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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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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 60,000 Italian civilian victims of Allied bombing were killed when Italy was no longer an enemy. Matt Evangelista explores this seeming paradox in a new book.
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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.
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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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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As one of the newest faculty members in the FGSS Program, Prof. Chelsea M. Frazier teaches her undergraduate and graduate students how art and literature show Black women’s conceptions of the world and ecological problems — and provides them with the tools to tell stories of their own.
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A digital and print collection, co-edited by Karen Jaime, pays tribute to the late Miguel Algarín.
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Grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation will help make humanities research more accessible to scholars and the public.
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Noah Tamarkin's book "Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa" (Duke University Press, 2020) has recently received two awards.
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Join us for a special preview screening of the award-winning psychological horror fable, Nanny, on Tuesday, November 15, at 8pm, Cornell Cinema.
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CADA has partnered with the Brooklyn Mutual Aid fund. Together, it is our goal to provide migrants recently arriving in New York City with warm clothes for the winter. Please either donate to the FGSS Program office at 180 Rockefeller Hall or use our Amazon wishlist to send items directly to Brooklyn Mutual Aid.
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FGSS graduate minor alum Stephen Kim '20 has been named an Einhorn Center Engaged Faculty Fellow. Since graduation, Stephen has been working as the curriculum specialist and lecturer for the Intergroup Dialogue Project and assistant director of ILR WIDE.
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Two years after changing its name, the Department of Literatures in English, formerly the Department of English, began its first semester with a newly revised undergraduate curriculum this fall.
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The final installment of the Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program’s event series on Friday, Nov. 11, included coalition building and community engagement, with the addition of a discussion about date-rape drugs and sexual assaults on campus.
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Are you looking for a class to take this winter? Consider signing up for FGSS 2501: History and Identity in Sports Film.
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Extending her research on writing by Black women around the world, Carole Boyce Davies examines the stories of Black women political leaders in Africa and in the global African Diaspora.
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Judith Byfield's book "The Great Upheaval: Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria" was awarded the Martin A. Klein Prize.
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Throughout the month of November, FGSS/LGBT Studies will be hosting a number of events just for graduate students!
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For the 2023 spring semester, Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies (FGSS) and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender (LGBT) Studies are offering a variety of courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
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On Tuesday, October 25, the feminist, gender and sexuality studies program hosted the third installment in their series “Our Bodies, Their Laws.” This portion consisted of a discussion surrounding the impact that the Supreme Court ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson has had on the LGBTQ+ community.
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Her talk is one of three in the African Diaspora Knowledge Exchange Series.
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After two successful books on misogyny and gender politics, Associate Professor Kate Manne of the Sage School of Philosophy and FGSS grad field faculty member is embarking on a new project: analyzing fatphobia.
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Cornell's president highlighted recent achievements of Arts and Sciences faculty, including FGSS graduate field faculty member Margaret Rossiter, who won the 2022 Sarton Medal from the History of Science Society for research that has retold the history of women in science "to write them back in."
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FGSS INVITES YOU AT ATTEND A COMMUNITY-WIDE DISCUSSION ABOUT DATE-RAPE DRUGS AND SEXUAL ASSAULTS ON CAMPUS". THIS FRIDAY, NOV. 11, FROM 3:30 TO 5:30, Appel Common, Multipurpose Room, 303 ABC.
"Social media platforms and the internet have created a culture of forced transparency and often unearned and unwitting belonging," FGSS and LGBT Studies affiliated faculty member Naminata Diabate told NBC News, in response to fans accusing Taylor Swift of "queerbaiting."
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Four A&S faculty members have been honored for their excellence in undergraduate teaching and mentoring.
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Julia Chang examines the presence of blood and its deeper literary and cultural meaning in novels by three Spanish authors.
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Blood plays an important role – as both plot element and metaphor – in novels by Spain’s most prominent writers of the 19th century, according to literary scholar and FGSS affiliated assistant professor, Julia Chang.
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On Saturday, October 8th, 2022 FGSS and LGBT Studies affiliated assistant professor Karen Jaime (LSP/PMA) launched Memorias de Miguel: The Hard Work of Love (Hemi Press 2022), a print and digital anthology including both prose and poetry that aims to celebrate the life and legacy of Nuyorican Poets Cafe founder, Miguel Algarín.
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FGSS and LGBT Studies affiliated assistant professor Stephen Vider's book, "The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality and the Politics of Domesticity after World War II", has been awarded the honorable mention for the 2022 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for the best book in American Studies published during 2021.
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On the heels of National Coming Out Day, a new documentary will premiere that celebrates the love and lives of those lost in the decades-long AIDS epidemic and demonstrates the power of a mother’s love.
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Dr. Kareem Khubchandani and Dr. Samantha Iwowo are the distinguished speakers for the Fall 2022 PMAPS Colloquium.
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Friday’s concluding keynote will be delivered by Jonathan Flatley, a scholar of literature and the relationship between politics and aesthetics .
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“Once Upon a Time in A Place Called Now: An Interactive Storytelling Workshop for Artists, Activists, and Educators”
Thursday, October 20, 2022
5:00-6:30 pm
Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts
Tia Lessin '89 will be on campus Oct. 13 for a screening at Cornell Cinema.
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Noah Tamarkin's book, Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa, has been awarded the honorable mention for the Diana Forsythe Prize.
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On December 3, 2021, abortion activists staged a direct action outside of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) protesting the imminent overturning of Roe v. Wade (1973) and with it the constitutional right to privacy that had previously protected abortion rights (for some).
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On Friday, September 16, members of the Cornell community gathered for a workshop presented by the Cornell Law School's Gender and Justice Clinic on the recent legal decisions rolling back reproductive justice.
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This interactive discussion with presenters and audience focuses on the potential impacts of this legislation and Dobbs V. Jackson for LGBTQ+ people and communities, including the issues of gay marriage, queer kinships, and transgender healthcare and rights.
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Meet Chelsea Mikael Frazier, Literatures in English and FGSS affiliated faculty
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Editor Jane Juffer and contributor Jael Goldfine explain the inspiration and thought process of Millennial Feminism at Work.
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