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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."
Our Fall 2023 seminars explore concepts of affect theory, visual cultures, the concepts of "settlement," or "friendship," and trans theory and politics, among others, and delve deeply into intersectional interpretations of the focal theme.
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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.
This iteration of the Fellows’ Q&A series features Ayelet Ben-Yishai, Chair of the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Haifa and 2017-18 “Corruption” Society Fellow. Her new book, Genres of Emergency: Forms of Crisis and Continuity in Indian Writing in English, was re...
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This summer, 101 students in the College of Arts and Sciences will take part in groundbreaking research on campus with 61 faculty as part of the Nexus Scholars Program.
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Part of Cornell's Mellon Collaborative Studies in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities, Cornell students explored creative ways to understand urban landscapes during two cross-disciplinary courses this year.
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Chloe Ahmann (Anthropology) receives NEH Summer Stipend for archival research.
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The Society for the Humanities' year of “Repair” concludes with the ’s annual Fellows’ research conference April 27 and 28, highlighting the work of 16 scholars.
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PMA professor Austin Bunn wins Best LGBTQIA+ Short Award at CIFF47 for his short film "Campfire" developed with Rural Humanities faculty grant funding from the Mellon Foundation.
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An open forum will address how the OpenAI large-language model ChatGPT will improve research productivity in the humanities.
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On March 28, Andy Warner ’06, author of the memoir "Spring Rain" and several other books, will explore the power of graphic media to tell true stories.
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