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Syracuse Symposium

2017-2018: Belonging

Belonging

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

'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.

Belonging to the International: Gender, Sexuality, and Communist Identity During the Spanish Civil War

Sept. 28, 2017, 11 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.

Through Film We Fight On!

Sept. 28, 2017, 7 p.m. - Sept. 30, 2017, 9:30 p.m.

For Ahkeem

Sept. 28, 2017, 7 p.m. - Sept. 30, 2017, 9:30 p.m.

Memories of a Penitent Heart

Sept. 29, 2017, 7 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

The Good Postman

Sept. 30, 2017, 1 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Plastic China

Sept. 30, 2017, 4 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Lipstick Under My Burkha

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.

Where Have All the Alphabets Gone? Disappearing Traditional Writing Systems and the Worldwide Loss of Cultural Identity

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.

Taxonomic Repair Work

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.

Los Millonarios

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.

Naming What is Left Behind

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.