The documentaries featured in this year’s Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival, which centers around the theme of “Futures,” include “Coded Bias” by Shalini Kantayya, “Landfall” by Cecilia Aldarondo and “Yeh Freedom Life” by Priya Sen. The films will cover both international and national civil rights, along with social justice issues...
The Graduate School and the Humanities Center are pleased to announce the launch of the Humanities Graduate Mentoring Program. There are many rewarding career paths that humanities graduates can follow...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
