Syracuse Symposium
2024-2025
Syracuse Symposium is our annual public events series exploring the humanities through lectures, workshops, performances, exhibits, films, readings, and more. The current theme is "COMMUNITY."
We are grateful for additional support from the office of the Associate Provost for Strategic Initiatives, acknowledging our shared mission to encourage broad community engagement through this public events series.
- View or download the Fall Season Preview for this year's "Community" series.
- View or download the SPRING Season Preview!
The CALL FOR PROPOSALS is now open for the 2025-2026 series on "Creativity!' Read more at our Forms & Funding page.
Gordon Parks's Curated Photographs and His Ideas About Community
Sept. 6, 2024, 4 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
River Stories: A Research Methodologies Workshop
Sept. 11, 2024, 10:30 a.m. - 2 p.m.
The Architecture of Sovereignty: Making and Unmaking the British Empire in India
Sept. 12, 2024, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Sept. 20, 2024, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Communities of Care: Documenting Reproductive Justice in a Post-Roe Country
Oct. 17, 2024, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Rupture, Resistance, and Community: The Crisis of Violence Against Women
Oct. 18, 2024, 4 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Each Moment Radiant: Music of Johannes Brahms and Kurt Erickson
Oct. 20, 2024, 4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Healing Trauma through Poetry and Music
Oct. 20, 2024, 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Rockets for the Sake of Poetry
Oct. 24, 2024, 4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Imagining Freedom: Developing Communities, Coalitions, and Digital Literacies in Prison
Nov. 7, 2024, 12:30 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.
Nov. 7, 2024, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Syracuse: In Our Own Backyards / In Our Own Communities
Feb. 2, 2025, 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Feb. 7, 2025, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
The Pulse of Stories: Poetry, Music, and Movement in Storytelling
Feb. 8, 2025, 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Sports and Theatre: The Arena that Connects Us
Feb. 26, 2025, 6 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Working Toward Racial Justice and Educational Equity
March 6, 2025, 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Tuesdays With Bleier: Gertrude Berg
March 18, 2025, 12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Me and Molly: The Importance of an Audience
March 18, 2025, 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
The Beloved Community: A Reading by New York State Poet Laureate Patricia Spears Jones
April 3, 2025, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Poetry and Community: A Discussion with Patricia Spears Jones
April 4, 2025, 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Building a Global Organ Community Through Film: Q&A with Will Fraser
April 5, 2025, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.