Exhibitions
Lessons from Rwanda
September 15 – 25
Joseph A. Strasser Commons, Second Floor Eggers Hall (September 15 – 19)
Schine Student Center, Panasci Lounge (September 20 – 25)
The exhibit presents an account of the events taking place before, during, and after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, during which as many as one million people are estimated to have died during several weeks of intense, systematic massacres. The purpose of the exhibit is to raise awareness of the lessons to be learned from those events, the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and other judicial mechanisms in ending impunity, and the lasting impact of genocide on survivors as many spilled over nearby borders as refugees. The exhibit was launched in New York at UN Headquarters on April 30, 2007 and has subsequently been displayed in Burkina Faso, Canada, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania.
The exhibit is a production of Aegis Trust for genocide prevention www.aegistrust.org in partnership with the United Nations Department of Public Information (UNDPI) and is part of Lessons from Rwanda: The United Nations and the Prevention of Genocide outreach program.
Migrating Memories, Migrating Arts:
Photographic Retrospective
September 27 – October 25
Schine Student Center, Panasci Lounge
The exhibition celebrates the formative cultural fermentation occurring in the present regional landscape of Central New York. These photographs document Folk Arts: Soul of Syracuse, a series of community-University collaborative programs hosted by the Department of Anthropology in SU’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs with Catholic Charities Refugee Resettlement Services, the Center for New Americans, St. Vincent de Paul Church, and Tabernacle Baptist Church in 2007 and 2008.
Dawn of a New Age: The Immigrant Contribution to
the
Arts in America
September 8 – January 20
Special Collections Research Center
E.S. Bird Library, 6th Floor
This exhibition will introduce selected artists who, after their arrival during the period between the World Wars, created a dynamic vision for a new America. Drawing on the holdings of Syracuse University’s Special Collections Research Center, this exhibit will feature selections from the papers of, among others, William Lescaze, Louis Lozowick, and John Vassos.
Gallery hours for E.S. Bird Library are Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.