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 "LANDSCAPES," with a new SU Libraries Reading List for Spring 2024. View or download the"Landscapes" Fall Season Preview flyer or Spring Season Preview flyer.
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.