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CAPE Lecture Series

Fall 2025- More details to come!


How to Attend

In Person

Auditorium at Kendal of Ithaca (2230 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850)

Come 30 minutes prior for refreshments and great company!


Join by Zoom

The Zoom link will be sent to CAPE members via email.

Instructions


Watch the Recording Later

Videos of lectures are available approximately 3 weeks after the event.

CAPE Lecture Videos – Fall 2022 to present

Visit CAPE’s YouTube channel to watch CAPE lectures you may have missed.

Past CAPE Lectures

Less Than Zero: Rethinking STEM Literacy – Charles Van Loan, Professor Emeritus, Computer Science

What a Good Conversationalist Is…and is Not

Thomas D. Gilovich, Irene Blecker Rosenfeld Professor of Psychology

Covid, Climate, and Crops: Why the World Needs GMOs – Sarah Evanega, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Integrative Science

The Resurgence of Memory: The Living Legacy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire – Elissa Sampson, Jewish Studies Program

Freshkills: A New Concept of Wilderness – Jade Doscow, Photographer-in-Residence, Freshkills Park, New York City

Lamentations: A Novel of Women Walking West– Carol Kammen

Cybersecurity in War and Peace – Tracy Mitrano, Information Science

Bitcoin and Beyond — Maureen O’Hara, Johnson School of Management. Slides are here.

Photograph Collections at Cornell — Kate Addleman-Frankel, Curator of Photography at the Johnson Museum.

Evolution of Bird Brains and Evolution of a Career – Timothy DeVoogd, Professor-Dept. Psychology & Field of Neurobiology and Behavior

How Natural History Museums Are Revolutionizing Science – Director and Curator Corrie Moreau

2020 Census: Challenges and Controversy – Warren Brown, Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research Program

Words Matter: Labeling Disputes – Sally McConnell-Ginet, Professor Emerita, Linguistics.

CAPE Lecture 2023- picture of speaker
CAPE lecture 2023
CAPE Lecture 2024- Beyond Borders book