, artist Xu Bing, philosopher Bruno Latour, political scholar Theda Skocpol and astrophysicist David Stevenson, Ph.D. ’76, are Cornell's newest A.D. White Professors-at-Large.
In an interview April 26, Hunter R. Rawlings III, Cornell president emeritus and professor emeritus of classics, discussed "pinch-hitting" as interim president and some of the challenges ahead for Cornell and higher education.
The literary theory journal diacritics, founded at Cornell in 1971, enters its 40th year of publication with a complete redesign, and donation of its archives to Cornell University Library. (Sept. 27, 2012)
At the 2011 Frederick C. Wood lecture, April 6, Bishop Gene Robinson talked about how a person who is lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered can also be a person of faith. (April 7, 2011)
Visiting and faculty fellows and leading scholars in sound studies will take part in a conference, 'Sounding Cultures: From Performance to Politics,' Oct. 14-15 at the A.D. White House. (Oct. 13, 2011)