Events this week include a Science Cabaret program on hard cider and flavor chemistry, "Tarnation" director Jonathan Caouette, and visiting scholar Afrika Bambaataa playing vinyl from his archive.
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Tretheway read from her work, including 'Native Guard,' at the Robert Chasen Memorial Poetry Reading Feb. 25 in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium. (March 4, 2010)
In a recent lecture, Brett de Bary cited texts and translations of Japanese author Tawada Yoko, whose works deal with the arbitrary nature of cultural boundaries in differentiating language and words. (March 4, 2010)
Humanists and scientists discussed sustainability, social movements, resource costs, environmental catastrophe and other issues at a Nov. 11 forum, 'Climate Change, Critical Thought, Design.' (Nov. 16, 2011)
At an event April 1 at Cornell Library, Peter Katzenstein spoke on 'Europe in the World,' and winners of a student competition to create academic projects on European identities were announced.
The conference 'Literature and Criticism in the Public Sphere,' April 29-30 on campus was in honor of Professor Peter Hohendahl, who has announced his retirement. (May 5, 2011)
Africana and English faculty member Carol Boyce Davies has received an award from the Association of Black Women Historians for her historical biography of radical intellectual Claudia Jones. (Oct. 8, 2008)
Cornell University Library's Hip Hop Collection has recently acquired several collections of graffiti art, photography and other materials, to be featured in an exhibition opening April 4.
Hip-hop pioneers return to Ithaca April 4-7 for the opening of the Cornell Hip Hop Collection’s first major exhibition and a community-wide celebration of 40 years of hip-hop culture.