Syracuse Symposium
2021-2022
Welcome to Syracuse Symposium, our annual public events series exploring the humanities through lectures, workshops, performances, exhibits, films, readings, and more.
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Heart of the Barrio / Corazón del Barrio
Sept. 18, 2021, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
19th Annual Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival
Sept. 23, 2021, noon - 9 p.m.
19th Annual Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival
Sept. 24, 2021, noon - 9 p.m.
19th Annual Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival
Sept. 25, 2021, noon - 9 p.m.
Lulu Redux: Scoring Pandora’s Box in the 21st Century
Oct. 7, 2021, 12:30 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.
Defying Convention: A Reading by Poet Terrance Hayes
Oct. 14, 2021, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Convention and Craft: A Conversation with Terrance Hayes
Oct. 15, 2021, 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Historical Conventions: How We Got Where We Are
Oct. 18, 2021, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Oct. 21, 2021, 6 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Pandora Out of the Box: Countering the Conventions of Patriarchy
Nov. 8, 2021, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Pandora’s Box: Deconstructing Conventions in Musical Composition
Nov. 9, 2021, 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Current Conventions... and Best Intentions
Nov. 15, 2021, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Folk Conventions/Musical Traditions: Sound, Rhetoric, and Race in the Lomax Archive
Nov. 17, 2021, 2:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Resounding History: Sound, Rhetoric, and Archival Methods
Nov. 18, 2021, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Ordinary Notes: On the (Un)Making of Black Meanings
Dec. 1, 2021, 3 p.m. - 4 p.m.