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Natural Reasons through Virtue - Hille Paakkunainen (Philosophy)Hille Paakkunainen, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at SU, and a Humanities Center Faculty Fellow for Spring 2024, discusses her book project, "Natural Reasons through Virtue." The…
From Hille Paakkunainen
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Jenn M. Jackson: Making a RevolutionFor decades, much debate has existed about the relative political importance and efficacy of social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook in mobilizing politically disenfranchised and…
From Jenn Jackson
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Cristina E. Pardo Porto, "Seeing Through the Tropics: Photographic Interventions of Caribbean Natural Environments"Professor Cristina E. Pardo Porto describes her project titled "Seeing Through the Tropics," delving into the impact of colonial visual cultures on the evolving social and natural…
From Cristina Pardo Porto
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Theo Cateforis - "Alternative to What?”: Mainstreaming the Margins in 1990s RockAlternative rock arose from the 1980s American underground to become one of the 1990s’s best-selling musical phenomena. However, the music’s move into the mainstream proved to be deeply…
From Theo Cateforis
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Natalie El-Eid, "Transnational Druze and Reincarnation: Remembering, Recording, and Reconnecting"My name is Natalie El-Eid and I am a Ph.D. candidate in the English department at Syracuse University. For the 2022-23 academic year, I have the honor of being a Humanities Center Dissertation…
From Natalie El-Eid
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Books in the Humanities [Copyright years 2019-2020-2021]This digital slide show loops through three sets of "Books in the Humanities" collections, which accompanied our return to 'in-person' celebrating on May 2, 2022, following two…
From Diane Drake
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CNY Humanities Corridor Spring CFP Info Session - Mar. 4, 2022To accompany our Spring Call for Proposals (submissions due March 28, 2022), administrators from the CNY Humanities Corridor welcome interested faculty and academic staff from Corridor institutions…
From Shelby Rodger
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Gareth Fisher, Temples and Teahouses: Buddhism and Secularity in Xi Jinping's ChinaThis short presentation explores the evolution of secularization in China by introducing an ethnographic study of four Buddhist temples and two teahouses.
From Gareth Fisher
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Community Dynamics in Contested Space: Documenting the Legacies of the Fifteenth Ward in Syracuse, NYThe destruction of Syracuse’s Fifteenth Ward persists in the living memory of many residents today. Through my Humanities New York Public Fellowship, I am working to create an interactive…
From Dana Olesch
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Garland - Grief and (a Broader) Practical IdentityIt feels like I lost a part of myself” is a widespread expression of grief. It may sound metaphorical, afterall, surely no person is part of another the way a leg is part of a chair, or a…
From Carolyn Garland
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Not Appropriate for Children: Single Mothers in Higher EducationPresentation Script: https://tinyurl.com/HHCDF21Presentation Slides: https://tinyurl.com/HHCDFS21Drawing on survey data from 116 single moms and interviews with 7 of them, this narrative-style…
From Alex Hanson
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Looking Back, Looking Forward: Choices, Careers and Living Black HistoryIn this inaugural event launching P. Gabrielle Foreman's 2021 Jeannette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professorship at the Syracuse University Humanities Center, "#DigBlk: The Art of…
From Lynsey Riffle
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Jim Watts, Imagining the Economics of Jubilee: Utopia Before and After UtopiasWatts’ career-long research on the biblical book of Leviticus now hones in on chapter 25. It contains utopian legislation for resetting agriculture, land transactions, and slavery every 50…
From James Watts
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Agitating, Educating, Organizing: Historicizing Transformative Justice in EducationMaisha T. Winn, 2020 Jeannette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities, explores how the Black Arts Movement and Independent Black Institutions (IBIs) cultivated and celebrated…
From Vivian May
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Will Scheibel, "Gene Tierney: 'The Girl in the Portrait'"This video offers a short introduction to my current book project, Out of a Misty Dream: Gene Tierney, Female Stardom, and Hollywood's Homefront, which I am completing as a 2021 SU Humanities…
From Will Scheibel
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