Artist Laurie Anderson visits campus Sept. 26-27
Anderson will offer a public talk as part of the College of Arts & Sciences’ Arts Unplugged series and work with students and faculty.
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Society News
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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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
Read moreUpcoming Society Events
Apr
26
Friday
10:00 AM
Society for the Humanities: Spring Fellows' Conference on the theme of "Crossing"
A. D. White House
Guerlac Room
May
03
Friday
09:30 AM
Humanities Scholars Undergraduate Research Conference
A.D. White House
May
03
Friday
04:45 PM
Pandemic Archives: Media, Geopolitics, and Temporalities of Crisis
Goldwin Smith Hall
64
May
04
Saturday
10:00 AM
Pandemic Archives: Media, Geopolitics, and Temporalities of Crisis
Physical Sciences Building
401
Important Society Links
Upcoming Application Deadlines
Joseph E. Connolly Memorial Prizes: April 10
Rural Humanities Summer Practicum: April 15
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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.