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Forum to examine sustainability and nonhuman primates

Humans share 98.8 percent of their DNA – as well as tool use and systems of communication – with bonobos and chimpanzees. Yet human activity threatens these “next of kin” great apes with extinction. In “Apes and Sustainability,” a forum on Nov.

CNY Humanities Corridor supports humanities collaboration

Cornell has received a $1.5 million endowment from the Central New York Humanities Corridor, thanks to a $3.55 million matching grant from the Mellon Foundation that also funded endowments at Syracuse and Roche

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JAN 23Organizational Meeting for Spring 2019 RUSSA TBA Cou... If you are interested in taking a Russian Language (RUSSA) Course currently listed as TBA please plan to attend this organizational meeting with Slava Paperno, Director of the Russian Language...

FEB 07Hamid Dabashi, “Comparative Modernities: Are We The... Dr. Hamid Dabashi has a healthy dose of suspicion for certain commanding terms of our time—chief among them “secularism” and “modernity.” The reason for his...

FEB 20Talk About Teaching Department of Comparative Literature presents a series of panel discussions over coffee. ...

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Faculty Publication Spotlight: Anindita Banerjee

Newly Released book: "Russian Science Fiction Literature and Cinema", A Critical Reader

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