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Digital Witness Symposium explores power of the archive for human rights media

Thursday, August 25, 2011, By News Staff

Following its successful inauguration at last year’s Illuminating Oppression: 8th Annual Human Rights Film Festival, the Digital Witness Symposium returns this year on Friday, Sept. 16, at 10 a.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3. This year’s symposium,…

Arts & Culture

2011 Syracuse Symposium examines many facets of ‘Identity’

Wednesday, August 24, 2011, By Rob Enslin

“Identity” is the theme of the 2011 Syracuse Symposium, an annual intellectual and artistic festival on the Syracuse University campus. This fall’s festival encompasses six lectures, including one by best-selling author/philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah; four performances and readings, including the…

Arts & Culture

SU appoints 2011-12 Humanities Center Dissertation Fellows

Monday, August 22, 2011, By Rob Enslin

The Syracuse University Humanities Center has announced recipients of its 2011-12 HC Dissertation Fellowships. Nell Champoux G’12 and Soumitree Gupta G’12—doctoral students in religion and in women’s and gender studies/English, respectively—are receiving one-year awards, carrying stipends and benefits. The fellowship…

Light Work to feature EN FOCO/IN FOCUS: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection

Monday, August 22, 2011, By Jessica H. Reed

Light Work has announced the exhibition “EN FOCO/IN FOCUS: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection,” featuring photographs from the permanent collection at En Foco. It will be on view Sept. 1-Jan. 31, 2012, in the Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery…

Campus & Community

SU’s James Watts named Tolley Professor in Humanities

Monday, August 22, 2011, By Rob Enslin

The College of Arts and Sciences has appointed James W. Watts as the William P. Tolley Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities. An expert in literature and religion of the Hebrew Bible, Watts serves as professor and chair of the…

SU appoints 2011-12 Humanities Center Dissertation Fellows

Friday, August 19, 2011, By Rob Enslin

Doctoral students Nell Champoux and Soumitree Gupta named 2011-12 Humanities Center Dissertation Fellows.

STEM

Ancient clams yield new information about greenhouse effect on climate

Thursday, August 18, 2011, By News Staff

Ancient fossilized clams that lived off the coast of Antarctica some 50 million years ago have a story to tell about El Niño, according to Syracuse University researcher Linda Ivany.

Shapiro, SU film professor and SYRFILMFEST artistic director, wins cinema award in Italy

Tuesday, August 16, 2011, By News Staff

While in Italy for SU Abroad’s new program in Cinema Studies & Filmmaking, Owen Shapiro was presented with the Mario Dall’Argine Award in recognition of his efforts to promote culture through the art of cinema.

Arts & Culture

XL Projects to present works of SUArt Galleries’ Jerome Witkin retrospective ‘Drawn to Paint’

Tuesday, August 16, 2011, By Erica Blust

XL Projects will present works of the SUArt Galleries’ exhibition “Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin” Sept. 7-Oct. 16.

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Monday, Aug. 8

Wednesday, August 10, 2011, By News Staff

SU NEWS AND EVENTS COVERAGE   SU and the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV), founded at the Whitman School of Management, were featured in a White House announcement on President Barack Obama’s commitment to employing America’s veterans, which…