Events

The Noor Wodjouatt Ensemble, music and dance
Monday, August 28
7:30 p.m., Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Co-sponsor: U.Encounter and Office of Orientation and Transition Services

Art Spiegelman, comic book artist
Thursday, September 21
7:30 p.m., Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Co-sponsor: U.Encounter, Kaleidoscope, The Soling Program, and Winnick Hillel Center

Ravi and Anoushka Shankar, sitarists *
Tuesday, September 26
8 p.m., Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Co-sponsor: PULSE

Billy Bang, jazz violinist
Thursday, September 28
8 p.m., Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Co-sponsor: U.Encounter, Kaleidoscope, and Department of African American Studies

Ned Kahn, environmental artist
Thursday, October 5
7:30 p.m., Hendricks Chapel
Co-sponsor: Robert B. Menschel University Lectures

Wangari Maathai, environmentalist
Tuesday, October 17
4:30 p.m., Hendricks Chapel
A joint presentation of the Robert B. Menschel University Lectures, the Geoffrey O. Seltzer Lecture, and Syracuse Symposium.
Co-sponsors: SU Chancellor’s office, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration, and Hendricks Chapel; and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

Cindy Sheehan, peace activist °
Cynthia Enloe, feminist scholar
Thursday, October 19
7:30 p.m., Hendricks Chapel
Co-sponsors: Presented in cooperation with the 2006 Feminism and War Conference (a Ray Smith Symposium, Oct. 19-21), Hendricks Chapel, and the Women’s Studies Program.

Chris Wedge,
winning director and co-founder of Blue Sky Studios
Wednesday, November 1
Noon, Newhouse II, Studio A
Co-sponsor: S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications

Joy Harjo, poet and musician
Thursday, November 9
8 p.m., Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Co-sponsors: U.Encounter, Kaleidoscope, Office of Multicultural Affairs, Native American Studies Program, and Center for Indigenous Law, Governance, and Citizenship.

Lisa Randall, theoretical physicist
Wednesday, November 29
7:30 p.m., Gifford Auditorium
Co-sponsors: Department of Physics, The Renée Crown University Honors Program, Department of Science Teaching (A Frontiers of Science Lecture), and Women in Science and Engineering Program

* All events are free and open to the public except Ravi and Anoushka Shankar.

* ravi and anoushka shankar by ticket only: tickets available at the schine center box office (443-4517) starting august 29 $20/public, $10/su faculty, staff, and alumni, $5/students with valid suid.

° admittance to cindy sheehan and cynthia enloe by ticket only free tickets available at the schine center box office (443-4517) students tickets available september 25, all other tickets available october 4.

Exhibitions

E. S. Bird Library

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
September 7 – January 15 6th floor
Special Collections Research Center Exhibition
Opening reception: September 7, 4-6 p.m.

Grace Hartigan: Painting the Past and the Present
Thursday, November 16 Hillyer Room, 606
Robert S. Mattison
Marshall R. Metzgar Professor, Lafayette College Lecture begins at 4 p.m.

Schine Student Center

Learning Through the Lens: Collaborations with
Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Through December 22
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery

Shemin Auditorium

Fourth Annual South Asian Human Rights Film Festival
October 26-28 Shaffer Art Building
Co-Sponsors: S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, U.Encounter, the South Asia Center, and the South Asian Students Association

SUArt Galleries

The Artist Revealed: Artist Portraits and Self Portraits
Through December 22 Shaffer Art Building

Insightful and Incidental: Portraits from the Collection of
Robert M. Infarinato
September 10 – October 12 Shaffer Art Building
Opening reception: Shaffer Galleria September 21, 6-8 p.m.

Reclaiming Midwives: Stills from “All My Babies”
September 10 – October 12 Shaffer Art Building
Opening reception: Shaffer Galleria September 21, 6-8 p.m.

Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astronomical Charts
and Maps from the Mendillo Collection
January 15 – March 9, 2007 Shaffer Art Building
Opening reception: Shaffer Galleria January 18, 6-8 p.m.

For more information about the
Syracuse Symposium, contact:

Kandice L. Salomone
Associate Dean
The College of Arts & Sciences
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244
e-mail: Imagination
phone: 315-443-7192