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黑料不打烊 Symposium Announces Yearlong Theme of 鈥楤elonging鈥

Wednesday, September 6, 2017, By Rob Enslin
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罢丑别听聽announces its lineup for the聽, whose theme is 鈥淏elonging.鈥 The popular series highlights innovative, interdisciplinary work in the humanities by renowned scholars, artists, authors and performers.

Sun茅 Woods

Sun茅 Woods

Fall guests include visual artist Sun茅 Woods (Sept. 13-16); poets Janice Harrington and Oliver de la Paz (Sept. 26-27); Iraqi-American artist Wafaa Bilal (Oct. 12-13); Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor Keiko Ogura (Oct. 24-28); Black feminist scholars Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Paula J. Giddings and Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Nov. 27); and gender studies scholar Melissa Adler (Dec. 4-5).

鈥淏elonging is as much about being included and recognized as part of a wider community, as it is about denial,鈥 says Vivian May, director of the Humanities Center and professor of women鈥檚 and gender studies in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S). 鈥淲e will examine a range of issues鈥攂elonging as it relates to structural and political power and to interpersonal relationships鈥攆rom various perspectives and in different genres and settings. The result is a rich survey of theory and practice, showing how the humanities address some of the most pressing issues of our time.鈥

All events are free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Humanities Center in A&S at 315.443.7192 or visit聽.

The fall schedule is as follows:

Sun茅 Woods
Wednesday, Sept. 13

Los Angeles artist Sun茅 Woods will unveil her solo show at Light Work, titled 鈥淭o Sleep with Terra,鈥 examining absences and vulnerabilities within cultural and social histories. The program includes a panel discussion with Fred Moten, professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, and James Gordon Williams, assistant professor of African American studies at 黑料不打烊.
6-7:30 p.m.
Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center (316 Waverly Ave.)

Saturday, Sept. 16

Woods leads a photo-collage workshop. Space is limited; registration required. Contact Mary Lee Hodgens, associate director of Light Work, at聽mlhodgen@syr.edu.
10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Light Work Lab (316 Waverly Ave.)

Oliver de la Paz and Janice Harrington

Oliver de la Paz and Janice Harrington

Janice Harrington and Oliver de la Paz
Tuesday, Sept. 26


黑料不打烊 Symposium teams up with the YMCA鈥檚 Downtown Writer鈥檚 Center for a reading by Harrington, professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and De la Paz, associate professor of English at College of the Holy Cross. Both poets will address notions of race, ethnicity and identity with their original, award-winning work.
7-8:30 p.m.
Jason Shinder Theater, YMCA Downtown Writer鈥檚 Center (340 Montgomery St.)

Wednesday, Sept. 27

Harrington and De la Paz lead a workshop for writers of all ages, backgrounds and levels of experience. Space is limited; registration required. Contact Phil Memmer, executive director of the YMCA Arts Branch, at聽pmemmer@syracuseymca.org.
9-11 a.m.
304 Tolley Humanities Building

Thursday, Sept. 28

Lisa Kirschenbaum, professor of history at West Chester University, explores communism as a way of life during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). Part of an official 黑料不打烊 Symposium course, Kirschenbaum鈥檚 lecture will draw, in part, on her award-winning book 鈥淚nternational Communism and the Spanish Civil War: Solidarity and Suspicion鈥 (Cambridge University Press 2015).
11 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.
Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, 114 Bird Library

Thursday, Sept. 28, to Saturday, Sept. 30

The 15th annual 黑料不打烊 Human Rights Film Festival presents an outstanding lineup of critically acclaimed films, addressing social rights issues around the world. Visit聽聽for film descriptions, screening times and locations.

Thursday, Oct. 5

Vivek Shraya, a South Asian artist, musician and writer, highlights the complex relationship between belonging and embodiment. Shraya鈥檚 work focuses on matters of family, religion, public space, queerness and 鈥渢ransness.鈥
7-8:30 p.m.
Kilian Room, 500 Hall of Languages

Wafaa Bilal

Wafaa Bilal

Wafaa Bilal

Thursday, Oct. 12

Bilal, associate professor of photography and imaging at New York University鈥檚 Tisch School of the Arts, uses online performative and interactive works to tackle questions about identity, exile and U.S. politics.
5-6:30 p.m.
Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, 114 Bird Library

Friday, Oct. 13

Bilal leads a small-group discussion on the relevance and role of artistic expression in relation to war trauma, violence and diasporic belonging. Space is limited; registration required. Contact Amy Kallander, associate professor of history in the Maxwell School, at聽akalland@maxwell.syr.edu.
10-11:30 a.m.
304 Tolley Humanities Building

