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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 an unmatched research and learning environment.
Ukrainian poet Olena Boryspholets will present a Nov. 10 reading at Cornell University featuring her work “Orpheus and Eurydice in New York.” The event highlights the City of Asylum Writer-in-Residence’s poetry and launches a broader classics and humanities series.
The College of Arts & Sciences' Society for the Humanities Fall Fellows’ Conference on Survival takes place Oct. 30 at Cornell University’s A.D. White House. Fellows will present interdisciplinary research on resilience, climate change, literature, history and culture.
Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences will host a Black Critical Thought Symposium Oct. 2. The free event will feature interdisciplinary faculty and student presentations on Black studies, culminating in a keynote conversation with cultural theorist and poet Fred Moten.
Cornell College of Arts and Sciences scholars are among the 42 faculty members and staff from 19 Cornell schools, colleges and units named Engaged Fellows for 2026-2027, the largest cohort since the program’s launch in 2013.
Our fall 2026 seminars explore concepts of the impacts of Japanese American wartime incarceration literature, political geology, precarity poetics and more, delving deeply into intersectional interpretations of the focal theme, Survival.
The School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University, a six-week summer program that serves as a hub for interdisciplinary inquiry in the humanities and social sciences, celebrated its 50th anniversary with events June 16-17.
Location: A.D. White House, Guerlac Room
There are no open applications at this time. Please visit our Fellowships and Grants pages to explore future opportunities.
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.
