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MAR 12Society for the Humanities Presents: Holly Hughes "A Sapphic Sampler Platter" ...

MAR 25Society for the Humanities Presents: Prasenjit Duara "The Art of Convergent Comparison—China and India in Modern Times": In this talk, Duara will argue that non-discursive modes of authorizing ‘foreign’ processes as...

APR 12Society for the Humanities Spring Workshop: AUTHORITY The Spring Workshop will feature short, thesis-driven presentations (10-15 minutes) by Society for the Humanities Fellows to generate discussion around significant questions, examples, and problems...

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MAR 04World Theatre Voices: Conversation with the artists ... The World Theatre Voices series presents a conversation with the artists of the play Testosterone, written by acclaimed German playwright Rebecca Kricheldorf and translated by Neil Blackadder, on...

MAR 05Performing Black Death Drop: Transness, Femmeness, a... Abstract: In this talk, Prof. Smalls thinks through #BlackLivesMatter’s silent but implicit epistemological, material, and theoretical twin, #BlackDeathsMatter, by turning...

MAR 10Future is Feminist Book Club: "Trans*" by Jack Halbe... https://www.facebook.com/events/2223066084614882/

MAR 15FGSS Gender and Sexuality Lunch Series: Joan Lubin

MAR 15Feminist Directions: Performance, Power, and Leadership March 15 at 4 p.m. ...

MAR 16Feminist Directions: Performance, Power, and Leadership March 15 at 4 p.m. ...

Cornell Humanities Events

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FEB 22CANCELLED: Composers Forum: Eli Marshall ...

FEB 27Wednesday Lunch Series with Derek Chang Derek Chang is an associate professor of History and Asian American Studies. He has taught at Cornell since 2002, and he’s author of "Citizens of a Christian Nation: Evangelical...

FEB 27CIAMS Lecture Series: Anna Källén The Real Lagertha and the Anatolian Farmers: Two Stories of Ancient DNA ...

FEB 28On the Frontlines of Peace: The Unlikely People Who ... Séverine Autesserre, Professor of Political Science, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, will speak at 12:15 pm in G-08 Uris Hall on “On the Frontlines of...

FEB 28SAP Seminar Series, Aliens, Code-shifters, and Rude-... In this artist talk and conversation, Jaret Vadera will discuss key arcs, propositions, and questions guiding his practice. ...

FEB 28The 40th Anniversary of the Paul Gottschalk Memorial... “Chaucer’s Periodization” ...

MAR 04SAP Speaker Series, On the Prowl: Tigers and Tea Pla... By the late 1800s, swathes of jungle in eastern India were cleared to create tea estates or plantations. But these commercial landscapes were never quite splintered from the wilderness, their...

MAR 06Trodding Diaspora: Rastafari, Tanzania, and Pan-Afri... Monique Bedasse '02 (Washington University in St. Louis) will speak as part of the American Studies Spring Colloquium on 20th Century Black Internationalism. Bedasse received an MPS from...

MAR 06Donatella Di Cesare, "Heidegger and the Jews: The Bl... Donatella Di Cesare is Professor of Philosophy at the Sapienza University of Rome, author of Terror and Modernity (2019), Heidegger and the Jews (2018), Torture (2018), Gadamer: A Philosophical...

MAR 06SAP Speaker Series, Cast in India Screening and Film... Cast in India (26 min, USA/India, 2014) ...

MAR 07Samia Henni: Discreet Violence: Architecture and the... During the Algerian Revolution (1954–62), or the Algerian War of Independence, the French civil and military authorities profoundly reorganized Algeria's urban and rural territory, drastically...

MAR 07Contesting the Rooftop of the World: Tibet, China an... Allen Carlson, Government Department, Cornell University, will speak at 12:15 pm in G-08 Uris Hall on "Contesting the Rooftop of the World: Tibet, China and the Changing International Order...

MAR 07Lecture by Nahum Dimitri Chandler: “W. E. B. Du Bois... African American Literature Series: Lecture by Nahum Dimitri Chandler ...

MAR 07The Future of EU? Immigration and the Rise of Populism This panel is part of CIES' Migration Series. ...

MAR 08Samia Henni: Discreet Violence: Architecture and the... During the Algerian Revolution (1954–62), or the Algerian War of Independence, the French civil and military authorities profoundly reorganized Algeria's urban and rural territory, drastically...

Cinema & Performing Arts Events

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FEB 23Seven Chances Digital Restoration! ...

FEB 24Kusama - Infinity 2018 > USA > Directed by Heather Lenz ...

FEB 27Midday Music for Organ 2/27: CU Music Midday Music: Matthew Hall, organ; The English Organ Part I: music by Purcell, Blow, Locke, and more.

FEB 27The Wild Pear Tree Ithaca Premiere ...

FEB 28In Between (Bar Bahar) Ithaca Premiere ...

FEB 28HABLA/SPEAK Join us for HABLA/SPEAK, a family-friendly exploration of what it means to be Latino or Latina in our community. The storytellers are sometimes heart-rending, sometimes heart-warming, and take the...

MAR 01HABLA/SPEAK Join us for HABLA/SPEAK, a family-friendly exploration of what it means to be Latino or Latina in our community. The storytellers are sometimes heart-rending, sometimes heart-warming, and take the...

MAR 01The Mystery of Picasso 1955>France>Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot ...

MAR 01David Salsbery Fry (bass-baritone) and Ryan MacEvoy ... Bass-baritone David Salsbery Fry and pianist Ryan MacEvoy McCullough present a recital featuring a brand new cycle of seven songs set to poetry by Dennis Lee, Jim Henson’s longtime...

MAR 02HABLA/SPEAK Join us for HABLA/SPEAK, a family-friendly exploration of what it means to be Latino or Latina in our community. The storytellers are sometimes heart-rending, sometimes heart-warming, and take the...

MAR 02Cornell Wind Symphony: CU Music Cornell Wind Symphony, James Spinazzola, conductor; Juliana Pepinsky performs Frank Ticheli’s Silver Lining Flute Concerto, plus Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol, Kathryn Salfelder...

MAR 02The Mystery of Picasso 1955>France>Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot ...

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