October 13, 2019
Incriminating Silence: How the Unheard Defendant in 12 Angry Men Speaks to Our Now
October 13, 2019 at 3:45pm – 5:00pm EDT
Syracuse Stage
Todd A. Berger (College of Law) Sanjay Chhablani (College of Law) All are welcome to this panel discussion scheduled between Sunday performances of 12 Angry Men at Syracuse Stage, focused on…
October 11, 2019
Photography, Race, and Memory
October 11, 2019 at 6:00pm – 7:30pm EDT
Watson Hall, Theater
In celebration of his exhibition at Light Work, Bundles of Wood, artist Nicola Lo Calzo presents a lecture on his work followed by a conversation with playwright Kyle Bass, discussing issues of…
October 7, 2019
Words and Silence in Spiritual Inquiry: Going Beyond Opinion and Belief
October 7, 2019 at 5:30pm – 8:30pm EDT
Bird Library, 114
Wildecy Fatima de Jury and Imani Gayle Gillison, Buddhist Teachers of Color in the Insight Meditation Tradition, examine ways of relating to truth, wisdom and knowledge, whether religious or not. …
October 4, 2019
Widening the Circle: Workshop with Robin Wall Kimmerer
October 4, 2019 at 9:30am – 11:00am EDT
Tolley Building, 304
Presented by: Robin Wall Kimmerer (SUNY ESF) Following her presentation as Kameshwar C. Wali Lecturer in the Sciences and Humanities for 2019, and drawing from her book Braiding Sweetgrass,…
October 3, 2019
Widening the Circle: Indigenous Knowledge on the Personhood of All Beings and Justice for the Land
October 3, 2019 at 4:00pm – 5:30pm EDT
Bird Library, 114
Kameshwar C. Wali Lecture in the Sciences and Humanities for 2019 Presented by Robin Wall Kimmerer (SUNY ESF) As distinguished guest lecturer for this annual Physics / Humanities Center…
October 1, 2019
Liberating Stories of Resistance Along the U.S./Mexico Border
October 1, 2019 at 5:00pm – 6:30pm EDT
Sims Hall, 319
Michelle Téllez (University of Arizona) has a long history of grassroots community engagement and activism in multiple social justice projects that draw on critical pedagogy, principles of…
September 29, 2019
Music and Message│Ensemble Parallax “On the Edge of Silence: Ecstatic Utterances and Inspired Breath”
September 29, 2019 at 4:00pm – 5:30pm EDT
Hendricks Chapel
Join the ground-breaking and award-winning music and multimedia consort Ensemble Parallax at this week’s Music and Message! This exciting program features a panel discussion (at 3 p.m.) with…
September 27, 2019
Cathy Cassady: Rewriting the Beat Generation
September 27, 2019 at 3:00pm – 5:00pm EDT
Bird Library
Cathy Cassady will share stories about her mother and father, Carolyn and Neal Cassady, who were key sources of inspiration in novels like Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and Allen Ginsberg’s poetry.…
September 26, 2019
17th Annual Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival
September 26, 2019 – September 29, 2019 EDT
Screening times and locations vary; consult festival website.
Syracuse Symposium proudly supports this annual festival — September 26 – 28 — explores human rights, worldwide, through documentary and fiction films. OPENING NIGHT Thursday,…
September 22, 2019
Sculpting Silence
September 22, 2019 at 3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT
Newhouse 3, Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium
The Newhouse School and Society for New Music collaborate in presenting this Syracuse Symposium performance of music by Roberto Sierra, Tania Leon, Ryan Chase, Brent Michael Davids, and Douglas…
September 20, 2019
Intersections: Re-Thinking African American Literature and Culture in the 21st Century
September 20, 2019 at 1:00pm – 4:00pm EDT
Eggers Hall, 010
Marquis Bey (Northwestern University) Chelsea Frazier (Cornell University) William H. Mosley (University of Texas at Austin) Scholars of African American studies, English, and gender/sexuality…
September 13, 2019
Forever Orange: The Story of Syracuse University
September 13, 2019 at 4:00pm – 5:30pm EDT
Bird Library, Rm114
Join authors Rick Burton ’80 and Scott Pitoniak ’77 as they discuss their book commemorating Syracuse University’s 150th anniversary. Book signing will be available. Brought to you…
September 11, 2019
Meet Sarah Workman – Humanities Proposal Development Director
September 11, 2019 at 3:30pm – 5:00pm EDT
Tolley Building, 304
The Humanities Center hosts a coffee hour with Sarah Workman, newly hired to support faculty seeking and applying for research funding, achievement and recognition opportunities. Positioned as part…
August 26, 2019
Nicola Lo Calzo: Bundles of Wood
August 26, 2019 – October 17, 2019 EDT
Light Work
With great pleasure, Light Work presents Bundles of Wood, a solo exhibition by Italian photographer Nicola Lo Calzo. Since 2010, Lo Calzo has traversed Atlantic coastal areas to research buried…
August 6, 2019
Mellon New Directions Fellowship Budget Workshop
August 6, 2019 at 10:00am – 12:00pm EDT
Tolley Building, 304
Serious interdisciplinary research often requires established scholar-teachers to pursue formal substantive and methodological training in addition to the PhD. New Directions Fellowships assist…
April 17, 2019
Books in the Humanities Reception
April 17, 2019 at 4:30pm – 6:00pm EDT
Goldstein Alumni and Faculty Center
The Syracuse University Humanities Center presents the fourth annual Books in the Humanities Reception. Free and open to the public, the event features works by more than 60 authors and editors from…
March 27, 2019
Workshop: Writing About Improvisation
March 27, 2019 at 9:30am – 11:30am EDT
Tolley Building, 304
What do improvisers do? How does improvisation function? This workshop seeks a deepened understanding of improvisational languages and examines tensions between form and improvisation.
February 15, 2019
How Do We Know it Works?
February 15, 2019 at 12:30pm – 2:00pm EST
Sims Hall, 123
Syracuse University authors present their new volume, “Empirical Studies of Contemplative Practices,” and discuss how they research contemplative practice to better illustrate its value.