Collaboration blends fashion, film studies and spark of fun
Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection and Cornell Cinema are working together on a film series featuring influential costume designer Edith Head.
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Image: The premiere of Possible Landscapes (2024), a feature documentary directed by Kannan Arunasalam, and produced and conceptualized by Tao DuFour and Natalie Melas, at Cornell Cinema in September 2024.
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Things to do: election insights, Halloween movies, Canine Crawl
Hear from experts about the election and the future of democracy, listen to the music of a 1914 alumnus who experimented with blending Chinese and Western musical traditions, and more.
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Celebration of Carl Sagan’s 90th birthday being held Nov. 9
On what would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday, Cornell’s Carl Sagan Institute will celebrate his legacy in an interdisciplinary day of science, music and more as part of the College of Arts & Sciences’ Arts Unplugged series.
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Cornell Cinema explores textiles, 1980s nostalgia, and real-world events
Real-world events inspire a collective lineup that is relevant to what professors are teaching and what students are learning.
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Now Showing: Fall 2024 at Cornell Cinema
The Cornell Cinema team is delighted to welcome you back to the historic Willard Straight Theatre for another exciting semester of cinema experiences.
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New A&S dean relishes ‘life in a university’
Peter John Loewen says he's excited to support faculty in their research, meet students and showcase the value of a liberal arts education.
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PMA profs’ film earns spot in PBS film festival
“Ghosts” tells the story of three Kiowa children who escaped a government boarding school in the winter of 1891.
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Peter Loewen named dean of Arts and Sciences
Coming from the University of Toronto, where he was the director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Loewen began his five-year appointment as the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Aug. 1.
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Cornell Cinema has been in existence since 1970 and for five decades has broadened the horizons of tens of thousands of students and community members. We rely on annual assistance from individual donors to present a high-caliber program year after year, and to remain nimble and responsive to rapidly evolving technologies & circumstances that change the ways films are released and experienced.
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Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ (the Cayuga Nation). The Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ are members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign Nations with a historic and contemporary presence on this land. The Confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell University, New York state, and the United States of America. We acknowledge the painful history of Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ dispossession, and honor the ongoing connection of Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ people, past and present, to these lands and waters.
This land acknowledgment has been reviewed and approved by the traditional Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ leadership. You can learn more about Cornell University's Land Acknowledgment through the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program website.