Cornell's Society for the Humanities was established in 1966 as one of the first humanities institutes in North America. Located in the historic home of Cornell's first president, Andrew Dickson White, the Society brings distinguished Visiting Fellows and Cornell Faculty and Graduate Student Fellows together each year to pursue research on a broadly inter-disciplinary focal theme. In addition to participating in our legendary Wednesday Fellows seminar, Fellows offer one experimental, innovative seminar on their research topic. The Society's presence at Cornell has fostered path-breaking inter-disciplinary dialogue and theoretical reflection on the humanities at large with our internationally recognized Fellows. The Society is proud to sponsor numerous internal grants, workshops, and funding opportunities for Cornell faculty and graduate students in the Humanities as well as hosting over 100 annual lectures, workshops, colloquia, and conferences organized by Cornell's distinguished humanities faculty.
In 2009-10, the Society will host public events around the focal theme, “Networks/Mobilities." In order to further understanding of historical and contemporary flows of peoples, materials, images, and ideas across physical and virtual boundaries, lectures and workshops will dwell on whether the commonplace tropes of diaspora, hybridity, and migration suffice for understanding globalization and shifting patterns of social and cultural influences through travel, trade, and migration of peoples, goods, and ideas. Of equal interest is the role of digital culture in relation to migrations, networking, and global cosmopolitanisms, as well as the broader recognition of comparative Latin American and Asian cultures and their relation to the West.
The 2010-11 focal theme will be
“Global Aesthetics.”
Cornell University
Society for the Humanities
A.D. White House
27 East Avenue
Ithaca, NY 14853-1101
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