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JUL 22Hent de Vries, “Metaphysical Experience” Free public lecture by Hent de Vries, Paulette Goddard Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies, German, Comparative Literature, and Affiliated Professor of Philosophy, at New...

JUL 23Daphne Brooks, “Blackface Broken Records: Blues Afte... Free public lecture by Daphne Brooks, Professor of African-American Studies, Theater Studies, American Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University

JUL 24Cathy Caruth, “Death and Life at the Site of Address” Free public lecture by Cathy Caruth, Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Cornell University

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SEP 13Re-Imagining the Discipline: German Studies, the Hum... A Conference of the Institute for German Cultural Studies (IGCS) ...

Cornell Humanities Events

AUG 23Cornell Orientation Week Welcome Event Welcome, class of #Cornell2023! Stop by the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts courtyard, in the heart of #Collegetown, for an introduction to the Department of Performing and Media Arts....

AUG 28Performing and Media Arts Open House The Department of Performing and Media Arts is a place where actors, filmmakers, dancers, designers, multimedia artists, and scholars come to study, create, perform, and produce work. ...

SEP 04Cornell International Fair ...

SEP 04Uniting Communities Resource Fair and BBQ Come learn about majors/minors in Africana Studies; Latina/o Studies; Asian American Studies; American Indian and Indigenous Studies; Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies; and LGBT...

SEP 06IGCS Colloquium Mark-Georg Dehrmann (Modern German Literature, Humboldt University, Berlin)

SEP 06Anthropology Colloquium: Anna Tsing Feral Atlas and the More-than-Human Anthropocene ...

SEP 06Gábor Betegh (University of Cambridge) to give talk Gábor Betegh (Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge) will give a talk at 4:30 on Friday, September 6, 2019.

SEP 07CU Music, New Meets Old: Collaborative Confrontation... New Meets Old: Collaborative Confrontations to inaugurate the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards. Join us for a celebration of the wide range of keyboard instruments in our collection,...

SEP 07CU Music, New Meets Old: Collaborative Confrontation... New Meets Old: Collaborative Confrontations to inaugurate the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards. Join us for a celebration of the wide range of keyboard instruments in our collection,...

SEP 09Film Screening - Neeli Raag (True Blue), followed by... Indigo is not just a color, it never was... it was wealth, it was mystique, it was colonialism, tyranny and protest. It made history, but itself fell prey to the events and processes of time, until...

SEP 10Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide ... In a lecture on September 10, Heghnar Watenpaugh will discuss her new book "The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to Justice." ...

SEP 10Townsend Lecturer - Barbara Graziosi (Princeton Univ... Barbara Graziosi (Professor of Classics at Princeton University) will be the Townsend Visiting Professor in Fall 2019. Professor Graziosi will deliver three Townsend Lectures on September 10, 13,...

SEP 10CowJews and Indians: How Hitler Scared My Relatives ... Ithaca Premiere of "CowJews and Indians: How Hitler Scared My Relatives - and I Woke Up in an Iroquois Longhouse with a Picture of Jesus, Reminding Me - for the Wrong Reason - That I Owe the...

SEP 13Anthropology Colloquium: Dana Powell Dr. Dana Powell is an associate Professor of Anthropology at Appalachian State University. Dr. Powell was selected for a Cornell University Society for the Humanities (SOH) Fellowship...

SEP 19Annabel Kim, "“Monique Wittig’s Labors” The French feminist writer and theorist Monique Wittig is underrated. Wittig’s legacy, both literary and conceptual, does not reflect her work’s boldness and significance. This is due...

Cinema & Performing Arts Events

AUG 25Choral Showcase: CU Music Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club; Robert Isaacs, conductor. “Choral Showcase” features Cornell's flagship touring ensembles and their a cappella subset groups, After Eight...

SEP 06CU Music, New Meets Old: Collaborative Confrontation... New Meets Old: Collaborative Confrontations to inaugurate the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards. Join us for a celebration of the wide range of keyboard instruments in our collection,...

SEP 07CU Music, New Meets Old: Collaborative Confrontation... New Meets Old: Collaborative Confrontations to inaugurate the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards. Join us for a celebration of the wide range of keyboard instruments in our collection,...

SEP 07CU Music, New Meets Old: Collaborative Confrontation... New Meets Old: Collaborative Confrontations to inaugurate the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards. Join us for a celebration of the wide range of keyboard instruments in our collection,...

SEP 16Israeli Chamber Project: CU Music Israeli Chamber Project: Inaugural concert of the Steven Stucky Memorial Residency, featuring new works from Cornell composers, Kurtág's Hommage à R.Sch., and Roberto Sierra...

SEP 17Miri Yampolsky, piano: CU Music Miri Yampolsky, piano recital, featuring J.S. Bach’s Partita No. 2, plus Spanish music

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

SEP 27The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe September 26, 7:30 p.m. ...

SEP 28The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe September 26, 7:30 p.m. ...

SEP 28The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe September 26, 7:30 p.m. ...

SEP 28CCCP presents Unheard-of//Ensemble: CU Music CCCP presents Unheard-of//Ensemble, a contemporary chamber ensemble dedicated to the development and performance of new music by living composers.

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