New Books in Conversation

Time: Sept. 25, 2026, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.

Location: Community Folk Art Center, 805 E. Genesee St.

New Books in Conversation invites the community to meet three literary and cultural studies scholars from the Syracuse University department of English releasing new books:

• The Black Aerial Imagination: Aviation and Flight in African and Diasporic Literature, Delali Kumavie
• Problematic Paradigms and The Contours of US Latinidad, essays by Silvio Torres-Saillant, edited by Nancy Kang and Michael Nieto Garcia
• Land's Language: On Mapuche Memory, Translation, and the Territorial Aporia, Ethan Madarieta

These volumes explore issues of race, ethnicity, indigeneity, technology, and colonialism. All are welcome to hear more from these authors in conversation, bringing years of research and writing to a public beyond the university.

View or download a printable flyer.

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Additional supporters:

• Department of English
• Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
• Center for Global Indigenous Cultures and Environmental Justice
• Syracuse University Humanities Center