Special Event Screening: “Empire of the Ants”
Cornell Cinema
An A.D. White Professors-at-Large keynote public event
Free admission. Complimentary concessions will be provided.
Featuring an introduction and conversation with:
• May Berenbaum ’80 (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; A. D. White Professor-at-Large)
• Anurag Agrawal (James A. Perkins Professor of Environmental Studies, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
Based on the short story by H.G Wells, Empire of the Ants is a gem of 1970’s sci-fi horror. The film centers on a corrupt Florida real estate developer and her captain, set on luring investors to a property in the Everglades called Dreamland Shores, under false pretenses that the swampland will soon be developed. However, when the group arrives on the small island, they discover it has been overrun by giant mutated ants, brought to life by the dumping of toxic waste in the area and bent on human destruction.
This is the A.D. White Professors-at-Large Program keynote event for Berenbaum’s visit to Cornell Oct. 2-6, 2023, and is cosponsored by the Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and in collaboration with Cornell Cinema.
