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On Wednesday, Sept. 22, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, the College of Arts & Sciences will host the event, “Aftershocks: Geopolitics Since the Ukraine Invasion” to discuss this war’s impact on Eurasia and beyond.
C.U. Downtown is returning with much anticipation as students voice excitement for free apple cider and donuts.
Internet celebrity Eugene Lee Yang and comedian Jenny Yang will be performing at Cornell on Saturday, featuring stand-up comedy and audience engagement in the Cornell University Program Board’s last show of the semester.
The Society for the Humanities hosted its annual Invitational Lecture Wednesday featuring Prof. Derrick Spires, literatures in English, who discussed early African American art and writing and how these works shape history.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, a 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner and staff writer for The New York Times Magazine.
In the event “Learning from the George Floyd Rebellion: Social Movements and Black Freedom Struggles Today,” speakers Prof. A.K. Thompson, sociology, Ithaca College, and Prof. Russell Rickford, history drew on their varying backgrounds to approach the topics of social movements and struggles for freedom from a combined sociological and historical perspective.
Cornell’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Lecture, an annual event that celebrates King’s life and legacy, will host a conversation with acclaimed Nigerian-American author and activist Ijeoma Oluo.
Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich spoke on bipartisan divisions and the post-Trump future of the Republican Party during a Feb. 17 virtual event.
Republican former presidential hopeful and governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker emphasized the “difference between socialism and freedom” in a speech to an ideologically mixed audience on Monday that highlighted his conservative record and high-profile battles against unions.
The talk will be held in Statler Auditorium in Statler Hall and will start at 4:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a public reception from 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. in the Statler Hotel Carrier Ballroom.