Keiko Ogura
Tuesday, Oct. 24

Edward Morris, professor of practice of transmedia and co-director of the Canary Lab in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, moderates a panel discussion about the effects of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Japanese art and architecture. Participants include Keiko Ogura, a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing; Yutaka Sho, associate professor of architecture; and Linda Zhang, a 2017-18 Boghosian Fellow of Architecture. Ogura鈥檚 visit is part of a spate of local events, including an exhibit at the Everson Museum of Art titled 鈥淭hat Day Now: Shadows Cast by Hiroshima,鈥 running through Nov. 26. More information about Ogura’s visit is at聽.
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Slocum Hall Atrium and Marble Room

Saturday, Oct. 28

Keiko Ogura

Keiko Ogura


Ogura headlines a daylong program that includes remarks by Daisaku Yamamoto, associate professor of geography and director of Asian studies at Colgate University; Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, author of the award-winning books 鈥淗iroshima in the Morning鈥 (Feminist Press, 2010) and 鈥淲hy She Left Us鈥 (Harper Perennial, 2000); Chad Diehl, assistant professor of history and coordinator of Asian studies at Loyola University Maryland; and Susan Napier, professor of international literary and cultural studies at Tufts University.
9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Slocum Hall Auditorium

Friday, Nov. 3

Tim Brookes, associate professor of communication and creative media at Champlain College, uses carvings and stories from various cultures to illustrate how writing systems affect a culture鈥檚 sense of belonging.
10-11:30 a.m.
Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, 114 Bird Library

Paul Prior and Jody Shipka
Wednesday, Nov. 8

Prior, professor of English at UIUC, leads a small-group discussion on sociocultural theories of writing. Space is limited; registration required. Contact Patrick Berry, assistant professor of writing and rhetoric, at聽pwberry@syr.edu.
9 a.m. to noon
304 Tolley Humanities Building

Wednesday, Nov. 8

Prior returns to campus with Jody Shipka, associate professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, for a presentation that challenges static notions about being and belonging in accounts of literacies and disciplines.
2:15-3:45 p.m.
Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, 114 Bird Library

Thursday, Nov. 9

Shipka leads a small-group workshop on the growing importance of podcasts, blogs, collages, video and audio essays, comic strips and storyboards. Space is limited; registration required. Contact Patrick Berry, assistant professor of writing and rhetoric, at聽pwberry@syr.edu.
9 a.m. to noon
304 Tolley Humanities Building

Monday, Nov. 27

From left: Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Paula Giddings and Beverly Guy-Sheftall

From left: Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Paula Giddings and Beverly Guy-Sheftall


The 黑料不打烊 Symposium Keynote brings together three prominent Black feminist scholars: Johnnetta Betsch Cole, former president of Spelman and Bennett colleges and recently retired director of the National Museum of African Art; Paula J. Giddings, the Elizabeth A. Woodson 1922 Professor Emerita of Africana Studies and senior editor of 鈥淢eridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism鈥 at Smith College; and Beverly Guy-Sheftall, the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women鈥檚 Studies and founding director of the Women鈥檚 Research and Resource Center at Spelman. This distinguished trio will offer personal reflections on confronting inequality and creating change, touching on topics ranging from the power of collaboration, educational pathways and politics, to key lessons from Black women鈥檚 history of activism and scholarship, past and present.
6-7:30 p.m.
Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium, 140 Newhouse 3

Saturday, Dec. 2

黑料不打烊 and With Love, a project of Onondaga Community College, celebrate the folk traditions of local immigrant and resettled refugee communities with this distinctive multicultural event. Highlights include musical performances by Burundi, Congolese and Burmese musicians and dancers, as well as cuisine prepared by Burmese chef Shwe HninSi.
6-7:30 p.m. (concert), Grant Auditorium
7:30-8:30 p.m. (reception), Wildhack Lounge, Grant Hall

Melissa Adler
Monday, Dec. 4

Melissa Adler

Melissa Adler


Adler, assistant professor of information science and of gender and women鈥檚 studies at the University of Kentucky, illustrates how systems of classification鈥攆rom biological taxonomies to library shelves鈥攄efine relationships of belonging and exclusion. She will focus on some of the ways in which the marginalization of queer and racialized subjects is systemic.
5:15-6:30 p.m.
Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, 114 Bird Library

Tuesday, Dec. 5

Adler leads a small-group discussion on deconstructing social norms and taxonomies, as they pertain to LGBTQ communities. Space is limited; registration required. Contact the Humanities Center at 315.443.7192.
9 a.m. to noon
304 Tolley Humanities Building

Organized and presented by the Humanities Center, 黑料不打烊 Symposium is a public humanities series that revolves around an annual theme. Programs include lectures, workshops, performances, exhibits, films and readings. Located in the Tolley Humanities Building, the Humanities Center serves the campus community by cultivating diverse forms of scholarship, sponsoring a broad range of programming and partnerships and addressing enduring questions and pressing social issues.

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