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Artist Roger Shimomura's "Classmates," from "Minidoka on My Mind" at the Johnson Museum. Shimomura talks about his work Sept. 19 at the museum.

Farm field day

The annual Field Day at Dilmun Hill Student Farm and MacDaniel’s Nut Grove is Friday, Sept. 13, from 4 to 6 p.m.

Visitors can learn about perennial polycultures at a new permaculture garden and sample food made with vegetables grown on the farm; bring plates, utensils and cups.

Other activities include salsa making, mushroom inoculation workshops, tomato tasting, T-shirt printing and tours of the farm and the nut grove, both located near campus. Co-sponsored by the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station and the Department of Horticulture.

Information, directions: http://cuaes.cornell.edu/cals/cuaes/ag-operations/dilmun-hill/

Memory and self

Qi Wang examines controversial issues in current psychological research into memory in her new book, “The Autobiographical Self in Time and Culture.” She will discuss her research in a “Chats in the Stacks” book talk Sept. 17 at 4 p.m. in 160 Mann Library. Free.

Tracing the developmental, social, cultural and historical origins of the autobiographical self – the self made of memories of our past – Wang shows that our memories and our selves are conditioned and influenced by larger social, political and economic forces. She analyzes everyday family storytelling, autobiographical writings in Western and Chinese literature, memory data from controlled laboratory experiments and personal narratives on blogs and Facebook.

Wang is director of the Social Cognition Development Laboratory in the Department of Human Development and associate director of Cornell’s East Asia Program. She is regarded as a pre-eminent psychologist in the study of memory and culture.

Light refreshments and a book signing will follow her talk. Information: http://mannlib.cornell.edu/events-exhibits or 607-255-5406.

Study abroad

Cornell Abroad is holding information sessions on campus through Sept. 19, as an introduction to undergraduates interested in studying in Nepal, Japan, Israel, China, Germany and other countries.

The Cornell-Nepal Study Program session is Sept. 16 at 4:45 p.m. in 250 Caldwell Hall. The program, initiated in 1993, is a joint venture with Tribhuvan National University of Nepal, combining class work, research and field work; Nepali language and culture, and community service.

More information: http://www.cuabroad.cornell.edu/

Constitution Day

The Law School will mark Constitution Day with a pair of faculty panels Sept. 17, the 226th anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution. Events will be held in the Moot Court Room, 390 Myron Taylor Hall.

The first panel, at noon, is “The State of the Constitution” with Josh Chafetz, Cornell professor of law; Michael Dorf, Cornell’s Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law; and Richard Thompson Ford, the George E. Osborne Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. Cornell professor of law Chantal Thomas will moderate.

A panel on “The Constitution in the World” begins at 3:45 p.m., with Cornell associate professor of English Liz Anker; Laura Underkuffler, the J. DuPratt White Professor of Law at Cornell and Law School associate dean for academic affairs; and Noah Feldman, the Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard University. Cornell associate professor of law Aziz Rana is the moderator.

To reserve a seat, RSVP to Liz Flint at es232@cornell.edu by Friday, Sept. 13.

Artist’s talk

Japanese-American artist Roger Shimomura discusses his work – inspired by his and his family’s experiences in a WWII internment camp in Idaho – in a free artist’s talk, Thursday, Sept. 19, at 5:15 p.m. at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.

His exhibition of paintings, “Minidoka on My Mind” (on display through Dec. 22), is part of a larger body of work engaging with sociopolitical issues of Asian-American experience. The Minidoka series was featured in New Student Reading Project programming at the museum during Orientation week.

The museum hosts a public discussion of Shimomura’s art in conjunction with the campus and community reading of “When the Emperor Was Divine,” Sunday, Sept. 22 at 2 p.m. Information: http://museum.cornell.edu

Personal ‘Touch’

Artist Shelly Silver ’79, B.F.A. ’80, will visit campus Sept. 19 to give a lecture and present one of her films.

Her lecture, “Watch,” is at 5:15 p.m. in Milstein Auditorium. She introduces a screening of her latest work, “Touch,” at 7:15 p.m. in Willard Straight Theatre. Using recent footage and archival still photos, “Touch” is a cross-cultural exploration of present-day Chinatown in New York City, as seen by a fictionalized returning émigré.

Since the early ’90s, Silver’s work in installation, film, video and photography has combined documentary and fiction to comment on how we construct personal relationships within society. Her work has been exhibited and broadcast across the United States, Europe and Asia.

Silver is an associate professor and chair of visual arts at the Columbia University School of the Arts. She studied intellectual history and art at Cornell as a College Scholar.

Co-sponsored by Cornell Cinema and the Department of Art.

Museum celebration

After a public reception for its fall exhibitions Friday, Sept. 20, from 5-7 p.m., the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art stays open to throw a 40th anniversary celebration with live performances from 7-10 p.m., followed by a student dance party until midnight. Information: museum.cornell.edu/calendar/40th-celebration.html

New exhibitions on display include “Laylah Ali: The Greenheads Series,” opening Sept. 14. Continuing: “Roger Shimomura: Minidoka on My Mind,” “Encountering the Floating World: Ukiyo-e and the West” and “Vietnamese Ceramics from the Menke Collection,” all through Dec. 22; and Leo Villareal’s ongoing “Cosmos” installation above the Mallin Sculpture Court.

Admission is free.

Schwartz Center season

“Body Against Body,” performed by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane dance company, opens the fall season at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts Sept. 28 at 7:30 p.m.

The season features dance, films, drama and collaborative works by students and faculty in performing and media arts. Fall highlights also include the 10-Minute Play Fest, Oct. 4-5; “Gruesome Playground Injuries,” Nov. 1-3, a 2011 play by Rajiv Joseph, directed by Sarah K. Chalmers in the Guest Director Series; Sam Shepard’s “A Lie of the Mind,” Nov. 15-16 and 22-23; the Centrally Isolated Film Festival, Nov. 22-23; and the Fall Dance Concert, Dec. 5-7. Most performances are at 7:30 p.m.

Subscription packages and single tickets are available at the box office, 430 College Ave.; in person 12:30-4 p.m. weekdays; by calling 607-254-2787 (254-ARTS); or online at schwartztickets.com

Volunteer ushers are needed for fall shows; contact the box office or email Julie Tibbits at jlt3@cornell.edu.