The Humanities Center (HC), housed in the College of Arts and Sciences, has announced its 2015 Spring Symposia schedule. Events include the HC Faculty Fellow Symposia, the HC Dissertation Fellow Symposia, the HC Symposia, Central New York Humanities Corridor Seminars and the Jeanette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professorship.
All events are free and open to the public, but some, such as HC Mini-Seminars, require advance registration by calling 315-443-7192 or emailing humcenter@syr.edu. To register for Central New York Humanities Corridor Seminars, contact Mi Ditmar at mmditmar@syr.edu or 315-443-5944.
More information about Spring Symposia is available at http://syracusehumanities.org.
Gerald R. Greenberg, HC’s interim director, says the series highlights the breadth and depth of its resident fellows. “HC fellows bring their research into conversation with students and faculty from across campus, while engaging with colleagues and experts from around the country,” he says. “The series also sets the stage for Syracuse Symposium, which the Humanities Center presents every fall for the College of Arts and Sciences.”
The schedule is as follows:
HC Faculty Fellow Symposia
“Porosity, Sensuality, Relation: Rethinking Religion’s Terms”
Friday, Feb. 27
HC Mini-Seminar: 10 a.m. (registration required)
Public Lecture: 2 p.m.
304 Tolley Humanities Building
Co-Sponsor: Department of Religion
“Flowers and Friends in a Hoodoo Dialogue With Katrina Hazzard Donald”
Monday, March 23
Public Lecture: 2 p.m.
500 Hall of Languages
Reception and Ritual Performance: 4:30 p.m.
Community Folk Art Center (805 E. Genesee St.)
“Formatted Out of Work: Trying to Get Hired in the United States”
Friday, April 10
Public Lecture: 3 p.m.
304 Tolley Humanities Building
HC Dissertation Fellow Symposia
“DIAdocuMEntARY: A Piece in My Puzzle”
Wednesday, April 8
Public Lecture: 7 p.m.
Huntington Beard Crouse Hall, Kittredge Auditorium
Thursday, April 9
HC Mini-Seminar: 11:30 a.m. (registration required)
304 Tolley Humanities Building
“Yoga, Nature Cure, and ‘Perfect’ Health: The Purity of the Fluid Body in an Impure World”
Thursday, April 16
Public Lecture: 7:30 p.m.
Slocum Hall, Room 214
Friday, April 17
HC Mini-Seminar: 9 a.m. (registration required)
304 Tolley Humanities Building
HC Symposia
“A History of the 21st-Century U.S. Novel: A Short Introduction”
Thursday, Jan. 22
Public Lecture: 2 p.m.
304 Tolley Humanities Building, Room 304
“Publishing Scholarly Articles: What, Where, When, and Why”
Friday, Jan. 23
Workshop: 2:30 p.m.
107 Hall of Languages
“Central New York Humanities Corridor Seminar: John Kani on South African Theater, Under and After Apartheid”
Tuesday, Jan. 27
Seminar: 1 p.m.
304 Tolley Humanities Building
Pre-registration required: Contact Mi Ditmar by Monday, Jan. 26, at mmditmar@syr.edu or 315-443-5944.
“Black Radical Imagination I & II”
Tuesday, Feb. 10
Screening: 2 p.m.
Shaffer Art Building, Shemin Auditorium
“Central New York Humanities Corridor Seminar: Mellon Visiting Collaborator Rosi Braidotti on ‘The Posthuman’”
Friday, Feb. 13
Seminar: 9 a.m.
304 Tolley Humanities Building
“Performing Black Masculinities and Same-Sex Desires”
Wednesday, March 18
Performance: 7 p.m.
Community Folk Art Center (805 East Genesee St.)
Thursday, March 19
Public Lecture: 5:30 p.m.
123 Sims Hall
“The Tireless Pursuit: Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Mĩcere Mũgo as Activist, Artist, and Architect of Alternative Sites of Knowledge”
Friday, April 3
Public Event: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Drumlins Country Club (800 Nottingham Rd., Syracuse)
“Speculations: Science Fiction, Chronopolitics, and Social Change”
Tuesday, April 7
Performance, conversation, and screening: 6:30 p.m.
Everson Museum of Art (401 Harrison St., Syracuse)
“Writing, Performing, Producing Difference: Residency by Caribbean Artists Rita Indiana and Noelia Quintero”
Thursday, April 23
Screening of “La motora roja tiene que aparecer:”7 p.m.
Gifford Auditorium
Friday, April 24
HC Mini-Seminar: 10 a.m. (registration required)
304 Tolley Humanities Building
Reading: 7 p.m.
La Casita Cultural Center (109 Otisco St.)
The Jeanette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professorship
“Contemplative Collaborative Brownbag Series”
A three-part series devoted to mindfulness and contemplative practices and how they promote insight, creativity, focus, engagement and a sense of well-being.
All sessions are 12-1 p.m. in Sims Hall, Room 123.
Friday, Jan. 16
“Practicing Presence: Mindfulness Practices for Teaching and Learning”
Friday, Feb. 13
“Learning to Be Present: Mindfulness Practices for Writing, Research, and Creativity”
Friday, March 6
“Mindfulness Goes to School: Linking Research With Practice”
“The Power of Social Networks: Rhetorical Agency and Civic Activism Among 19th-Century Women Physicians”
Wednesday, March 4
Public Lecture: 2:15 p.m.
500 Hall of Languages
