The 17th annual Soup & Hope speaker series returns to Sage Chapel on Jan. 25, featuring six Cornell staff, faculty and student storytellers sharing their experiences of overcoming life’s challenges while attendees enjoy a free meal of soup and bread.
Students from Cornell, Binghamton and Stony Brook universities came together to celebrate the contributions they made to improve local, regional and international communities during a showcase event on April 19 in the College of Human Ecology’s Commons.
Panelists who have studied in countries ranging from Denmark to Singapore will speak about their perspectives on gender, sexuality, race and identities that impacted them while abroad during an upcoming global freedom of expression event.
In “The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting a Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle,” media scholar Anna Shechtman combines a history of the crossword highlighting its early women innovators with her memoir of a personal challenge.
Professor of Africana studies Riché Richardson says reclaiming country music for the Black community and rebranding the genre as an inclusive space are triumphs of Beyoncé’s new album, “Cowboy Carter.”
NPR’s David Folkenflik ’91, the Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist in the College of Arts and Sciences, will moderate a panel of noted journalists and faculty to discuss how the news media is navigating an era of political polarization amid shrinking newsrooms.