Syracuse Symposium
2016-2017: Place
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.
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Mande Strings - Music and Place around the Black Atlantic
Sept. 20, 2016, 8 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Radical Healing in Schools and Communities, Dr. Shawn Ginwright (San Francisco State University)
Sept. 22, 2016, 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Atelier 17: A Gathering Place for Avant-Garde Artists [Symposium and Print Fair]
Sept. 23, 2016, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Atelier 17: A Gathering Place for Avant-Garde Artists [Symposium and Print Fair]
Sept. 24, 2016, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Atelier 17: A Gathering Place for Avant-Garde Artists [Print Fair]
Sept. 25, 2016, noon - 4 p.m.
Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival: The Man Who Saw Too Much
Sept. 29, 2016, 7 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Workshop with Filmmaker Trisha Ziff
Sept. 30, 2016, 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival: Trick or Treaty?
Sept. 30, 2016, 7 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival: various screenings
Oct. 1, 2016, 1 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Workshop: Finding Their Place: Social Change and Merasi Identity
Oct. 4, 2016, 12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Finding Their Place: Performance by Merasi Musicians
Oct. 4, 2016, 8 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Workshop: Designing Place-Conscious Courses
Oct. 6, 2016, 9 a.m. - noon
Writing Suburban Citizenship: Place-conscious Education and the Conundrum of Suburbia
Oct. 6, 2016, 4:30 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
Todd Gray: A Place That Looks Like Home
Oct. 7, 2016, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Oct. 10, 2016, 9 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
The Poetry of Place: Readings by Adrian Matejka and Stacey Lynn Brown
Oct. 13, 2016, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Workshop: The Poetry of Place with Writers Adrian Matejka and Stacey Lynn Brown
Oct. 14, 2016, 9 a.m. - noon
Oct. 23, 2016, 5 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Seeing Place Through Indigenous Histories
Nov. 1, 2016, 4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Site Specific Art and Native History
Nov. 2, 2016, 9 a.m. - noon
Inside the Brain: Synapses Lost and Found in Development and Alzheimer's Disease
Dec. 8, 2016, 4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Place and Displacement: Staging Diverse Cultural Geographies in American Theater
Jan. 29, 2017, 3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.
University Lectures: Jhumpa Lahiri
Feb. 7, 2017, 7:30 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Queering Sexy B(l)ack: Queer Youth and Pedagogies of Sexual Agency
Feb. 9, 2017, 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Feb. 16, 2017, 5 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Vision of Sound: (making) PLACE
Feb. 17, 2017, 7:30 p.m. - 9:15 p.m.
Haunted Ethnography: new experimental documentary
March 9, 2017, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
The Welikia Project: Discovering a Natural Sense of Place in New York City
March 30, 2017, 4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Onondaga Lake: Visualizing the Natural/Historical Continuum
March 31, 2017, 9 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Places of Resistance: Simulation and Dissimulation in Modern Italian Provincial Literature
April 4, 2017, 3:30 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.
YOU ARE HERE: Expanding the Concept of Place - A Gallery Reception
April 20, 2017, 4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.