The Syracuse University Humanities Center (HC), housed in The College of Arts and Sciences, celebrates its fifth anniversary by presenting its most ambitious spring symposia to date. Events include the HC Faculty Fellow Symposia, the HC Dissertation Fellow Symposia, the Humanities Faculty Fellow Lecture Series, the HC Co-Sponsored Lectures, the CNY Humanities Corridor Symposia and a special screening of and panel discussion about a classic documentary concerning the Nuremberg Trials.
All events are free and open to the public, but some require advance registration. For more information or to register, contact Karen Ortega, HC program coordinator, at 315-443-5708 or kmortega@syr.edu. More information is at syracusehumanities.org.
Gregg Lambert, Dean’s Professor of the Humanities and founding director of the SU Humanities Center, says the events are designed to showcase the scholarship of the HC’s resident Dissertation and Faculty fellows. “HC fellows have the unique opportunity to bring their research into conversation with students and faculty from across campus, while engaging with colleagues and outside experts,” he says. “These events nicely complement Syracuse Symposium, which we organize and present every fall for The College of Arts and Sciences.”
Lambert was also recently elected to the prestigious international advisory board of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI), which includes more than 20 humanities leaders from around the world. CHCI represents more than 180 member organizations in 21 countries.
The symposia schedule is as follows:
HC FACULTY FELLOW SYMPOSIA
“Sexuality, Psychoanalysis, Translation”
Faculty Fellow: Ken Frieden, professor and B.G. Rudolph Chair of Judaic Studies; and professor of religion; English; and languages, literatures, and linguistics (LLL) at SU
“The Marriage Plot: Sexuality and Secularization in Literary History”
Guest Speaker: Naomi Sheindel Seidman, the Koret Professor of Jewish Culture and director of the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union
Thursday, March 21, 7:30 p.m.
500 Hall of Languages
HC Mini-Seminar: “Translating Psychoanalysis/Psychoanalyzing Translation”
Featuring Frieden and Seidman
Friday, March 22, 10 a.m.
304 Tolley Humanities Building
Registration required.
Co-Sponsors: Departments of LLL and Religion, as well as the Judaic Studies Program
“Cultural Politics in Brazil: The Case of Salvador da Bahia”
Faculty Fellow: Kwame Dixon, assistant professor of African American studies at SU
Guest Speakers: Ollie A. Johnson, associate professor of Africana studies at Wayne State University; and
John Burdick, professor and chair of anthropology at SU
Monday, April 15, 9 a.m.
304 Tolley Humanities Building
Co-Sponsors: Department of AAS in The College of Arts and Sciences and Department of Anthropology in the Maxwell School
HC DISSERTATION FELLOW SYMPOSIA
“Interrupting the Lucrece Effect: The Performance of Rape Stories on the Early Modern Stage”
Dissertation Fellow: Rinku Chatterjee, Ph.D. candidate in English at SU
Guest Speaker: Jean Howard, George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University
Monday, Feb. 18, 7 p.m.
Heroy Auditorium, Heroy Geology Laboratory
HC Mini-Seminar: Chatterjee and Howard
Tuesday, Feb. 19, 9:30 a.m.
304 Tolley Humanities Building
Registration required.
Co-Sponsor: Department of English
“Revolution and the Crisis of Critique”
Dissertation Fellow: Sandeep Banerjee, Ph.D. candidate in English at SU
Guest Speaker: Keya Ganguly, associate professor of cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota
Monday, April 22, 5 p.m.
Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, 114 Bird Library
HC Mini-Seminar: Banerjee and Ganguly
Tuesday, April 23, 10 a.m.
304 Tolley Humanities Building
Co-Sponsors: Department of English, Department of History in the Maxwell School and South Asia Center in the Maxwell School’s Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs
HUMANITIES FACULTY FELLOW LECTURE SERIES
“Freedom’s Body: The Militarized Grounds of People’s Health Activism in Los Angeles”
Faculty Fellow: Jenna Loyd, Departments of Geography and Anthropology at SU
Respondent: Robin Riley, assistant professor of women’s and gender studies at SU
Tuesday, March 5, 4 p.m.
304 Tolley Humanities Building
“A Poetry Reading by Jesse Nissim”
Faculty Fellow: Jesse Nissim, Department of English at SU
Respondent: Patrick Williams, associate librarian at SU
Thursday, April 4, 6 p.m.
