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2021-2022: Conventions

Conventions

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 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.

Noli Me Tangere

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.

Artist Talk: Pixy Liao

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.