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 "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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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.