The State of Indonesian Studies Conference on campus, April 28-29, brought scholars together to ponder the status and future of scholarships on Indonesia. (May 4, 2011)
Events on campus this week include a discussion of women and equality; Asia Night; professor Harry Greene on field biology; "Wonder Women" author Debora Spar and baroque orchestra Tempesta di Mare.
The Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts will present a local dance festival, a new performance series and four mainstage plays in 2010-11. Subscriptions are available until Sept. 24. (May 18, 2010)
Assistant professor of English Mukoma Wa Ngugi's second crime novel, “Black Star Nairobi,” has the 2007-08 Kenyan presidential election season as a backdrop.
Sherman Cochran, the Hu Shih Professor of Chinese History Emeritus, presented his case that Hu Shih, Class of 1914, is the greatest Cornelian in a Nov. 20 talk on campus.
A special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly - 'Sovereignty, Indigeneity and the Law' - co-edited by Professor Eric Cheyfitz, has won a best special issue of the year award. (Jan. 23, 2012)
Isaac Kramnick, the Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government, is retiring after 43 years at Cornell. Friends, colleagues and many former students packed the A.D. White House May 30 to attend panels on his scholarship, teaching and contributions to Cornell.
