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NOV 20Malena Szlam: Inexistent Time Malena Szlam is an artist and filmmaker working at the intersection of cinema, installation, and performance. Her practice explores the relationship between the natural world, perception, and...

DEC 08The 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. ...

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Cornell Humanities Events

NOV 20AASP Wednesday Lunch Series with Tao Leigh Goffe Come join us for our monthly Wednesday Lunch Series, featuring guest speakers from Cornell's faculty and staff as well as the surrounding community. Enjoy a catered lunch in an informal setting...

NOV 20Ignacio Sanchez Prado, "The Persistence of the Trans... Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado is Jarvis Thurston and Mona van Duyn Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the editor of thirteen books and the author of seven,...

NOV 20Cornell According to Sound For two nights at the Flex Theater in the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett of The World According to Sound will be performing a live audio show that represents...

NOV 20Cornell According to Sound For two nights at the Flex Theater in the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett of The World According to Sound will be performing a live audio show that represents...

NOV 21Defending Frenemies: Alliance Politics and Nuclear N... Jeffrey Taliaferro, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Tufts University, will speak at 12:15 pm in G-08 Uris Hall on “Defending Frenemies: Alliance Politics and Nuclear...

NOV 21Frances Harper, William Still, and Reconstruction on... Derrick Spires will speak as part of the American Studies Fall Colloquium. A light lunch will be served. ...

NOV 21From the Universities to the Academia: Countering Ne... Institute for European Studies, Cornell University ...

NOV 21Jewish Communities of the Medieval Islamicate World Marina Rustow, Professor of Near Eastern Studies and History at Princeton University, will give a lecture on November 21 on "Lost Archives, Sacrosanct Wastebins, and the Jewish Communities of...

NOV 21The Paul Gottschalk Memorial Lecture by Richard Rambuss "Milton, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Carnival—New Orleans Style" ...

NOV 21Cornell According to Sound For two nights at the Flex Theater in the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett of The World According to Sound will be performing a live audio show that represents...

NOV 21Cornell According to Sound For two nights at the Flex Theater in the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett of The World According to Sound will be performing a live audio show that represents...

NOV 22Composers Forum: Colin Tucker ...

NOV 22IGCS Colloquium Inka Mülder-Bach (Modern German Literature, University of Munich; Permanent Visiting Professor, German Department, Princeton University) ...

NOV 22Philosophy Discussion Club Nic Bommarito, University of Buffalo ~ "Jainism, Buddhism, and the Ethics of Arguing"

NOV 22Simone Harmath de Lemos, "Kodi boe ure oino? The Boe... The XXI century is bound to witness a mass extinction of languages, where approximately 40% of the 7000+ languages of the world are forecast to disappear altogether in the next 100 years. The...

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Cinema & Performing Arts Events

NOV 19Tangerine Donut Time on Christmas Eve: the gritty streets of L.A. are bathed orange in a late winter sun, when transgender sex-worker Alexandra (Taylor) hands her trans friend Sin-Dee (Rodriguez), newly...

NOV 19Pan-African Drum and Dance Ensemble Open House: CU M... ...

NOV 20Malena Szlam: Inexistent Time Malena Szlam is an artist and filmmaker working at the intersection of cinema, installation, and performance. Her practice explores the relationship between the natural world, perception, and...

NOV 21Midday Music at Lincoln 11/21: CU Music Midday Music: Ariana Kim and Angela Yantorno, violin, with Madeline Schatz-Harris, viola. Music by Bartók, Berio, and Dvořák.

NOV 21Indonesian Shadowplay: CU Music In advance of the Migrating Shadows production on Saturday, November 23, I Gusti Putu Sudarta and Darsono Hadiraharjo will perform excerpts of traditional wayang, providing audiences a rare...

NOV 22Guest Artist in Dance Ayo Jackson: "White is the New... Cornell Performing and Media Arts (PMA) Guest Artist in Dance Ayo Jackson will give the performance, "White is the New Black," on Friday, November 22, 2019, at 4:30pm in the...

NOV 22The Next Storm November 15, 7:30 p.m. ...

NOV 22Richard Valitutto, piano: CU Music Richard Valitutto, piano: “Thought and Desire”; 21st-century works by Ramón Lazkano, Rebecca Saunders, Linda Catlin Smith, and George Walker, rounded out with some Poulenc and...

NOV 23Migrating Shadows: CU Music ...

NOV 23The Next Storm November 15, 7:30 p.m. ...

NOV 23The Next Storm November 15, 7:30 p.m. ...

NOV 24Cornell Wind Symphony and Chamber Orchestra: CU Music Cornell Wind Symphony; Joseph Hermann, conductor. Vittorio Giannini’s magnum opus and masterwork for symphonic winds, Symphony No. 3, Donald Grantham’s celebration of the popular...

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Anthropologists to speak on climate change

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Alumnus shares lessons learned from the campaign trail

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Conference spotlights ‘Energy Humanities’

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New Humanities Scholars Undergraduate Program to Launch

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