Anindita Banerjee, associate professor of comparative literature, launched a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund translation of Russian science fiction spanning the revolution to the 1990s.
Events on campus include a Halloween party at Cornell Cinema, the Cornell University Chorus Twilight Concert, book talks, and a lecture by author and Paris Review editor Philip Gourevitch '83.
Samantha Sheppard, an expert on African-American cinema and movie fan, has several scholarly and critical works forthcoming and runs the Voices and Visions in Black Cinema series at Cornell.
Novelist Amara Lakhous spoke about European immigration in an Oct. 22 campus talk and referred to his own journey from Algerian immigrant to Italy to academic and literary success.
As part of the Global Health Program's new collaboration in the Dominican Republic, ten Dominican medical students visited campus for a week beginning Oct. 15 to exchange ideas and knowledge.
Maureen Quilligan, the Department of English’s M.H. Abrams Distinguished Visiting Professor, will present “When Women Ruled the World: the Synergies of Female Sovereignty in the Renaissance” Nov. 5.
Following the announcement that the archives of The Atlantic Philanthropies will be donated to Cornell Library, Atlantic President and CEO Christopher Oechsli and Cornell President Elizabeth Garrett discussed the foundation's work.
The archives of The Atlantic Philanthropies, among the world’s largest and most influential foundations, will be housed permanently at Cornell. The archives document roughly $8 billion in Atlantic grants over three decades.