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Konvitz Lecturer Encourages Forgiveness

Student Azhaar Sholgami, whose family was terrorized in the Sudan war, called Freddy Mutanguha’s journey toward healing “an epiphany of hope.”
Dean Colvin with Konvitz Lecture speaker Freddy Mutanguha.
Konvitz Lecturer Encourages Forgiveness

Weingarten ’80 Reflects on Week at ILR

As the 2024 Alice B. Grant Labor Leader in Residence, ILRie Randi Weingarten spent time at ILR teaching, speaking and meeting with students, professors and university staff.
Randi Weingarten '80
Weingarten ’80 Reflects on Week at ILR

Rwandan Leader Giving Konvitz Lecture

Thirty years after the genocide that devastated his country and killed most of his family, Freddy Mutanguha continues to stand for the empathy he developed in the tragedy’s aftermath.
Freddy Mutanguha will deliver the 2024 Konvitz Lecture.
Rwandan Leader Giving Konvitz Lecture

Cook-Gray Lecturer Emphasizes Empathy

Professor Amrita Basu, A&S ’75 brought to light the courageous resistance of Muslim women in their fight to overcome repression through peaceful demonstration and collective empathy.
Amrita Basu, A&S ’75
Cook-Gray Lecturer Emphasizes Empathy

Cook/Gray Lecture Slated for Oct. 23

Amrita Basu, A&S ’75 will present “Resisting Exclusion: Women’s Defense of Democracy in India” for the annual lecture series.
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Cook/Gray Lecture Slated for Oct. 23

Konvitz Lecture: May 2 at ILR

Speaker Kate Andrias, a Columbia Law School professor, clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who studied as a Cornell undergraduate with the legendary Professor Milton Konvitz.
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Konvitz Lecture: May 2 at ILR

Implement Policy Changes, Urges Cook-Gray Lecturer

Combatting the decline in gender progress in the labor market starts with implementing policy interventions, says Professor Francine Blau ’66.
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Implement Policy Changes, Urges Cook-Gray Lecturer

Cook-Gray Lecture Set for Sept. 29

“Gender Inequality in the Labor Market: Continuing Progress?” will be presented by Professor Francine Blau.
Francine Blau
Cook-Gray Lecture Set for Sept. 29

Alumni Giving 2022 Konvitz Lecture

"New Voices and New Venues: Organizing Against the Assault on Democratic Principles” is the title of the talk Basil Smikle Jr. ’93 will give April 25.
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Alumni Giving 2022 Konvitz Lecture

Cook-Gray Lecture: Cross-Generational Gains from Women’s Employment

According to McGinn’s research, reaching gender equality involves changes for women and men at work and at home.
Kathleen McGinn gave the 2021 Cook-Gray Lecture
Cook-Gray Lecture: Cross-Generational Gains from Women’s Employment

Cook-Gray Lecture: Women’s Employment Pluses

Harvard Professor Kathleen McGinn will discuss women’s employment and its effects on the next generation of women.
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Cook-Gray Lecture: Women’s Employment Pluses

Alice Hanson Cook-Lois Gray Distinguished Lecture

Professor Shelley Correll, a leading authority on gender, will speak about “The Gendered Language of Performance Assessment.”

Alice Hanson Cook - Lois Gray Distinguished Lecture: Inside the Black Box
Alice Hanson Cook-Lois Gray Distinguished Lecture

Controversial vote

Son shares story behind ILR founding faculty member's change of heart

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Controversial vote

Remembering Konvitz

Member of ILR founding faculty “was an institution builder”

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Remembering Konvitz

Konvitz Lecture April 27

Workplace provides most opportunity for integration, professor says

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Konvitz Lecture April 27

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