September
SAMUEL CLEMENCE
Civil Engineer and Author
GARY RADKE
Medieval and Renaissance Scholar
Will present Leonardo da Vinci: Artist and Engineer
Tuesday, September 9
7:30 p.m., Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Co-sponsor: Tolley Professorship in the Humanities
Paula Luttringer
Argentinean photographer, memorialist of violence
Margarita Drago
Argentinean memoirist and author of Memory Tracks: Fragments from
Prison (1975-1980)
Tuesday, September 16
6:00 p.m., Watson Auditorium
Co-sponsors: Light Work and Latino-Latin American Studies Program
Ishmael Beah
Human rights activist and author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Tuesday, September 23
7:30 p.m., Hendricks Chapel
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier is the selection for the Fall 2008 Syracuse University
Shared Reading Program.
Co-sponsor: University Lectures
Presented in cooperation with the Laura Hanhausen Milton First-Year Lecture.
Lynn Margulis
Internationally celebrated evolutionary biologist and author
Thursday, September 25
4 p.m., Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, E.S. Bird Library
Presented in cooperation with The Kameshwar C. Wali Lecture.
OCTOBER
Ping Chong
Critically acclaimed theatre director and installation artist
Monday, October 6
7:30 p.m, Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse III
Presented in cooperation with the world premiere of Ping Chong’s
Tales from the Salt City at Syracuse Stage, October 14 – November 2.
Adrian Tomine
Cartoonist, Illustrator, Graphic Novelist, and Author of the mini-comic Optic Nerve
Thursday, October 16
7:30 p.m., Watson Auditorium
Co-sponsors: The Soling Program and U.Encounter
Marcelo Suárez-Orozco
Immigration and globalization specialist, co-director of Immigration Studies,
New York University
Tuesday, October 28
7:30 p.m., Hendricks Chapel
Co-sponsors: RenÉe Crown University Honors Program and THE KALEIDOSCOPE PROJECT
NOVEMBER
Spencer Wells
Geneticist, Anthropologist, and director of the Genographic Project at
National Geographic
Thursday, November 6
7:30 p.m., Life Sciences Complex Auditorium
Co-sponsors: Department of Biology, U.Encounter and THE KALEIDOSCOPE PROJECT
Chris Scholz presents The Environmental Background of Our Early Ancestors: East African Mega Droughts and the Migrations of Early
Modern Humans
Syracuse University earth sciences professor
Wednesday, Nov. 12
4 p.m., Life Sciences Complex Lundgren Room (Room 106)
All events are free and open to the public
Syracuse Symposium™ is hosted for Syracuse University by The College of Arts and Sciences
PERFORMANCES
From Sonnets to Spirituals
Featuring award-wining soprano Anita Johnson, who will present a program of vocal gems—settings of Michelangelo sonnets followed by heartwarming spirituals.
Sunday, September 21
2 p.m., Hendricks Chapel
The concert is a joint presentation of the Malmgren Concert Series, PULSE, Syracuse Symposium™, and The College of Arts and Sciences in collaboration with the Office of Alumni Relations and is part of Rethinking Michelangelo: A Series of Lectures, Concerts, and Special Events that complement Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth, an unprecedented exhibition at the SUArt Galleries August 12 to October 19.
Folk Arts: Soul of Syracuse
Music, dance, and traditional arts by community members
Saturday, October 4 and Saturday, October 25
2 to 4 p.m., Schine Student Center, Panasci Lounge
The performances complement the exhibition, Migrating Memories, Migrating Arts: Photographic Retrospective, and are part of the Soul of Syracuse Folk Arts Series, funded by the New York State Council on the Arts and the Chancellor’s Office.
Adventures in Great Music
The Syracuse Symphony Orchestra performs Haydn, Copland, Bernstein, and Larsen,
Daniel Hege, conductor
Monday, October 13
8 p.m., Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
The concert will feature critically acclaimed soloist Eileen Strempel and will include a performance of Libby Larsen’s This Unbearable Stillness: Songs from the Balcony, and four songs for soprano and string quartet adapted from the work of Arab poets Dima Hilal and Sakeena Shaben.
Co-sponsor: PULSE
