
Wondering what to read in 2023? A&S faculty offer ideas
A&S faculty offer book and poetry recommendations for the new year.
/news/wondering-what-read-2023-faculty-offer-ideasA&S faculty offer book and poetry recommendations for the new year.
/news/wondering-what-read-2023-faculty-offer-ideasGlobal Cornell will host a town hall in December for additional feedback and announce the new Global Grand Challenge theme in the coming year.
/news/cornell-global-partners-discuss-next-grand-challengeMore than a dozen students are taking part in the Cornell Biennial, which aims to serve as an anchor for the arts at Cornell.
/news/fabric-arts-human-waste-student-biennial-projects-transcend“We want to open a robust dialogue between humanists and scientists around the very notion of ‘thought’ and ‘thinking,."
/news/conference-considers-art-science-thinking-oct-21-22A series of special events, including visits from alumni involved in theatre, film and television, is being planned to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Teatrotaller, a theatre troupe formed to promote Spanish, Latin American and Latino culture.
/news/alumni-return-celebrate-theatre-troupes-30th-anniversary"The Society for the Humanities thought there is no better way to kick off the year of Repair, than to begin at home."
/news/community-read-launches-society-humanities-repair-themeKlarman Fellows pursue research in any discipline in the College, including natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and the creative arts as well as cross-disciplinary fields. The application deadline is October 14.
/news/opens-application-portal-klarman-postdoc-fellowshipsIn a new book, Prof. Timothy Murray illuminates technological improvisation at the intersection of art and politics.
/news/book-views-virtual-real-world-through-new-media-artists-eyesSeed grants, student travel grants and internships totaling $355,000 in the 2021–22 academic year supported international work done by many A&S faculty and students.
/news/einaudi-awards-fund-global-research-and-activitiesThe Department of Comparative Literature has awarded Kun Huang the 2022 Graduate Student Teaching Award, and Praveen Tilakaratne the 2022 Graduate Student Essay Award.
/news/congratulations-years-graduate-prize-winnersCornell faculty and their community partners will tell the stories of local migrant farmworkers, use documentary film to better understand climate change and dispossession, learn how migratory birds are affected by drug trafficking and more.
/news/migrations-grants-fund-worldwide-interdisciplinary-projectsJonathan Mercedes is a comparative literature major.
/news/i-did-not-close-myself-my-potentialNaminata Diabate outlines the movement's tactics and explains how womens' protests helped end the Liberian civil war.
/news/how-did-leymah-gbowees-protests-lead-lasting-peaceWith the theme “Futurities, Uncertain," the fifth Cornell art biennial will feature artworks, installations, and performances.
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Debra Castillo and Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz, recently convened a new working group with support from the CNY Humanities corridor. Under the auspices of Teatrotaller, Debra Castillo is also directing a full length play on gender violence in Latin America.
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/news/planning-program-study-eliana-rozinovOn Cornell’s eighth Giving Day, held March 16, 15,905 alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents and friends from more than 80 countries made gifts totaling a record-breaking $12,268,629.
/news/more-12m-donated-support-students-24-hoursThe journal, which is a review of contemporary criticism, is celebrating with an anniversary blog.
/news/diacritics-journal-turns-50Gifts allow the College to fulfill its mission: preparing students to do the greatest good in the world.
/news/support-arts-sciences-giving-day-march-16Comparative Literature majors are invited to apply for the Edgar Rosenberg Travel Grant to support language study outside of the US during the 2022 calendar year. Professor Rosenberg was a devoted teacher who was passionate about foreign language study, and has generously provided the Department of Comparative Literature with an endowment that...
/news/applications-edgar-rosenberg-travel-grant-due-march-31-2022"These awardees represent the best of what New York's vibrant communities have to offer," said Governor Kathy Hochul.
/news/cornell-cinema-receives-grant-announces-spring-lineupTimothy Murray, professor of comparative literature and literatures in English, has been elected chair of the board of directors of Humanities New York (HNY), a nonprofit humanities council founded in 1975 that supports and advocates for public humanities across the state.
/news/professor-named-chair-state-humanities-organization“It is my hope that ‘Naked Agency’ will reframe the terms of the conversation on defiant disrobing by inviting readers to take seriously the circulation of women’s grievances and hopes and the (mis)use of their bodies’ images in our hyper-visual world.”
/news/naminata-diabate-wins-asa-book-prize-naked-agencyA&S faculty offer book and poetry recommendations for the new year.
/news/what-read-2022-faculty-weighA $5 million alumni gift will help to support doctoral students in humanities fields within the College of Arts & Sciences.
/news/alumni-gift-supports-doctoral-students-humanitiesFive essays that explore how students created publicly-engaged projects are available online.
/news/rural-humanities-projects-explore-nys-past-and-presentGail Holst-Warhaft, Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature and a member of the Graduate Field at Cornell's Department of Music, has recently published her book Nisiotika: Music, Dances, and Bitter-Sweet Songs of the Aegean Islands. The book focuses on the Greek tradition of nisiotika, the music and songs that are played and sung at festivals...
/news/nisiotika-music-dances-and-bitter-sweet-songs-aegean-islandsThe program connects undergraduates in A&S with opportunities to work side by side on research with Cornell faculty from across the College.
/news/nexus-scholars-program-applications-now-openThe Nexus Scholars program will leverage the student-to-faculty ratio and the vibrant research enterprise in A&S to expand opportunities for students, while also enhancing the culture of collaborative scholarship at Cornell.
