Society & Culture

Just in time for President Barack Obama's inaugural address on Monday, Jan. 21, the University of Rochester will open an exhibit on the history of presidential speechwriting.

Kenneth Gross, Renaissance scholar and professor of English at the University of Rochester, will share the 2011-2012 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for his book Puppet: An Essay…

A political analyst and professor of political science at Tulane University, Harris-Perry's address will focus on racial issues, religious questions, and gender concerns related to American politics.

Selected from a pool of 1,509, the press was awarded $45,000 to support the promotion of books in translation and the continuation of the translation centric website, Three Percent.

To mark World AIDS Day on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, more than 1,000 new posters from one of the world's largest AIDS education poster collections have been digitized and put online by archivists at the University of Rochester.

Grazyna Auguscik and guitarist Paulinho Garcia are bringing their original sound to Strong Auditorium. Polish-born Auguscik has been hailed as "one of the hottest jazz talents."

Grotz's second selection of poems, The Needle, "is one of the most affecting poetic explorations of locale and loss that I know," says English department chair John Michael.

Do you see what they saw? Speakers explore the link between the observation process in the sciences and the humanities in this series.

Wartime drama, romantic comedy, and haunting animation are all part of the line up for this year's Rochester Polish Film Festival at the Little Theatre from November 14-19.

Theodore Brown, a historian of medicine, public health, and health policy at the University of Rochester, provides the historical context for each cartoon and authored introductory chapters on early health care reform efforts.

Free and open to the public, the event provides an opportunity for communities to experience these personal records of the past and learn how to preserve them for the future.

The University of Rochester's Brass Choir presents its fourth annual Spooktacular concert, "Welcome to My Nightmare." The 30-member ensemble will perform works by Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, and Amy Winehouse.