This week on campus, Cornell Chorus hosts a women's choral conference with a keynote by Maggie Wheeler; "The Godfather," "It" and other classics at Cornell Cinema; and "The Vagina Monologues."
Five undergraduates will recreate the making of the first jazz record and a performance by its creators on Feb. 26, the 100th anniversary of the recording session by The Original Dixieland Jass Band.
In a "Chats in the Stacks" at Olin Library on Feb. 15, German studies professor Patrizia McBride discussed her latest book, "The Chatter of the Visible."
A play titled "Root Map," developed in Cornell's Bodies at the Border distance learning class, is an international collaboration of academics and artists from around the world.
Tracy McNulty, Cornell professor of French and comparative literature, will explore the analytic act and its legacy through clinical examples and a reading of Freud's "Moses and Monotheism."
Theodore Jay Lowi, the charismatic Cornell professor of government whose seminal books became standards in political science discourse, died Feb. 17 in Ithaca, New York. He was 85.
Assistant professor of architecture Jenny Sabin has won the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program design competition for "Lumen," a pavilion opening this summer at PS1 in Long Island City.
Events this week include "The Great Dictator" in a Cornell Cinema "Demagogues" series; "Art and the Military" at the Johnson Museum; a book talk by economist Eswar Prasad; and the Vida Guitar Quartet.
