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Austrian postwar writer Ingeborg Bachmann is the subject of a two-day conference at Syracuse University titled “Lay Down Your Weapons: Writing Against War.”

On Oct. 20, Syracuse Symposium and Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact will present a symposium on poet Alejandra Pizarnik.

As the 2010 election season kicks into high gear, the University Lectures series will welcome Kathleen Hall Jamieson on Tuesday, Oct. 12, to explore the meanings within presidential speeches with an emphasis on the history of American oratory in the broad terms of politics, media and culture

The Syracuse University Humanities Center continues its exploration of “conflict” with a daylong symposium devoted to modern African literature.

The Syracuse University Humanities Center has announced the Perpetual Peace Project, a joint initiative with the Slought Foundation, the European Union National Institutes of Culture, International Peace Institute and United Nations University through 2011.

The SU Humanities Center continues exploring conflict with its fall mini seminar series.

George Packer, critically acclaimed author and staff writer for The New Yorker, will present “An American Dilemma: Obama, Afghanistan and Vietnam” at 4 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 16.

Majora Carter, green economic strategist, television and radio host and president of the Majora Carter Group, LLC, will kick off a spectacular 10th season of the University Lectures series on Tuesday, Sept. 21.

The long-term impacts of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill will be explored in a special University Lectures presentation at Syracuse University on Tuesday, Oct. 26.

Short story writer Gary Lutz will kick off the Raymond Carver Reading Series on Sept. 15.