Syracuse Symposium
2017-2018: Belonging
Syracuse Symposium is our annual public events series exploring the humanities through lectures, workshops, performances, exhibits, films, readings, and more. The current theme is "LANDSCAPES," with a new SU Libraries Reading List for Spring 2024. View or download the"Landscapes" Fall Season Preview flyer or Spring Season Preview flyer.
'You are mine. I see now, I’m a have to let you go.'
Sept. 13, 2017, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Processes of Translation: a Workshop in Photo Collage with Artist Suné Woods
Sept. 16, 2017, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Poetry and Belonging: Readings by Janice Harrington and Oliver de la Paz
Sept. 26, 2017, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Working Between Worlds: Conversation with Janice Harrington and Oliver de la Paz
Sept. 27, 2017, 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Sept. 28, 2017, 11 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.
Sept. 28, 2017, 7 p.m. - Sept. 30, 2017, 9:30 p.m.
Sept. 28, 2017, 7 p.m. - Sept. 30, 2017, 9:30 p.m.
Sept. 29, 2017, 7 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Sept. 30, 2017, 1 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Sept. 30, 2017, 4 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Sept. 30, 2017, 7 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Embodied Belongings: Exploring the Politics of ‘Queer’ in South Asia
Oct. 5, 2017, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Performing Change: Diaspora and Belonging
Oct. 12, 2017, 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Wafaa Bilal: On Art and Resistance
Oct. 13, 2017, 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Warped by Time, Shaped by History: The Art and Architecture of That Day Now
Oct. 24, 2017, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
That Day in 1945: Effects of the Atomic Bombs on Post-WWII Japanese Culture
Oct. 28, 2017, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Nov. 3, 2017, 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Enough with All These Border Walls: Redrawing Disciplinary Becoming and Belonging
Nov. 8, 2017, 9 a.m. - noon
Making and Remaking a Literate Life: Being, Longing, Belonging
Nov. 8, 2017, 2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
Making, Being, and Belonging Through Multimodal Composing
Nov. 9, 2017, 8:30 a.m. - noon
Black Feminists and the Transformation of American Public Life
Nov. 27, 2017, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Music and Food in Multicultural Syracuse: Performing New American Traditions
Dec. 2, 2017, 6 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Consequences of Classification: Systemic Violence Against Marginalized Communities
Dec. 4, 2017, 5:15 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Dec. 5, 2017, 9 a.m. - noon
Theatre of the Mind: Staging Mental Health & Sense of Belonging
Jan. 28, 2018, 4:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Bodymap: A Performance with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Feb. 7, 2018, 4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
No Body Left Behind: The Art and Practice of Disability Justice
Feb. 8, 2018, 12:30 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.
Feb. 12, 2018, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Understanding Chilean Theater in a Global Context
Feb. 13, 2018, 9:30 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Women's Roles in Latin American Theater
Feb. 15, 2018, 2 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.
Music, Identity, and Belonging
Feb. 26, 2018, noon - 1:30 p.m.
Akin: Embedding as Artistic Strategy in the Experimental Video of Eva Maria Rødbro & Keren Shavit
March 8, 2018, 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Zine Librarianship as Critical Practice
April 5, 2018, 5:15 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Seizing the Means of Publication: Zine Making
April 6, 2018, 9 a.m. - noon
Colleen Kattau on the Latin American New Song Movement
April 12, 2018, 2 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.
Longing and Belonging: A Conversation on Poetics
April 13, 2018, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
April 13, 2018, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Does the Earth Belong to Us, or Do We Belong to the Earth? Buddhism and the Ecological Challenge
April 19, 2018, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Healing Ecology: A Buddhist Perspective on the Eco-Crisis
April 20, 2018, 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.