Briefs

AIP address:Cornell alumnus Taiaiake Alfred (Ph.D. '64, government) will deliver the keynote address, titled "Indigenous People and the Academy:Prospects and Challenges for the 21st Century," at a Cornell American Indian Program (AIP) symposium Wednesday, May 26, at 1:30 p.m. in the Robert Purcell Auditorium on campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Alfred is the University of Victoria's Indigenous Governance Program director and Canada Research Chair. His keynote address is part of a one-day symposium hosted by AIP, titled "Repatriating the Rafters:Envisioning Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Studies in the 21st Century." The symposium's purpose is to "bring many of the prominent and emerging voices in Haudenosaunee scholarship into dialogue with Haudenosaunee peoples," said Jon Parmenter, assistant professor of history and associate director for academic development at AIP.

"We are hoping to move AIP in the direction of a greater degree of diversity and engagement with Native American communities in New York state," Parmenter said. "Cornell Cooperative Extension has done a great job in that area, and we hope to build on other areas of academic inquiry."

For more information about Alfred's talk, contact Parmenter at 255-1876 or via e-mail at jwp35cornell.edu.

Commencement book signing:The Cornell Store will be having its second annual Cornell authors book signing event on Commencement weekend, Saturday, May 29, on the store's lower level. Authors signing their books from noon to 2 p.m. will be:Carol Kammen -- Cornell:Glorious to View; Michael Kammen -- A Time to Every Purpose; Robert Morgan -- The Strange Attractor and Brave Enemies; Alice Fulton -- The Cascade Experiment; Michael Turback -- The Banana Split Book:Everything There Is to Know About America's Greatest Dessert and A Month of Sundaes; Harry Littell -- Cornell Then and Now; and Glenn Altschuler, Larry Moore and Isaac Kramnick -- The 100 Most Notable Cornellians.