Cornell Public History Initiative

The PHI works to stimulate and deepen dialogue about the sedimented histories that shape our contemporary world.

[Cornell Public History Initiative @CUPublicHistory]

Cornell students: check out all of the amazing public history courses coming up for this fall! https://t.co/ialpvAhOEi

[Cornell Public History Initiative @CUPublicHistory]

Today! We're so excited to welcome @drovarela back to Cornell to read from and talk about his novel The Town of Babylon, National Book Award finalist!

[English at Cornell @EnglishCornell]

Alejandro Varela '01: A reading & conversation
Moderated by Karen Jaime and Stephen Vider
Monday April 24, 5 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall
Kaufmann Auditorium, G64

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And @EnglishCornell and the Creative Writing/MFA program, too!

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Monday! Cornell alum @drovarela joins Professor Karen Jaime and PHI director @sjvider for a reading from his first novel "The Town of Babylon" and a conversation about his work. Co-sponsored by the PHI, the LGBT Resource Center, @latina_o, @CornellAMST, and LGBT Studies!

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Today at 5 PM! Please join us for a talk by @DominiqueJL15!

[Stephen Vider @sjvider]

Excited to host the second @CUPublicHistory lecture of the semester on Monday 4/17 with @DominiqueJL15, the new chief historian @brooklynhistory!

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We're thrilled to welcome @artcrimeprof to @CornellHistory for the first Public History Initiative lecture of the semester! https://t.co/bZntboSoT4

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Sandra Greene's "Biography and the Black Atlantic," Kelly Presutti's "Art and the Remapping of the World," Kaja McGowan and An-Yi Pan 's "Introduction to Asian Art: Material Worlds," and more. (3/3)

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We are thrilled to announce the official launch of @CornellHistory's interdisciplinary undergraduate minor in Public History! To learn more about the minor's learning objectives and requirements, visit our website https://t.co/6UuJKq7po5 (1/

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You can also see a list of spring 2023 courses that count for the minor here https://t.co/ialpvAhOEi including @sjvider's core course "Monuments, Museums, and Memory," @Ed_Baptist's "Understanding Global Capitalism Through Service Learning," (2/

[Durba Ghosh @HistorianDurba]

Reposting this job announcement, applications due on December 1 for a tenure-track position in public history @CornellHistory in a new initiative @CUPublicHistory

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The successful effort to preserve the Firebrand Books building was covered last night on Spectrum News, featuring an interview with PHI graduate affiliate and @CornellAAP student Jeff Iovannone @QueerHistoryFTP https://t.co/xHhycYqQTC

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UPDATE: @HumSexCollects reports: the Ithaca Common Council voted unanimously to preserve the Firebrand Books building! You can view the meeting, including a statement by founder Nancy Bereano at 23:05, and the vote at 1:19:01 https://t.co/5Q3qTC7t09

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Tomorrow, the Ithaca Common Council will vote on a proposal to landmark the building that once housed Firebrand Books, the pathbreaking feminist press founded in 1984. The effort has been led by PHI graduate affiliate and @CornellAAP student Jeff Iovannone @QueerHistoryFTP. 1/

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Please check out the proposal and the whole collection of letters (including others from @nyclgbtsites and @BJMarston). Congratulations (with fingers crossed) to @QueerHistoryFTP on this incredible work to preserve feminist and LGBTQ+ history. 11/11

[Cornell Public History Initiative @CUPublicHistory]

Tomorrow, the Ithaca Common Council will vote on a proposal to landmark the building that once housed Firebrand Books, the pathbreaking feminist press founded in 1984. The effort has been led by PHI graduate affiliate and @CornellAAP student Jeff Iovannone @QueerHistoryFTP. 1/

[Cornell Public History Initiative @CUPublicHistory]

And from one reader: "Nancy Bereano saved the lives of many queer folks with her artful eye for literature and her mystic knowing of what her community needed to read. And we survived. And with Firebrand Books, I lived." 10/