NEWS
W.J.T. Mitchell speaks
Syracuse Symposium, whose theme this year is “Light,” continues with a lecture by William J. Thomas (W.J.T.) Mitchell, renowned theorist on iconography and visual culture. Mitchell’s presentation, which is free and open to the public, is Thursday, Oct. 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Syracuse University’s Watson Theater. The event is organized and presented by the SU Humanities Center and is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Central New York Humanities Corridor, an interdisciplinary partnership involving SU, Cornell University and the University of Rochester. For more information, call (315) 443-7192.
CNY Mellon Fall 2009
The Andrew W. Mellon Central New York Humanities Corridor has announced its Fall 2009 schedule of events and activities. Unless otherwise indicated, everything is held at Syracuse University and is free and open to the public. For more information, call (315) 443-7192.
The Mellon CNY Humanities Corridor is an interdisciplinary partnership involving SU, Cornell University and the University of Rochester.
“The Mellon CNY Humanities Corridor reflects the vigorous humanistic traditions of the participating institutions,” says principal investigator Gregg Lambert. “Thanks to the generosity of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this initiative raises the visibility of the public humanities throughout the region and enhances the productivity of its key scholars, students and community partners.” Lambert also serves as Dean’s Professor of the Humanities and as founding director of the SU Humanities Center, in which the Mellon CNY Humanities Corridor is housed.
Edwidge Danticat to Speak
Edwidge Danticat, author “The Dew Breaker” (Vintage, 2005) and other best-selling novels and short stories and winner of a 2009 MacArthur Foundation “genius grant,” is speaking at Syracuse University. Her presentation, which is Wednesday, Oct. 14, begins at 3:45 p.m. with a Q&A session and is followed by a reading and book signing at 5:30 p.m. All activities take place in Gifford Auditorium in Huntington Beard Crouse Hall and are free and open to the public. Parking is available in SU pay lots.
American Art Scholar Speaks on Luminism
Alan Wallach, renowned American art scholar at the College of William & Mary, is speaking at Syracuse University. His presentation, “On Luminism: Light and Landscape in Mid-19th-Century America,” is Thursday, Sept. 24, at 4 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons in the E.S. Bird Library. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, coincides with “Winslow Homer’s Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond,” running through Oct. 11 at the SUArt Galleries. Both the lecture and the exhibition are part of the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, organized and presented by the SU Humanities Center. For more information, call (315) 443-7192, or visit the Syracuse Symposium website.
Light: Syracuse Symposium™
Syracuse Symposium™ 2009 invites the Syracuse University and Central New York communities to celebrate “Light” through a diverse array of lectures, performances, exhibits, symposia and other special events, beginning on Sept. 10 with “Illuminating Oppression: Seventh Annual Human Rights Film Festival” and a lecture by renowned photographer Howard Bond. All events are free and open to the public except where otherwise noted.
Barry Anderson
"Intermissions," an innovative art exhibition and related programs featuring the video and photographic art of Kansas City artist Barry Anderson, will be on display at Light Work Aug. 14-Oct. 21. A reception with a Syracuse Symposium lecture event will be held Tuesday, Sept. 29. The reception will run from 5-6 p.m., with the lecture from 6-8 p.m.
Winslow Homer
Beginning Aug. 18, the Syracuse University Art Galleries will present the exhibition "Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond." It is the first exhibition to examine the crucial turning
point in the career of American artist Winslow Homer (1836-1910), a period when he began to achieve stylistic maturity. The show is free and open to the public. Complete information and related programming is available by visiting the official exhibition website at http://homer.syr.edu.
Janna Levin
Janna Levin, critically acclaimed author and professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University, will present “Black Holes Sing” at 4 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 17, in the Life Sciences Complex Auditorium, Room 001. The lecture is free and open to the public. Parking is available for $3.50 in the Booth Garage.
Lily Kong
Please note. The Lily Kong Lecture has been cancelled. Please see the speakers page for more information.
Lily Kong, a world-renowned expert on religiosity and spatiality, will speak at Syracuse University on “Light and the Sacred,” Thursday, Oct. 1, at 7:30 p.m. in Watson Theater. Her presentation is part of Syracuse Symposium, whose theme this year is “Light,” and a three-day conference titled “Place/No Place: Spatial Aspects of Urban Asian Religiosity,” presented by The Andrew W. Mellon Central New York Humanities Corridor. For more information about the lecture, which is free and open to the public, call (315) 443-7192 or visit the Syracuse Symposium website.