Humanities & Sciences

Trained as a social demographer, Professor Sassler’s presentation explores contemporary relationships, including entrance into romantic relationships, cohabitation, and marriage. Her 2017 book, Cohabitation Nation: Gender, Class, and the Remaking of Relationships, examines how cohabitation is contributing to growing levels of family inequality in the United States; it won the American Sociological Associations’ Goode Book Award in 2018.

When Indigenous peoples fight against giant telescopes or oil pipelines on sacred lands, we are not obstructing “progress” or “inventing traditions.” Such stereotypes affirm white capitalist heteropatriarchy in America by casting defiant Indigenous peoples as backwards-looking, trapped in a romanticized past, irrational, or criminal. This happens across the empire, from Mauna a Wākea to Oceti Sakowin, Iroquoia to Guahan: erasures, distortions, and mythmaking that trivialize and prevent Native survival abound.

Distinguished Visiting Writer Ander Monson will give a public reading at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 18 in Clark Lounge, Campus Center.

Distinguished Visiting Writer Dorianne Laux will give a public reading at 5:30 pm on Thursday, Oct. 4, in Clark Lounge, Campus Center.

Distinguished Visiting Writer Amy Hempel will give a public reading at 6 pm on Monday, Oct. 22, in Clark Lounge, Campus Center.

The Ithaca College community is invited to help welcome the Class of 2022 and our new transfer students to campus at the 2018 Convocation and Community Picnic.

10:00-10:15 a.m. - Welcome Chute, A&E Center - Faculty and staff will form a welcome chute to greet new students as they arrive at the A& E Center.

10:15 a.m. – Students will enter the A&E Center as a large group through the staff and faculty chute.

10:30 a.m. – Convocation Procession Begins- A&E Center - Convocation Ceremony will begin immediately after the Procession