“Media Objects,” a media studies conference originally scheduled for March 2020 at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, has been reconfigured into a virtual event, with the first panel scheduled for Oct. 23.
Ithaca, NY – September 28, 2020 – Two Cornell University professors, Tao Leigh Goffe and Jeffrey Palmer, will host a virtual block party to launch the website for their much-anticipated new initiative, DARK LABORATORY, a humanities incubator on Black and Indigenous immersive digital storytelling, theory, and design, on October 12, 2020 at 7PM EST.
A recent article by Matthew Kilbane, a lecturer in the English Department, brings together media studies and literary history. Published in PMLA, “Speech-Musical Modernism: Harry Partch’s Lyric Media” reveals the way lyric poetry was understood as specific kind of medium for sound—an "intermedial artifact," Kilbane argues—through a case study of the U.S. composer Harry Partch (1901-1974) and his collaboration with William Butler Yeats (1865-1939).
Undergraduates in the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity imagined themselves into the future during the program’s 2020 summer session.
Cornell Media Studies is unique for its broad historical reach, and for the collaborative interaction among the disciplines from Classics to Information Science.