/news/new-program-expands-undergrad-research-opportunities“We Love We Self Up Here” is a new documentary focused on the complex histories of labor and migration in Trinidad and Tobago.
/news/transdisciplinary-film-explores-trinidad-and-tobagoThis fall, a new group of Innovative Teaching and Learning Award winners are beginning work on projects to enhance student learning environments across Cornell.
/news/reshaping-student-experiences-through-new-innovations-teachingApplications are now being accepted for the third cohort of the Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowships program in the College of Arts and Sciences. The deadline for submission is Oct. 15.
/news/applications-now-open-klarman-postdoc-fellowshipsHannah Cole chose to pursue further study at Cornell due to the freedom to explore interdisciplinary interests through the comparative literature program as well as its faculty.
/news/student-spotlight-hannah-coleResearch supported by the 14 grants ranges from the physics of quantum computing to the design of new musical instruments.
/news/2m-new-frontier-grants-boost-high-impact-researchDuring 2020, Cornell’s Society for the Humanities chose “Afterlives” as its theme for 2021-22. Scholars from all over the world and all around the College of Arts and Sciences responded to the call, resulting in a record number of applications for the Society’s fellowships.
/news/society-humanities-afterlives-theme-draws-record-interestThe program aims to increase diversity in the ranks of faculty in academia.
/news/senior-mellon-mays-fellows-reflect-their-program-experiencesSarah Sachar is a College Scholar, comparative literature & Spanish major.
/news/i-felt-though-i-had-found-poetic-communitySarah Lorgan-Khanyile is a Comparative Literature and Literatures in English major.
/news/cornell-has-empowered-me-be-better-advocate-and-thinkerThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has approved a grant of $1.2 million to extend the Mellon Collaborative Studies in Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities (AUH) interdisciplinary seminar series at Cornell for three years with a focus on social justice.
/news/mellon-grant-boosts-collaborative-projects-equity-social-justiceThe Renaissance Society of America has given William J. Kennedy its Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award, honoring “a lifetime of uncompromising devotion to the highest standard of scholarship accompanied by exceptional achievement in Renaissance studies.”
/news/kennedy-recognized-renaissance-society-americaWhat began as a class project exploring a fraught period of Ithaca history has transformed into a COVID-related comic that Leo Levy ’20, hopes can reach people with a lesson from the past and an accessible message about public health.
/news/alumnus-shares-public-health-messages-through-comic-illustrationsALA Lecture Series – Mar 27On Naked Agency and Open ReadingNaminata DiabateAssociate Professor of Comparative Literature, Cornell UniversitySaturday, March 27, 202111:00 AM EST; London, 3:00 PM; Lagos, 4:00 PM;Johannesburg, 5:00 PM; Nairobi, 6:00PMJoin us on the ALA YouTube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaYYHGM8iraoQF48xeCnMKw...
/news/ala-lecture-series-mar-27-naked-agency-and-open-reading-naminata-diabateAriana Marmora ’11 was a College Scholar with interests in government, philosophy, intellectual history, comparative literature and public service.
/news/college-scholar-graduate-takes-position-local-das-officeREGISTER HEREPlease join Naminata Diabate for a book discussion on Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at 4:00pm to 5:30pmNaminata Diabate is associate professor of comparative literature at Cornell University. With linguistic expertise in Malinké, French, English, Nouchi, Spanish, and Latin, she explores questions of gender, sexuality, and race in Africa...
/news/join-us-naked-agency-genital-cursing-and-biopolitics-africaCognitive Decoloniality: Two Cultures and the Transcultural.Feb 18, 2021, 12:00pm - 2:00pmLaurent Dubreuil (Cornell)Michaela Hulstyn (FSU)Deborah Jenson (Duke)This workshop explores the connections between cognitive science and transcultural literature in the Francophone world. The goal is to imagine new relationships between the "two...
/news/register-workshop-cognative-decolonialityGuangzhou Dream Factory Discussion with Filmmakers Christiane Badgley and Erica Marcus February 19 (Friday), 2021, 3 pm - 4 pm (ET)Register here to join the discussion: https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcqde2qrzIjHNHf41LCGmbsGM1oR1UW-XfC Guangzhou Dream Factory (2016) weaves stories of Africans chasing alluring, yet elusive, “Made...
/news/chasing-dreams-africa-china-discussion-filmmakers-guangzhou-dream-factoryBlack Holes: Race and the Cosmos is a new hybrid course taught by Profs. Parisa Vaziri (Comparative Literature), and Nicholas Battaglia (Astronomy). No prerequisites are required, and the course is open to all undergraduates. Please see the description below and attached poster. For more information, you can contact Prof. Vaziri at pv248@cornell....
/news/featured-course-black-holes-race-and-cosmosWe are thrilled to direct you to this amazing performance organized by the Public Theater in NY along with the Brooklyn Public Library! Please see our own Philip Lorenz provide commentary and hear the performance.Click here to see the webinar and performance on YouTube.Click here to read more about this at the Public Theater website and see...
/news/psi-presents-two-monsters-nature-lope-de-vega-and-william-shakespeare-philip-lorenz-and-raulThe program, airing on 70 stations, covers new and emerging topics in higher education.
/news/cornell-faculty-featured-academic-minute"During the latest Black Lives Matter demonstrations, images of protesters marching in the streets, signs held high, filled our screens. But in other parts of the world, another kind of protest has led to change: defiant disrobing. My research demonstrated that across Africa, mature women have mobilized the power of their nakedness in political...
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