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Social Science and Public Policy

Ray Smith Symposium Dinner

November 12, 2023 at 4:45pm7:15pm

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Ray Smith Symposium 2023–2024: Indigenous Resilience, Climate Change, and the Environmental Humanities.

Dinner for 75 guests.
  • 4:45 pm: Transportation provided from Quad 1 parking lot to Skybarn on South Campus
  • 5:15 pm: Remarks by Michelle Shenandoah (Oneida, Wolf Clan), speaker, writer and adjunct professor of Law at Syracuse University
  • 5:30 pm: Remarks by Angela Ferguson (Onondaga, Eel Clan) Seed Keeper of Onondaga Nation
  • 5:45 pm: Buffet dinner with Indigenous art performance by Heath Hill (Onondaga)
  • 7:15 pm: Transportation provided back to Main Campus

The symposium was made possible with generous support from the College of Arts & Sciences; Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs; Humanities Center; Humanities Council; Center for Global Indigenous Cultures & Environmental Justice; the Environment, Sustainability, and Policy Program; the Departments of Geography & the Environment; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Art & Music Histories; Anthropology; English; Religion, History, Sociology, and Nutrition & Food Studies; the Environmental Storytelling Series of CNY & the Engaged Humanities Network; SUNY ESF Center for Native Peoples & the Environment; and the Skä•noñh Great Law of Peace Center. We also greatly appreciate the contributions of our mentors and collaborators of the Haudenosaunee community to this symposium, and acknowledge with respect the Onondaga Nation, firekeepers of the Haudenosaunee, the Indigenous people on whose ancestral lands Syracuse University now stands.

This event was first published on October 7, 2023 and last updated on November 3, 2023.