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Human Rights Film Festival: Changing the World, One Conversation at a Time

Film festival provides space for campus and community members to view impactful films, share reactions, and ask questions of filmmakers

Sept. 14, 2023  · 

From the rural landscape of Michigan, to the devastated landscape of Bucha in the Ukraine, to the virtual landscape of the African diaspora, filmmakers address social issues and the fight for human rights around the globe at the 21st annual Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival. The festival, a cherished annual event on the University calendar, has been held over two decades, representing an dynamic interdisciplinary collaboration across schools and colleges. The Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Humanities Center in the College of Arts and Sciences partner to co-present the festival.


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Advancing Relevant and Impactful Research That ‘Doesn’t Fit in a Box’

The CNY Humanities Corridor marks 15 years in existence and its fifth year into an endowment that provides humanities research support in perpetuity

Sept. 8, 2023  · 

Central New York's thriving and engaged humanities community is like a "vibrant quilt of different fabrics, textures and colors -- key to our vitality as a research consortium that advances cutting-edge research and brings the humanities to bear on a range of local and global concerns.”


Mary Schmidt Campbell

Distinguished alumna, Mary Schmidt Campbell (G’73, G’82, H’21) presents 2023 Wali Lecture in the Sciences and Humanities

Annual Lecture Honoring Physics Professor Kameshwar C. Wali to be held October 5

Sept. 6, 2023  · 

Schmidt Campbell’s lecture, ‘Towards a Model of Equity in Graduate Education’ considers the expectations, assumptions and practices that she and her husband, George Campbell G’77, encountered at Syracuse University influencing their academic success.


Landscapes illustration shows a half orange / half blue wavy horizon as viewed out a split window pane

Landscapes is this year's Syracuse Symposium theme

20 Years of Syracuse Symposium

The Syracuse University Humanities Center celebrates the evolution of its signature public events series

Sept. 5, 2023  · 

Even if you haven’t participated in Symposium offerings yet, the intriguing and provocative annual themes still may have caught your eye.


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Cover of the inaugural issue of Mend

Stories of Healing From Those Impacted by Incarceration

Aug. 11, 2023  · 

Patrick W. Berry, associate professor of writing and rhetoric in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been working with justice-impacted people in Central New York and across the United States to develop Mend, a journal that celebrates their lives and creative work.


groups of students focus on their writing, seated together at long tables

Students from Write Out attend a workshop with poet Vievee Francis at the Salt City Market as part of the Environmental Storytelling Series of CNY. (Photo: Katie Zilcosky)

Uniting the Community in the Pursuit of Environmental Justice

The Environmental Storytelling Series of CNY brings together faculty, students and local community partners to address the climate crisis through creative outlets.

April 4, 2023  · 

Through creative outlets like storytelling, interpretation and art, the humanities can demonstrate how environmental concerns are intertwined with social, economic and cultural issues. This year’s series, “Environmental Storytelling and the Collective Work of Repair” is part of the Syracuse University Humanities Center’s 2022-23 Syracuse Symposium on Repair. Programming throughout the year has featured photography, poetry, readings, talks and film screenings by different environmental storytellers.


Annual Books in the Humanities Showcase Celebrates Syracuse University Authors

Reception features nearly 50 books by SU authors spotlighting a range of cutting-edge research from across campus.

March 31, 2023  · 

All are invited to explore a diverse range of books authored and/or edited by Syracuse University scholars in copyright year 2022 at this year's Books in the Humanities (BITH) reception, now in its eighth year.


composer Anthony green sits at grand piano

Photo: Shawn Poynter (courtesy of Loghaven Artist Residency)

Renowned composer visits Syracuse to unpack race and ‘repair’ in classical music (if that’s even possible)

Anthony Green wonders “if repair can even happen. I don’t dwell on that,” he added, “but instead I’m consciously choosing to write more pieces about Black joy and Black survival.”

March 20, 2023  · 

One of the leading American composers of his generation, Anthony R. Green, is in Syracuse this week, participating in an array of concerts and conversations that highlight his music and his work in social justice, part of Syracuse University’s year-long symposium on the theme of “Repair.”