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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.
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…
Amanda GaggioliHistory, University of MemphisThe Politics of Resilience: Earthquakes and Terraces in the Structuring of Greco-Roman Society
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.
SHUM 4705/6705 How to Make Queer Kin: Sustaining Bonds in LGBTQ+ Culture
The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University seeks fellows for year-long residential fellowships who are conducting interdisciplinary research projects exploring the literary, historical, ethical, and political registers of survival.
The Fellows’ Q&A series continues with a spotlight on Irina Troconis. Irina Troconis is Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University and 2021-22 “Afterlives” Faculty Fellow. Her book, The Necromantic State: Spectral Remains in the Afterglow of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution (Duke UP, 2025), evolved out of research…
Projects spanned topics from Confederate cemeteries to Korean textiles.
Princeton history professor Michael Gordin will give the inaugural lecture celebrating the life and work of Henry Guerlac ’32, M.S. ’33, an influential historian of science and Cornell faculty member for three decades.
On April 25, seven Society for the Humanities’ Fellows will present their projects in progress during the annual Spring Fellows’ conference, highlighting the various ways that the theme of silence has been explored –
On April 18, this collection of migrant experiences will be presented to the public in a daylong symposium at the A. D. White House.
Bennett, a founding scholar of the field of new materialism, will talk about the limits of “data” as the unit of humanistic study.
Our minds and the ways we tell stories are closely attuned, research shows, and scholar Fritz Breithaupt will explore how that connection works during a March visit as University Lecturer.
Elizabeth Barrios, Modern Languages and Cultures, Albion CollegePlastic Environmentalisms: Petrocultures and Climate Denial in Latin America
"Sanctuary from the Storm: Making (My) Room with The Torkelsons," will explore Sheppard’s fondness for the 1990s television show and what the show’s representation of home spaces can tell us about the way television influences living practices.
What can you do with silence? One branch of silence studies tries to quiet the human element to hear the natural sounds around us. But many people who have the privilege to choose silence ‘on demand’ elect instead to carry on a more intense internal activity. This course will focus on interior conversations and their…
The event invited undergraduate and graduate students from all disciplines to display their projects at the historic A.D. White House.
Commissioned by Cornell’s inaugural president, the villa later became an art museum—and has long hosted a humanities group.
A crowdfunding campaign launched Nov. 1 to support a Cornell-based season of "Ways of Knowing,” a new podcast created by The World According to Sound.
Three short documentaries produced in a Rural Humanities Seminar, taught by PMA Associate Professor Austin Bunn, are headed to film festivals this fall.
Six fellows from a broad swath of humanities fields will present their projects in progress during the annual Fall Fellows’ conference, on Friday, Oct. 25.
The Society for the Humanities & CNY Humanities Corridor, in partnership with Cornell's Media Studies Colloquium, present: The Annual Digital Humanities Lecture
“We felt this is an important resource that should be available to our humanists at all levels, whether they have the resources to pay for membership or not,” said Peter John Loewen, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences.
Nathan Thrall will talk about his most recent book, “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy.”
Cornell researchers have received a $150,000 NEH Digital Humanities Advanced Grant to create a 3D virtual modeling project based on the Casa della Regina Carolina, a large Pompeian house.
“Possible Landscapes,” a new feature-length documentary film exploring the lived experience of landscapes and environments in the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago, will have its debut screening on Sept. 25 at Cornell Cinema.
Cornell’s “Antisemitism and Islamophobia Examined” series concludes this semester with a talk by Derek Penslar, the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History at Harvard University.
The Society for the Humanities welcomes Jonathan Lethem, Roy Edward Disney '51 Professor of Creative Writing and Professor of English at Pomona College, to present his talk "The Novel as Lyric Essay and Stage Play."
Elizabeth Barrios, Modern Languages and Cultures, Albion CollegePlastic Environmentalisms: Petrocultures and Climate Denial in Latin America
Coming from the University of Toronto, where he was the director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Loewen began his five-year appointment as the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Aug. 1.
Kim Haines-Eitzen, the Paul and Berthe Hendrix Memorial Professor of Near Eastern studies, and Mostafa Minawi, associate professor of history and director of Critical Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies, will pursue research projects in residence in Durham, North Carolina.
Recently the faculty director of the Humanities Scholars Program, Ghosh brings to the Society scholarly background in the history of British colonialism on the Indian subcontinent; academic focuses on gender and sexuality and South Asia; and broad experience with interdisciplinary collaborations.
To honor the anniversary, the Society has produced a booklet chronicling the history of the A.D. White House as president’s home, art museum and locus for the humanities at Cornell.