Arts & Culture
Laura Freixas to Serve as Jeanette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor in Humanities
The Humanities Center will host one of the most important feminist voices in Spanish literature March 29-April 8. Laura Freixas, a world-renowned author, teacher-scholar, critic, translator and proponent of women’s literature, will serve as the Humanities Center’s 2016 Jeanette K….
Spaces Available for Trip to Explore Negro League, Afro-Latin Baseball
The Department of African American Studies (AAS) is sponsoring a trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., with the theme “Civil Rights Before Jackie Robinson: The Negro League and Afro-Latin American Baseball.” This will be the seventh…
La Casita Celebrates ‘Diversity in Reading’ in April
April is “Diversity in Reading” month at La Casita Cultural Center in the College of Arts and Sciences. All month, the center is presenting various events and activities, beginning with two book-launch parties, designed to raise awareness of and support…
UVP Features ‘Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud’
Urban Video Project (UVP), Light Work and the Everson Museum of Art are presenting dual exhibitions of work by multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk, including new video and fabric-based prints created during her Light Work 2015 UVP artist residency. Woolfalk’s work…
Poet JoEllen Kwiatek to Read for Carver Series on March 23
Poet JoEllen Kwiatek will be the next writer to give a reading in the spring 2016 Raymond Carver Reading Series on Wednesday, March 23. The series, which brings 12-14 prominent writers to campus each year, is presented by the M.F.A….
‘Knowledge Crowns Those Who Hear Her’: Lecture, Workshop with Sam Brylawski
Syracuse University Libraries will present the annual lecture and workshop in the Brodsky Series for the Advancement of Library Conservation on March 24-25. The featured presenter is Sam Brylawski, co-director of the American Discography Project at the University of California,…
Painting Student Illustrates Confidence, Complexities of Subjects
Julie Pratt’s painted portraits are bold, colorful. Pratt ’16 taps into her subjects as emotional beings and expresses that on canvas, capturing them in larger-than-life paintings.
Humanities Center to Host Dinner-Workshop on ‘Urban Acupuncture’ March 24
The Humanities Center, based in the College of Arts and Sciences, is presenting a workshop on “urban acupuncture”—the use of small-scale interventions to transform the larger urban fabric—in the City of Syracuse. The event, which includes dinner, will take place…
Author to Speak on ‘Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display’
Scholar Jennifer Tyburczy will deliver a talk on her book “Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display” (University of Chicago Press, 2015) on Thursday, March 24, at 5 p.m. in Life Sciences Building 001. A reception and book signing…
‘The Passenger’s Present’ at Light Work
Light Work will present “The Passenger’s Present,” featuring the work of Miki Soejima, on view in the Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery at Light Work from March 21 through July 22. A reception and lecture with Soejima will take place on…