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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Katherine Sender, a professor at Cornell University focusing on media and sexuality, about the state of corporate LGBTQ+ Pride campaigns.
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A doctoral candidate in science and technology studies with a focus on the anthropology of science, Domingues studies how investigators use scientific methods and humanities theories to reconstruct the lives of past humans.
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Congratulations to all of the graduating FGSS and LGBT Studies graduate and undergraduate students!
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Karen Jaime (‘97) Assistant Professor of Performing and Media Arts and Latina/o Studies has been awarded a 2023-2024 Schomburg Fellowship and the Faculty Champion Award for Junior Faculty presented annually by the Graduate School Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement and the Graduate and Professional Student Diversity Council at Cornell.
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This summer, 101 students in the College of Arts and Sciences will take part in groundbreaking research on campus with 61 faculty as part of the Nexus Scholars Program.
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Prameela Kottapalli is a College Scholar, government & feminist, gender and sexuality studies major.
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These awards include funding for a conference, a superdepartment grant supporting collaboration in psychology, and 17 grants that will jump-start research across campus.
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Only 36% of the gender segregation seen among college-educated workers is tied to their undergraduate degrees, a new study finds.
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The U.S. Senate is set to vote today on a measure that could allow the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to be added to the U.S. Constitution, a century after its introduction.
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The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program is pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 Biddy Martin Graduate Prize and the LGBT Studies Undergraduate Prize.
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In this keynote held on April 20, 2023, speakers Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi and Yến Lê Espiritu offered an intergenerational remembrance of Đại Tá [Colonel] HồNgọc Cẩn,our cậu hai [oldest maternal uncle] and ông hai[oldest granduncle] respectively, an Army of the Republic of Vietnam officer who was publicly executed by a Communist firing squad.
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“Precious Scraps” showcases quilters and fabric artists from across the country, as well as from Cornell -- including Africana Prof. Riché Richardson.
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Students interested in the way history is reflected in monuments, memorials, museum exhibitions, oral histories and in other ways can now sign up to minor in public history.
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Scholars, artists, and organizers who understand the violence of displacement deeply and intimately narrate and theorize how borders, militarized imperialisms, and their colonial genealogies shape people’s lives and foreclose the right to both home and refuge. Featuring presentations, performances, films, installations, conversations, and dialogues that reimagine connections between here and there, the past and present, personal and political.
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Although Cornell is home to a diverse community of faculty and students, those who come from underrepresented backgrounds reported frequently facing unique challenges that their white and male counterparts do not.
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Prof. Mara Yue Du will talk about “State and Family in China: Filial Piety and its Modern Reform” on April 13 in Olin Library.
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Vincent Brown, the Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, will deliver this year’s Reuben A. and Cheryl Casselberry Munday Distinguished Lecture April 17.
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"We are both honoring Justice Ginsburg’s legacy as a trailblazer for justice and gender equality, and also celebrating New York’s history as the birthplace of the women’s rights movement.”
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Her three-volume work, “Women Scientists in America,” sheds light on the many ways women were involved in the advancement of science, as well as how they were pushed out of the field.
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"As a senior, I have been reflecting on my four years in Ithaca and it has become evident to me that I have been most impacted by the community-engaged learning (CEL) course led by Professor Jane Juffer, Refugees and the Politics of Vulnerability: Intersections of Feminist Theory and Practice," said FGSS major Sky Lingo '23.
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For the 2023 fall semester, Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies (FGSS) and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender (LGBT) Studies Programs are offering a variety of courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
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Several Arts & Sciences faculty members are among the 14 2023-24 fellows by the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS).
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"A theme of the Harrison College Scholar Program is that our students are independent but not isolated."
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In the Program in LGBT Studies, we envision and work collaboratively to create a world where every member of every LGBTQ+ community has the freedom to live their truth—with dignity, respect, and equal protection.
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In June 2022, what we feared would happen did in fact materialize: the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies immediately began to organize, forming a coalition with groups on campus to put on a series of events in fall 2022, under the rubric “Our Bodies, Their Laws.”
