2019

Roundtables to explore 2020 Biennial theme ‘Swarm’

November 15, 2019March 9, 2022

The Cornell Council for the Arts is holding three lunchtime roundtables in preparation for the 2020 Cornell Biennial, focused on the theme “Swarm: Ecology, Digitality, Sociality.” At each roundtable, an interdisciplinary group...

Writer, emeritus professor James McConkey dies at 98

October 28, 2019December 8, 2020

Acclaimed writer James McConkey, the Goldwin Smith Professor of English Literature Emeritus and mentor to young writers at Cornell for nearly four decades, died Oct. 24, 2019 at his home in Enfield. He...

Debate at the State: Baldwin vs. Buckley—The Faith of Our Fathers

Debate team to re-create Buckley vs. Baldwin in play at State

April 11, 2019December 8, 2020

Cornell Speech and Debate Society members have a busy few weeks coming up as they prepare for the national championships and prelims. On top of that, the students are trying...

Regina Mun and the Cornell Fashion Collective Stun Cornell’s Barton Hall

March 11, 2019December 8, 2020

Founded by Onslo Carrington ’88 and Laura Russel ’88 in 1984, the Cornell Fashion Collective started as a small organization based out of Willard Straight Hall. Today, it has grown...

Symposium welcomes artists, public to explore feminist performance

March 7, 2019December 8, 2020

The history of feminist performance is one of radical storytelling, of showing how the personal is political, and of carving out spaces in which women can feel, in the words...

Cornell Fashion Collective 35th Runway Show

Hollywood and brides: Designers ready for 35th Runway Show

March 6, 2019December 8, 2020

Months of sketching, designing and hand-sewing original garments comes to a climax for more than two dozen student designers this week at the Cornell Fashion Collective’s 35th annual Runway Show, March...

Rethinking empowerment with ‘Fashions from the Frontline’ at Cornell exhibition

January 15, 2019March 9, 2022

Knit hats in all different shades of pink from the Women’s March fill a display case. In front of the hats is a colorful circus-themed ensemble created by a Cornell...

The Curdling of American Masculinity in University Frats

January 4, 2019February 10, 2021

Published in October 2018, Moisey’s The American Fraternity: An Illustrated Ritual Manual chronicles a startling pantomime of stunted, rapacious youth alongside the text of a 60-year-old “ritual book” discovered on the floor of...