Arts & Culture

Deborah Tannen, a best-selling author and university professor of linguistics at Georgetown University, will give the talk “She Said/He Said/We Said: How Family Talk Sheds Light on Language and Gender” on Thursday, Sept. 16, at 6 p.m.

George Packer, critically acclaimed author and staff writer for The New Yorker, will present “An American Dilemma: Obama, Afghanistan and Vietnam” at 4 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 16.

Peter Sellars, a renowned theater, opera and festival director and one of the most innovative and powerful forces in the performing arts, will speak at Syracuse University on Thursday, Sept. 16.

Set in a tough, Bronx high school, the nationally acclaimed and award-winning “No Child…” traces the efforts of a young teaching artist to engage a class of uninspired and underachieving 10th graders by challenging the students to put on a play.

The New York State chapter of the Surface Design Association (SDA), a nonprofit educational organization with more than 4,000 members worldwide, will host “SDA at SU,” an informative, one-day gathering on Saturday, Sept. 11.

The seminar will be team taught by arts professional David A. Ross ’71 and artist Carrie Mae Weems.

One of the most significant periods of Western theater is the subject of a newly updated and expanded book by Sanford Sternlicht G’62, English professor emeritus in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences.

Large-scale works created by artists at Lake Effect Editions, the press of the printmaking program at Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts, are the subject of the exhibition “Monumental Printstallations” at XL Projects, 307–313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse.

Short story writer Gary Lutz will kick off the Raymond Carver Reading Series on Sept. 15.

Syracuse Stage is seeking boys and girls ages 7-12 of all ethnicities.