Twenty-one students from across campus traveled to Japan on a a winter break study tour funded by the Japanese government as a cultural exchange exposing American students to the country.
Enzo Traverso, historian of modern and contemporary Europe at Cornell University, comments on a controversial bill - already passed by the Polish legislature - banning accusations of Polish complicity in Nazi crimes against Poles.
Photographic images, with their immediacy and ability to convey highly complex narratives, had a powerful impact on storytelling in Weimar Germany, said Patrizia McBride, at a colloquium March 5.
Cornell's 146th Graduation Weekend highlights include the Senior Convocation Address by actor Ed Helms, who portrayed the fictional alumnus Andy Bernard '93 on TV's 'The Office,' and President David Skorton's Commencement Address.
Mabel Berezin is professor of sociology at Cornell University and author of “Illiberal Politics in Neoliberal Times: Cultures, Security, and Populism in a New Europe” and “Europe Without Borders.” Berezin says Marine Le Pen – who lost the race for the French presidency yesterday – has established the Front National as France’s opposition party, pitting French against each other.
Benjamin Franco Suarez took a break from his doctoral sociology studies at Cornell in 1972. He finished his study of fertility behavior of Bolivian Aymara women this year at age 90.
Art historian Terry Smith of the University of Pittsburgh will present a talk on contemporary art, past to future, April 26 at 4:30 p.m. at Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall. (April 18, 2011)
Events on campus this week include martial arts in theory and practice, a grand tour of Rome at the Johnson Museum, and 'Faust' with live musical accompaniment Halloween night in Sage Chapel. (Oct. 25, 2012)
Events this week include the Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Pi Day, a Science Cabaret on insects in pop culture, a reading by poet Gjertrud Schnackenberg and Union Days at the ILR School.
Four finalists have been named in the search for a new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The candidates, who all have ties to the college, will be on campus the weeks of March 4 and 11.
