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Upcoming lecture focuses on gender justice, feminist mediation, Islamic reformation in Malaysia
Azza Basarudin, a future of minority studies (FMS) postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Women’s & Gender Studies (WGS) at Syracuse University, is giving a free lecture titled “Gender Justice, Feminist Mediation and Islamic Reformation in Malaysia.”
‘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.
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.
Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney to give University Lecture April 13
Seamus Heaney, Nobel laureate in literature, poet, translator and essayist, will be a guest of the University Lectures series at Syracuse University on Tuesday, April 13.
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.
Bassist Shayna Dulberger to headline next Coltrane Memorial Contemporary Jazz concert, April 2 at CFAC
The John Coltrane Memorial Contemporary Jazz Series continues with a free concert by upright bassist Shayna Dulberger, with drummer/percussionist Warren Smith, and non-Western wind instrument specialist William Cole, on Friday, April 2.
Boston College professor Charles Morris to lead Queer Memory: An Afternoon Symposium on March 26
On Friday, March 26, Syracuse University will host Queer Memory: An Afternoon Symposium, with speaker Charles E. Morris III of Boston College addressing “Meditations on the Prospects and Perils of Queer Memory.”
The NewsHouse: The Underworld’s wild man
‘Cities of the Underworld’ host Don Wildman recalls Indiana Jones-esque experiences from exploring ancient worlds.
A&S student a finalist in Inc. magazine’s ‘College Start-Up’ contest with his ‘bed transforming pillow’
Ryan Dickerson ’11, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences and creator of The Rylaxer—a patented “bed transforming pillow”—is a finalist in Inc. magazine’s “America’s Coolest College Start-Ups” online contest.