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Marina Rosenfeld 2017 installation "Deathstar" at Portikus Frankfurt.
Music

Experimental music symposium features concerts and speakers

A&S Communications

After Experimental Music, a symposium to explore current perspectives on experimental music studies, will bring scholars, performers, and artist-practitioners from across North America to Cornell University Feb. 8-11. In addition to academic presentations in Lincoln Hall, the symposium will feature two concerts of experimental music. All events are free and open to the public.

Ethics & Public Life

Lecture series examines “The Difficulty of Democracy”

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A semester-long, in-depth series of lectures on “The Difficulty of Democracy: Challenges and Prospects,” hosted by the College of Art and Sciences’ Program on Ethics and Public Life (EPL), features six eminent social scientists and will take place in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, followed by a question-and-answer period.

Comparative Literature

MLA awards honorable mention to book by William Kennedy

William Kennedy, the Avalon Foundation Professor Emeritus in the Humanities in the Department of Comparative Literature was recognized for the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies, awarded by the Modern Language Association.

Performing & Media Arts

New David Feldshuh play has world premiere

A&S Communications

“Dancing with Giants” premiered Feb. 8 and recounts the friendship of three men in the years leading up to WWII.

In Memoriam

Myron Rush, noted Kremlinologist, dies at age 96

Cornell Chronicle

Myron Rush, a Kremlinologist whose careful lexical analysis of public leadership statements determined that Nikita Khrushchev had won the power struggle to succeed Joseph Stalin, died Jan. 8 of kidney failure at his home in Herndon, Virginia. The professor emeritus of government died a week after his 96th birthday.

Teaching excellence

Cornelia Ye Award recognizes teaching assistants Aguillon, Natarajan

Cornell Chronicle

Graduate teaching assistants Stepfanie Aguillon and Aravind Natarajan have received the 2017-18 Cornelia Ye Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.The awards were presented by Julia Thom-Levy, vice provost for academic innovation, Jan. 22 at the Eighth Annual Celebration of Teaching Excellence hosted by the Center for Teaching Innovation (CTI).

Neurobiology & Behavior

Inspired by underwater sounds

Andrew Bass connects his childhood love of the ocean and underweater sounds to his fascination with his research at Cornell University. Hear more about Bass' research in this Cornell Research video.

German Studies

New book explores Alexander Kluge’s literary experiments in futurity

The role of “counterfactual hope” in Alexander Kluge’s work, and his “incomparable dedication to the conjoined causes of survival and happiness,” writes Leslie Adelson, formed much of the inspiration for her new book, “Cosmic Miniatures and the Future Sense: Alexander Kluge's 21st-century Literary Experiments in German Culture and Narrative Form.”

Cornell Adult University

Arts & Sciences faculty offer summer adventures

A&S Communications

Nine current or former Arts & Sciences faculty members have designed and will lead on-campus seminars or workshops this summer through Cornell’s Adult University (CAU).

Music

Ensembles premiere work from undergraduate composers

A&S Communications

Both undergraduate musicians say they've been composing music since middle school.