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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 released in February 2023 from Oxford University Press.
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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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Anna Kornbluh, professor of English at the University of Illinois Chicago, will address "Immediacy: Some Theses on Contemporary Style" on Tuesday, March 7.
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Sophie Lewis will offer a deep dive into the history of radical movements and explore family abolition, which she characterizes as a turning away from the privatization of care.
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In her March 1 talk for the Society for the Humanities, Sophie Lewis will offer a deep dive into the history of radical movements to imagine family abolition, or, a turning away from the privatization of care.
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The site includes 700 poems that Charline Jao discovered and transcribed.
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Announcing the 2023-24 cohort of Crossing Fellows at the Society for the Humanities.
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This iteration of the Fellows’ Q&A series features Georgia Frank, Charles A. Dana Professor of Religion at Colgate University and 2020-21 “Fabrication” Society Fellow. Her new book, Unfinished Christians: Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity was released in February 2023 from University of Pennsylvania Press.
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In the Society for the Humanities Invitational Lecture Feb. 15, art historian Verity Platt will present her research on the humble sea sponge.
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This iteration of the Fellows' Q&A series features Leslie Alexander, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of History at Rutgers University and 2021-22 "Afterlives" Society Fellow. Her new book, Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States was just released this month from University of Illinois Press.
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This iteration of the Fellows' Q&A series features Benjamin Parris, Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and 2014-15 "Sensation" Society Fellow. His new book, Vital Strife: Sleep, Insomnia, and the Early Modern Ethics of Care, was released in August 2022 from Cornell University Press.
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Her talk is one of three in the African Diaspora Knowledge Exchange Series.
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Friday’s concluding keynote will be delivered by Jonathan Flatley, a scholar of literature and the relationship between politics and aesthetics .
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Supported by a grant from the College of Arts and Sciences' Rural Humanities initiative through an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation award, a 30-page publication highlights the stories of five Black owners of forestland in Massachusetts, New York, New Hampshire and Vermont
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"The Society for the Humanities thought there is no better way to kick off the year of Repair, than to begin at home."
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Klarman Fellows pursue research in any discipline in the College, including natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and the creative arts as well as cross-disciplinary fields. The application deadline is October 14.
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Our Q&A series highlights former Fellows' monographs and other projects that grew out of the research done during their Fellowship year at the Society for the Humanities. In the following Q&A, Alexander Livingston, 2018-19 Authority Faculty Fellow, discusses his new edited collection of essays on the political theorist James Tully.
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Soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon, poet and associate professor of English at Duke Tsitsi Jaji, and Cornell professor of history Ed Baptist, talk with Annette about ’Singing Freedom,’ a multi-layered collaboration with leading Black American composers and performers to create musical responses to materials in the Freedom on the Move archive.
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Humanities students studying an array of topics presented their work at the A.D. White House.
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"At stake in afterlives is, then, not only what lives on, but how such ‘living on’ occurs – its modalities, mechanisms, processes, and translations – in which something both recognizable and new, ongoing and ‘eventful,’ persistent and epochal is at work. Thus, we are interested in not only the afterlives of artistic movements, historical periods,...
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This annual conference features outstanding Cornell senior student research in various humanities fields, student panel discussions, and oral presentations of student papers with postdoctoral and faculty respondents. The day will consist of brief presentations (approximately 10 minutes each) followed by Q&A, organized into panels based on...
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The Society for the Humanities has extended the deadline for two writing groups, the Interdisciplinary Monograph Writing Group, and the Brett de Bary Interdisciplinary Writing Groups. Cornell faculty members in the humanities will now have through April 29 to apply to be a part of either one of the groups.The Interdisciplinary Monograph Writing...
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The 3-D tour focuses on the building, its foundation, the archaeological excavation underway and a Civil War monument on the church site.
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On Cornell’s eighth Giving Day, held March 16, 15,905 alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents and friends from more than 80 countries made gifts totaling a record-breaking $12,268,629.
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“Access and the 21st Century University,” March 23, will focus on the meaning of "access" to liberal arts education.
