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. 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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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.