Arts & Culture

The Syracuse University Humanities Center’s Mini Seminar series continues with two events featuring University of California professors: literary critic and critical theorist Gabriele Schwab and German historian Gerhard Richter. Schwab will discuss her forthcoming book, “Haunting Legacies: Violent Histories and…

Andrew Scanlon, an instructor of organ and sacred music at East Carolina University, will present an organ recital Tuesday, Feb. 16, at 8 p.m. in the Rose and Jules R. Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College.

Paquito D’Rivera’s piece, “Borat in Syracuse,” created for Pulse and the Syracuse Symposium, has been nominated for a Grammy Award as Best Instrumental Composition.

Last fall, College of Arts and Sciences professors Cathryn Newton and Samuel Gorovitz invited musician Tony Trischka and cartoonist Matthew Diffee to participate in HNR 250, “Linked Lenses: Science, Philosophy and the Pursuit of Knowledge.”

The Post and Courier newspaper in Charleston, S.C., has invited the 19 graduate students enrolled in the Goldring Arts Journalism Program in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications to contribute cultural coverage of the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston this spring.

The spring 2010 lineup for Syracuse University’s Raymond Carver Reading Series features six writers.

“The Price” runs Jan. 27-Feb. 14 at Syracuse Stage.

On Jan. 26 and 27, SU alumna Stephanie Solomon ‘72, the operating vice president for fashion direction for women’s ready-to-wear at Bloomingdales will return to her alma mater to give her first talk at SU since graduating.

The Judaic Studies Program at Syracuse University has received a $50,000 matching grant from the Foundation for Jewish Culture (FJC).

Department of Design students will challenge each other to propose the best design “fix,” or improvement, to their environment .