Posts by Chantal Thomas
This Week on The Scene: Risa Lieberwitz discusses “Make Cornell Pay” and Academic Freedom
On October 4th, 2023, a group of Cornell faculty condemned Cornell University’s proposed “payment in lieu of taxes” to the City of Ithaca for falling grievously short of Cornell’s obligations to the public interest. In this week’s episode of The Scene, Risa Lieberwitz, a professor at Cornell’s Industrial and Labor Relations School, places the MakeCornellPay campaign in the broader context…
Read MoreThis Week on The Scene: Desiree LeClercq on the Battle for Workplace Democracy at Starbucks
In this week’s episode of The Scene, international labor law expert Desiree LeClercq breaks down the 2023 National Labor Relations Board proceeding that held three Ithaca store closures by Starbucks to be in violation of federal protections for organizing workers, and discusses the larger contexts in national and international worker rights.
Read MoreThis Week on The Scene: Saida Hodžić on Critical Knowledges of Refuge
In this week’s episode of The Scene, Saida Hodžić, a Professor in the Anthropology Department and the Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department at Cornell University, discusses her work reorienting the fields of asylum and refugee studies — from studies of refugees to critical studies of refuge — and her spring 2023 symposium, Displaced, Detained,…
Read MoreThis Week on The Scene: Judge Patrick Robinson on Reparations for Transatlantic Chattel Slavery
In this week’s episode of The Scene, Judge Patrick Robinson, of the International Court of Justice, discusses a powerful and comprehensive new report on the scale of compensation owed for transatlantic chattel slavery; the forms that reparations should and should not take and how reparations might emerge in the wake of the demise of affirmative…
Read MoreThis Week on The Scene: Prachi Patankar on Making Connections in Movement-Building
In this week’s episode of The Scene, activist and philanthropic grantmaker Prachi Patankar talks about her lifelong relationship to justice work – connecting the LGBTQ+ and women’s justice commitments and causes she supports through her international foundation work in South and Southeast Asia with her upbringing in a family deeply involved in grassroots social change…
Read MoreThis Week on The Scene: Dan Torop on the Science, Technology, and Art of Images
In this week’s episode of The Scene, photographer and art professor Dan Torop discusses his recent work in the exhibitions Falling Water and Three Rainbows; the science and technology that he has used in rendering images of the physical world; and the social and cultural histories that accompany and shape tools of photography and other forms of visual rendering.
Read MoreThis Week on The Scene: Elizabeth Anker on Paradox and the Claims of Theory
In this week’s episode of The Scene, literary and legal scholar Elizabeth Anker discusses the key contentions of her new book, “On Paradox: The Claims of Theory“: that faith in the logic of paradox has formed a cornerstone of left intellectualism — and that reasoning through paradox has become deeply problematic, undercutting social justice commitments.
Read MoreThis Week on The Scene: Bob Hockett on the Need for Better Bank Deposit Protection
Professor Robert Hockett of Cornell Law School discusses the Federal Deposit Insurance Completion Act of 2023, which contains his proposal for preventing future occurrences of the bank-run fueled collapse that led to the demise of Silicon Valley Bank and others. Listen to the episode: Bob Hockett Find about more about Bob Hockett’s policy proposals: Back…
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