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Syracuse Symposium

2024-2025

Community

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.


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.

Weird Barrio

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.

Unpacking Prison Podcasts

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. - 4:30 p.m.

Living Stories

Feb. 6, 2025, 5 p.m. - Feb. 7, 2025, 9 p.m.

Sports and Theatre: The Arena that Connects Us

Feb. 26, 2025, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Working Towards Racial Justice and Educational Equity

March 6, 2025, 4 p.m. - 5:30 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.

Bach – The Great Toccata: Film Screening and Q&A with Will Fraser

April 5, 2025, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.