The Cornell Contemporary China Initiative will host its last speaker of the fall semester, Basile Zimmermann, assistant professor of Chinese studies at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, Nov. 16.
“Black Lives Matter” is the theme of a community celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day Jan. 18 in Ithaca, and founders of the Black Lives Matter movement will come to Cornell Feb. 3 for the 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture.
This “Rise and Fall of ‘Civilization’” class, taught by Professor Adam T. Smith, examines traditional archaeological topics, partly by looking at our current civilization and imagining the Cornell campus 1,000 years from now.
Events on campus this week include 'Surrealism and Magic' at the Johnson Museum; film series on blaxploitation and robots; free concerts and a panel on Latinos and Latinas at Cornell.
The Jeffrey S. Lehman Fund for Scholarly Exchange with China has made grants to Cornell faculty members and graduate students to support collaborative research projects.
Award-winning Jamaican historical novelist and educator Marlon James, author of “A Brief History of Seven Killings,” will read from and discusses his work Oct. 12 in Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall.
The College of Human Ecology welcomes eight new faculty members this year whose work addresses race, ethnicity, and the nature, persistence and consequences of inequality – under a college-wide faculty cohort hiring initiative called Pathways to Social Justice.
A project to train graduate teaching assistants in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields to increase their use of active-learning classroom strategies has received a grant from the Association of American Universities.
Reuben A. Munday ’69, MPS ’74, and Cheryl Casselberry Munday ’72 have endowed a distinguished annual lectureship at Cornell’s Africana Studies and Research Center.