The Department of African American Studies is proud to present its 39th African American Studies Colloquium featuring this 2021 Fall Program: Eminent scholar George Lipsitz and Grammy nominated…

Cultural event in which we give students a tour of the Day of the Dead celebration and invite them to learn more about the programs, clubs and upcoming classes in the Department. It includes the…

Cultural event in which we give students a tour of the Day of the Dead celebration and invite them to learn more about the programs, clubs and upcoming classes in the Department. It includes the…

An estimated 93% of graduate students in the humanities and social sciences won’t get a tenure-track job, yet many still assume that a tenured professorship is the only successful outcome for a…

Maria Ryan, Assistant Professor of Musicology, Florida State University Between 1798 and 1808 the British Army purchased over 14,000 Africans, coercing them directly into service in…

The philosophy department welcomes Professor Sarah Moss from University of Michigan for a lecture at the annual William P. Alston Lecture Series. Professor Moss’s lecture is “A…

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…

This public lecture is based on the book Radicalizing Her: Why Women Choose Violence (Beacon, 2021) and asks what those with power in the West typically don’t see — and the questions…

Inclusive Pedagogy Workshop with Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson MAP welcomes Professor Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson for a discussion centered around her article (co-authored with Luvell Anderson)…

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.…

Genealogy in the Humanities invites you to an ‘author-meets-readers’ seminar with Professors Bernardo Zacka (MIT) and Duncan Bell (Cambridge) on the topic of their book, Political Theory and…

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.

The Philosophy Department welcomes Professor Renée Jorgenson Bolinger from the University of Michigan for a presentation, “Predictive Hotspot Policing and Fair Risk Distributions.” The…

Author and journalist Isaac Butler explores how the "The Method" approach to stage performance in the early 20th century revolutionized the art and created a new template for the emerging film format.