Rebranded 'coalition' brings new visibility to our museums and galleries, maker spaces, and community centers who frequently partner with the Humanities Center.
The new name is part of a rebranding and profile-boosting effort to highlight the University’s arts offerings and strengthen awareness of its diverse organizations and programs.
Better understand the diverse ways people find and thrive in community through this year's Syracuse Symposium series of art exhibits, film screenings, author presentations, and more.
The humanities play a vital role in cultivating skills such as agility, resilience and flexibility by broadening students’ worldviews and exposing them to diverse cultures, perspectives and experiences. For the last 21 years, the Syracuse University Humanities Center’s Syracuse Symposium has done just that through a public series of art exhibitions, lectures, film screenings, workshops and musical performances...
Symposium feature earns an encore... a dozen years later
Syracuse-based CNY Jazz Orchestra recently celebrated the CD release of If a White Horse from Jerusalem. "This project was a long time coming," admits Larry Luttinger, Executive Director of CNY Jazz Central. Works were originally commissioned with Syracuse University Humanities Center support, relating to its 2011 Symposium theme, “Conflict: Peace and War.”
Archived images of neighborhoods, churches, synagogues and communities tell grassroots stories about place and interconnectedness.
Turning the Lens Collective builds a living digital archive of memorabilia from and about historically overlooked communities. Former and current Humanites Center Dissertation Fellows and HNY Public Humanties project grantees work together to add local contributions to the long-term social justice project.
Claudia Kinkela (NEH) offers grant-seeking guidance
2023-24’s supportive initiatives included first-ever campus visit from an NEH official; Minnowbrook writing retreat; panel discussion on open-access publishing; and a summer writing workshop.
At the heart of academia, humanities faculty conduct vital work, exploring the depths of human experience, history and culture. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), an independent federal agency established in 1965, stands as a key supporter of these efforts. This month alone, the NEH announced $26.2 million in grants for 238 humanities projects across the country.
Project Mend team members Katherine Nikolau ’24, Michael J. Willacy
and Patrick W. Berry serve as panelists at a Syracuse Stage event.
Project Mend has earned support from Humanities New York, the Syracuse University Humanities Center, Engaged Humanities Network, the SOURCE, the Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric and Composition, and a CUSE research grant.
When students in the College of Arts and Sciences enroll in Associate Professor Patrick Berry’s class on writing and rhetoric, they likely think, correctly, that they will learn the foundations of good writing across various genres. However, they may not imagine that Berry’s vision for the class involves a less tangible side effect: building community.
Philosopher Immanuel Kant’s 1795 essay “Toward Perpetual Peace” still holds significant relevance even now more than two centuries after it was first published. With ongoing wars across the globe, securing peace remains elusive.
An upcoming one-day symposium will explore how Kant’s principles can help lay the foundation for lasting peace. The symposium is supported by the Central New York Humanities Corridor, whose administrative home is based at the Syracuse University Humanities Center...
Dian Ling | Contributing Photographer
Krushil Watene discusses Māori concepts, the revitalization of their communities and the support of their knowledge.
Māori scholar Krushil Watene projected a photo of herself and a youth education group canoeing on New Zealand’s Taumārere River to an audience of more than 20 students and faculty in Bird Library. Understanding their responsibility to learn about Māori culture is Watene’s group’s mission.
“We need more diversity and we need to hear the voice of those communities who hold the key and the knowledge to address issues that are impacting humanity, not just Indigenous communities, but humanity overall,” said Indigenous Studies Professor Mariaelena Huambachano...
Professor Brice Nordquist believes environmental storytelling
can bridge the gap between science and the humanities.
Students and professors turn to art, architecture and storytelling to better understand the environment.
Research, scholarship and creativity coexist and thrive at Syracuse University. All year long, Syracuse students and faculty engage in creative endeavors, like architecture, storytelling and visual art, to forge new relationships with and fresh insights into our natural world.
The Humanities Center resides in the Tolley Humanities Building (in upper left view)
Research ranges from recovering ancestral foodways, making Black space in the digital age, natural reasoning through virtue to stereotypical Caribbean images.
Humanities practitioners put current issues and events into perspective by encouraging critical thinking and analysis, challenging beliefs and values, sparking creativity and encouraging global citizenship and immersing in history. In an effort to further a world that is healthier, hopeful and more humane, the Syracuse University Humanities Center, in the College of Arts and Sciences, advances humanities research each year by awarding up to four competitive fellowships.