Phd Student Organizes Symposium on Maverick John Lilly
Reconsidering John C. Lilly is a one-day symposium convened by Hannah Zeavin (UC Berkeley) and Jeffrey Mathias (Cornell University).
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Naminata Diabate wins ASA book prize for ‘Naked Agency’
The African Studies Association (ASA) has awarded its Best Book Prize to Naminata Diabate, associate professor of comparative literature, for “Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa” (Duke University Press, 2020).
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Kim Gallon to deliver lecture on Black pandemic deaths data
Kim Gallon, associate professor of history at Purdue University, will demonstrate how computational humanities offers an opportunity to redefine “crisis” through the Black American experience and turn it into a defining moment for the recovery and reimagination of Black humanity.
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Pioneering professor Trevor Pinch dies at 69
Remembering distinguished Cornell Professor, Trevor Pinch
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Media Studies Initiative Launches New Graduate Minor
Starting in spring 2022, a graduate minor in media studies will be available to students in fields across the Graduate School at Cornell University. Drawing on the Graduate School's long tradition of fostering interdisciplinary study, the new minor is the most recent project of the Media Studies initiative, which sponsors an undergraduate minor...
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Dark Laboratory Launches Black and Indigenous Media Exhibit
Co-sponsored by Cornell Media Studies and the program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Dark Laboratory presents the photography exhibition I’m New Here: Black and Indigenous Media Ecologies. The exhibition explores the intersecting ideas of race and ecology through the visual and literary interpretation of the work of seven...
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Artificial Echoes and Insect Synthesizers
Two new media studies articles from Owen Marshall, a postdoctoral researcher in the departments of Information Science and Science & Technology Studies, uncover the technological practices that brought human speech and insect feeding behavior under electro-acoustic control in the mid 20th Century.Early users of magnetic tape recorders were...
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In Memoriam: Branden Hookway (1971–2021)
Branden Hookway, a long-term visiting assistant professor in the Department of Architecture, among other departments at Cornell [Design and Environmental Analysis (DE+A), Information Science, and Art], passed away the evening of Saturday, August 14, 2021 in Palo Alto, California after a long battle with a rare form of sarcoma.Born in 1971 and...
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History, music, physics harmonize in keyboard project
When Elizaveta Zabelina ’24 works on the replica of a ca. 1800 Johann Schantz piano that’s part of the instrument collection at the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards, she can’t help feeling a bit philosophical.“Because of the distinction of materials and work, which was one of a kind in historical instruments, each instrument has its own...
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