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...
Syracuse Symposium continues its yearlong theme of “Belonging” with two events devoted to the contours of social identity and the navigation, if not forging, of political community.
Emma Ettinger ’17 is a self-professed “Shakespeare nerd.” Before graduating in May, she produced a seven-woman play, adapted from 10 of the Bard’s histories. “And the Women Cried” evolved into her Capstone Project in theRenée Crown University Honors Program, and enjoyed a weeklong run on campus by the Black Box Players...
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