Skip to main content
  • Home
  • About
  • Faculty Experts
  • For The Media
  • Videos
  • Topics
    • Alumni
    • Events
    • Faculty
    • Library
    • Research
    • Students
    • All Topics
  • Contact
  • Submit
Arts & Culture
  • All News
  • Arts & Culture
  • Business & Economy
  • Campus & Community
  • Health & Society
  • Media, Law & Policy
  • STEM
  • Veterans
  • |
  • Alumni
  • The Peel
  • Athletics
Sections
  • All News
  • Arts & Culture
  • Business & Economy
  • Campus & Community
  • Health & Society
  • Media, Law & Policy
  • STEM
  • Veterans
  • |
  • Alumni
  • The Peel
  • Athletics
  • Home
  • About
  • Faculty Experts
  • For The Media
  • Videos
  • Topics
    • Alumni
    • Events
    • Faculty
    • Library
    • Research
    • Students
    • All Topics
  • Contact
  • Submit
Arts & Culture

Humanities Center Closes Out Month with High-Profile Events

Thursday, February 18, 2016, By Rob Enslin
Share
College of Arts and SciencesEventsspeakersSyracuse Symposium

The Humanities Center, based in the College of Arts and Sciences, wraps up February with a quartet of high-profile events. It features visits by Jonathan Dueck, an award-winning ethnomusicologist at George Washington University (GW); Alicia Garza, founder of the Black Lives Matter movement; Lori Emerson, a media archeologist at the University of Colorado Boulder; and Gloria Joseph, a legendary black feminist.

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

“We are proud to finish off the month with four highly distinguished guests,” says Vivian May, director of the Humanities Center and associate professor of women’s and gender studies. “Common to all of them is a deep appreciation for the humanities in American public life. Whether their work is disciplinary or interdisciplinary, it has transformative potential and seeks to reimagine the nature and scope of engaged scholarship.”

Jonathan Dueck

Jonathan Dueck

On Monday, Feb. 22, Dueck will discuss “Players on the Field: Thinking About Musical Humanity Through Sport” at 2:15 p.m. in the Kilian Room, 500 Hall of Languages. At 4 p.m., he will lead a private mini-seminar in 304 Tolley Humanities Building titled “Musical Methods for Teaching and Researching Movement in Sport.” Both events are sponsored by the Department of Art & Music Histories (AMH) in Arts and Sciences.

Dueck is both an assistant professor of writing and the deputy director of Writing in the Disciplines at GW, where he studies, among other things, musical practices among affinity groups. He is co-editor of the “Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities” (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), and is a regular contributor to several scholarly publications, including Ethnomusicology, the Journal of American Folklore, and Popular Music and Society.

Alicia Garza

Alicia Garza

The following day (Tuesday, Feb. 23), Garza will deliver the University’s Black History Month Commemorative Lecture at 7 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The renowned social activist is expected to address the 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman (a white Hispanic) in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin (a black teenager), which prompted her to use social media to express her love and anguish for the black community. Ending her message with “Our Lives Matter / We Matter / Black Lives Matter,” she helped turn those powerful last words into a Twitter hashtag. Today, Black Lives Matter is an Internet-driven civil rights movement.

Currently the special projects director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Garza formerly served as executive director of People Organized to Win Employment Rights. Her visit is sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs.

Lori Emerson

Lori Emerson

The week continues with a two-day residency by Emerson, founder of the Media Archeology Lab, as well as associate professor of English and of intermedia arts, writing and performance at CU Boulder. Part of the 2015-16 Syracuse Symposium, whose theme is “Networks,” her visit gets underway on Thursday, Feb. 25, with a lecture titled “Other Networks: Hands-on History in the Media Archeology Lab” at 5 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, 114 Bird Library. The next day, she will participate in a private mini-seminar titled “Internet, Darknet, Alternet // The Past, Present, and Future of Cooperatively Run Networks” from 9 a.m. to noon in 304 Tolley.

Emerson writes about media poetics, as well as the history of computing, media archaeology, media theory and digital humanities. She is the author of multiple book projects, including “The Lab Book: Situated Practices in Media Studies” (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming) and “Other Networks” (forthcoming), a history of telecommunications networks before and outside of the Internet. Her visit is co-sponsored by Syracuse University Libraries, AMH and the Writing Program (both in Arts and Sciences), and the Office of Research.

Gloria Joseph

Gloria Joseph

On Monday, Feb. 29, Joseph will visit the Community Folk Art Center (805 East Genesee St.) from 5-8 p.m. During her visit, the iconic feminist will read from her acclaimed book, “The Wind Is Spirit: The Life, Love and Legacy of Audre Lorde” (Villarosa Media, 2014), honoring the memory of her lifelong partner. Part biography and part anthology, the book features essays, poems, and reflections about Lorde, a self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet” who died in 1992.

