Arts & Culture
Hiroshima Survivor to Share Her Experience during University Events
School of Architecture Associate Professor Yutaka Sho first met Keiko Ogura in the summer of 2016 in Japan during the SU Abroad travel seminar Design Through a Tourist’s Eye. The seminar focused in part on the way communities remember and…
Syracuse Hosts World Englishes Conference
It is a little-known fact that Braj Kachru, a renowned authority on the English language, spoke only Hindi and his mother tongue, Kashmiri, until he was 16. Nevertheless, his upbringing in a Kashmiri Pundit family, which valued education above almost…
ACCelerate: ACC Smithsonian Creativity and Innovation Festival to Showcase VPA Professor’s Work
Syracuse University and the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) have participated in a yearlong process with the Atlantic Coast Conference, partner ACC universities and the Smithsonian Institution to create the first “ACCelerate: ACC Smithsonian Creativity and Innovation Festival.”…
Syracuse Symposium Continues ‘Belonging’ Theme with Artist Wafaa Bilal Oct. 12-13
Syracuse Symposium continues its yearlong exploration of “Belonging” with a mini-residency by acclaimed Iraqi-American artist Wafaa Bilal. On Thursday, Oct. 12, Bilal will give a presentation titled “Performing Change: Diaspora and Belonging” from 5-6:30 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, 114…
Tony Award Winner for Best Play, ‘Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ to Play at Syracuse Stage
Syracuse Stage brings a deeply moving and engaging experience with the Tony award-winning (Best Play) show “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” adapted by Simon Stephens from the original novel by Mark Haddon. “Curious Incident” is co-produced…
Negro Spirituals: A Workshop/Discussion on the Historical Context
Join us Thursday, Oct. 5, at 6 p.m. in the Community Folk Art Center to discuss the Afro-American experience as it relates to the so-called African American slaves. We will be examining the people, how they lived and how they…
English Professor Wins National Literary Prize
A faculty member of the College of Arts and Sciences has received one of the nation’s largest prizes for fiction writing. Dana Spiotta, an associate professor of English who teaches in the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing, is the winner…
Malmgren Series Features Music of Female Composers Oct. 8
Organist Anne Laver and soprano Janet Brown will present a program of sacred music by women composers as part of the 2017-18 season of Hendricks Chapel’s Malmgren Concert Series on Sunday, Oct. 8. The concert, titled “Feminine Voices,” will begin…
Raymond Carver Reading Series Hosts Author of Critically Acclaimed ‘We Love You, Charlie Freeman’
Kaitlyn Greenidge, the Fall 2017 Visiting Writer for the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing, is the next speaker in this fall’s Raymond Carver Reading Series. On Wednesday, Oct. 11, she will participate in a Q&A at 3:45 p.m. and then read…
Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez Speaks Tonight
In honor of Latino Hispanic Heritage Month, writer and creator of the critically acclaimed and best-selling graphic novel “La Borinqueña” Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez will speak on Tuesday, Oct. 3, at 6 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, 114 Bird Library….