Remaining members of the Grateful Dead will return to play a benefit concert in Barton Hall on May 8 as part of the band’s final tour.
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A new public history digital exhibition hosted by the Center for Teaching Innovation uses storytelling methods to look at Cornell’s past.
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Sheppard, an associate professor of cinema and media studies, and affiliation with FGSS, authored "Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen", which explores sports documentaries and how they represent blackness.
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Sophie Lewis will offer a deep dive into the history of radical movements and explore family abolition, which she characterizes as a turning away from the privatization of care.
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“Abolish the family? You might as well abolish gravity,” begins Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation (Verso, 2022), a new book from Sophie Lewis, a writer, teacher, and visiting scholar at Center for Research in Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
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FGSS Professor Samantha N. Sheppard was recently featured on The Film Comment Podcast.
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In an email to MSN Business Insider, Samantha Sheppard, an associate professor of cinema and media studies, and affiliation with FGSS, said the snubs show a devaluation of Black women's stories and storytellers.
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The FGSS Program is co-sponsoring a Performing and Media Arts Presentation Series (PMAPS) Colloquium with Assistant Professor Dotun Ayobade on February 17. The title of Professor Ayobade's talk is "Ethnographies of Serious Play: Sensing the Ludic in a Women’s History of Afrobeat Music."
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“I’d like to think [embracing ChatGPT as a new tool and teaching students to use it effectively] will win the day, but unfortunately it’s the most labor-intensive approach for instructors,” FGSS graduate field faculty member Kim Weeden tells The Cornell Daily Sun.
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The refurbishment and preservation of McGraw has become a top priority for the College of Arts & Sciences and the university.
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A New Year welcomes a new Director of Graduate Studies for the department of Sociology. As of the first of the year, Professor Vida Maralani takes the role over from Professor Erin York Cornwell, who’s proven remarkable dedication to the position over the last few years.
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The fourth cohort of Klarman Fellows is the largest since the program’s launch in 2019.
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Black at Cornell, a town hall and community event on Feb. 2 at 6 p.m., launches Black History Month on campus. Students, faculty and staff will gather in the Africana Center multipurpose room to discuss global Blackness and the experience of being Black on campus – and finish out the night with refreshments and music by DJ Ishion Hutchinson and student Esther Heller, an MFA candidate in poetry.
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In WWII, two-thirds of the Italian civilian victims of Allied bombing were killed when Italy was no longer an enemy.
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The stakes of cultural appropriation are high, particularly given the history of colonialism, imperialism, and slavery Black women in this country have faced, said Riche Richardson, a professor of Africana studies and FGSS graduate field faculty member at Cornell University.
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FGSS graduate field faculty member Carole Boyce-Davies, a featured speaker for the Black Artist Talk event and professor of Africana Studies and Literatures in English at Cornell University, explains that twerking traditionally served a specific purpose.
King’s historic visit on Nov. 13, 1960, and a second, on April 14, 1961, came during a period when he was honing ideas that would take center stage at the March on Washington in 1963
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A collaboration between a collective of artists, poets, academics, curators, architects, and activists, this digital humanities project maps global ecological crises and shared Black, Asian, Pacific, Middle Eastern, Latin American, Caribbean, and Indigenous futures.
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FGSS jointly appointed faculty member Tao Leigh Goffe and artist Andrea Chung consider art's ability to critique traditional histories and envision otherwise futures.
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The President’s Council of Cornell Women (PCCW) awarded Affinito-Stewart research grants totaling $195,166 to 20 Cornell faculty members.
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Anthropologist Noah Tamarkin has received the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies in the category of social science, anthropology, and folklore.
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On Oct. 17th, Cornell University’s Board of Trustees appointed Prof. Shirley Samuels as Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies.
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In Emancipation's Daughters: Re-Imagining Black Femininity and the National Body (Duke UP, 2020), Riché Richardson examines iconic black women leaders who have contested racial stereotypes and constructed new national narratives of black womanhood in the United States.
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"Our goal is to connect with other students and cultivate that space so we usually focus on the student outreach part of it," FGSS major Amisha Chowdhury '23 said.
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A&S faculty offer book and poetry recommendations for the new year.
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