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Getting to Know: Tere Paniagua, executive director of cultural engagement for the Hispanic community
For several years, Tere Paniagua has been the managing director of Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, a nonprofit organization supported by Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, and by the New York State Council on the Arts. The Point…
Alumna to present on the art of African American cooking
Syracuse University alumna Patricia E. Clark ’89, G ’93 vividly remembers the sights, sounds and smells of the fried chicken dinners the women in her church packaged up and sold to help pay the rent and other church expenses.“We would…
SU alumnus named a National Book Award finalist
Syracuse University alumnus Steve Sheinkin ’90 has been named a finalist in the Young People’s Literature category of the 2012 National Book Awards. A former international relations major in The College of Arts and Sciences, Sheinkin was nominated for “Bomb:…
SU Humanities Center, Society for New Music present program of music, film and video Oct. 28
The world premiere of “Cantos,” an ambitious multimedia work by New York State composer Rob Deemer, is part of the next installment of Syracuse Symposium, whose theme this year is “Memory-Media-Archive.” The premiere is part of a program titled “Aural…
Professor Anna Vasilevna Gorbatsevich remembered
Anna Vasilevna Gorbatsevich, professor emerita of Russian, passed away at her home on Sept. 6 at the age of 88. She was a resident of Syracuse for more than 60 years. Gorbatsevich was born near Warsaw, Poland, where she studied to become…
Featured video: Lava project
There are few places in the world to watch a flowing stream of lava. Hawaii and Iceland come to mind. Add Syracuse to the list. Okay, there hasn’t been a volcanic eruption here lately, but outside of the Comstock Art…
Folk arts curator to discuss quilts as visual discourse of conflict, reconciliation and memory Oct. 22
Syracuse Symposium, whose theme this fall is “Memory-Media-Archive,” continues with a presentation on the social significance of traditional material culture.
Research at the interface of physics and biology
On the surface, it would seem that zebrafish and humans are about as different as, say, developmental biologists and theoretical physicists. Fish swim; humans walk. Biologists revere Charles Darwin; physicists have an abiding admiration for Albert Einstein.
‘Tribal fusion’ dancer and anthropologist explore collective identity of the arts Oct. 18 at SU
Event follows keynote address by undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs Syracuse Symposium, whose theme this fall is “Memory-Media-Archive,” continues with a joint program featuring a dance performance by Donna Mejia and a lecture by anthropologist William…
La Casita Cultural Center will present an episode of PBS series ‘Black in Latin America’
La Casita Cultural Center will present an episode of the acclaimed PBS series “Black in Latin America“, from 5:30-7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26, at the center, 109 Otisco St., Syracuse. The screening of the episode “Haiti and the Dominican Republic:…