Community read launches Society for the Humanities’ ‘Repair’ theme
"The Society for the Humanities thought there is no better way to kick off the year of Repair, than to begin at home."
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Society for the Humanities
Established in 1966, The Cornell Society for the Humanities brings distinguished visiting fellows, Cornell faculty, and graduate student fellows together each year to pursue research on a rotating interdisciplinary focal theme. Legendary seminars and experimental, innovative courses fuel and unmatched research and learning environment.
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A&S opens application portal for Klarman postdoc fellowships
Klarman 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.
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Alexander Livingston on his new edited volume, James Tully: To Think and Act Differently
Our Q&A series highlights former Fellows' monographs and other projects that grew out of the research done during their Fellowship year at the Society for the Humanities. In the following Q&A, Alexander Livingston, 2018-19 Authority Faculty Fellow, discusses his new edited collection of essays on th...
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2023-24: The Year of Crossing
The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University seeks interdisciplinary research projects for year-long residencies that reflect on the theme of Crossing.
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History wrapped up in song: “Singing Freedom” with Tsitsi Jaji, Lucy Fitz Gibbon, and Ed Baptist
Soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon, poet and associate professor of English at Duke Tsitsi Jaji, and Cornell professor of history Ed Baptist, talk with Annette about ’Singing Freedom,’ a multi-layered collaboration with leading Black American composers and performers to create musical responses to materials i...
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Humanities students present diverse research projects
Humanities students studying an array of topics presented their work at the A.D. White House.
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Spring Fellows Workshop to showcase work on Afterlives
"At stake in afterlives is, then, not only what lives on, but how such ‘living on’ occurs – its modalities, mechanisms, processes, and translations – in which something both recognizable and new, ongoing and ‘eventful,’ persistent and epochal is at work. Thus, we are interested in not only the after...
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Humanities Scholars Program Spring Research Conference
This annual conference features outstanding Cornell senior student research in various humanities fields, student panel discussions, and oral presentations of student papers with postdoctoral and faculty respondents. The day will consist of brief presentations (approximately 10 minutes each) followe...
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Upcoming Application Deadlines
President's Travel Fund (CU grad students): rolling
Central NY Humanities Corridor Working Groups: October 17, 2022
Humanities Research Grants: October 18, 2022
Humanities | Impact Grants: October 18, 2022
Faculty Fellowships: October 31, 2022
Mellon Graduate Fellowships: October 31, 2022
HWW Predoctoral Career Diversity Summer Workshop: November 1, 2022
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Philosophy: November 15, 2022
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The Humanities Pod
The Society for the Humanities at Cornell is proud to present our new podcast, The Humanities Pod. Informal conversations with Society Fellows, Cornell Faculty, community collaborators, and special guests shine a light on some of the new work, the current conversations, and the latest ideas of humanists at and around Cornell.