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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Syracuse University’s Humanities Center hosted a panel Sunday about Syracuse Stage’s performance of “Twelve Angry Men” as part of this year’s Syracuse Symposium annual public events series.
Lanessa Chaplin, a project councilor from the New York Civil Liberties Union, and Sanjay Chhablani, a professor and researcher at SU’s Forensic and National Security Sciences Institute, discussed issues of race and lack of diversity in the American criminal justice system during the panel...
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The planet is in crisis. Climate change means droughts, storms and floods that last longer and are more destructive. Animals, birds and insects are disappearing. Pollutants contaminate the air and our waterways. Indigenous communities around the globe have long sounded the alarm....
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Cultural journalist, music critic and longtime contributor to JAZZIZ, Larry Blumenfeld, will serve as the 2019 Jeanette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities at Syracuse University, New York, Mar. 25-April 5...
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Adela C. Licona, this year’s Syracuse Symposium keynote speaker, finds the euphemistically termed “tender-age facilities”—in reality, prisons for migrant babies and children—wholly reprehensible.
The University of Arizona (UA) professor, artist and activist believes the oft-repeated phrase masks extreme cruelty and violation. “I seek to unmask such violence, using socially engaged art to intervene and offer shared outrage,” she explains...
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Larry Blumenfeld, cultural journalist, music critic and longtime contributor to The Wall Street Journal, will serve as the 2019 Jeanette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities at Syracuse University, March 25-April 5.
Blumenfeld's residency, titled “Jazz in Troubled Times: The Relevance and Resonance of a Culture,” will explore the convergence of politics, activism and the arts, while rethinking the nature of jazz as an enduring culture...
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Cognitive experience. Romantic legalism. Educational equality. Authentic writing. These are some of the themes of this year’s research by Dissertation and Public Humanities Fellows in the Syracuse University Humanities Center. Based in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), the Humanities Center offers a range of competitive fellowships supporting graduate research...
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