Whether understood as a principle of sameness that gives rise to perceptions of individual and social identity, or only as the point where people and societies begin to diverge and become different, IDENTITY is a persistent theme for inquiring into the meaning of the “Humanities” today.
The 2011 Symposium explores the meaning of IDENTITY, and its often-opposed meaning of difference, through a series of public events and lectures that will reflect on both as only the abstract beginnings of common understanding.
Syracuse Symposium™ is organized and presented by The SU Humanities Center for The College of Arts and Sciences and the entire Syracuse community.
Founded in 2008, the Syracuse University Humanities Center fosters public engagement in the humanities, as well as scholarship in and across various fields of humanistic inquiry. The Center is home to the Syracuse Symposium™, The Mellon Central New York Humanities Corridor, The Jeanette K. Watson Visiting Collaborator, and other major research initiatives, annual fellowships and public programming. Gregg Lambert, Dean’s Professor of the Humanities, is founding director. More information is available at syracusehumanities.org
Major funding provided by The Mellon Central New York Humanities Corridor, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation initiative.
The SU Humanities Center wishes to thank the following co-sponsors of the 2011 Syracuse Symposium™: The College of Arts and Sciences, including the Departments of English; Languages, Literatures and Linguistics; Women’s and Gender Studies, and Physics; as well as Programs in Creative Writing and LGBT Studies; Syracuse University and its School of Architecture and College of Visual and Performing Arts; the S.I. Newhouse School for Public Communications including The Goldring Arts Journalism Program; SU School of Education, Center on Human Policy, Law, and Disability Studies; South Asia Center at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Institute for Global Affairs; Syracuse University Library; LGBT Resource Center; Light Work; University Lectures; Society for New Music; The YMCA’s Downtown Writer’s Center (DWC); Media Finishings; Syracuse Stage; Syracuse International Film Festival and stressdesign.
