2024 – 2025 Lectures and Programs

A Place for “Any Person” :
North Campus as a Landscape of Diversity

Cornell Campus Walking Tour

The logistics of housing a coeducational population fueled the post-1910 development of land north of Fall Creek. For over 50 years, North Campus was a women’s residential enclave, served by dining and athletic facilities. But the late 1960s brought cultural and architectural change to North Campus, as coeducational housing, the Africana Studies Program and a related program house found a place in a once women-only space. The American Indian and Indigenous Studies program also located their residential center on North, and other program houses followed.  After 1997, the North Campus Residential Initiative (NCRI) dramatically reimagined this physically jumbled space as a comprehensive first-year landscape, intended to integrate a previously splintered first-year cohort. Recently, the North Campus Residential Expansion (NCRE) added 2,000 beds and new public spaces to expand housing and programming for first- and second-year students. This tour assesses a century of North Campus development as a series of architectural episodes, as well as built evidence of efforts, struggles and demands to forge an inclusive academic community.

Roberta Moudry, Architectural Historian

Saturday, September 14, 2024

Meet at 3:30 PM at the Martin Y. Tang Welcome Center, 616 Thurston Avenue, Ithaca  (near Beebe Lake)

Notes:

  • The intended tour route includes 24 steps with 2 landings on which people can pause to rest.

  • There is very limited parking at the Tang Welcome Center. More abundant parking nearby is at the Toboggan Lodge and Forest Home Drive Parking Garage. Parking permits for these locations are not required on weekends.  Please be aware of signage and restricted spaces, such as handicap and reserved parking. Additional weekend parking is available at the Hoy Road Parking Garage in central campus.

  • The Tang Welcome Center closes at 3:00pm on Saturdays and is closed on Sundays.

 

 

Picturing Change:
Photography and Social Justice

Join Hintsa Family Manager of School and Family Programs Carol Hockett as she shares images of the history of child labor, immigration and the civil rights movement over the last century. Through featured works by a variety of artists such as Marion Post Wolcott and Gordon Parks, among others, the talk will range from LIFE magazine photo essays to large-scale, site-specific photography installations.

Carol Hockett, Hintsa Family Manager of School and Family Programs, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University.

Tuesday, December 3, 3 – 4 PM
Kendal Auditorium, 2230 N. Triphammer Rd., Ithaca

Please click HERE to hear the recording of the program (you can also  copy and paste the link below if clicking the word doesn’t work)                          https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/HwmVMivdc5h0b3ERFsvEzEfSXvsHSUMXCTCYKpYnkgoJNpW0wAFbDIMwVzH099Rv.CYFch0luQb-nbyEK

 

Women in Hip Hop

While not always as visible as the men, women have been an integral part of hip hop since its beginning 50 years ago. Hip hop is a broad movement, far more extensive than simply the rap music with which it is most identified. It comprises four distinct elements: rappers, DJs, breakdancers, and graffiti artists. They each have their own separate histories and they all came together to create hip hop. In addition to describing hip hop culture, Ben will discuss the origins and purpose of the Cornell Hip Hop Collection, particularly as it pertains to women.

Ben Ortiz, Collection Specialist, Cornell Hip Hop Collection

Wednesday, January 29, 7:00 PM via Zoom.
Link will be shared in advance of the program.

 

Waterway of Change:
Women and the Erie Canal

Joan Gallagher Spring Program

The Erie Canal revolutionized Upstate New York, bringing new ideas, people, and industries to the region, sparking a firestorm of change. This presentation will cover how the fight for women’s rights grew out of the changes brought about by the Erie Canal and the movement’s dependence on networks that the Canal facilitated.  2025 is the 200th anniversary of the completion of the Erie Canal.

Derrick Pratt, Director of Education & Public Programming, Erie Canal Museum

Tuesday, April 29, 7:00 PM
Kendal Auditorium, 2230 N. Triphammer Rd., Ithaca

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