France is the first county in the world to include a right to an abortion in its constitution, underscoring the role of culture, religion and secular governance in the preservation and progress of individual freedoms, says sociologist Landon Schnabel.
On March 13, the Department of Near Eastern Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences will host “Academic Freedom and Middle East Scholars after Oct. 7,” one of Cornell’s Freedom of Expression theme year events.
In “The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting a Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle,” Klarman Fellow Anna Shechtman combines a history of the crossword highlighting its early women innovators with her memoir of a personal challenge.
Herbie Ziskend
Prof. Ross Brann, the Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Jewish and Near East Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences (front row, far right) organized a tour of the White House for students in the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy's Cornell in Washington program in February.
Students from the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy’s Cornell in Washington program will have an opportunity to observe in person how policymakers contend with Islamophobia and antisemitism at a White House briefing on March 14.
Eva Telesca (first row, black and white stripes) and fellow study abroad students visit the Southern African Institute for Policy and Research.
Panelists who have studied in countries ranging from Denmark to South Africa will speak about their perspectives on gender, sexuality, race and identities that impacted them while abroad during an upcoming global freedom of expression event.
“Beyond the World as Picture: Worlding and Becoming the Whole World [devenir tout le monde],”will examine philosophical accounts of the ways in which we organize the concept of reality.