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Arts & Culture

Independent filmmaker awarded Burton Blatt Institute Prize for Arts Leadership

Friday, February 17, 2012, By News Staff

The 2012 Burton Blatt Institute Prize for Arts Leadership has been awarded to Sharon Greytak, an independent filmmaker and film professor at the College of Visual and Performing Arts, for her entire body of work and its importance to the…

Latin America and community is focus for La Casita event

Friday, February 17, 2012, By News Staff

La Casita Cultural Center will present “Latin American Understandings of Community,” a roundtable discussion with Paulina Ochoa, a political theorist from Yale University, at 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 6, at the center, 109 Otisco St., Syracuse. The event is free…

Ron Meyer, head of Universal Studios, will visit Newhouse March 1

Friday, February 17, 2012, By Wendy S. Loughlin

Universal Studios president and COO Ron Meyer will visit the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Thursday, March 1. A Q-and-A with Meyer and Newhouse Professor of Practice Richard Dubin will take place at 3 p.m. in the Joyce…

Walmart India’s Raj Jain to lecture at Whitman School March 5

Friday, February 17, 2012, By News Staff

As part of the Whitman School of Management’s Jonathan Holtz Global Speaker Series, Raj Jain, president of Walmart India and managing director and CEO of Bharti Walmart Pvt. Ltd., will speak on Monday, March 5, at Whitman’s Lender Auditorium, room…

Three renowned authors will be featured during Spring 2012 University Lectures

Friday, February 17, 2012, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Jonathan Franzen kicks off series March 6 Jonathan Franzen, award-winning author of “The Corrections” and “Freedom,” will kick off the 2012 University Lectures series at Syracuse University on Tuesday, March 6. Franzen is the first in a trio of noted…

Sony/ATV Music Publishing Nashville CEO Troy Tomlinson to speak via videoconference Feb. 21

Thursday, February 16, 2012, By Erica Blust

Troy Tomlinson, a 27-year publishing veteran who serves as president and CEO of Sony/ATV Music Publishing Nashville, will speak via videoconference on Tuesday, Feb. 21, at 6:45 p.m. in the Lender Auditorium, located on the concourse level of the Martin…

Volkswagens as metaphor for life

Thursday, February 16, 2012, By News Staff

Christopher Boucher G’02 will read from ‘How to Keep your Volkswagen Alive’

Media, Law & Policy

Rubinstein co-authors article for Anthropology Today

Thursday, February 16, 2012, By News Staff

Robert A. Rubinstein, professor of anthropology and international relations in the Maxwell School, recently co-authored the article “‘Material Support’ U.S. anti-terrorism law threatens human rights and academic freedom,” which was published in Anthropology Today in February. The federal law prohibiting…

Campus & Community

15th Ward reception at Erie Canal Museum

Wednesday, February 15, 2012, By News Staff

You are invited on Feb. 17 to a reception for the “15th Ward: Memories of a Syracuse Neighborhood Transformed” at the Erie Canal Museum. The event will take place from 5-7 p.m.

SU helps Jewish Center of Norwich celebrate restoration efforts Feb. 16

Wednesday, February 15, 2012, By Rob Enslin

The Jewish Center of Norwich—which made headlines in 2008, when it was vandalized by local youths—is the subject of a forthcoming event involving Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences and its Judaic studies program. SU friends and alumni, as…