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Latin America and community is focus for La Casita event
La Casita Cultural Center will present “Latin American Understandings of Community,” a roundtable discussion with Paulina Ochoa, a political theorist from Yale University, at 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 6, at the center, 109 Otisco St., Syracuse. The event is free…
Ron Meyer, head of Universal Studios, will visit Newhouse March 1
Universal Studios president and COO Ron Meyer will visit the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Thursday, March 1. A Q-and-A with Meyer and Newhouse Professor of Practice Richard Dubin will take place at 3 p.m. in the Joyce…
Walmart India’s Raj Jain to lecture at Whitman School March 5
As part of the Whitman School of Management’s Jonathan Holtz Global Speaker Series, Raj Jain, president of Walmart India and managing director and CEO of Bharti Walmart Pvt. Ltd., will speak on Monday, March 5, at Whitman’s Lender Auditorium, room…
Three renowned authors will be featured during Spring 2012 University Lectures
Jonathan Franzen kicks off series March 6 Jonathan Franzen, award-winning author of “The Corrections” and “Freedom,” will kick off the 2012 University Lectures series at Syracuse University on Tuesday, March 6. Franzen is the first in a trio of noted…
Hendricks will host ‘Seeking Faith, Seeking Justice’ discussion March 7
From civil rights to the global HIV/AIDS crisis, where has the church been? Where should the church be today? These questions will be explored by Bishop Marcus Matthews in the next Hendricks Chapel Discussion Series event, “Seeking Faith, Seeking Justice,”…
Film starring Emma Roberts to shoot several scenes on SU campus
On Saturday, Feb. 18, Hollywood comes to SU as crews for the independent film “Adult World” arrive on campus for a day of production shoots. The PG-13 film, produced by Syracuse native Justin Nappi, is expected to premiere at a…
Sony/ATV Music Publishing Nashville CEO Troy Tomlinson to speak via videoconference Feb. 21
Troy Tomlinson, a 27-year publishing veteran who serves as president and CEO of Sony/ATV Music Publishing Nashville, will speak via videoconference on Tuesday, Feb. 21, at 6:45 p.m. in the Lender Auditorium, located on the concourse level of the Martin…
Volkswagens as metaphor for life
Christopher Boucher G’02 will read from ‘How to Keep your Volkswagen Alive’
A look at abolitionist, suffragist Lucretia Mott at next session of IRP
At the Feb. 16 session of the Institute for Retired People (IRP), Carol Faulkner, associate professor and chair of the Department of History at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School, will discuss Lucretia Mott and the Seneca Falls Convention. Mott, a Quaker…
SU helps Jewish Center of Norwich celebrate restoration efforts Feb. 16
The Jewish Center of Norwich—which made headlines in 2008, when it was vandalized by local youths—is the subject of a forthcoming event involving Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences and its Judaic studies program. SU friends and alumni, as…