September 20, 2019
Latin Pedagogy Workshop with Justin Slocum Bailey
September 20, 2019 at 9:00am – September 21, 2019 at 4:00pm
Nancy Cantor Warehouse, seminar room
For all who are interested in teaching modern or classical languages in the target language. Using interactive demonstrations in Latin, Justin will provide hands-on training for teachers and learners…
Intersections: Re-Thinking African American Literature and Culture in the 21st Century
September 20, 2019 at 1:00pm – 4:00pm
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 22, 2019
Sculpting Silence
September 22, 2019 at 3:00pm – 4:30pm
Newhouse Communications Center III, 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 26, 2019
17th Annual Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival
September 26, 2019 – September 29, 2019
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,…
October 1, 2019
Liberating Stories of Resistance Along the U.S./Mexico Border
October 1, 2019 at 5:00pm – 6:30pm
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…
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
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 4, 2019
Widening the Circle: Workshop with Robin Wall Kimmerer
October 4, 2019 at 9:30am – 11:00am
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 7, 2019
Words and Silence in Spiritual Inquiry: Going Beyond Opinion and Belief
October 7, 2019 at 5:30pm – 8:30pm
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 11, 2019
Photography, Race, and Memory
October 11, 2019 at 6:00pm – 7:30pm
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 13, 2019
Incriminating Silence: How the Unheard Defendant in 12 Angry Men Speaks to Our Now
October 13, 2019 at 3:45pm – 5:00pm
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 29, 2019
‘Cripping’ Graphic Medicine: Psychiatric Disability, ‘Crip’ Culture, and the Health Humanities
October 29, 2019 at 4:00pm – 6:00pm
Bird Library, 114
Elizabeth J. Donaldson (NYIT) Donaldson, who teaches courses in bioethics and American literature and directs a minor in Medical Humanities, draws lines between Graphic Medicine, Disability Studies,…
November 1, 2019
Speaking Truths Unspoken: New Directions and New Voices in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
November 1, 2019 at 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Bird Library, 114
Regina Mills (Texas A&M University) The Department of English hosts Mills for a session of research presentations and roundtable discussion with scholars in ethnic studies. All are welcome to…
November 8, 2019
Grief, Healing, and Creative Possibilities
November 8, 2019 at 10:00am – 12:00pm
Maxwell Hall, Auditorium
Holly Greenberg (Syracuse University VPA) DJ Hellerman (Everson Museum of Art) Brian Konkol (Syracuse University Hendricks Chapel) Mary Murray (Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute) Presented…
December 5, 2019
What You Have Heard Is True: A Reading by Carolyn Forché
December 5, 2019 at 7:00pm – 9:00pm
YMCA Downtown Writers Center, 340 Montgomery Street
Acclaimed poet Carolyn Forché reads from her works of poetry and non-fiction, as part of the Humanities Center’s Syracuse Symposium on “silence.” All are welcome to this free event…
December 6, 2019
Against Silence: The Vital Work of Telling
December 6, 2019 at 9:00am – 11:00am
Tolley Building, 304
Featured as part of the Humanities Center’s Syracuse Symposium on “silence,” Carolyn Forché leads a writer’s workshop on poetry and witness. Space is limited: please RSVP…
February 18, 2020
The Perfect Victim: Why American Culture Prefers Dead (White) Girls
February 18, 2020 at 5:30pm – 7:00pm
Newhouse Communications Center III, Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium
Pop culture writer, Alice Bolin, talks about her book, Dead Girls: Surviving an American Obsession as part of this year’s Syracuse Symposium on “silence.”
