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“Reactionary Worldbuilding,” a book co-edited by Cornell College of Arts and Sciences scholar Anindita Banerjee, explores how speculative fiction and worldbuilding have influenced extremist ideologies and political movements. The collection examines links between imagination, reactionary politics and real-world social change.
Cynthia Miller-Idriss ’94 will deliver a Cornell University Lecture examining links between misogyny and violent extremism. The leading scholar’s Sept. 30 talk, co-sponsored by departments in the College of Arts and Sciences, draws on her book “Man Up,” exploring gender-based violence as a predictor of radicalization.
Years after visiting Croatia while studying abroad, Penny Smith Eifrig ’90, an alumna of Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences ,lives there. She teachies pickleball and ponders the power of saying ‘yes,' as she writes in a Chime In column for the Cornellians website.
18 veterans, including 10 studying STEM topics and eight in a college readiness cohort focused on American democracy participated in an academic boot camp at Cornell. Representing the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines, they ranged in age from 20 to 42, including active-duty personnel, reservists and veterans.
Niamh Gunning is a German studies major.
Cornell admits the Class of 2030 emphasizing real-world impact, enrolling 5,776 students from 102 countries. At Cornell University, the diverse cohort reflects the land-grant mission and applied learning goals across multiple colleges.
Mari Jarris's article "Forms of the Mother Right: Marxism's Matriarchal Origins from Friedrich Engels to Lu Märten" won the Women in German Best Article Prize for 2025.
Five professors from across campus will advocate that their discipline is the most important to save for the future in the annual Apocalypse Debate Nov. 6.
A professor of religious studies at Brown, Lewis will also hold a faculty appointment as a professor of religious studies and German studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Projects spanned topics from Confederate cemeteries to Korean textiles.
Rafaela Uzan is majoring in German studies and government.
A&S senior Rafaela Uzan is one of just 16 selected for the James C. Gaither Junior Fellows Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
The event celebrates April as National Poetry Month.
Our minds and the ways we tell stories are closely attuned, research shows, and scholar Fritz Breithaupt will explore how that connection works during a March visit as University Lecturer.
The series features the voices and research of 13 Cornell faculty members, more than half from A&S.
Rebekka Kricheldorf will talk about writing comedy and more with Samuel Buggeln, the play’s director and artistic director of Cherry Arts, on Nov. 12 – one of several collaborations.
A crowdfunding campaign launched Nov. 1 to support a Cornell-based season of "Ways of Knowing,” a new podcast created by The World According to Sound.
“We felt this is an important resource that should be available to our humanists at all levels, whether they have the resources to pay for membership or not,” said Peter John Loewen, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences.
To celebrate Cornell’s commitment to fostering global literacy and cross-cultural understanding, the Language Resource Center in the College of Arts and Sciences will host World Languages Day on Oct. 26.
Cornell, the only institution offering regular multilevel instruction in all six of the major Southeast Asian languages – Burmese, Indonesian, Khmer, Filipino (Tagalog), Thai and Vietnamese – will host a conference on the teaching of these languages on Sept. 19-21.
"Cornell alumni are generous with their time and efforts to assist students, to answer questions from students, or connect them to people and places."
Peter John Loewen says he's excited to support faculty in their research, meet students and showcase the value of a liberal arts education.
The field of game studies is growing at Cornell, including an expanded set of classes, workshops and symposia and a growing library collection of games.