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Freedom and Free Societies

Talk examines Civil Rights Act’s unintended consequences

11/24/2025 A&S Communications

Legal scholar Gail Heriot will describe a chain of unintended consequences of the Civil Rights Act of 1991 in her talk "Why We Walk on Eggshells," Dec. 8.

Freedom and Free Societies

Talk explores medicine and social justice activism Oct. 6

9/24/2025 A&S Communications

The role social justice advocacy should play in medicine will be examined by Sally Satel, a practicing psychiatrist and lecturer at Yale University School of Medicine, in her talk, “Medicine in the Age of Social Justice Activism.”

Person waits for a COVID test while people wearing medical gear hurry by — Jason Koski/Cornell University Coronavirus testing site at Fischell Band Center in 2020

Public Health

Lessons learned from pandemic successes and failures: a conversation Feb. 20

2/7/2023 A&S Communications

What have we learned about the successes and failures of the policy responses to Covid‑19?

White-haired Aviam wearing a leather cowboy hat, wearing sunglasses and a white t-shirt. — Mordechai Aviam

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Noted archaeologist to speak on new discoveries in Israel in Cornell lecture

10/26/2022 A&S Communications

Israeli archaeologist Mordechai Aviam and his colleagues made headlines by finding possible evidence, near the Sea of Galilee, of the house of St. Peter.

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The Great Separation: Why American Politics Is Coming Apart at the Seams

8/29/2022 A&S Communications

Megan McArdle, opinion columnist for the Washington Post, will discuss increasingly divided American life and politics in a Sept. 14 lecture.