Arts & Culture
‘Gravyland’ chronicles urban university writing program
In his new book “Gravyland,” Stephen Parks, associate professor of writing and rhetoric in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, chronicles the history of an urban university writing program.
Fourth annual Fashion Communications Milestone fashion show to be held at SU April 9
Students from the Newhouse School and College of Visual and Performing Arts will present the fashion show Cent$ + Sense-Ability: Fashion in Recession and Fashion Sustainability on Friday, April 9.
African American Studies colloquium features NYU professor speaking on Chicago’s overlooked black arts movement
Jacqueline Goldsby explores the Chicago scene in her lecture, “A Salon for the Masses: Black Reading Circles & the Chicago Renaissance.”
Columbia University scholar Dabashi to keynote ‘Religion in Scholarship’ symposium April 9
On Friday, April 9, the Syracuse University Humanities Center will present Religion in Scholarship, an interdisciplinary symposium exploring the changing relationship between religion and scholarly study. The all-day symposium will take place in the Tolley Humanities Building, room 304 and will be keynoted by Hamid Dabashi, professor of Iranian studies and comparative literature at Columbia University.
SU Library Associates to present ‘The Political Fortunes of Robin Hood on the Late Elizabethan Stage’ April 22
Syracuse University Library Associates will present its annual Mary Marshall Lecture on April 22 at 5 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, on the first floor in E.S. Bird Library, 222 Waverly Avenue.
SU’s Windjammer vocal jazz ensemble to present 25th anniversary concert April 11
Windjammer, Syracuse University’s vocal jazz ensemble, will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a concert on Sunday, April 11.
Harvard humanist chaplain to speak at SU March 29
Greg Epstein, Harvard University’s humanist chaplain and author of The New York Times best-seller, “Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe” (HarperCollins, 2009), is speaking at Syracuse University on Monday, March 29.
Program to explain local, spiritual origins of lacrosse
Featuring Onondaga faithkeeper and All-American lacrosse goalie Oren Lyons and former SU player and coach Roy Simmons, Jr., the program is part of the “Onondaga Land Rights & Our Common Future” series.
WERW to host music panel March 25 at Jabberwocky Cafe
WERW-Real College Radio will be hosting its second music panel of the spring semester on Thursday, March 25, from 6-9 p.m.
SU Library, Humanities Center to host sampling symposium in New York City
REPLAY, the Syracuse University Symposium on Sound Sampling, takes place on Friday, April 9, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at the University’s Lubin House facility in New York City.