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“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.
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“Possible Landscapes,” a new feature-length documentary film exploring the lived experience of landscapes and environments in the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago, will have its debut screening on Sept. 25 at Cornell Cinema.
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The exhibit reveals how newspapers served as a powerful vehicle for literature, culture and community-building.
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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.
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The global conference, held in July, received 1,150 submissions from scholars and practitioners from 112 countries, representing five continents.
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Dr. Eddie Glaude, Jr., New York Times bestselling author, political commentator and academic scholar, will deliver a keynote discussion at 6:00 p.m. in the Alice Statler Auditorium on September 13, 2024.
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As more than 50 African leaders gather in Beijing for a summit aimed at increasing the influence of China in the developing world, professor Olúfémi Táíwò says it’s ironic that the same African leaders who have denounced colonialism, might now find common ground with the People’s Republic of China. ...
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"Cornell alumni are generous with their time and efforts to assist students, to answer questions from students, or connect them to people and places."
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Undergraduate Program
The Africana studies undergraduate major and minor prepare students for a broad range of academic and professional careers in both the public and private sectors. Africana studies has a history of shaping students' intellectual discipline, creativity, and social and political awareness.
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An unique perspective
Graduate Program
An interdisciplinary global study of race and Blackness makes Africana studies at Cornell a significant resource for graduate students who want to engage in the interdisciplinary study of Black people in Africa, the African diaspora and around the globe.
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The Africana Studies & Research Center
The Africana Studies & Research Center extends the teaching and learning opportunities that we provide in both our undergraduate and graduate classrooms well beyond to service learning projects and community initiatives, from local to transnational contexts.
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Exploration on the Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad Hub
The projects featured here provide information about documented underground railroad activities in our region, tell us about the small Black communities that settled here to escape slavery after New York state outlawed it in 1827, and inform us about those ordinary people who braved assisting freedom seekers at great personal risk to themselves and their families.
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