THE ITHACAN

Students discover niche research opportunities at Comic-Con

By Hannah Fitzpatrick, Staff Writer • August 29, 2019

In July, an estimated over 130,000 people attended San Diego Comic-Con at the San Diego Convention Center. This convention, the largest comic convention in the world, offers many activities, and the...

College Briefs Oct. 22

October 21, 2015

Wendy Lower of Claremont McKenna College will speak about young German women who went to Nazi-occupied eastern Europe and participated as enablers in the Holocaust in the film “Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields.”

Accomplished producer discusses business in film industry

By Steven Pirani, Assistant Accent Editor • April 11, 2014

Veteran producer Mark Burg '81 held a lecture April 3, speaking with students and faculty about the mechanics of the film industry. Burg sat down with Assistant Accent Editor Steven Pirani to talk further about the value of thinking outside of the box in film.

Guest speakers debate academic boycott

By Stephen Adams, Assistant Multimedia Editor • February 27, 2014

The Israeli education boycott debate at Ithaca College came to a head on Jan. 25 when two groups hosted guest speakers with opposite views only one hour apart and across the hall from each other.

Video: Freedom Through Storytelling

By Tiffany Ruff • February 14, 2013

Regina Carpenter, a lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies, creates a class that requires students to tell stories every week.

Professor to speak on creative writing at Columbia

By Nicole Arocho, Staff Writer • November 27, 2012

The anthropology department at Columbia University invited Professor Catherine Taylor to give her lecture, titled “Between Art and Politics: ‘Ficto-Criticism’ and Suspended Genres,” and a reading from “Apart” on Thursday.

Literary journalist explores treatment of books

By Meredith Tooker, Contributing Writer • October 29, 2012

Anne Fadiman, adjunct professor of English at Yale University, will discuss the intimate and personal relationships readers build with books in her presentation titled “Using Bacon as Bookmarks: How Readers Treat Their Books” on Nov. 13 in Emerson Suites.

‘Modern Family’ executive producer to channel inner comic for lecture

By Josh Greenfield, Staff Writer • October 24, 2012

Dan O’Shannon, award-winning writer and executive producer of the hit ABC sitcom “Modern Family,” will be coming to Ithaca College on Sunday to lecture as a Park Distinguished Visitor.