Syracuse Symposium
2019-2020: Silence
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.
Intersections: Re-Thinking African American Literature and Culture in the 21st Century
Sept. 20, 2019, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Sept. 22, 2019, 3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
17th Annual Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival
Sept. 26, 2019, 7 p.m. - Sept. 28, 2019, 9 p.m.
Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements
Sept. 27, 2019, 6 p.m. - Sept. 26, 2019, 9:30 p.m.
Sept. 27, 2019, 7 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Sept. 28, 2019, 1 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Sept. 28, 2019, 4 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Sept. 28, 2019, 7 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
On the Edge of Silence: Ecstatic Utterances and Inspired Breath
Sept. 29, 2019, 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Words and Silence in Spiritual Inquiry: Going Beyond Opinion and Belief
Oct. 7, 2019, 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Photography, Race, Memory, and the African Diaspora
Oct. 11, 2019, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Incriminating Silence: How the Unheard Defendant in 12 Angry Men Speaks to Our Now
Oct. 13, 2019, 3:45 p.m. - 5 p.m.
'Cripping' Graphic Medicine: Psychiatric Disability, 'Crip' Culture, and the Health Humanities
Oct. 29, 2019, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Drawing Out the Public Sphere: A Workshop on 'Cripping' Graphic Medicine
Oct. 30, 2019, 10 a.m. - noon
Speaking Truths Unspoken: New Directions and New Voices in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Nov. 1, 2019, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Grief, Healing, and Creative Possibilities
Nov. 8, 2019, 10 a.m. - noon
TitBits: Breast Cancer Stories [REVISED DATES!]
Nov. 9, 2019, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
TitBits: Breast Cancer Stories [REVISED DATES!]
Nov. 10, 2019, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
What You Have Heard Is True: A Reading by Carolyn Forché
Dec. 5, 2019, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Against Silence: The Vital Work of Telling
Dec. 6, 2019, 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Graphic Medicine: Can Comics Improve Our Health?
Jan. 23, 2020, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Cultivating Care: A Graphic Medicine Workshop
Jan. 24, 2020, 10 a.m. - noon
Jan. 24, 2020, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
When I has my likeness took: Black Subjects and the Modernization of Photography
Jan. 30, 2020, 5 p.m. - 6 p.m.
CANCELLED: The Perfect Victim... Author Alice Bolin
Feb. 18, 2020, 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Black Music and Black Power in the Era of #BlackLivesMatter
Feb. 19, 2020, 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
The Black Composer as Jali: Composition, Improvisation, and the Afrikan Epic
Feb. 20, 2020, noon - 2 p.m.
Visibly Hidden: Exploring Queer Masculinities in 1950s Popular Music
March 2, 2020, 3:45 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Concert by The American Spiritual Ensemble
March 8, 2020, 4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Mother Music: How African-American Spirituals Shaped American Musical Styles
March 10, 2020, 12:30 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.
LIVESTREAM-ONLY: Lift Every Voice and Sing!
March 11, 2020, 8 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
CANCELED: Tracing Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
March 26, 2020, 4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
CANCELED: Narrating Personal, Familial, and Historical Silences
March 27, 2020, 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
CANCELED: Political Listening: The Forensic Turn in Art and Architecture
March 27, 2020, 5:15 p.m. - 7:15 p.m.
CANCELED: Seeing Drawing as Meditation
March 30, 2020, 10:30 a.m. - noon
CANCELED: Seeing, Drawing, Silence
March 30, 2020, 4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
CANCELED: Avalokiteshvara Sand Mandala Begins
April 23, 2020, 10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
CANCELED: Avalokiteshvara Sand Mandala on display
April 23, 2020, 10 a.m. - April 29, 2020, 1 p.m.
CANCELED: Muslim Spaces, Jewish Pasts: Genealogies of the Split Arab / Jew Figure
April 23, 2020, 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
CANCELED: Avalokiteshvara Sand Mandala Ends
April 29, 2020, 1 p.m. - 2 p.m.