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Academic Peer Review Strategies
How to Give (and Receive) Feedback
Jan. 17, 2025 • CNY Humanities Corridor
Peer review is foundational to our profession as scholars. But does anyone ever teach us how to provide effective peer review to our colleagues? And how do we interpret the mixed bag of peer review...
Writing Retreat Fosters Community
Faculty Research Gets a Boost with Comet A3, Beautiful Fall Weather, and Shared Purpose
Nov. 18, 2024 • Aimee Germain
October 2024 saw the 4th edition of the CNY Humanities Corridor’s annual writing retreat on the Syracuse University Minnowbrook campus on Blue Mountain Lake in the Adirondacks. From an initial pool...
Demystifying AI for Museum Students and Pros
Sept. 16, 2024 • Kim Walters, RIT News
“We wanted to take the fear and anxiety out of conversations about AI and museums and libraries," said Juilee Decker, Ph.D., director of RIT’s dynamic undergraduate museum studies BS program. ...
Black Print, Black Art, Black Activism in the 19th century U.S.
Sept. 13, 2024 • Jose Beduya, Cornell University Library
A new library exhibit will highlight the close-knit, vibrant communities that Black writers in the U.S. created through newspapers, books, pamphlets and other publications in the 18th to 20th centu...
Ghosh to lead Cornell’s Society for the Humanities
Durba Ghosh, incoming director, with Paul Fleming, outgoing director.
May 15, 2024 • Kate Blackwood , Cornell A&S Communications
Durba Ghosh, professor of history in the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences, will become the Taylor Family Director of the Society for the Humanities, starting on January 1, 2025. Rec...
From Proposal to Publication: CNY Humanities Corridor Nurtures Faculty Scholarship
May 3, 2024 • Kerrie Marshall, SU Arts & Sciences
2023-24’s supportive initiatives included first-ever campus visit from NEH official Claudia Kinkela, Minnowbrook writing retreat, panel discussion on open-access publishing and workshop to jumpstar...
Symposium to Explore Significance of 18th-Century Philosopher’s Essay on Perpetual Peace in Today’s World
April 17, 2024 • Kathleen Haley, SU News
Philosopher Immanuel Kant’s 1795 essay “Toward Perpetual Peace” still holds significant relevance even now more than two centuries after it was first published. With ongoing wars across the globe, ...
CODE^SHIFT Symposium highlights intersectionality of immigrant identities, advocates for inclusive counternarratives
April 8, 2024 • Nicole Cheah, Digital Journalism Undergraduate
The second installment of CODE^SHIFT's annual Symposium took place on Friday, April 5, 2024 at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School Of Public Communications. This year's sympos...
Exploring girlhoods, Black scholars connect, imagine and heal
Dec. 19, 2023 • Caitlin Hayes, Cornell Chronicle
Jamila Walida Simon, M.S. ’10, grew up in a time and place where children were expected to be largely seen and not heard; as an adult, she wanted to correct that, providing space for Black girls to...
Open Access Book Publishing
In Conversation with University of California, University of Michigan, and MIT Presses
Dec. 18, 2023 • Aimee Germain
On Dec. 14, 2023, the CNY Humanities Corridor, the Syracuse University Office of Research, and the Syracuse University Libraries hosted a conversation with four academic press librarians: Amy Ha...