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Join our team of undergrad Migrations scholars to promote the study of migration at Cornell. Under the guidance of Migrations postdoctoral fellow @SabrinaAxster, the Migrations scholars support programming related to the initiative. Apply by December 18! einaudi.cornell.edu/learn/academic…
Happy last day of classes, #Cornell students! Did a professor go the extra mile this semester to impact your learning? If so, let them know what it meant to you. Send a Thank a Professor message online now – 12/8! #ThankAProfessor Cornell University rebrand.ly/ThankProfTwitt…
Attention Cornell Grad School students! Up to $4k in funding is available from the Humanities New York HCI Public Humanities Grant for public-facing projects. Apply by March 31, 2024: societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu/hci-public-hum… … #PublicHumanities #HumanitiesForAll David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement Cornell Public History Initiative
As current land acknowledgments compel a deeper look @ U.S./NYS history, a new exhibit by Cornell Human Centered Design Lynda Xepoleas (PhD '23) uncovers an important story: "Redressing Histories of Early Hodinǫhsǫ́:nih Women at Cornell 1914-1942." bit.ly/redressing-his…
Hannah Crafts, the first Black female novelist in the US, began her book in 1851 as a slave in N Carolina & finished it after escaping North, "a very radical thing” for the antebellum era says Africana Studies at Cornell professor Riché Richardson on Public Radio East publicradioeast.org/2023-12-01/who…
CU sophomores with humanities interests: Applications to join the next CornellArts&Sciences Humanities Scholars Program cohort are due March 1, 2024. Sophomores from ALL colleges across Cornell University are eligible to apply! Apply online: as.cornell.edu/research/human…
The blessing of same-sex couples, permitted this week by Pope Francis, is an important and complex step for the Catholic Church, says Cornell Dept of Sociology professor Landon Schnabel, yet "This move presents a paradox for the LGBTQ faithful." as.cornell.edu/news/lgbtq-cat…
Whoa, honored to be on this list of The Yale Review's most-read prose of 2023! "Lorraine Hansberry’s Queer Archive" was difficult to write & an immense labor of love. Grateful to TYR for the chance to share it with the world. yalereview.org/article/alec-p…
The trendy concept of “food noise” is a rebrand of basic human drives – hunger, appetite, craving, writes philosophy professor Kate Manne in a The New York Times op-ed, arguing that we should resist this framing: “When we are hungry, our bodies tell us to eat." as.cornell.edu/news/what-if-f…
Social media influencers - while they are encouraged to reveal their innermost selves to their legions of followers, doing so can open them up to identity-based harassment, explains research from prof. Dr. Brooke Erin Duffy. news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/0…
Fatphobia, says philosopher Kate Manne, has become a vital social justice issue. In her new book, “Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia,” Manne draws on personal experience as well as scientific research. CornellArts&Sciences news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/0…
Fatphobia is a social system that unfairly ranks bodies according to thinness, “in terms of not only our health but also our moral, sexual and intellectual status,” writes philosophy professor Kate Manne in her book "Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia.” as.cornell.edu/news/fatphobia…
Can't wait to be in conversation with one of my heroes tonight, roxane gay. We start at 8pm ET, and there's still time to register familyactionnetwork.net/events/unshrin…
Join us for an urgent and timely conversation with Dr. Kate Manne, Associate Professor at CornellArts&Sciences, about the severity of size discrimination and how to combat it. youtube.com/watch?v=ruwU9k… #fatphobia
"The kindness we preach doesn’t seem to extend to people who live in larger bodies." In The Guardian, philosophy professor @Kate_Manne explores why we are getting better on most forms of bias while becoming arguably even more fatphobic as a society. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…