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Announcing the 2025-26 Focal Theme: Scale
The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University seeks interdisciplinary research projects for year-long residencies that reflect on the theme of Scale.
Read moreOur fellows offer experimental interdisciplinary seminars on research topics related to the year's focal theme. These seminars are offered one time only! The theme for 2023-24 is "Crossing."
Our Fall 2024 seminars explore concepts of disability history, political violence in fiction, queer archives, and more, delving deeply into intersectional interpretations of the focal theme, Silence.
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Designed specifically for undergraduate students, the goal of the seminar is to teach and refine research methods (library research, note taking, organizing material, bibliographies, citation methods, proposals, outlines, etc.) as well as to guide students through the initial stages of a research project of your own design. Part of the Humanities Scholars Program.
The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University seeks interdisciplinary research projects for year-long residencies that reflect on the theme of Scale.
Read moreComing from the University of Toronto, where he is the director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Loewen begins his five-year appointment as the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Aug. 1.
Read moreKim Haines-Eitzen, the Paul and Berthe Hendrix Memorial Professor of Near Eastern studies, and Mostafa Minawi, associate professor of history and director of Critical Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies, will pursue research projects in residence in Durham, North Carolina.
Read moreRecently the faculty director of the Humanities Scholars Program, Ghosh brings to the Society scholarly background in the history of British colonialism on the Indian subcontinent; academic focuses on gender and sexuality and South Asia; and broad experience with interdisciplinary collaborations.
Read moreTo honor the anniversary, the Society has produced a booklet chronicling the history of the A.D. White House as president’s home, art museum and locus for the humanities at Cornell.
Read moreOrganized by trans Cornellians, the event will address issues and harms facing the community from a trans perspective.
Read moreMitter’s talk will re-examine the classic question, “Did the communists win or the nationalists lose the Chinese civil war?”
Read moreAnnouncing the 2024-25 cohort of Silence Fellows at the Society for the Humanities.
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