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Syracuse Symposium

2016-2017: Place

Place

Syracuse Symposium is our annual public events series exploring the humanities through lectures, workshops, performances, exhibits, films, readings, and more.

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.

Introduction to the USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive: Conducting Research with Audiovisual Testimonies of Genocide Survivors

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

Anna Karenina

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.

Juan Juarez: Corpus

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.