Syracuse Symposium™ is organized and presented for the College of Arts and Sciences and the entire Syracuse community by the SU Humanities Center. Gregg Lambert, Dean’s Professor of the Humanities, is founding director. More information is available at syracusehumanities.org
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 2012 Syracuse Symposium™: the College of Arts and Sciences, including the Office of the Dean, and Departments of Physics, Religion, and Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics; the Kameshwar C. Wali Lecture Series, Medieval Renaissance Studies Working Group and 2012-2013 Ray Smith “Positions of Dissent”; the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs including the Departments of Anthropology, History, Political Science and the South Asia Center at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Institute for Global Affairs; Syracuse University and its S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and School of Architecture Graduate Program; Syracuse University Library and its Special Collections Research Center; Graduate Student Organization; Phi Beta Delta Honor Society; Hendricks Chapel Quilters; Cornell University and its Department of German Studies, Institute for German Cultural Studies and Society for the Humanities; Princeton University and its Department of German Literature/Art History; SUNY Empire State College; The Alexia Foundation; Arts Council of the Southern Finger Lakes; the Congolese Community of Syracuse; New York State Council on the Arts; Ping Chong and Company; Society for New Music; Syracuse New Times; Syracuse Stage, the YMCA’s Downtown Writer’s Center (DWC) and Stressdesign.