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FEB 20Kathi Weeks: "Abolition of the Family: The Most Infa... Society for the Humanities presents a public lecture by one of our 2019-20 Invited Society Scholars, Kathi Weeks. ...

MAR 04Annual Invitational Lecture by Noliwe Rooks The Annual Invitational Lecture is designed to give a Cornell audience a chance to hear one of our distinguished faculty members, who may frequently speak at other universities but whom we seldom...

MAR 19The Wendy Rosenthal Gellman Lecture on Modern Litera... The Wendy Rosenthal Gellman Lecture on Modern Literature by Brent Hayes Edwards (Columbia University), 2019-20 Invited Society Scholar, Society for the Humanities ...

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FEB 09The Future is Feminist: A Feminist Theory Book Club Join Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies for a monthly book club Spring 2020 at Buffalo Street Books in the Dewitt Mall, 215 N. Cayuga St. ...

MAR 08The Future is Feminist: A Feminist Theory Book Club Join Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies for a monthly book club Spring 2020 at Buffalo Street Books in the Dewitt Mall, 215 N. Cayuga St. ...

MAR 10Visual Culture Colloquium - Alena Williams The Astronomer’s Milieu: Mount Hamilton and the Experimental Cinema of Charles and Ray Eames

MAR 16Queer Ecologies of Glitter In this talk, Seymour will present work from her new book project: a cultural history of glitter. She will focus on how this seemingly-trivial substance has surprisingly found its way to...

MAR 20The Defence of Democracy: Thomas Mann’s Political Wr... Organized by Peter U. Hohendahl, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of German Studies. Location TBA

MAR 23Collaborative Digital Humanities as a Path Forward i... Texts on manuscripts from Egypt, written and copied from 300 to 1300 CE, are crucial for our understanding of the histories and cultures of people from different classes, different regions, and...

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Cornell Humanities Events

JAN 28Stephanie Syjuco: Citizens Citizens features work by Stephanie Syjuco that probes both philosophical and historical definitions of what it means to be a "citizen" in terms of national belonging, civic engagement, and radical...

JAN 29Stephanie Syjuco: Citizens Citizens features work by Stephanie Syjuco that probes both philosophical and historical definitions of what it means to be a "citizen" in terms of national belonging, civic engagement, and radical...

JAN 30Stephanie Syjuco: Citizens Citizens features work by Stephanie Syjuco that probes both philosophical and historical definitions of what it means to be a "citizen" in terms of national belonging, civic engagement, and radical...

JAN 30Election Interference: International Law and the Fut... Jens David Ohlin, Vice Dean and Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, will speak at 12:15 pm in G-08 Uris Hall about "Election Interference: International Law and the Future of Democracy"...

JAN 30Undergraduate Lunch Series: Near Eastern Studies January 30 "Iran and the US (and Iraq and Syria) on the Brink of War" with Prof. Seema Golestaneh ...

JAN 30Ithaca Sounding 2020: CU Music Midday Music: Concert 1: Midday Music: In Search of Robert Palmer, a solo piano lecture-recital by Adam Tendler ...

JAN 30Ithaca Sounding 2020: CU Music Concert 2: Semi-Occluded Vocal Tract - Richard Valitutto plays Sarah Hennies’s hour-long work SOVT (2017) for solo prepared piano ...

JAN 31Stephanie Syjuco: Citizens Citizens features work by Stephanie Syjuco that probes both philosophical and historical definitions of what it means to be a "citizen" in terms of national belonging, civic engagement, and radical...

JAN 31Anthropology Colloquium: Edward Swenson Ritual Poesis, Masquerade, and the Crafting of Ancient Moche Ontologies ...

JAN 31Ithaca Sounding 2020: CU Music Concert 3: Letters, Stories, and Journeys for 1 & 2 Pianos - solos and duos by Julius Eastman, Ann Silsbee, David Borden, and Robert Palmer.

FEB 01Stephanie Syjuco: Citizens Citizens features work by Stephanie Syjuco that probes both philosophical and historical definitions of what it means to be a "citizen" in terms of national belonging, civic engagement, and radical...

FEB 01Ithaca Sounding 2020: CU Music Lecture: Julius Eastman’s Heterological Perspectives and Queer Practices - paper presentations by Ellie Hisama (Columbia) and Matthew Mendez (Yale) ...

FEB 01Ithaca Sounding 2020: CU Music Concert 4: "That Which is Fundamental": Julius Eastman works for 4 pianos performed by Joseph Kubera, Adam Tendler, David Friend, and Richard Valitutto

FEB 01Ithaca Sounding 2020: CU Music Concert 5: Festival Finale | Julius Eastman: Joy Boy/Femenine - preconcert lecture at 6pm by Ellie Hisama

FEB 02Stephanie Syjuco: Citizens Citizens features work by Stephanie Syjuco that probes both philosophical and historical definitions of what it means to be a "citizen" in terms of national belonging, civic engagement, and radical...

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Cinema & Performing Arts Events

JAN 30Ithaca Sounding 2020: CU Music Midday Music: Concert 1: Midday Music: In Search of Robert Palmer, a solo piano lecture-recital by Adam Tendler ...

JAN 30Ithaca Sounding 2020: CU Music Concert 2: Semi-Occluded Vocal Tract - Richard Valitutto plays Sarah Hennies’s hour-long work SOVT (2017) for solo prepared piano ...

JAN 31Ithaca Sounding 2020: CU Music Concert 3: Letters, Stories, and Journeys for 1 & 2 Pianos - solos and duos by Julius Eastman, Ann Silsbee, David Borden, and Robert Palmer.

FEB 01Ithaca Sounding 2020: CU Music Lecture: Julius Eastman’s Heterological Perspectives and Queer Practices - paper presentations by Ellie Hisama (Columbia) and Matthew Mendez (Yale) ...

FEB 01Ithaca Sounding 2020: CU Music Concert 4: "That Which is Fundamental": Julius Eastman works for 4 pianos performed by Joseph Kubera, Adam Tendler, David Friend, and Richard Valitutto

FEB 01Ithaca Sounding 2020: CU Music Concert 5: Festival Finale | Julius Eastman: Joy Boy/Femenine - preconcert lecture at 6pm by Ellie Hisama

FEB 02Ithaca Big Band Summit: CU Music Fourth Annual Ithaca Big Band Summit with the jazz ensembles of Ithaca College, Cornell, and Ithaca High School. Directors Mike Titlebaum, Paul Merrill, and Michael Treat.

FEB 04Butch Futurities: Lola Flash Queers Time and Race wi... Butch Futurities: Lola Flash Queers Time and Race ...

FEB 05Midday Music for Organ 2/5: CU Music Midday Music for Organ: David Yearsley and Annette Richards. “Sounding Mean c. 1600,” music in meantone, including works by Sweelinck and Byrd on the Vicedomini organ.

FEB 06Lost in Shakespeare Translation: Twelfth Night in Am... February 6, 2020, 4:30 p.m. ...

FEB 06Harriet 2019 > USA > Directed by Kasi Lemmons ...

FEB 07Festival Chamber Orchestra: CU Music Festival Chamber Orchestra: a sinfonietta performs new works by Cornell graduate composers Sergio Cote Barco and Miles Jefferson Friday

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