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 "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.
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.