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Arts & Culture

SU students participate in West African Dance Residency with master teacher

Friday, October 14, 2011, By News Staff

On Oct. 4, a select group of SU students who are either members of a multicultural student dance organization, or just dance lovers at heart, began a six-week artist-in-residence program learning traditional West African dance from master teacher Biboti Ouikahilo….

Arts & Culture

‘Presenting Bakelite: the material of a thousand uses,’ an illustrated lecture by Reindert Groot

Thursday, October 13, 2011, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

In conjunction with its ongoing exhibition “Just One Word: Plastics,” the Syracuse University Library will host Dutch producer/photographer and Bakelite expert Reindert Groot, founder of the Amsterdam Bakelite Collection. The presentation will take place in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons at…

Arts & Culture

Fall 2011 Raymond Carver Reading Series presents award-winning novelist Terese Svoboda

Thursday, October 13, 2011, By News Staff

The Fall 2011 Raymond Carver Reading Series will continue on Oct. 26 with novelist Terese Svoboda, author of the recently published “Bohemian Girl” (Bison Books, 2011), which critics describe as a cross between “True Grit” and “Huckleberry Finn.” The reading…

Arts & Culture

VPA announces associate dean appointments

Thursday, October 13, 2011, By Erica Blust

The College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) has announced two associate dean appointments. The appointments will allow Arthur Jensen, VPA’s senior associate dean of academic affairs and a professor of communication and rhetorical studies in the Department of Communication…

Media, Law & Policy

University to host two-day conference on urban revitalization

Thursday, October 13, 2011, By News Staff

Speakers, workshops will focus on urban transformations through art and design A conference on “Urban Revitalization: Transformations through Art and Design” will be held Friday and Saturday, Oct. 28 and 29, at the Warehouse Auditorium, 360 W. Fayette St. The…

Arts & Culture

SU’s Ray Smith Symposium explores homosexuality, male culture in Renaissance Italy Oct. 20-21

Thursday, October 13, 2011, By Rob Enslin

The Ray Smith Symposium in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences continues its yearlong examination of “Sex and Power from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment” with a mini residency by Italian Renaissance scholar Michael Rocke. Rocke—the Nicky Mariano…

Campus & Community

Intellectual property is subject of GET Speaker Series talk

Thursday, October 13, 2011, By News Staff

Katherine Card Beckles, Assistant General Counsel of Intellectual Property and Technology Law at JPMorgan Chase will speak on intellectual property.

Malmgren Concert Series’ new season begins Oct. 16 with Rachel Laurin

Wednesday, October 12, 2011, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Canadian organist Rachel Laurin will be the first guest in Hendricks Chapel’s Malmgren Concert Series at Syracuse University on Sunday, Oct. 16. The recital will begin at 4 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel and is free and open to the public….

University celebrates new institute with keynote, panel on science, forensics, national security

Wednesday, October 12, 2011, By News Staff

Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences will celebrate and dedicate its new Forensic and National Security Sciences Institute with presentations by some of the nation’s foremost experts in the field beginning at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 25, in SU’s…

Syracuse Architecture visiting critics Grace La and James Dallman to lecture

Tuesday, October 11, 2011, By Elaine Wackerow

Grace La and James Dallman, Syracuse Architecture fall 2011 visiting critics and founding principals of Milwaukee architectural design firm LA DALLMAN, will lecture at the Syracuse University School of Architecture on Tuesday, Oct. 18, at 5 p.m. in Slocum Hall…