La Casita commemorates Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month with a new exhibit (Corazón del Barrio), featuring objects from the archives to mark the cultural center's 10th anniversary.

SUHRFF continues its tradition of showcasing trailblazing feature documentaries about social justice issues around the world.

Krithi Karanth, Chief Conservation Scientist and Director at the Centre for Wildlife Studies, Bangalore, presents this year's Kameshwar C. Wali Lecture in the Humanities, hosted by the Physics Dept.

Gabrielle Foreman discusses the work of enslaved potter, David Drake, and the poetry he inscribed in his outsized vessels.

Gabrielle Foreman presents a professional development workshop for BIPOC advanced grad students, post-docs and junior professors at Syracuse University.

Sheila Barker (Friends of the Medici Archive) In this lecture hosted by Art and Music Histories, Barker draws from her latest research and forthcoming book to present a lively look at the work of…

Acclaimed poet and National Book Award winner Terrance Hayes read and discusses poems related to the Syracuse Symposium theme of Conventions. Moderated Q&A follows the reading.

Poet Terrance Hayes discusses how he, and other poets, have used, recycled, expanded, and exploded poetic conventions--especially traditional form--for their own artistic purposes.

Noli Me Tangere--“touch me not” or “don’t tread on me”--is a new exhibit by artist Kelvin Burzon examining the internal conflict of homosexuality and Catholicism. Panelists aim to bridge…

Discussion around featured objects from Syracuse University Libraries' Special Collections focuses archival silences and possibilities for uncovering and documenting Black activisms over time.

Society for New Music and the College of Visual and Performing Arts welcomes composer Erin O’Hara, who combines feminist storytelling with punk music to bring the convention-breaking character…

Erin O’Hara joins VPA faculty for a composer’s seminar, open to all, drawing from O’Hara’s experience writing a feminist-punk musical score for the classic silent film, Pandora’s Box to…

Jonathan W. Stone (University of Utah) The folk songs of John and Alan Lomax both reified and transformed the trajectory of American convention, especially around issues of race. Jonathan Stone plays…

Jonathan W. Stone (University of Utah) In this interactive workshop, participants will consider how sound invites nontraditional approaches to archival, rhetorical, and historiographical methods.…

Christina Sharpe (York University, Toronto) Renowned scholar Christina Sharpe delivers a lecture on the various Black meanings embedded in the “ordinary” notes that compose Black Life. Offering a…

Gabrielle Foreman suggests that the 1864 national convention held in Syracuse should be understood as a centerpiece of the seven-decades movement for Black rights, justice, and dignity.