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Humanities Events

January 21, 2025

Title page of early modern manuscript

Damned Lungs: Plague and the Limits of Community in Early Modern England

January 21, 2025 at 6:00pm7:00pm EST

Virtual (See event details)

Historians of early medicine face a perennial problem of the mismatch between modern and premodern disciplinary and classificatory terms and structures of thought. This is especially true of…

February 2, 2025

Syracuse: In Our Own Backyards / In Our Own Communities

February 2, 2025 at 3:00pm5:00pm EST

Watson Hall

All are welcome to this on-campus screening of works by the Teens with Movie Camera collab. Through their short films and discussion, Syracuse high school students reflect on their experiences of…

February 26, 2025

Sports and Theatre: The Arena that Connects Us

February 26, 2025 at 6:00pm7:00pm EST

Syracuse Stage/Drama Theater Complex, Sutton Pavilion

Syracuse Stage presents a panel discussion with former Orange athletes Eric Devendorf and Eric Jackson moderated by former editor of ESPN.com Javier Maymi-Perez in conjunction with the play King…

March 18, 2025

Me and Molly: The Importance of an Audience

March 18, 2025 at 5:00pm6:30pm EDT

Bird Library, 114

Using archival letters from the Special Collections Research Center’s Gertrude Berg Papers, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Emily Nussbaum discusses fans’ parasocial relationship with Gertrude Berg.

April 3, 2025

The Beloved Community: A Reading by New York State Poet Laureate Patricia Spears Jones

April 3, 2025 at 7:00pm8:30pm EDT

340 Montgomery Street, Syracuse

Spears Jones is a past NEA and NYFA poetry fellow, and the author of five collections, including The Beloved Community (2023) and A Lucent Fire: New and Selected Poems (2015), and co-editor of…

April 4, 2025

Poetry and Community: A Discussion with Patricia Spears Jones

April 4, 2025 at 9:00am11:00am EDT

Tolley Building, 304

Join New York State Poet Laureate Patricia Spears Jones and the YMCA Writers Voice for a craft-focused discussion, open to poets, students of poetry, and the campus community. Space is limited! To…

April 5, 2025

Building a Global Organ Community Through Film: Q&A with Will Fraser

April 5, 2025 at 7:00pm9:00pm EDT

Hendricks Chapel

Film director Will Fraser shares excerpts from two decades of work documenting cultural heritage related to the pipe organ and discusses the future of the instrument with a panel of organists.…

April 9, 2025

Advice from an ex-editor: Some things to think about when you’re submitting an article manuscript

April 9, 2025 at 3:30pm5:00pm EDT

Tolley Building, 304

Lecture featuring Joshua Piker, William & Mary. Dr. Piker was Editor of the William and Mary Quarterly from 2014 to 2024. His talk will be oriented toward graduate students and early career…