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SU to hold day of remembrance Oct. 10 for Bassel Shahade
Syracuse University will host a day of remembrance for slain Syrian film student Bassel Shahade on Wednesday, Oct. 10. Shahade, a Fulbright Scholar and native of Damascus, Syria, was killed in Homs, Syria, on May 28 while working as a…
Ray Smith ‘Positions of Dissent’ Lecture on Voluntary Primitivism is Oct. 11
Felicity D. Scott, associate professor of architecture at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation and Planning, will present a lecture, “Voluntary Primitivism,” on Oct. 11 at 6 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, located on the first floor of Bird…
‘Juju Rules’ author Hart Seely will hold book reading, signing at Newhouse Oct. 3
Writer and humorist Hart Seely, award-winning reporter for the Syracuse Post-Standard, will visit the Newhouse School Oct. 3 for an event featuring his recently-published book, “The Juju Rules: Or, How to Win Ballgames from Your Couch: A Memoir of a…
Author to present ‘Project Brainwash: Why Reality TV Is Bad for Women’
Jennifer L. Pozner, author of “Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth about Guilty Pleasure TV” (Seal Press, 2010), will speak Wednesday, Oct. 10, at 7 p.m. in Watson Theater on “Project Brainwash: Why Reality TV Is Bad for Women.” A…
Journalist Scott MacFarlane ’98 will discuss ‘getting the story and getting the job’
Getting the story and getting the job. For journalists, the strategies for each are strikingly similar, says Cox Television correspondent Scott MacFarlane ’98 (@MacFarlaneNews). Come hear him speak at the Newhouse School on Monday, Oct. 1, at 7 p.m. in…
Limited tickets available for Common Ground for Peace symposium
Syracuse University announced on Monday, Sept. 24, the availability of a limited number of tickets for the “Common Ground for Peace” symposium on Monday, Oct. 8, featuring His Holiness the Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibet.
Inaugural ‘Positions of Dissent’ lecture by Helen Horowitz is Sept. 20
Helen Horowitz, Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor of History Emerita at Smith College, will give the inaugural lecture in the Syracuse University Library’s Ray Smith Symposium, “Positions of Dissent,” on Thursday, Sept. 20, at 6 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly…
Award-winning author, journalist Deborah Scroggins will speak on religious extremism Oct. 1
Author and journalist Deborah Scroggins (@ScrogginsDeb) will visit the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Monday, Oct. 1, as a guest of the Carnegie Religion and Media program. She will speak on “Muslim Rage? How Extremists on Both Sides…
Ray Smith Symposium explores issues of displacement with ‘Moving Borders’
“Displacement” is the focus of one of this year’s Ray Smith Symposia, sponsored by The College of Arts and Sciences. Titled “Moving Borders: The Culture and Politics of Displacement in and from Latin America and the Caribbean,” the symposium kicks…
Onondaga Historical Association will be next topic of IRP
At the Sept. 20 session of the Institute for Retired People (IRP), Gregg A. Tripoli, executive director of the Onondaga Historical Association (OHA), will talk about the renovation of the building and other projects currently taking place. He will also…