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Remembrance Week Begins Sunday with Music, Message and Candlelight Vigil

Wednesday, October 16, 2019, By News Staff
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This year marks the 31st anniversary of the bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland on Dec. 21, 1988 and the 30th cohorts of Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars on the Syracuse University campus. The 2019-20 Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars have planned events and activities—from exhibitions to panel discussions to a candlelight vigil—to honor the 270 people, including 35 students studying abroad through Syracuse University, who lost their lives in the tragedy.

Remembrance Week, the annual weeklong series of events planned by the Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars, will be held Sunday, Oct. 20 through Saturday, Oct. 26. Remembrance Week events are meant to honor the victims and further educate the campus community about terrorism. All activities are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. For more information, visit remembrance.syr.edu.

Those who require accommodations to fully participate in these events should contact Kelly Rodoski at 315.443.5381 or kahoman@syr.edu.

All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. The schedule is as follows:

Remembrance Candlelight VigilAll Week 

Pledge to Remember—in collaboration with Hendricks Chapel Office of Engagement Programs, the Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service and the Renée Crown University Honors Program. Members of the campus community are encouraged to pledge 35 hours of service to a local organization in the spirit of the Remembrance.  Make the pledge here.

35 Empty Seats on the Kenneth A. Shaw Quadrangle. Created by the 2012 Remembrance Scholars, the 35 Empty Seats juxtapose the visual representation of the 35 students lost with good deeds inscribed upon the chairs. The exhibition is meant to serve as a reminder of how a loss in the past can inspire positive actions in the present.

Pen-and-ink drawings and candid posters of the 35 Syracuse University study abroad student victims will be on display in buildings throughout campus.

The Hall of Languages will be lit in blue.

Sunday, Oct. 20

Music and Message​, Hendricks Chapel, 4 p.m.
Dinner, Hendricks Chapel, 5 p.m.
​Candlelight Vigil​, Place of Remembrance, 6:15 p.m.

The Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars commence Remembrance Week activities with a Music and Message collaboration with Hendricks Chapel that addresses themes of hope, resilience and action in the face of tragedy. The Hendricks Chapel Choir, Hendricks Handbell Choir and other student groups will perform. The program will conclude with a dinner in Hendricks Chapel and a vigil at the Place of Remembrance Wall.

Monday, Oct. 21

Ribbon Tying in the Orange Grove, 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

​Terror in the Digital Age Panel​ Discussion, Watson Theater, 6 p.m.
A panel discussion on terrorism in the digital age. Panelists include Jennifer Stromer-Galley, professor in the School of Information Studies; ​Admiral Robert B. Murrett, professor of practice in public administration and international affairs in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and deputy director of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism; and Sean O’Keefe, University Professor and the Howard G. and S. Louise Phanstiel Chair in Strategic Management and Leadership in the Maxwell School. Remembrance Scholars Adam Bayer and Hassina Adams will moderate the discussion.

Tuesday, Oct. 22

​Sitting in Solidarity​, 1:28-2:03 p.m., Kenneth A. Shaw Quadrangle
The Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars will sit in 35 empty chairs on the Quad that will be arranged in the formation of the seats on the plane that the 35 students they represent were sitting in for 35 minutes, up until the exact time the Pan Am 103 bombing occurred.

Wednesday, Oct. 23

​Mirror Me​ Display, 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., Kenneth A. Shaw Quadrangle
A display featuring mirrors on the Quad to emphasize that the Syracuse University students who lost their lives in the bombing were just like the Syracuse University students of today. The rain location for this display will be Bird Library.

All-American Terrorism Panel​, Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall, 7 p.m.
A panel discussion on how domestic terrorism is seen through the lens of white supremacy, anti-immigrant sentiment and xenophobia, and its portrayal in the United States media. The panel will feature Lt. Brian Novitsky from the Syracuse Police Department; Rev. Dr. Bruce Burns, pastor of Hopps Memorial CME Church in Syracuse; Jillian Juni, executive director of Syracuse Hillel; and Elliott Lewis, professor of practice in broadcast and digital journalism in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and a former lawyer. The panel will be moderated by Remembrance scholar Gabrielle Caracciolo.

Thursday, Oct. 24

Open Archives, 1-4 p.m. Spector Room, 608 Bird Library.
Selections from the Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives will be available for viewing. ​

Celebration of Life​, Slocum Auditorium, 7-9 p.m.
An evening of music, poetry, art, dancing and more to honor the victims of Pan Am 103 and to celebrate life alongside the victims’ families and the current scholars.

Friday, Oct. 25

Open Archives, 9 a.m. to noon, Spector Room, 608 Bird Library.
Selections from the Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives will be available for viewing. ​

Rose-Laying Ceremony​, Place of Remembrance, 2:03 p.m.
This annual ceremony honors the 270 people, including 35 students studying abroad through Syracuse University, who were killed in the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The ceremony also honors 2002-03 Lockerbie Scholar Andrew McClune, who died in 2002.

Remembrance Scholar Convocation, Hendricks Chapel, 3 p.m.  ​
This annual convocation will honor the 2019-20 Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars. A reception will follow in the lobby of the Heroy Geology Building.

For more information on Remembrance Week 2019, visit http://remembrance.syr.edu.

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