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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.
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.
Cornell doctoral students, including some based in the College of Arts and Sciences, engaged in legislative opportunities in Washington, D.C. this spring. Some students attended an American Association for the Advancement of Science workshop, others a Cornell-organized Advocacy Day.
The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University seeks faculty fellows for year-long residential fellowships who are conducting interdisciplinary research projects exploring play.
What might it mean to flourish in a world on the brink of extinction or exhaustion?
Join this year's cohort of Fellows at the Society for the Humanities for presentations on work-in-progress on the 2026-27 focal theme of Survival.
Each presentation will be followed by a Q&A.
Open to the public.
Lunch & refreshments provided
October 30, 2026 | A.D. White House
For more information visit: https://events.cornell.edu/event/survival-conference
Location: A.D. White House, Guerlac Room
Location: A.D. White House, Guerlac Room
Location: A. D. White House, Guerlac Room
Two-year postdoctoral fellowships at Cornell University hosted by rotating humanities departments. Linguistics Deadline: October 15, 2026 | |
| Faculty Fellowships | Open to Cornell faculty members only. One-year fellowships focused on an annual theme. Located at the A.D. White House. Deadline: October 30, 2026 |
Open to Cornell graduate students only. Nine-month fellowships focused on an annual theme. Includes a $35,661 stipend, tuition, and student health insurance. Located at the A.D. White House. Deadline: October 30, 2026 | |
| Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Performing and Media Arts | Two-year postdoctoral fellowships at Cornell University hosted by rotating humanities departments. Performing and Media Arts Deadline: November 1, 2026 |
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.
