Syracuse Symposium
2018-2019: Stories
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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Voces en Exilio (Voices in Exile)
Sept. 20, 2018, 7 p.m. - 8 p.m.
A Contemplative View of Human Resilience
Sept. 23, 2018, 7 p.m. - 8 p.m.
16th Annual Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival
Sept. 27, 2018, 9 a.m. - Sept. 29, 2018, noon
Sept. 27, 2018, 7 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Sept. 28, 2018, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Sept. 29, 2018, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Sept. 29, 2018, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Sept. 29, 2018, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Oct. 4, 2018, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Recipe as Story: Exploring the Meaning of Food and Art on a Community Farm
Oct. 6, 2018, 2 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Look Now: Facing Breast Cancer (Opening Reception and Exhibit)
Oct. 11, 2018, 5 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Sacred Landscape, Secular Law: Storying Spirituality on American Public Lands
Oct. 12, 2018, 3 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Stories in the Blood: Slave Narratives and Identity in Contemporary American Theatre
Oct. 21, 2018, 3:45 p.m. - 5 p.m.
An Evening With Margaret Atwood
Oct. 25, 2018, 7:30 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Mama's Clothes: Visual Storytelling in the Photographs of Keisha Scarville
Nov. 1, 2018, 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Keisha Scarville Portfolio Workshop
Nov. 2, 2018, 3 p.m. - 7 p.m.
The Odyssey: Stories of the Boat People
Nov. 2, 2018, 7:30 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Returning from Conflict: A Nonfiction Reading by the Syracuse Veterans’ Writing Group
Nov. 8, 2018, 5 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Witkin & Witkin: Twin Stories of a Photographer and a Painter
Nov. 13, 2018, 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Lou Reed, Joni Mitchell and the Rock Biography: A Conversation with Anthony DeCurtis and David Yaffe
Feb. 19, 2019, 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Feb. 21, 2019, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
RELATE: A Workshop on Engaged Scholarship
Feb. 22, 2019, 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Stories We are Told, Stories We Tell: Explorations in Ethnographic Methods
Feb. 26, 2019, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
March 5, 2019, 3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Indigenous Haudenosaunee Stories of the 17th Century Encounter with the Jesuits
March 6, 2019, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Designing Stories of Abolition and Coalition: Illuminating History in Central New York
March 21, 2019, 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
From Gods to Social Justice: Indian Folk Artists Challenging Traditions (Opening Reception)
April 6, 2019, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
April 11, 2019, 5 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Challenging Authoritarianism: Stories and Strategies of Resistance
April 12, 2019, 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
UNDEAD ARCHIVE: The Speculative Histories of The New Red Order
April 18, 2019, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Now More Than Ever: The Political Urgency of Community Archives
April 23, 2019, 4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
How to Tell Your Community's Story
April 24, 2019, 10 a.m. - noon
Writing Your Times: Poetry, Narrative, and Witness
April 25, 2019, 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Rooms Remembered: A Reading by Poet Laure-Anne Bosselaar
April 25, 2019, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.