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 "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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*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.
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.