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In the Society for the Humanities podcast, two undergraduate researchers share information they uncovered about the fraught legacy of nineteenth century historian Goldwin Smith.
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Gifts allow the College to fulfill its mission: preparing students to do the greatest good in the world.
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Sianne Ngai, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English at the University of Chicago, will explore this question wrong ways of thinking in this Society for the Humanities event March 9.
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SpeakersPaul Fleming, Taylor Family Director of the Society for the Humanities and the L. Sanford and Jo Mills Reis Professor of Humanities, Cornell UniversityAngel Nugroho, Cornell Arts & Sciences senior majoring in Archeology and Information ScienceJoanne Lee, Cornell Arts & Sciences senior majoring in Government with a minor in...
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Announcing the 2022-23 Fellows at the Society for the Humanities:Paul Fleming, Taylor Family DirectorSociety for the Humanities FellowsKevin T. Duong, Politics, University of Virginia Marx and Freud in Harlem: The Lafargue Clinic and the Economics of Psychiatric CareCarla Hung, Anthropology, University of North Carolina – AshevilleTrafficking...
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Timothy Murray, professor of comparative literature and literatures in English, has been elected chair of the board of directors of Humanities New York (HNY), a nonprofit humanities council founded in 1975 that supports and advocates for public humanities across the state.
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Kim Gallon, associate professor of history at Purdue University, will demonstrate how computational humanities offers an opportunity to redefine “crisis” through the Black American experience and turn it into a defining moment for the recovery and reimagination of Black humanity.
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A $5 million alumni gift will help to support doctoral students in humanities fields within the College of Arts & Sciences.
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Five essays that explore how students created publicly-engaged projects are available online.
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The Central New York Humanities Corridor expands its impact on research by establishing an annual writing retreat opportunity for tenure-line faculty in the humanities and related interdisciplines. Retreat participants should have a desire to convene with others from across the consortium to examine their writing process, identify patterns that...
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At this year’s Invitational Lecture for the Society for the Humanities, “Defining Democracy: How Black Print Culture Shaped America, Then and Now,” associate professor of literatures in English Derrick Spires will counter the racist notion that little to no Black print culture existed before the Civil War.
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The deep history of human occupation across all of North America is Indigenous history – in fact, over 98 percent of human occupation in the Ithaca area took place before European-American settlers arrived. Americans and Canadians, both rural and urban, move through Indigenous lands and encounter Indigenous heritage as they go about their daily...
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SpeakersMarty Cain, Poet and doctoral candidate in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell UniversityTim Earley, Poet and visiting assistant professor of English at the University of MississippiTranscriptTim Earley (00:00):Gum it up in the Berkeley, gum it up in the New York City, poetry, poetry, poetry, you subhuman fucks.Music...
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The Nexus Scholars program will leverage the student-to-faculty ratio and the vibrant research enterprise in A&S to expand opportunities for students, while also enhancing the culture of collaborative scholarship at Cornell.
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Disability justice advocate Eli Clare has been chosen as a Distinguished Visiting Collaborator in the Central New York Humanities Corridor, and he will be hosted for two virtual talks by the Cornell Society for the Humanities in partnership with the Syracuse University Humanities Center.
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Undergraduate students interested in the intersection of religion and politics or society can now apply for a new prize, to be given out next spring.
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A new episode of The Humanities Pod podcast, “Tweets of the Un-Mastered Class: Exploring the Freedom on the Move Database with Edward Baptist,” discusses the stories of self-liberated fugitives from American slavery through the lens of over 30,000 original documents depicting their escapes.
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“Tweets of the Un-Mastered Class: Exploring the Freedom on the Move Database with Edward Baptist,” a new episode of The Humanities Pod podcast, discusses the stories of self-liberated fugitives from American slavery through the lens of over 30,000 original documents depicting their escapes.“One of the things that we learn from these tens of...
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SpeakersAnnette Richards, associate director of the Society for the Humanities, professor of music, and Given Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Cornell UniversityPaul Fleming, Taylor Family Director of the Society for the Humanities and the L. Sanford and Jo Mills Reis Professor of Humanities, Cornell UniversityEdward E. Baptist,...
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