The 18th annual Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival (SUHRFF) is online from Sept. 24-26 due to COVID-19 restrictions. The film festival is part of Syracuse Symposium 2020-21: FUTURES and is presented by the Syracuse University Humanities Center in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Newhouse School of Public Communications...
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See works by Haitian-born artist Fabiola Jean-Louis, Sept. 7 through Nov. 20, at Point of Contact Gallery. Admission is free and open to the public, with guided tours available virtually or on site, by appointment. Point of Contact will also host a virtual artist talk and discussion panel for “Rewriting History,” on Nov. 12 at 6:30 p.m...
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Article by Kevin Morrow
The University Lectures series celebrates its 20th season this fall with a stellar line-up, to include Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of The New York Times’ acclaimed “The 1619 Project,” on Oct. 8...
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Article by Dan Bernardi
When Myriam Lacroix set out to create a writing group for LGBTQ youth in the city of Syracuse, she had no idea what to expect...
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The fifth annual Books in the Humanities celebration offers a virtual showcase of recent works from Syracuse University along with links to author pages and ebook versions where available...
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The notion of restorative justice has a long legacy that traces back to Native and Afrocentric communities. The process involves offenders acknowledging what they have done wrong and accepting the obligation to right the wrong, as well as addressing the needs of those harmed and having all sides and the community be part of the solution...
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Article by Christopher Cicchiello
For years, Theo Cateforis, an SU associate professor of music history and culture, had been looking for the proper opportunity to bring Vincent Stephens, a current author and director of the Popel Shaw Center for Race & Ethnicity at Dickinson College, back to Syracuse University.
Stephens is no stranger to campus, as he was a postdoctoral fellow in the humanities at SU from 2006 to 2010...
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On Frederick Douglass Day, February 14, a day which celebrates Douglass’ many contributions as an author, preeminent orator, and social reformer, the Humanities Center is partnering with the Colored Conventions Project to host a local transcribe-a-thon of the writings of Anna Julia Cooper as part of a national day of service...
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This spring, the Syracuse University Humanities Center will host a diverse selection of events that take up a range of contemporary issues and enduring social questions. Humanities Center programs are open to all faculty, staff, students and community members...
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Elizabeth J. Donaldson, professor of English and interim associate dean for curriculum and student success at the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), will give a public lecture on these topics on Tuesday, Oct. 29, at 4 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, 114 Bird Library.
This symposium, in the emerging cross-disciplinary field of graphic medicine, engages Syracuse University’s and SUNY Upstate Medical University’s constituents in collaboration by drawing linkages across disability studies and the health humanities...
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