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Our Spring 2027 seminars explore concepts of the dark side of the renaissance, family choice in the era of climate change, desert architecture, queer Asian cinema, and more, delving deeply into intersectional interpretations of the focal theme, Survival.
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 Society for the Humanities marked its 60th anniversary Sept. 18-19 with events celebrating six decades of humanities research and collaboration. Based in the College of Arts & Sciences, the Society has hosted more than 800 fellows.
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.
Amanda GaggioliHistory, University of MemphisThe Politics of Resilience: Earthquakes and Terraces in the Structuring of Greco-Roman Society
College of Arts and Sciences student Jeffrey Ho ’26 learned through Cornell University Library’s archives how the campus dealt with HIV/AIDS and COVID-19. Ho curated the exhibit "Public Health on the Hill: Creating Community through Communication," up through June 10, 2026 in Kroch Library.
Seniors in the Humanities Scholars Program (HSP) in the College of Arts & Sciences at Cornell University will showcase their research at an all-day conference May 1 at the A.D. White House. Their work spans across humanities fields and also highlights intersections with science, technology, business, law and other disciplines.
What commonalities can be found among the topics of anarchist movements, medieval sculptures, and queer kinship? Join us to learn how these and other scholarly topics relate to the Society for the Humanities’ 2025-26 focal theme of Scale at the Society’s annual spring conference on Friday, April 24, from 9:30am-4:30pm. Scale provokes us to consider…
Cornell University will host “Indigenous Voices in Abiayala/Latin America,” on April 9 at 4:45 p.m., exploring Indigenous media self-representation in Latin America – known as Abiayala in the Guna language. Held in the in the A.D. White House and organized by Polly Lauer, a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in Romance studies in Cornell’s College of Arts and…
Cornell University Humanities Scholars traveled to Washington, D.C. to advocate for increased National Endowment for the Humanities and National Archives funding, meeting with congressional offices to highlight the impact of humanities programs on education. Their two‑day trip underscored how federal support strengthens community partnerships, language programs, and public humanities initiatives benefiting campuses and local organizations…
The Fellows’ Q&A series continues with a spotlight on Perry Zurn, Provost Associate Professor of Philosophy at American University and former Society for the Humanities Fellow at Cornell University. His book, How We Make Each Other: Trans Life at the Edge of the University, evolved out of research during his Fellowship year during the theme…
Zahid R. Chaudhary, Associate Professor of English, Princeton University, will deliver this year's Culler Lecture in Critical Theory Wednesday, March 4, 2026 at 5pm in the A.D. White House. Chaudhary, who received his Ph.D. from Cornell Unviersity, specializes in postcolonial studies, visual culture, and critical theory. His second book, Paranoid Publics: Psychopolitics of Truth was…
The Fellows’ Q&A series continues with a spotlight on Benjamin Barson. Barson is the Samuel L. Williams Endowed Assistant Professor of Music at Bucknell University and former Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University. His book Brassroots Democracy, evolved out of research during the Fellowship year.
From midcentury melodramas to speculative visions of technology and the human body—and even a French coming of age story about crafting world class cheese—Cornell Cinema’s spring season offers a varied plate.
An interdisciplinary project is sparking collaborations among those interested in digital approaches to the study of history, languages and culture.
Stacey Langwick, associate professor of anthropology in the College of Arts & Sciences, will speak on "Healing in a Toxic World: Reimagining the Times and Spaces of the Therapeutic."
How can grassroots storytelling empower marginalized communities and lead to tangible democratic change?
Best-selling writer and technology blogger Cory Doctorow will make the A.D. White Professor-at-Large program’s second dual-campus visit, ending his week at Cornell Tech in New York City. Four other professors will visit Cornell this fall.