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OCT 17Society for the Humanities Fall Conference on the Fo... This annual fall conference will explore our 2019-2020 focal theme of Energy ...

OCT 18Society for the Humanities Fall Conference on the Fo... This annual fall conference will explore our 2019-2020 focal theme of Energy ...

NOV 11Not Ok: Free Film Screening Society for the Humanities and Cornell Cinema present: ...

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SEP 20Gender and Sexuality Lunch Series The Gender and Sexuality Lunch series is hosted by Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Every semester, we invite faculty to share their research as it relates to gender and/or sexuality. A...

SEP 22The Future is Feminist: A Feminist Theory Bookclub Join Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies for a monthly book club fall 2019 at Buffalo Street Books in the Dewitt Mall, 215 N. Cayuga St. ...

SEP 25Anthropocene: The Human Epoch A stunning sensory experience and cinematic meditation on humanity's massive reengineering of the planet, the film is a years-in-the-making feature documentary from the award-winning team...

SEP 26Musicology Colloquium: Josh Kun, "A Migrant Sound: L... ...

OCT 01Remembering the Present: An anthropological comparis... For many people in the United States mindfulness represents a general state of present-focused, non-judgmental awareness, but in today’s Theravāda-majority Buddhist countries of South and...

OCT 02Marguerite Waller, "A Decolonial Feminist Dante" Co-sponsored by the Department of Romance Studies: the Society for the Humanities; the Medieval Studies Program; Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies; and the Departments of ...

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SEP 20"She Calls The World Her Home:" Sojourner Truth, Pin... Featuring Professor Mary Grace Albanese, Society for the Humanties ...

SEP 20Thomas Elsaesser • Media Studies Midday Colloquium Thomas Elsaesser, Professor Emeritus at the University of Amsterdam (http://www.thomas-elsaesser.com/ ) discusses his essay “Media Archaeology as Symptom,” at the year's first...

SEP 20"Naked and ghastly": Disarticulated Limbs and the Al... American Studies Fall Colloquium. A light lunch will be served. ...

SEP 20Anthropology Colloquium: Brinkley Messick "A textual tradition: the anthropologist as reader” ...

SEP 20Memorial lecture in honor of Prof. David Mankin: "N... A memorial lecture in honor of Prof. David Mankin has been scheduled for Friday, September 20th at 4:30 PM. Lauren Ginsberg (Associate Professor of Classics, University of Cincinnati) will...

SEP 20Tagore lecture: The Clay Typewriter, by Anuradha Roy This lecture will discuss how mud and words are connected in my work; how earth, water, air, and fire fusing to create pots is a metaphor for the way in which real and imagined archives can come...

SEP 22Ryan Kerberle and Catharsis: Jazz+ Present Since arriving in New York City in 1999, trombonist/composer Ryan Keberle has performed with a jaw-dropping roster of legendary musicians across a vast array of styles. At 34, his resume is...

SEP 23Conscripting Kinsmen: Labor Contractors and Peasant-... The thekedar in India and the baogong tou in China are seemingly similar social actors; both are vernacular designations for labor contractors who typically band together a group of rural peasants...

SEP 24Karen Pinkus, "Thinking Decarbonization with Literat... Only a few years ago, "geoengineering"--both the solar side and carbon dioxide removal or negative emissions technologies--was taboo, associated with a "moral hazard." Yet as...

SEP 25Pyrrhic Constitutionalism? Buddhism, Secularism and ... Of the seven countries in South and Southeast Asian with majority-Buddhist populations, six give special status and/or protections to Buddhism in their constitutions. These constitutional...

SEP 26Power in Peacekeeping Lise Howard, Associate Professor of Government, Georgetown University, will speak at 12:15 pm in G-08 Uris Hall on “Power in Peacekeeping” at the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and...

SEP 26Jeremy Scahill : Telling the Truth Jeremy Scahill will deliver the Kops Freedom of the Press lecture. ...

SEP 27 Art is Tecpatl — A Flint Knife Tongue American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program (AIISP) Speaker Series with CRISTÓBAL MARTINEZ (Cherokee) ...

SEP 27Composers Forum: Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett ...

SEP 27Anthropology Colloquium: Rachel Engmann Autoarchaeology at Christiansborg Castle (Ghana): Decolonizing knowledge, pedagogy and praxis. ...

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SEP 20Styx An ER doctor embarks on a solo sailing trip to Ascension Island and comes across a sinking boat of refugees. "In the first, nearly wordless third of Wolfgang Fischer's thrillingly lean Styx, in...

SEP 20Yesterday Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) is a struggling singer songwriter in an English seaside town, whose dreams of fame are rapidly fading despite support from his childhood best friend Ellie (Lily James)....

SEP 21David Yearsley, organ: CU Music David Yearsley, organ recital, “Transalpine.” This program follows the musical path of the polymath musician, diplomat, and churchman Agostino Steffani across Europe on either side of...

SEP 21Too Late to Die Young Three youths and their families face growing up and change on a commune in the first summer (1990) of democracy's return to Chile. "Inspired by the 33-year-old director's childhood in...

SEP 21Yesterday Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) is a struggling singer songwriter in an English seaside town, whose dreams of fame are rapidly fading despite support from his childhood best friend Ellie (Lily James)....

SEP 22Late Spring One of the most powerful of Yasujiro Ozu's family portraits, Late Spring tells the story of a widowed father who feels compelled to marry off his beloved only daughter. Eminent Ozu players ChishÃ»...

SEP 22Too Late to Die Young Three youths and their families face growing up and change on a commune in the first summer (1990) of democracy's return to Chile. "Inspired by the 33-year-old director's childhood in...

SEP 24Touki Bouki With a stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic, Djibril Diop Mambty paints a vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. In this French New Wave-influenced fantasy-drama, two...

SEP 25Midday Music for Organ 9/25: CU Music Midday Music for Organ: Anna Steppler, “Te Deum laudamus”: Music by Jeanne Demessieux, Judith Bingham and Cecilia McDowall.

SEP 26Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film The film follows art collective Postcommodity as they construct Repellent Fence, a two-mile long outdoor artwork that straddled the U.S.-Mexico border in 2015. Postcommodity consists of three...

SEP 26The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe September 26, 7:30 p.m. ...

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