The 1940’s saw Nazi concentration camps, the atomic bomb, and the U.S. invasion of South Korea: a pivotal era by any yardstick. In his new book, “Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s,” George Hutchinson asks how these epochal moments resonated in literary culture, and how artists brought shape and meaning to the world in the wake of such overwhelming events.
Yuhua Ding, a doctoral candidate in history of art, has curated an exhibition currently on view at the Johnson Museum of Art entitled “Debating Art: Chinese Intellectuals at the Crossroads.”
Arts & Sciences faculty will participate in this year’s Community Arts Partnership’s Spring Writes Literary Festival, taking place in downtown Ithaca May 3-6. The festival features literary-themed events, including panels and workshops geared towards emerging and established writers, as well as events for the general public such as readings, performances, play readings, and performances. This is the festival’s ninth year showcasing Finger Lakes Region writers.
From high-speed financial networks to social media; from viruses to terrorism, networks lie at the heart of what is new in our current era. On Wednesday, April 25, Cornell Media Studies presents “Critical Data Studies: The Case of Proxy Politics," a talk by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Professor of Modern Culture & Media at Brown University examining how the powerful concept of the “network” resonates across all disciplines. The 4:30 pm talk will take place in the Guerlac Room, A.D.
A professor from the University of Pennsylvania will visit campus April 19 to examine how writer Zora Neale Hurston’s work can be used to look at black life today.
How does “the people” appear in public life? This question will be examined in this year’s Society for the Humanities Annual Invitational Lecture on Wed., April 18. Political theorist Jason Frank will speak on “The People as Popular Manifestation" at 4:30 p.m., in Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall. A reception in A.D. White House will follow; the events are free and the public is invited.
Films by Midi Z (Chao Te-yin), a Myanmar-born Taiwanese director, will be featured in a series at Cornell Cinema in April. “Midi Z Retrospective: Homecoming Trilogy” will screen Midi Z’s Homecoming Trilogy: "Return to Burma" (2011), "Poor Folk" (2012), and "Ice Poison" (2014), together with an experimental short, "Palace on the Sea" (2014), showing on April 16, 23, and 30, respectively.
Students in the Cornell In Washington program had the chance to learn about how science is incorporated – or not – into the policymaking process during a March 23 visit to the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C.
The Association of Graduates in Theatre is collaborating with The History Center of Tompkins County and Ithaca’s Civic Ensemble to present a staged reading of “The Loneliness Project” April 19-21.The documentary was co-written and co-directed by Cornell doctoral candidate Caitlin Kane, along with colleagues Kelli Simpkins, Reed Motz, Al Evangelista and Patrick Andrews and uses testimony to document the LGBTQIA+ activist history in Chicago.
The Department of Science & Technology Studies will host Dr. Mary Bassett, the New York City public health commissioner, for its annual Nordlander Lecture on April 23.Bassett’s talk, “Structural Racism and Health: From Evidence to Action,” will take place at 3:30 p.m. in the Carrier Ballroom of the Statler Hotel on campus and will be followed by a reception. The talk is free and open to the public.
Ana Teresa Fernández, an artist whose public art, paintings, and films explore the intersections of geopolitical borders and boundaries of identity will visit campus April 25 for a lecture, “Magic Informalism: [re]drawing solutions to alternative truths.”
In what seems to be a new age of populism, what does history tell us about elites and the will of the masses? Public intellectual and renowned military historian Victor Davis Hanson will address these issues in his talk, “Populist Revolt: Everything Old is New Again,” April 23 at 5:15 pm in Cornell’s Bio-Tech Building, G10
Professor Alejandro Madrid's book includes essays about experimental practices in Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Cuba, Costa Rica and Colombia and among Latinos in the United States
A memorial commemoration for the late Theodore J. Lowi, the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions Emeritus, will be held Saturday, April 21, in the chapel at Anabel Taylor Hall. “Theodore J. Lowi: Celebrating A Half Century at Cornell,” from 4:30 to 6 p.m., will be followed by a reception in the Founders Room in Anabel Taylor Hall. Lowi died in 2017 at the age of 85.
Poet Ishion Hutchinson, assistant professor of English, and novelist Emily Fridlund, visiting scholar in the Department of English, have each received Literature Awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The awards will be presented in New York City at the Academy’s annual Ceremonial in May.
