Slave ship image helped end slavery, new book shows
Art historian Cheryl Finley provides the first in-depth look at how the 18th-century slave ship schematic became an enduring symbol of black resistance, identity and remembrance.
New exhibit finds art in unusual places
Marbled plastic, strange fluorescent colors, irregular forms: Large-format photographs on display in the John Hartell Gallery scale images of tiny plastic toys up 30 times.
Seven projects awarded 2018 digitization grants
<p>Seasoned documents and artifacts are starting fresh digital lives through the <a href="https://dcaps.library.cornell.edu/grants/as">Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences</a>, which is funding seven projects this year. Launched in 2010, the program supports faculty members and graduate students in creating online collections vital for their own and for general scholarship.</p>
Art book reveals inner world of ‘The American Fraternity’
The black, faux-leather book cover declares “The American Fraternity,” and nothing else. The title page reads only “Ritual of Initiation.”
Art history professor receives grant for global seminars
Iftikhar Dadi, associate professor of history of art, has received a $238,000 grant from the Getty Foundation's Connecting Art Histories initiative for a series of research seminars. The project, “Connecting Modern Art Histories in and across Africa, South and Southeast Asia,” is a collaboration between Cornell’s Institute of Comparative Modernities (ICM), the Dhaka Art Summit in Bangladesh, and Asia Art Archives in Hong Kong.
Language Resource Center podcast highlights indigenous languages
A new season of podcasts from the Language Resource Center (LRC) celebrates 2019 as the United Nations International Year of Indigenous Languages. The global celebration kicked off with a seminar in New York City Feb. 1, showcasing the world’s ancient tongues and highlighting the need to conserve, revitalize and promote them.
Bollywood biopic debuts at Cornell
<p>Bollywood director Nandita Das brings her breakout 2018 film “Manto,” the story of maverick writer Saadat Hasan Manto during the Partition of India, to Cornell on <a href="http://events.cornell.edu/event/sap_seminar_series_manto_film_screening_and_q_a_with_director_nandita_das">Thursday, March 14</a>.</p>
Symposium welcomes artists, public to explore feminist performance
<p>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 of performance artist Holly Hughes, “at last, fully human.”</p><p>An interdisciplinary symposium at Cornell March 15-16 will explore what this history can teach us about the future of feminism, and how we can use performance to reflect the changes we want to see.</p>
Einaudi Center funds Cornell dissertations with global impact
<p> Twelve graduate students will spend this year refining their dissertation plans and testing the waters of global research, with help from faculty mentors and intensive workshops, in the <a href="http://einaudi.cornell.edu/einaudi-ssrc-dissertation-proposal-development-program">Einaudi-SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Program</a>.</p>
Einaudi grants to send 86 graduate students abroad
86 Cornell graduate students have been awarded travel grants from the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies for the 2019-20 academic year.
Ryan Stommel: ‘I will embark on a journey to become the first person in history to visit every country in the world multiple times’
<h3>Ryan Stommel</h3><h3>History of Art & Archaeology</h3><h3>Fond du Lac, WI</h3><p><strong>What are the most valuable skills you gained from your Arts & Sciences education?</strong></p>
New class contemplates media from cross-campus perspectives
Over the course of the semester, “Thinking Media” drew on Cornell’s rich holdings in media and material culture.
‘Pathways to Art History’ addresses gaps in art history education
<p>While students from affluent school districts are often treated to field trips to museums or AP courses in art history, the same experiences aren’t always available to youth from low-income districts. This unequal access has prompted a new initiative developed by <a href="https://arthistory.cornell.edu/ananda-cohen-aponte">Ananda Cohen-Aponte,</a> associate professor in the history of art department in the College of Arts & Sciences.</p>
Undergrad humanities scholars present their research
<p>Meredith Chagares ’19 began her senior thesis in history, literally, with a footnote – one that led her to do investigative work for “Anatomy of a Cover-Up: How and Why the United States Covered Up Japanese World War II Biological Warfare Experiments.”</p><p>“I discovered about Japan’s experiments via a footnote while researching Nazi experiments,” she said.</p>
Arts and Sciences faculty honored for advising, teaching
<div>Erin York Cornwell has been awarded the 2019 Robert and Helen Appel Fellowship for Humanists and Social Scientists, and Ananda Cohen-Aponte and Khena Swallow have been awarded the 2019 Robert A. and Donna B. Paul Academic Advising Award.</div><div> </div><div>They were among the Arts & Sciences faculty honored at a May 25 trustee-faculty dinner recognizing university-wide teaching and advising.</div><div> </div>
History of art professor honored with book prize
<p><a href="https://arthistory.cornell.edu/cheryl-finley">Cheryl Finley</a>, associate professor of history of art, has won the 2019 Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Book Prize from the Bard Graduate Center for her book, “<a href="https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11258.html">Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon</a>.”</p>
Miniature casts of Temple of Zeus take their place in namesake cafe
<p>Looking at the two rows of miniature plaster casts now watching over diners in Klarman Hall’s Temple of Zeus, you’ll notice a few of the figures are missing. But never fear, art detective <a href="https://arthistory.cornell.edu/annetta-alexandridis">Annetta Alexandridis </a>(also known as an associate professor of history of art and of classics) is on the case.</p>
Reunion talk travels through time, and art
<p>Travelers to Reunion were introduced to the origins and evolutions of travel photography by <a href="https://as.cornell.edu/andrew-moisey">Andrew Moisey</a>, assistant professor of the history of art and visual studies, in a June 6 talk, “Forever Your Journey: Capturing the Experience of Faraway Places, 1700-1900,” in Goldwin Smith Hall’s Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium.</p>
Grad students honor three A&S professors with awards
<p>Two A&S professors — Jenny Mann, associate professor of English, and Jolene Rickard, associate professor of American studies and history of art and visual studies — were honored recently by the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (GPSA) with Faculty Teaching, Advising and Mentorship awards. Michael Niemack, assistant professor of physics, received an honorable mention. Faculty members are nominated by current graduate students or alumni.</p>
Application portal opens for new Klarman Fellowships
“We are recruiting the most promising emerging researchers from around the world."
New Cornell hub for historical keyboards opened Sept. 6
<p>The <a href="http://music.cornell.edu/keyboard-center">Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards</a> celebrated a new space for its instrument collection at 726 University Ave. with “New Meets Old: Collaborative Confrontations,” a festival Sept. 6-7, presented by the Department of Music in the College of Arts and Sciences.</p>
New Cayuga language class focuses on nature, culture
The launch of the class coincides with the United Nations Declaration of 2019 as the Year of Indigenous Languages.
Arts Unplugged event features Sundance film screening, masterclass
The second Arts Unplugged celebrates indigenous culture with talks, film, food and more. Thursday, Oct. 17 at 5 p.m. in the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.
Five projects awarded 2019 digitization grants
<p>Cornell University Library’s <a href="https://dcaps.library.cornell.edu/grants/as">Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences</a> transforms fragile artifacts into lasting online collections for teaching and research. This year, the program has awarded funding to five projects representing a range of study, from unearthing a vanished hamlet in Enfield Falls, New York, to examining modern art in Indonesia.</p>
Art and science provide fertile ground for research, teaching
Lehmann and Klinck sounded out two other Cornell scientists – associate professor of entomology Kyle Wickings and assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering Greg McLaskey – to join in a project to listen to the Earth. Wickings is the principal investigator on “Sounds of Soil,” a project to develop inexpensive acoustic sensors to detect, monitor and study populations of soil-dwelling organisms – in particular, disruptive insects that feed on roots, affecting both plant and soil health. The project received a Venture Fund grant from the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability in June 2018.