Events

1/21–2/7 Searching for Solutions

View an exhibition of work by AAP IT Solutions staff members.

1/22–2/19 AAP Engagement Impact Grant Workshops

Attend an informational session or workshop about the AAP Engagement Impact Grants available to faculty and students in spring 2025.

1/27–2/6 Marissa Cote and Savannah Flores: to woo, to wane, to bind, to bear

Experience an exhibition that uses multiple lenses and mediums to understand where we have been, where we are, and where we are going.

2/3–2/13 Jera Jansen: Dreams and Continuities — a Journal Deconstructed and the Reclamation of Reality

See an exhibition that blurs the boundary between the imaginative musings of the artist's private and public life.

2/3–2/13 Pilar Gutierrez: Tarareo mientras tartamudeo

Explore an exhibition that reflects the gaps and intersections between constructed identity, generational trauma, nationalism, and nostalgia.

2/3 Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Lecture 2025

Attend this year’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration featuring activist, writer, and lecturer Angela Davis speaking on the intersectional struggle for liberation today.

2/4 Tiffany Cheng: 4D Printing for Bioinspired and Biobased Design

Attend a lecture that explores what would happen if our buildings and products could be manufactured and operated the way biological systems grow and adapt.

2/6 Alberto Iacovoni: Open Form in Architecture

Attend a lecture featuring Alberto Iacovoni, architect, educator, and founding member of the architecture firm ma0.

2/11 Laura Nova, JJ Manford, Cecilia Lu: Art Alumni Panel

Join a conversation with three B.F.A. alums spanning different generations about the challenges and strategies of artists as they make their way into their careers after graduation.

2/13 Isidoro Michan-Guindi: On the Ground and Flying

Join a lecture presenting a body of work that ranges from a door handle and a self-propelling stool to a house and a tower.

2/17–2/27 Kate James: Celebration, Florida

Explore an exhibition that draws inspiration from the Southern Gothic subgenre to shed light on the complex issue of natural displacement and the shifting landscape of Orlando, Florida.

2/21 Julian Hartman: Controversy in Cambridge — Planning Kendall Square

Hear a lecture that traces controversies in the 1960s and 1970s over the purpose of Kendall Square and the future of Cambridge.

2/25 Carla Liesching: Mythmaking Machines

Attend a lecture that considers the central questions animating the speaker's work: How does photography shape our ideologies and practices? How do images create concrete conditions? How can artists disrupt power?

2/28 Xuanyi Nie: Statecraft, Speculation, and the Territorialized Healthcare Infrastructures

Attend a lecture exploring the political economy of healthcare infrastructures in China.

3/6–4/10 Resilience by Design: Spring 2025 Lecture Series

Join a compelling lecture series featuring architectural historians, design practitioners, visionaries, and community stakeholders as they explore the multifaceted challenges and opportunities of community-engaged design.

3/14 Lynn M. Ross: Making the Connection — Urbanism, Civic Life, and Democracy

Attend a lecture that explores the critical role that urbanists can play in supporting engagement in civic life and democratic practice.

3/19 AAP Launchpad: Spring 2025

Join us for a special AAP event showcasing recent books written and edited by Cornell AAP faculty.

3/20 Tamar Ettun: How to Trap a Demon

Join Teiger Mentor in the Arts Tamar Ettun as she discusses her textile installations, sculptures, drawings, videos, and performances that reflect on somatic empathy in relation to trauma healing and ritual.

3/21 Thomas Gillespie: Affordable Housing, Financialization and Urban Statecraft

Attend a lecture that examines affordable housing production as a site through which state actors engage with financialization processes to different extents with a view to addressing housing needs.

4/10 Melissa Catanese: Artist Talk

Attend a lecture that offers insight into the thought processes behind the speaker's work, exploring how intuition, memory, and personal experience inform her approach to image-making and sequencing.

4/18 Daniel Agbiboa: Does Africa Need Elite Cities?

Join a lecture that examines Eko Atlantic City in Lagos, Nigeria, as a manifestation of worlding-cities, critiquing how such megaprojects amplify socio-spatial inequalities and ecological precarity.

4/24 Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities Symposium:
Climate Resilience in New York City

The Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities will host an in-person symposium on Climate Resilience in New York City. The one-day event will focus on actions to mitigate risks to people, buildings, and infrastructure from extreme weather.

5/2 Marisa Turesky: Locating Lesbian Lives — Holistic Housing in a Compassionate City

Listen to a lecture that demonstrates the gendered and queer pathways toward health justice and community development over time by applying a queer-feminist lens to the frameworks for aging-in-place