Environmental policy guided by science saves lives, money, and ecosystems. So reports a team of eleven senior researchers in Environmental Science and Policy. Using air pollution in the United States as a case study, they highlight the success of cleanup strategies backed by long-term environmental monitoring.
The women, peace, and security agenda has been at the forefront of international politics over the past decade. The United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations has been integrating women into peacekeeping missions for nearly two decades. To what extent have peacekeeping operations achieved gender equality both within the organization and in host countries? In a “Chats in the Stacks” talk at Olin Library on Feb.
On April 11, political theorist Eleni Varikas will speak on “The Colonial Genealogies of Fascisms in Europe" as part of the 2018 Institute for Comparative Modernities (ICM) New Conversations Series. The talk, at 4:45 pm in G22 Goldwin Smith Hall, is free and the public is invited.
Scholars in the new interdisciplinary field of environmental humanities argue that climate change, water security, environmental justice and other such challenges can’t be solved purely by economic and scientific solutions: Human culture is implicated in ecological conditions.The Spring 2018 Environmental Humanities Lecture Series will bring to campus two leading scholars in the field. All talks in the series are free and open to the public.
Leigh Gallagher said memorable classes focused on French literature, psychology, history and a treasure trove of English classes on Chaucer, Milton, Dreiser and Faulkner.
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Jamila Michener, assistant professor of government, was recently awarded The 2018 Early Career Award by the Midwest Women’s Caucus for Political Sciences. The annual award recognizes a female faculty member’s achievements in research and her contributions to political science.
Mitchell Duneier from Princeton will visit campus for a 4:30 p.m. talk April 11 about his book, "Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, The History of an Idea." The talk will take place in Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium in Klarman Hall.
Staff and faculty from departments and programs in the College of Arts & Sciences will offer a festive majors and experiential learning fair from 3:30-5:30 p.m. April 12 in the Groos Family Atrium in Klarman Hall.
Two Cornell students were chosen to participate in the West Point National Conference on Ethics in America last month based on essays they submitted and a recommendation from Cornell’s Program on Ethics & Public Life.
In a talk on “Gestural Communication and Pantomime in Great Apes” March 6 in Cornell's Goldwin Smith Hall, evolutionary anthropologist Itai Roffman from the University of Haifa and three Cornell faculty respondents explored the implications of the latest findings on primate culture and communication.
How do plants “know” it is time to flower? A new study uncovers exactly where a key protein forms before it triggers the flowering process in plants.Until now, no one has pinpointed which cells produce the small protein, called Flowering Locus T (FT). The study also points to an extensive intercellular signaling system that regulates FT production.
UNITED NATIONS, New York City — A diverse group of undergraduates, graduate students, academic fellows and staff from Cornell took a trip to the city last month to tour the United Nations, learn more about disarmament issues and talk about career prospects with the global organization.
Filiz Garip, professor of sociology, was awarded the Mirra Komarovsky Best Book Award for her work, “On the Move: Changing Mechanisms of Mexico-US Migration.” The award, given by the Eastern Sociological Society, honors the memory of Mirra Komarovsky, a pioneer in the sociology of gender.
Fred Moten, professor of performance studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and professor at the University of California-Riverside, will deliver the 2018 Invited Society Scholar Lecture at 4:30 p.m. March 21 in Lewis Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall. The subject of Moten’s lecture will be “The Gift of Corruption.” The lecture is free and open to the public.
The winning stage and screenplays from this year’s Heermans-McCalmon Writing Competition will be showcased Friday, March 23, at 4:30 p.m. in the Class of ’56 Dance Theatre at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.
Professional athletes have recently faced increasing criticism when they engage in political discourse, even though athletes have long had a history of political engagement. Dave Zirin, award winning sports editor for The Nation, will deliver the Daniel W. Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture on “The History of the Activist Athlete” March 22 at 4:45 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Einstein predicted black holes and gravitational waves – bizarre deviations from Newton’s theory of gravity – but it took almost a century before experiments proved him right. Those experimenters won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, but why do gravitational waves matter? And why is the recent detection of waves from colliding neutron stars causing such a stir?
