Syracuse Symposium
2021-2022: Conventions
Syracuse Symposium is our annual public events series exploring the humanities through lectures, workshops, performances, exhibits, films, readings, and more.
REVISIT THE 2021-2022 "CONVENTIONS" SYMPOSIUM
Sept. 18, 2021, noon - May 5, 2022, 5 p.m.
Heart of the Barrio / Corazón del Barrio
Sept. 18, 2021, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
19th Annual Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival
Sept. 23, 2021, noon - 9 p.m.
19th Annual Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival
Sept. 24, 2021, noon - 9 p.m.
19th Annual Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival
Sept. 25, 2021, noon - 9 p.m.
Lulu Redux: Scoring Pandora’s Box in the 21st Century
Oct. 7, 2021, 12:30 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.
Defying Convention: A Reading by Poet Terrance Hayes
Oct. 14, 2021, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Convention and Craft: A Conversation with Terrance Hayes
Oct. 15, 2021, 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Historical Conventions: How We Got Where We Are
Oct. 18, 2021, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Oct. 21, 2021, 6 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Pandora Out of the Box: Countering the Conventions of Patriarchy
Nov. 8, 2021, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Pandora’s Box: Deconstructing Conventions in Musical Composition
Nov. 9, 2021, 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Current Conventions... and Best Intentions
Nov. 15, 2021, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Folk Conventions/Musical Traditions: Sound, Rhetoric, and Race in the Lomax Archive
Nov. 17, 2021, 2:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Resounding History: Sound, Rhetoric, and Archival Methods
Nov. 18, 2021, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Ordinary Notes: On the (Un)Making of Black Meanings
Dec. 1, 2021, 3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Futari (Two Persons) Exhibition
Feb. 3, 2022, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Breaking Conventions: Examining Our Streets, Culture, and Stories
Feb. 7, 2022, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 15, 2022, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act
Feb. 22, 2022, 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Engaging Urban Communities: Rebounding from COVID-19 and the New 'Normal'
Feb. 24, 2022, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
No Words: On the (Un)Making of Black Meanings
March 22, 2022, 3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Spatial Rhetorics and Multimodal Curation
March 23, 2022, 5 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Creating Conventions: Creating a Future with Housing for All
April 11, 2022, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Drawing Repurposed: Sketching a Path to Self-Reflection and Social Justice
April 12, 2022, 5 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Seeing with the Possibility of Being Changed, Drawing as Meditation: A Hands-On Workshop
April 13, 2022, 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
What's on the earth is in the stars; and what's in the stars is on the earth
April 21, 2022, 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Conventions of Care: Photographs and Poetry by the 2021 Narratio Fellows
May 5, 2022, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.