Martha E. Pollack plumbed the depths of Cornell history and spoke to current times in her inaugural address Aug. 25, following her installation as the university’s 14th president.
Jeffrey Masten of Northwestern University delivers the annual Paul Gottschalk Memorial Lecture Oct. 27, on "Christopher Marlowe’s Queer Reformations: Heresy, Theory, Book History."
Austin Bunn, assistant professor in performing and media arts, has written a short story collection, "The Brink," that deals with "world-shattering" changes.
"The Disinformation Age: The Collapse of Liberal Democracy in the United States" finds disinformation intensified in 1980, when Ronald Reagan's election triggered economic inequality.
Jane Juffer, English professor and director of undergraduate studies in the Program of Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies, says the episode suggests that identity might not matter as much to children as having a safe space to express themselves.
Patrick Braga '17 spent a little more than a year working on his chamber opera, "La Tricotea (Opus 25)," which will premiere Dec. 3 with 16 student vocalists and instrumentalists.
Event this week include two chances to see the Cat Video Festival at Cornell Cinema, a young person's concert, readings of new plays from Egypt, and a concert by Irish singer Karan Casey.
On Feb. 22, the College of Arts and Sciences brought together faculty working on philosophy of mind in a Big Ideas panel, part of the New Century for the Humanities celebration.
Activist, theologian, musician and public intellectual Rev. Osagyefo Sekou will lecture on "The Task of the Artist in the Time of Monsters," Jan. 30 at 4:45 pm in 142 Goldwin Smith Hall.
Award-winning author and literature scholar Seth Lerer, a visiting professor at Cornell this fall, will give the 2016 M.H. Abrams Lecture, Oct. 20 in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.
