Syracuse Symposium
2020-2021: Futures
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.
REVISIT THE 2020-2021 "FUTURES" SYMPOSIUM
Sept. 7, 2020, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Rewriting History: Art Exhibition
Sept. 7, 2020, 9 a.m. - Nov. 12, 2020, 4 p.m.
Reimaginings: A Virtual Concert of New Music for Organ
Sept. 12, 2020, 7:30 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
Abuelas: Ancestral Ways for Future Generations
Sept. 15, 2020, 6 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Abuelitas (Little Grandmas): Children’s Book Release
Sept. 18, 2020, 6 p.m. - 7 p.m.
18th Annual Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival
Sept. 24, 2020, 8 p.m. - Sept. 26, 2020, 9 p.m.
18th Annual Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival: Opening Night
Sept. 24, 2020, 8 p.m. - 9 p.m.
18th Annual Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival
Sept. 25, 2020, 8 p.m. - 9 p.m.
18th Annual Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival: Closing Night
Sept. 26, 2020, 8 p.m. - 9 p.m.
An Evening with Nikole Hannah-Jones
Oct. 8, 2020, 7:30 p.m. - 9 p.m.
(Dis)ability Futures and Indigeneity: Critical Epistemologies for Social Change
Oct. 22, 2020, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Oct. 23, 2020, 10 a.m. - noon
Oct. 29, 2020, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Oct. 30, 2020, 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Using Art for Transformative Teaching
Nov. 6, 2020, 10 a.m. - noon
Surrender as Method, Subject, and Experience: Doing the Work that Undoes Us
Nov. 10, 2020, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
In Process and Collaboration: A Shared Snapshot of Co-Ethnography in Medical Practice
Nov. 11, 2020, 1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Nov. 12, 2020, 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
In the Bush: Writings by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Feb. 24, 2021, 4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Resettling: A Film Screening and Conversation with the 2020-21 Narratio Fellows
Feb. 26, 2021, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Biidaaban: Indigenous Knowledges, Resistance, and Resilience
March 4, 2021, 4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
March 23, 2021, 6 p.m. - 7 p.m.
The Future of Teaching is... Visual!
March 25, 2021, 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Using Art for Transformative Teaching (Spring Workshop)
April 5, 2021, 10 a.m. - noon
My Body Is Opaque: Performing Black Vernacular Genealogies
April 15, 2021, 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Race, Space, and the Environment
April 23, 2021, noon - 2 p.m.