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...
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Syracuse Symposium continues its yearlong survey of “Belonging” with a quartet of multidisciplinary events. On Friday, Nov. 3, Tim Brookes, founder of The Endangered Alphabets Project, will address “Where Have All the Alphabets Gone? Disappearing Traditional Writing Systems and the Worldwide Loss of Cultural Identity.” His lecture is from 10-11:30 a.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, 114 Bird Library. The following week, the University will host Paul Prior and Jody Shipka, English professors at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), respectively...
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Syracuse Symposium continues 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...
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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...
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On Thursday, Oct. 12, acclaimed Iraqi-American artist Wafaa Bilal will 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..."
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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...
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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.
Lisa Kirschenbaum, professor of history at West Chester University, will discuss “Belonging to the International: Gender, Sexuality and Communist Identity during the Spanish Civil War” on Thursday, Sept. 28, from 11 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons (114 Bird Library)... Then, on Thursday, October 5, Vivek Shraya, an Indian-born, Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist, will perform...
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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 the Renée Crown University Honors Program, and enjoyed a weeklong run on campus by the Black Box Players...
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The Syracuse University Humanities Center announces its lineup for the 2017-18 Syracuse Symposium, whose theme is “Belonging.” The popular series highlights innovative, interdisciplinary work in the humanities by renowned scholars, artists, authors and performers.
Fall guests include visual artist Suné Woods (Sept. 13-16); poets Janice Harrington and Oliver de la Paz (Sept. 26-27); Iraqi-American artist Wafaa Bilal (Oct. 12-13); Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor Keiko Ogura (Oct. 24-28); Black feminist scholars Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Paula J. Giddings and Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Nov. 27); and gender studies scholar Melissa Adler (Dec. 4-5)...
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Michael Ebner anticipates a busy summer. When not in his office in Eggers Hall, fulfilling his duties as chair of the Department of History, the Syracuse University professor will spend two months in Rome, conducting archival research for a book on Italian Fascism.
Thanks to a $6,000 Summer Stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Ebner will study how Italian Fascists ruled colonies in Africa...
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