The Humanities Center‘s two Dissertation Fellows are presenting a special program in the Tolley Humanities Building. Maria Carson and Thomas J. (T.J.) West III—Ph.D. candidates in religion and English, respectively—will provide an overview of their research on Friday, Jan. 26, from 9:30-11:30 a.m. in 304 Tolley. The event is free and open to the public...
Free and open to the public, the event is a collaboration among the Department of Art and Music Histories in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S); the Food Studies Program in Falk College; and With Love, a teaching restaurant and business incubator on Syracuse’s North Side...
Three leading black scholars discussed the importance of black feminism and the history of activism in the United States during a panel session Monday night.
More than 200 people filled the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Monday, listening toJohnnetta Betsch Cole, Beverly Guy-Sheftall and Paula Giddings...
On Monday, November 27, Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Paula J. Giddings and Beverly Guy-Sheftall will convene a dialogue titled “Black Feminists and the Transformation of American Public Life” from 6-7:30 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium, 140 Newhouse 3.Free and open to the public, the program will conclude with a reception and book sale...
August 6, 1945 will never be forgotten. But Keiko Ogura, who survived the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan that day, wants to make sure the lessons it teaches us about nuclear war remain as vivid as possible. Ogura has devoted her life to that mission...
Syracuse Symposiumcontinues its yearlong look at “Belonging” with a visit by a survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima.Keiko Ogura, who was eight years old when the bomb fell, will participate in a panel discussion titled“Warped by Time, Shaped by History: The Art and Architecture of ‘That Day Now”’on Tuesday, Oct. 24, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in the Slocum Hall Atrium and Marble Room...
It is common to hear today, in the era of big data and STEM — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — that liberal arts degrees are, well, relatively worthless. What is someone with a degree in English literature going to do with it, besides teach? The question isn’t new...
On Thursday, Oct. 12,acclaimed Iraqi-American artistWafaa Bilalwill give a presentation titled “Performing Change: Diaspora and Belonging” from 5-6:30 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, 114 Bird Library. Bilal will discuss how he uses online performance and interactive works to address issues of identity, exile and politics.The following day, he will lead a small-group discussion titled "On Art and Resistance..."
The “Unite the Right” rally, which took place last month in Charlottesville, Virginia, leaving three dead and dozens injured, is the focus of an upcoming teach-in at Syracuse University. On Tuesday, Oct. 3, an interdisciplinary panel of Syracuse professors will hold court from 7-9 p.m. in Watson Theater of the Menschel Media Center (316 Waverly Ave.). The event is free and open to the public...