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April 20, 2020

Celebrating University Writers with “Books in the Humanities”

Article by Dan Bernardi

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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Maisha T. Winn's residency includes two campus visits, March 9-13 and April 6-10
Maisha T. Winn's residency includes two campus visits, March 9-13 and April 6-10

Creating Just Futures with Restorative Justice

March 5, 2020

Maisha T. Winn is this year’s Jeannette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities

Article by Dan Bernardi

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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Vincent Stephens returned to campus to speak about masculinity in 1950s music.
Vincent Stephens returned to campus to speak about masculinity in 1950s music.

SU Alum (Ph.D. '10) Lectures About Queer Masculinity of ’50s Pop Artists

March 3, 2020

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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Cooper featured on 2009 postage stamp (courtesy of USPS)
Cooper featured on 2009 postage stamp (courtesy of USPS)

Digitizing and Restoring History

Feb. 5, 2020

Article by Dan Bernardi

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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Syracuse Symposium 2019-20
Syracuse Symposium 2019-20

Humanities Center Spring Preview

Jan. 21, 2020

Article by Dan Bernardi

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.
Elizabeth J. Donaldson, professor of English and interim associate dean for curriculum and student success at the New York Institute of Technology.

Syracuse University Humanities Center and the Burton Blatt Institute Host ‘‘Cripping’ Graphic Medicine: Psychiatric Disability, ‘Crip’ Culture and the Humanities

Oct. 22, 2019

Article by Robert Conrad

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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Sarah Lee | Contributing Photographer
Sarah Lee | Contributing Photographer

SU Humanities Center hosts panel on issues shown in ‘12 Angry Men’

Oct. 14, 2019

Article by Maggie Hicks

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...

Read the full article at the Daily Orange.