Syracuse Symposium
2017-2018: Belonging
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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'You are mine. I see now, I’m a have to let you go.'
Sept. 13, 2017, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Processes of Translation: a Workshop in Photo Collage with Artist Suné Woods
Sept. 16, 2017, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Poetry and Belonging: Readings by Janice Harrington and Oliver de la Paz
Sept. 26, 2017, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Working Between Worlds: Conversation with Janice Harrington and Oliver de la Paz
Sept. 27, 2017, 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Sept. 28, 2017, 11 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.
Sept. 28, 2017, 7 p.m. - Sept. 30, 2017, 9:30 p.m.
Sept. 28, 2017, 7 p.m. - Sept. 30, 2017, 9:30 p.m.
Sept. 29, 2017, 7 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Sept. 30, 2017, 1 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Sept. 30, 2017, 4 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Sept. 30, 2017, 7 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Embodied Belongings: Exploring the Politics of ‘Queer’ in South Asia
Oct. 5, 2017, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Performing Change: Diaspora and Belonging
Oct. 12, 2017, 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Wafaa Bilal: On Art and Resistance
Oct. 13, 2017, 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Warped by Time, Shaped by History: The Art and Architecture of That Day Now
Oct. 24, 2017, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
That Day in 1945: Effects of the Atomic Bombs on Post-WWII Japanese Culture
Oct. 28, 2017, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Nov. 3, 2017, 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Enough with All These Border Walls: Redrawing Disciplinary Becoming and Belonging
Nov. 8, 2017, 9 a.m. - noon
Making and Remaking a Literate Life: Being, Longing, Belonging
Nov. 8, 2017, 2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
Making, Being, and Belonging Through Multimodal Composing
Nov. 9, 2017, 8:30 a.m. - noon
Black Feminists and the Transformation of American Public Life
Nov. 27, 2017, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Music and Food in Multicultural Syracuse: Performing New American Traditions
Dec. 2, 2017, 6 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Consequences of Classification: Systemic Violence Against Marginalized Communities
Dec. 4, 2017, 5:15 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Dec. 5, 2017, 9 a.m. - noon
Theatre of the Mind: Staging Mental Health & Sense of Belonging
Jan. 28, 2018, 4:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Bodymap: A Performance with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Feb. 7, 2018, 4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
No Body Left Behind: The Art and Practice of Disability Justice
Feb. 8, 2018, 12:30 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.
Feb. 12, 2018, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Understanding Chilean Theater in a Global Context
Feb. 13, 2018, 9:30 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Women's Roles in Latin American Theater
Feb. 15, 2018, 2 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.
Music, Identity, and Belonging
Feb. 26, 2018, noon - 1:30 p.m.
Akin: Embedding as Artistic Strategy in the Experimental Video of Eva Maria Rødbro & Keren Shavit
March 8, 2018, 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Zine Librarianship as Critical Practice
April 5, 2018, 5:15 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Seizing the Means of Publication: Zine Making
April 6, 2018, 9 a.m. - noon
Colleen Kattau on the Latin American New Song Movement
April 12, 2018, 2 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.
Longing and Belonging: A Conversation on Poetics
April 13, 2018, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
April 13, 2018, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Does the Earth Belong to Us, or Do We Belong to the Earth? Buddhism and the Ecological Challenge
April 19, 2018, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Healing Ecology: A Buddhist Perspective on the Eco-Crisis
April 20, 2018, 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.