A celebration of National Poetry Month and language learning April 21 featured multilingual poetry, song, dance and an international dessert reception.
Six undergraduates spent spring break in Harlem building a sensory garden for children through Alternative Breaks, which promotes service learning through direct engagement with various communities.
The Common Ground writing seminar includes a partnership with Boynton Middle School that helps Cornell students see that their community extends beyond campus and helps Boynton students see possibilities beyond high school.
Students offered feedback and asked questions about the College of Arts and Sciences' proposed curriculum changes at a student-led forum in Uris Hall auditorium April 19.
"Baltimore," a play by Kirsten Greenidge that runs April 28 to May 6 at the Schwartz Center, references the Ferguson riots, the Black Lives Matter movement and the deaths of Trayvon Martin and others.
Events on campus this week include a celebration of poetry and languages, Yamatai's Pulse concert and Rhythms of China, avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs and a lecture on the history of Polish Jews.
The Theory Reading Group is hosting a conference at Cornell, "Listening to Trauma," April 27-28, on Cathy Caruth's influential book, "Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History."
"On/By Black Women/Black Girls," a symposium April 21-22 at the Africana Studies and Research Center, gathers scholars, artists, activists and youths for discussion, poetry and films.
"The Disinformation Age: The Collapse of Liberal Democracy in the United States" finds disinformation intensified in 1980, when Ronald Reagan's election triggered economic inequality.