304 Tolley Humanities Building
“Transgenerational Trauma, Phantom Emotion”
Faculty Fellow: Meera Lee, affiliated faculty member of Asian/Asian American studies at SU
Respondent: Silvio Torres-Saillant, professor of English and Latino-Latin American studies at SU
Tuesday, April 9, 5 p.m.
304 Tolley Humanities Building
HC CO-SPONSORED LECTURES
“Assessing the Historicity of the Trojan War: Excavations at Troy, 1988-2010”
Charles Brian Rose, professor of classical studies, the James B. Pritchard Professor of Archeology, and curator-in-charge of the Mediterranean Section of the Penn Museum at the University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, March 7, 5 p.m.
Robert B. Menschel Media Center, Watson Hall
Co-Sponsor: Syracuse Society of the Archeological Institute of America
“Conversing with the Dalai Lama: 25 Years of Dialogue with Science”
Arthur Zajonc, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Physics Emeritus at Amherst College and president of the Mind and Life Institute
Tuesday, March 26, 5 p.m.
Gifford Auditorium
Presented in cooperation with the Kameshwar C. Wali Lecture in the Sciences and Humanities and with the Department of Physics
“Reimagining Student Writers in the Global U.S. Higher Education”
Paul Kei Matsuda, professor of English and director of Second Language Writing at Arizona State University
Thursday, April 4, 3:30 p.m.
500 Hall of Languages
HC Mini-Seminar: Matsuda
Friday, April 5, 8 a.m.
500 Hall of Languages
Co-Sponsors: The Departments of LLL and Women’s and Gender Studies, as well as The Writing Program, all in The College of Arts and Sciences; the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies in the College of Visual Performing Arts; the School of Education and Kreischer Lecture Fund; SU Abroad; and the Alpha Sigma chapter of the Phil Beta Delta International Honor Society
“The Fluidity of Identity: Theatre and the Search for Self”
David Henry Hwang, playwright, screenwriter, and librettist
Thursday, April 4, 7:30 p.m.
Hendricks Chapel
A joint presentation with University Lectures
“Responsibility for Good and Bad Outcomes”
Robert M. Adams, the Jeannette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor at SU and Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tuesday, April 16, 3:30 p.m.
500 Hall of Languages
CNY HUMANITIES CORRIDOR SYMPOSIA
“Working Group in Critical Theory and the Global: The Politics of Translation”
Meera Lee, coordinator, Humanities Faculty Fellow, and affiliated faculty member of Asian/Asian American studies at SU
Guest Speaker: Naoki Sakai, professor of Japanese literature and history at Cornell University
Friday, Feb. 22, 10:30 a.m .
304 Tolley Humanities Building
Guest Speaker: Brett de Bary, professor of modern Japanese literature, film, and comparative literature at Cornell University
Friday, March 8, 10:30 a.m.
304 Tolley Humanities Building
“Life In-Between-Outside Discipline and Control: Society for the Study of Bio-Political Futures”
Gregg Lambert
Friday and Saturday, April 5-6
304 Tolley Humanities Building
Involves 18 invited participants from SU, Cornell, City University of New York, Pennsylvania State University, UNC-Chapel Hill, University of Washington, Boston College, Rice University, University at Albany, Linköping University (Sweden), University of Bristol (United Kingdom), and the University of New South Wales (Australia)
FILM SCREENING
“Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today”
A 2009 restoration of the classic documentary of the Nuremberg Trials
Thursday, April 11, 7 p.m.
The Palace Theatre (2384 James St., Syracuse)
Panelists: Richard Breyer, professor and co-director of documentary film and history at SU
Tara Helfman, assistant professor of law at SU
Isaac Kfir, visiting professor of international relations and law at SU
Sandra Schulberg, producer of the restoration and daughter of the original filmmaker, Stuart Schulberg
C. Cora True-Frost, assistant professor of law at SU
HC Mini-Seminar: Breyer, Helfman, Kfir, Schulberg and True-Frost
Friday, April 12, 9 a.m.
Co-sponsors: the Regional Holocaust and Genocide Initiative: Resistance, Resilience and Responsibility in the School of Education; Department of History in the Maxwell School; SU College of Law; and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