Joseph is professor emeritus of Africana studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass. She is widely known for her cross-cutting pedagogical style, combining arts and activism. Her reading is sponsored by the Democratizing Knowledge Collective in Arts and Sciences, and is followed by a reception and book-signing.

Click here for the complete Spring 2016 schedule.

  • Author

Rob Enslin

  • Recent
  • Most Read
  • Related
  • Matt Shumer ’22 Selected to Showcase His Innovations in Several National Events
    Thursday, December 12, 2019, By Cristina Hatem
  • Associate Dean Gurdip Singh Named as a Division Director by the National Science Foundation
    Thursday, December 12, 2019, By Alex Dunbar
  • Applications for Spring 2020 Campus Business Plan Competitions Now Open
    Thursday, December 12, 2019, By Cristina Hatem
  • Syracuse University Holds 35th Annual International Thanksgiving Celebration
    Thursday, December 12, 2019, By News Staff
  • Board of Trustees Announces Special Committee; Engages Independent Panel of National Experts to Assess and Advise on University Climate, Diversity and Inclusion
    Thursday, December 12, 2019, By News Staff
  • SU in the News: Tuesday, July 3
    Tuesday, July 3, 2012, By News Staff
  • Syracuse University Permanently Expels Theta Tau Chapter
    Saturday, April 21, 2018, By News Staff
  • Seven Syracuse Alumni Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Lists
    Thursday, January 5, 2017, By John Boccacino
  • Syracuse University Announces $118 Million Investment to Create a New Stadium Experience
    Monday, May 14, 2018, By News Staff
  • 100 Years after WWI: The Lasting Impacts of the Great War
    Monday, July 28, 2014, By Kathleen Haley
  • SUArt Galleries Presents ‘Art And Industry: A History of Mezzotint Engraving’
    Friday, February 27, 2015, By SUArt Galleries
  • Leading communication, identity scholar to speak on what contemporary films teach about race, African American culture
    Wednesday, March 23, 2011, By Erica Blust
  • SU Holds First in Series of International Meetings about ‘Biopolitical Futures’ April 5-6
    Monday, April 1, 2013, By Rob Enslin
  • Digital Witness Symposium to be held Oct. 4
    Thursday, September 27, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski
  • Syracuse University, Le Moyne College Announce New Academic Partnership, Will Build on Longstanding Relationship
    Friday, March 24, 2017, By News Staff

More In Arts & Culture

Random Access Gallery to Recognize Remembrance Day for Lost Species

Random Access Gallery will present “The Extinction Gallery,” an exhibition featuring work by Syracuse University and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry students, with an opening reception on Friday, Dec. 6, from 5-8 p.m. in 117 Smith Hall. The…

Syracuse Stage, Rain Lounge Seeking Contestants for Salt City Drag Battle

They’re back! Mrs. Kasha Davis and Miss Darienne Lake return to Syracuse Stage to host an evening of drag, drinks and dancing at the third annual Salt City Drag Battle. Co-presented with Rain Lounge, this year’s battle is Saturday, Jan….

Syracuse Stage Celebrates the Magic of Love with ‘Disney’s Beauty and the Beast’

Syracuse Stage rings in the holiday season with the family musical “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast,” directed by Donna Drake and choreographed by Anthony Salatino with musical direction by Brian Cimmet. Preview performances begin today. Opening night is Nov. 29,…

UVP Hosts Thursday ‘Eyeslicer’ Screening and Conversation with Professor Kelly Gallagher

Light Work’s Urban Video Project is hosting a screening of “Marlin said to me: ‘Maria, don’t worry, it’s just a movie,’” a feature-length episode of the TV show “The Eyeslicer,” and a post-screening conversation on Thursday, Nov. 21, from 5:30…

Holidays at Hendricks Expands to Two Shows, Set for Dec. 8

Syracuse University invites the Central New York (CNY) community to “Holidays at Hendricks,” which for the first time will be expanded to two performances in Hendricks Chapel. On Sunday, Dec. 8, two identical performances will take place at 4:30 p.m….

Subscribe to SU Today

If you need help with your subscription, contact sunews@syr.edu.

Connect With Us

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Youtube
  • LinkedIn
Social Media Directory

For the Media

Find an Expert Follow @SyracuseUNews
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Youtube
  • LinkedIn
  • @SyracuseU
  • @SyracuseUNews
  • @SUCampus
  • Social Media Directory
  • Accessibility
  • Privacy
  • Campus Status
  • Syracuse.edu
© 2019 Syracuse University News. All Rights Reserved.