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Humanities Center Ends Year on High Note

Upcoming guests include Barefoot College’s ‘Bunker’ Roy and Megan Fallone

The Syracuse University Humanities Center in the College of Arts and Sciences concludes its spring series with appearances by several luminaries, including social entrepreneurs Sanjit “Bunker” Roy and Meagan Fallone and multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk.

“We’re ending our season on a high note,” says Vivian May, director of the Humanities Center and associate professor of women’s & gender studies in A&S. “In addition to extending the Syracuse Symposium series, this year’s spring schedule is breaking ground with bold, new lectures, workshops, and seminars. Common to all of them are issues of broad societal concern, worthy of public and academic attention.”

All events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. For more information, visit syracusehumanities.org or call 315-443-7192.

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Laura Freixas to Serve as Jeanette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor in Humanities March 29-April 8

The Syracuse University Humanities Center will host one of the most important feminist voices in Spanish literature.

Laura Freixas, a world-renowned author, teacher-scholar, critic, translator, and proponent of women's literature, will serve as the Humanities Center's 2016 Jeanette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor, March 29-April 8. The Barcelona-born writer is known for her best-selling anthology Mothers and Daughters (Anagram, 1996).

The Humanities Center is based in the College of Arts and Sciences.

"To have Laura Freixas in residence is a rare opportunity for students and scholars alike," says Vivian May, director of the Humanities Center and an associate professor of women's & gender studies. "Known for her pure, unapologetic writing style, she is not afraid to put forward basic existential questions about love, friendship, marriage, and children. There is probably no one else like her in all of modern Spanish fiction."

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Humanities Center Announces March Lineup

The Humanities Center, based in the College of Arts and Sciences, continues its spring series of lectures, workshops and performances. Special guests include former Public Enemy member Harry Allen, Spanish author and critic Laura Freixas, British-Nigerian singer and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador nominee Ola Onabulé and cultural theorist Cary Wolfe.

“This spring is one of the Humanities Center’s most ambitious to date,” says Vivian May, director of the center and associate professor of women’s and gender studies. “We’re excited to support a rich array of scholars and artists who engage with the humanities as a public good. Many of them are committed to addressing issues of broad societal concern in the public and scholarly realms.”

All events are free and open to the public. For more information, visit http://www.syracusehumanities.org or call 315-443-7192.

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Humanities Center Closes out Month with High-Profile Events

Lineup features ethnomusicologist Jonathan Dueck (Feb. 22), social activist Alicia Garza (Feb. 23), digital humanist Lori Emerson (Feb. 25-26), black feminist Gloria Joseph (Feb. 29)

The Syracuse University Humanities Center, based in the College of Arts and Sciences, wraps up February with a quartet of high-profile events. It features visits by Jonathan Dueck, an award-winning ethnomusicologist at The George Washington University (GW); Alicia Garza, founder of the Black Lives Matter movement; Lori Emerson, a media archeologist at the University of Colorado Boulder; and Gloria Joseph, a legendary black feminist.

All events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. For more information, visit syracusehumanities.org or call 315-443-7192.

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Humanities Center Presents Renowned ‘Information Designer’ Feb. 10-11

Syracuse Symposium continues its yearlong theme of “Networks” with a visit by an expert on rhetoric, technology, and research.

Clay Spinuzzi, an associate professor at The University of Texas at Austin, will deliver a lecture titled “Three Networks Walk into a Bar … ” on Wednesday, Feb. 10, at 2:15 p.m. in The Kilian Room (500) of the Hall of Languages. The following day from 9 a.m. to noon, he will lead a mini-seminar on “Modeling Qualitative Data” in room 304 of the Tolley Humanities Building.

Both events are free and open to the public; however, registration is required for the mini-seminar. Please RSVP to jpwill03@syr.edu by Thursday, Feb. 4.

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Humanities Center Announces Ambitious Spring Lineup

The Syracuse University Humanities Center, based in the College of Arts and Sciences, announces its most ambitious spring lineup to date, supporting more than 30 events and activities taking place between Jan. 29 and April 20. Click here for the complete Spring 2016 schedule.

Special guests include the following:

• Bettina Love, renowned hip-hop-based educator and feminist (Feb. 4)
• Alicia Garza, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement (Feb. 23)
• Harry Allen, hip-hop activist, journalist and former member of Public Enemy (March 23)
• Jacqueline Woodson, award-winning author of books for young adults (April 5)
• Laura Freixas, renowned Spanish writer and the 2016 Jeanette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor (March 29-April 5)
• Sanjit “Bunker” Roy, founder of India’s Barefoot College (April 21-22)

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Gregg Lambert to Step Down from Syracuse University Humanities Center

Gregg Lambert, Dean’s Professor of the Humanities, has informed Karin Ruhlandt, interim dean of Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, that he has stepped down as founding director of the Syracuse University Humanities Center to focus solely on his continued leadership of the Central New York Humanities Corridor.

Since 2008, Lambert has served as director and principal investigator of the Corridor, which involves nine New York State institutions, including Cornell University and the University of Rochester. The Corridor is funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Giving Peace a Chance

The event in question was the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the death of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko. The speaker that day was 79-year-old Nelson Mandela, who deemed it time to “redress the legacy of oppression.”

“[It] will be achieved by each of us respecting ourselves … and respecting the humanity in each one of us,” he told a rapt audience in the coastal town of East London. “It means an attitude of mind and a way of life that appreciates the joy in the honest labor of creating a new society.”

Mandela would retire from active political life less than three months later, but not before his Biko speech went down in history. Many consider it one of the high-water marks of his presidency.

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