Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor: Cherríe Moraga
Time: midnight February 20 - 8 p.m. March 3
Location: See individual entries for locations
This year's Jeannette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor is Cherríe Moraga, Artist-in-Residence in the Department of Theater and Performance Studies and the Comparative Program of Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University.
Moraga’s body of work contributes centrally to an inclusive humanities horizon for the twenty first century. She is widely recognized for groundbreaking interventions in literature, drama, and feminist activism and theory. An array of lectures and workshops will connect Moraga to students and interested publics during her two week residency in Syracuse. View or download the announcement of Watson events.
Scheduled activities:
February 20, 7 - 9 p.m.
The Mathematics of Love, Play Reading
Hosted by the Department of Drama / Syracuse Stage
February 21, 4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Welcome Reception
Goldstein Alumni & Faculty Center
February 22, 6 - 8 p.m.
Playwright Workshop (Session 1-of-4)
319 Sims Hall
February 23, 2 - 5 p.m.
Roundtable: Remembering This Bridge Called My Back
Peter Graham Scholarly Commons at Bird Library
February 23, 6 - 8 p.m.
Screening / Performance: Speaking in Tongues
La Casita Cultural Center
February 24, 6 - 8 p.m.
Playwright Workshop (Session 2-of-4)
319 Sims Hall
February 27, 2:15 - 5 p.m.
Colloquium Disrupting Genre, Gender, and Generation: Conversations with Maestra Cherrie Moraga
Peter Graham Scholarly Commons at Bird Library
February 28, 7 - 9 p.m.
The Native Country of A Heart, public lecture
001 Life Science Building
March 1, 6 - 8 p.m.
Playwright Workshop (Session 3-of-4)
319 Sims Hall
March 2, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Theory in the Flesh, Undergrad Dialogue
500 Hall of Languages
March 3, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Elements of Common Cause: Land and Water in Native and Indigenous Struggles
Skä•noñh - Great Law of Peace Center
March 3, 6 - 8 p.m.
Playwright Workshop (Session 4-of-4)
319 Sims Hall
Partners and Co-Sponsors include:
Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Democratizing Knowledge Collective, Department of Drama, English Department, Goldring Arts Journalism Program, La Casita Cultural Center, State University of New York Press, LaLUCHA (Latino Undergraduates Creating Change in America), Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Latino and Latin American Studies Program, LGBT Studies Program, Native American and Indigenous Studies Program, Skä•noñh Great Law of Peace Center, Syracuse Stage, Women’s and Gender Studies, Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition, The Writing Program.
The Jeannette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professorship in the Humanities is a preeminent lectureship established by the Watson family to support the visits of prominent humanities scholars, writers, and artists. Previous holders of the professorship include: Saul Bellow, Laura Freixas, Noam Chomsky, Angela Davis, Hans Mommsen, Toni Morrison, Mario Vargas Llosa, Leo Steinberg, Teresa de Lauretis, Stephen Greenblatt, Anthony Grafton, and Margaret Atwood.
Principal Organizers: Pedro Javier DiPietro, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Myrna García Calderón, Women's & Gender Studies, Latino and Latin American Studies