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‘Another Body’ documentary exposes harm of deepfake technology

1/25/2024 by : Kina Viola , A&S Communications

The film focuses on the gendered implications of deepfake technology; a free screening Feb. 7 will be presented by the Milstein Program in the College of Arts and Sciences, partnering with Cornell Cinema.

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Family abolition focus of upcoming lecture

2/21/2023 by : Kina Viola , A&S Communications

Sophie Lewis will offer a deep dive into the history of radical movements and explore family abolition, which she characterizes as a turning away from the privatization of care.

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Dianne Harris to deliver Future of the Humanities Lecture

3/16/2022 by : Kina Viola , Cornell Chronicle

“Access and the 21st Century University,” March 23, will focus on the meaning of "access" to liberal arts education.

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Sianne Ngai to give Culler lecture on inhabiting error

2/28/2022 by : Kina Viola , Cornell Chronicle

Sianne Ngai, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English at the University of Chicago, will explore this question wrong ways of thinking in this Society for the Humanities event March 9.

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Kim Gallon to deliver lecture on Black pandemic deaths data

2/1/2022 by : Kina Viola , Cornell Chronicle

Kim Gallon, associate professor of history at Purdue University, will demonstrate how computational humanities offers an opportunity to redefine “crisis” through the Black American experience and turn it into a defining moment for the recovery and reimagination of Black humanity.

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Prof. to speak on Black print culture and democracy

11/18/2021 by : Kina Viola , Society for the Humanities

At this year’s Invitational Lecture for the Society for the Humanities, “Defining Democracy: How Black Print Culture Shaped America, Then and Now,” associate professor of literatures in English Derrick Spires will counter the racist notion that little to no Black print culture existed before the Civil War.

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Parham to deliver lecture on African American Digital Humanities

4/20/2021 by : Kina Viola , Cornell Chronicle

Parham’s Digital Humanities Lecture, set to take place online April 28, will discuss what might be made possible at the intersection between Black expressive traditions, digital humanities, and electronic literature, with an eye to describing the chain of interactions that link theory to practice.

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Rooks to give talk on ‘underside’ of cannabis legalization

2/14/2020 by : Kina Viola , Society for the Humanities

This talk has been cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date.

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Political theorist, feminist scholar to lecture Feb. 18

2/4/2020 by : Kina Viola

Image provided/ This image is based on archived work at maydayrooms.org from the Wages for Housework Campaign, a feminist movement of the 1970s.

In the 1970s, what Marx and Engel satirized as the most “infamous proposal of the communists,” the abolition of the family, became the most scandalous demand of feminists.  

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Anthropologists to speak on climate change

11/5/2019 by : Kina Viola , Society for the Humanities

How can we illustrate the gravity of climate change? Is it possible to grasp such a loss? Rice University anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer, working to humanize the abstract concept of climate change and provide opportunities for dialogue, will deliver a free public lecture, “Of Flood and Ice,” on Wednesday Nov. 13 at 4:30 p.m. at the A.D. White House.

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Conference spotlights ‘Energy Humanities’

10/10/2019 by : Kina Viola , Society for the Humanities

On the brink of ecological collapse, how do we think, write and speak about the various forms of energy we encounter? The Society for the Humanities’ annual fall conference, Oct. 18 and 19, will examine the human relationship to energy in its myriad forms.