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2023-2024: Landscapes

Landscapes

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 2023-2024 "LANDSCAPES" SYMPOSIUM

Sept. 13, 2023, 5 p.m. - April 11, 2024, 7 p.m.

The Landscape of Tomorrow: Art Exhibit

Sept. 13, 2023, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Continuity, Innovation, and Resistance: The Art of Peter B. Jones

Sept. 14, 2023, 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

The Constitution and the Landscape of Our Lives

Sept. 18, 2023, 7 p.m. - 8 p.m.

21st Annual Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival

Sept. 21, 2023, 7 p.m. - Sept. 23, 2023, 9 p.m.

SUHRFF: North by Current

Sept. 21, 2023, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Filmmaker Seminar with Angelo Madsen Minax

Sept. 22, 2023, 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

SUHRFF: Twice Colonized

Sept. 22, 2023, 7 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

SUHRFF: My Favorite Job and When Spring Came to Bucha

Sept. 23, 2023, 1 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

SUHRFF: Fracture

Sept. 23, 2023, 4 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.

SUHRFF: Peacock Lament

Sept. 23, 2023, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.

The Border is a Weapon

Sept. 29, 2023, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Making Space: Minoritized Youth as Creators and Makers for Change

Oct. 4, 2023, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People

Oct. 13, 2023, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Family Pictures Syracuse: Photo-Sharing Day

Oct. 14, 2023, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Resounding Earth: A Sonic Landscape

Oct. 14, 2023, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Family Pictures Syracuse: Grand Finale Celebration

Oct. 15, 2023, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Strange Terrain: The Institute of Queer Ecology in Conversation with Jack Halberstam

Nov. 2, 2023, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Family Pictures in the Archive

Nov. 15, 2023, 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.

Soil: A Reading by Poet and Essayist Camille Dungy

Nov. 16, 2023, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

All Writing is Environmental Writing

Nov. 17, 2023, 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.

Chemscapes

Feb. 13, 2024, 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.

All Art is Ecological

Feb. 22, 2024, 5 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Slow Plants on a Burning Planet

March 4, 2024, 4 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.

Forging Ecological Awareness Through Art

March 7, 2024, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

The Landscape of Women’s Bodily Autonomy: Collaboration Toward Greater Access to Reproductive Freedom and Care in the US

March 26, 2024, 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Character Space

April 4, 2024, 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.

Plantation Imaginaries: Art and Medicine in the Colonial World

April 11, 2024, 5:30 p.m. - 7:15 p.m.