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Arts & Culture

Human Rights Film Festival brings compelling new films to Syracuse Sept. 15-17

Thursday, August 25, 2011, By News Staff

Members of the Syracuse University and Central New York communities will have an opportunity to view award-winning films from around the world during “Illuminating Oppression: 9th Annual Human Rights Film Festival,” Thursday, Sept. 15, through Saturday, Sept. 17. This three-day…

Arts & Culture

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,…

SU in the News: Wednesday, August 24

Wednesday, August 24, 2011, By News Staff

Maxwell School Dean James Steinberg quoted in National Journal on Obama leadership and events in Libya

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…

IVMF’s Schmeling appointed interim executive director of Global Universal Design Commission

Wednesday, August 24, 2011, By News Staff

The Global Universal Design Commission (GUDC), a not-for-profit corporation established to develop Universal Design (UD) standards for buildings, products and services, has announced the appointment of James Schmeling as its interim executive director.

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…

Arts & Culture

Owolabi to present recital on SU’s historic Holtkamp organ Sept. 6 and 7

Monday, August 22, 2011, By Erica Blust

Kola Owolabi, Syracuse University organist and assistant professor of music in the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), will present organ recitals on Tuesday, Sept. 6, and…

Campus & Community

Syracuse Welcome 2011 to receive new first-year and transfer students beginning Aug. 24

Monday, August 22, 2011, By News Staff

Very soon, some 3,700 first-year and transfer students will arrive at Syracuse University ready to kick off the new academic year. When they do, SU’s student orientation program, Syracuse Welcome, will help them get acclimated and ready to start the new…

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.

Campus & Community

SU in the News: Friday, August 19

Friday, August 19, 2011, By News Staff

National media cite research by College of Arts and Sciences’ Linda Ivany on fossilized clams off Antarctic coast