April 10 lecture focuses on formation of revolutionary China
Mitter’s talk will re-examine the classic question, “Did the communists win or the nationalists lose the Chinese civil war?”
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Our fellows offer experimental interdisciplinary seminars on research topics related to the year's focal theme. These seminars are offered one time only! The theme for 2023-24 is "Crossing."
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Enroll in Fall 2024 Silence courses!
Our Fall 2024 seminars explore concepts of disability history, political violence in fiction, queer archives, and more, delving deeply into intersectional interpretations of the focal theme, Silence.
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SHUM 3750: Humanities Scholars Research Methods
Designed specifically for undergraduate students, the goal of the seminar is to teach and refine research methods (library research, note taking, organizing material, bibliographies, citation methods, proposals, outlines, etc.) as well as to guide students through the initial stages of a research project of your own design. Part of the Humanities Scholars Program.
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2024-25: The Year of Silence
Announcing the 2024-25 cohort of Silence Fellows at the Society for the Humanities.
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Pheng Cheah Ph.D. ’98 to deliver Culler Theory Lecture
“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.
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Support Arts & Sciences on Giving Day March 14
Your gift allows the College to fulfill our mission — to prepare our students to do the greatest good in the world.
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Grants available to fund rural humanities projects
Funding is available for faculty and students with projects related to rural humanities.
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Speaker series focuses on China’s communist past and present
A series of four lectures — two in the spring and two in the fall of 2024 — will focus on “Unmasking the CCP: History, Politics, and Society in Post-1949 China."
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Juliana Hu Pegues to speak on Indigenous Feminist Activism
In this year’s Invitational Lecture hosted by the Society for the Humanities, Hu Pegues will examine the story of Tillie Paul, a Tlingit woman in Alaska
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Speaker series to examine antisemitism, Islamophobia
Leading academics from around the country will join Cornell experts in a semester-long series, “Antisemitism and Islamophobia Examined.”
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