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)
Students presented research in the humanities at a forum April 16, with projects ranging from local archaeology to art, architecture, service-learning and philosophy.
The students waiting for their Bodies at the Border class to begin chatted enthusiastically about a movie they'd just seen, and the Cornell professor asked which film. The movie watchers were almost 8,000 miles away.
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)
A conference on campus Oct. 3-4, “Literary Theory at Cornell: A Celebration of Jonathan Culler and His Students," brought Culler's former students back to campus to reflect on his impact.
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)
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)