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Humanities Center Announces Ambitious Spring Lineup

Tuesday, January 26, 2016, By Rob Enslin
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The Syracuse University Humanities Center, based in the College of Arts and Sciences, announces its most ambitious spring lineup to date, supporting more than 30 events and activities taking place between Jan. 29 and April 20. Click here for the complete Spring 2016 schedule.

Special guests include the following:

Bettina Love

Bettina Love

• Bettina Love, renowned hip-hop-based educator and feminist (Feb. 4)

• Alicia Garza, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement (Feb. 23)

• Harry Allen, hip-hop activist, journalist and former member of Public Enemy (March 23)

• Jacqueline Woodson, award-winning author of books for young adults (April 5)

• Laura Freixas, renowned Spanish writer and the 2016 Jeanette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor (March 29-April 5)

• Sanjit “Bunker” Roy, founder of India’s Barefoot College (April 21-22)

“The Humanities Center is a physical expression of the importance of the humanities at Syracuse University,” says Vivian May, the center’s director and associate professor of women’s and gender studies. “We present programming and partnerships that highlight the humanities as a public good and underscore its relevance for addressing enduring questions and pressing social issues.”

Much of this work, she adds, takes place in the public and scholarly realms.

All events are free and open to the public. For more information, visit http://syracusehumanities.org or call 315-443-7192.

The January-February schedule is as follows:

Friday, Jan. 29
Workshop: Public Humanities Fellowships Information Session
10:30-11:30 a.m.
Leonard and Ruth Sainsbury Library, 300 Tolley Humanities Building
The Humanities Corridor brings together Paul Arras, Scarlett Rebman and Thomas Guiler, Syracuse Ph.D. students who are current or former Public Humanities Fellows, to discuss their experiences with the New York Council for the Humanities and to offer guidance to those applying for 2016-17 Fellowships.

Friday, Jan. 29
Workshop: “For Those Who Can’t be Here Today: Prison Mindfulness”
Noon-1:30 p.m.
123 Sims Hall
The Contemplative Collaborative Brown Bag Series continues with a moderated discussion about mindfulness as a form of social justice. Participants include Bonnie Shoultz, chaplain of the Buddhist Campus Ministry; Patrick Berry, assistant professor of writing and rhetoric; Syeisha Byrd, director of the Office of Engagement Programs; and Michaela Thorley ’15, yoga instructor and prison educator.

Co-Sponsors: Hendricks Chapel, Hendricks Chapel Wellness Fund, the writing program and Making a Space (a graduate student group)

Thursday, Feb. 4
Lecture: “Imagining Mattering: Hip-Hop Civics Ed., Intersectionality, and Black Joy”
5:30-7 p.m.
Maxwell Auditorium
The Douglas Biklen Landscape of Urban Education Lecture Series continues with a presentation by Bettina L. Love, associate professor of educational theory and practice at the University of Georgia and an expert on hip-hop-based education and feminism.

Principal Sponsor: School of Education

Saturday, Feb. 6
Screening: “Earth, Water, Woman”
1 p.m.
Community Folk Art Center, 805 E. Genesee St.
A short documentary spotlighting the Fondes Amandes Community Reforestation Project, a Trinidadian initiative that has become an exemplar of grassroots conservation. The film is part of the Community Folk Art Center (CFAC)’s annual Caribbean Cinematic Festival, running Feb. 4-7. In addition to nearly a dozen films, the festival features music, dance, food and spoken word, with an overarching emphasis on the Caribbean diaspora. A complete schedule is available at http://communityfolkartcenter.org/cfac-signature/caribbean-cinematic-festival.

Sponsor: Community Folk Art Center, an academic partner of the Department of African American Studies

Wednesday, Feb. 10
Lecture: “Three Networks Walk Into a Bar … ”
2:15-3:45 p.m.

Clay Spinuzzi

Clay Spinuzzi

The Kilian Room, 500 Hall of Languages
Syracuse SymposiumTM continues its “Networks” theme with a program by Clay Spinuzzi, professor of writing and rhetoric at the University of Texas at Austin, who studies workplace research and computer-mediated activity.

Co-Sponsors: the writing Program, the writing program’s student organization and composition and cultural rhetoric graduate circle and the Department of English ; Syracuse University Libraries; and the Digital Humanities Working Group (Central New York Humanities Corridor)

Thursday, Feb. 11
Mini Seminar: “Modeling Qualitative Data,” led by Clay Spinuzzi
9 a.m. to noon
Room 304, Tolley Humanities Building
Registration required; RSVP jpwill03@syr.edu by Feb. 4

Co-Sponsors: the writing program, the writing program’s student organization and composition and cultural rhetoric graduate circle and the Department of English; Syracuse University Libraries; and the Digital Humanities Working Group (Central New York Humanities Corridor)

Monday, Feb. 22
Lecture: “Players on the Field: Thinking About Musical Humanity Through Sport”
2:15-3:35 p.m.
The Kilian Room, 500 Hall of Languages
Jonathan Dueck, assistant professor of writing and deputy director of writing in the disciplines at  George Washington University, explores the role of music in sporting communities.

Sponsor: Department of Art & Music Histories

Monday, Feb. 22
Mini-Seminar: “Musical Methods for Teaching and Researching Movement in Sport,” led by Jonathan Dueck
4-5:15 p.m.
Room 304 Tolley Humanities Building
Registration required; RSVP drjustic@syr.edu by Feb. 15

Sponsor: Department of Art & Music Histories

Tuesday, Feb. 23

Alicia Garza

Alicia Garza

Lecture: “Black Lives Matter”
7-9 p.m.
Hendricks Chapel
Alicia Garza, activist, writer and co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, delivers the Black History Month Commemorative Lecture.

Principal Sponsor: Office of Multicultural Affairs

Thursday, Feb. 25
Lecture: “Other Networks: Hands-on History in the Media Archeology Lab”
5-7 p.m.
Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, 114 Bird Library
Syracuse SymposiumTM continues with a visit by Lori Emerson, associate professor of English and intermedia arts, writing and performance and founder of the Media Archeology Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Co-Sponsors: Syracuse University Libraries, Department of Art & Music Histories and the writing program  and the Office of Research

Friday, Feb. 26
Mini-Seminar: “Internet, Darknet, Alternet // The Past, Present, and Future of Cooperatively Run Networks,” led by Lori Emerson
9 a.m. to noon
Room 304 Tolley Humanities Building
Registration required; RSVP awinkler@syr.edu by Feb. 16

Co-Sponsors: Syracuse University Libraries, Department of Art & Music Histories and the writing program and the Office of Research

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