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2020-2021: Futures

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 "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.

View or download the Fall Season Preview for this year's "Community" series.

*The CALL FOR PROPOSALS is now open for the 2025-2026 series on "Creativity!' Read more at our Forms & Funding page.

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.

The Medicine Wheel as a Framework for Understanding Disabilities: Informing Our Future Thinking, Informing Our Future Actions

Oct. 23, 2020, 10 a.m. - noon

A Dream of A New Past

Oct. 29, 2020, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Writing into the Wounds

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.

Rewriting History

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.

On The Future of New Plays

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.