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Scientific American featured appetite-suppressing research by Rob Doyle (chemistry).
America Magazine profiled Mary Karr, Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of Literature (Creative Writing)
The Chronicle of Higher Education featured an op-ed piece by David Yaffe (English) on 20th-century American poetry
A Success magazine feature on primatologist Jane Goodall extensively quotes Dean Emerita Cathryn R. Newton.
BBC News highlighted research by Jason Fridley (biology) on invasive plants. Science 360 and other media also covered the story
National Public Radio interviewed Dana Spiotta (Creative Writing) about her recent book, Stone Arabia.
Folk arts curator to discuss quilts as visual discourse of conflict, reconciliation and memory Oct. 22
Marsha MacDowell is an expert on the social impact of quilting
The event is organized and presented by The Syracuse University Humanities Center for The College of Arts and Sciences and the campus community. Co-sponsors are the Hendricks Chapel Quilters and the Department of Anthropology.
“We are honored to present Marsha MacDowell, who has more than 30 years’ experience documenting folk and traditional arts as community-based expressive culture,” says Gregg Lambert, Dean’s Professor of the Humanities and founding director of The SU Humanities Center. “She is an accomplished publicly engaged scholar who has increased our understanding of and access to traditional arts material.”
MacDowell’s presentation will cover the production, meaning and use of traditional material culture, particularly among Asian Americans, Native Americans, South Africans and women. In particular, she will examine the social impact of quilting, a sewing method done to join two or more layers of material together to create thick padded material.
“Pieced and patched textiles have long played roles in personal testimonies and public discourse about individual and collective experiences with conflict," says MacDowell, who also serves as curator of folk arts at the MSU Museum and director of the Quilt Index. “My lecture will examine the history and meaning of this aspect of material culture production, and will highlight specific visual examples and their associated stories.”
MacDowell is founding editor of the H-Quilts online discussion forum, a founding board member of The Alliance for American Quilts, past president of The American Quilt Study Group, coordinator of the Michigan Traditional Arts Program (a statewide partnership between the MSU Museum and Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs), a founding faculty member of the Museum Studies Program at MSU, executive board member of the American Folklore Society and a member of the editorial board of the international journal Museum Anthropology.
Her current research projects include South Africa quilt-making; historical and contemporary Great Lakes Native quilting, quillwork and basket-making traditions; the impact of the 1930s-era “The Detroit News Quilt Show” and WWJ radio quilt show on quilt-making in Michigan; the history and meaning of Michigan community history quilts; the development of Native basket-making organizations in the United States; the late 20th-century quilt revival in the United States.
Launched in 2001, Syracuse Symposium has become a fall tradition at SU, drawing thousands of people to free lectures, panel discussions, performances and exhibitions built on annual themes. Past symposia include “Identity,” “Conflict: Peace and War,” “Migration,” “Justice” and “Light.”
The SU Humanities Center, founded in 2008, fosters public engagement in the humanities, and is home to the Central New York Humanities Corridor; the Watson Visiting Collaborator and Jeanette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professorship programs; the HC Mini-Seminar and Syracuse Symposium Seminar series; and other research initiatives, annual fellowships and public programming.
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Upcoming Events
- Music Beyond Borders Call for Volunteers
October 23, 2012 (All Day)We are seeking performers, and design and tech crew members for the 2012 Music Beyond Borders event which will be held in the Schine Underground on Wednesday, November 12, 2012 from 6 to 8 p.m. with a buffet dinner served before the show. We are encouraging all students to apply, including Americans, who we hope will learn to see themselves as part of the international community and consider sharing their artistic expressions in this inclusive campus/community event.
------------------------ - "Arouse the Conscience - The Photography of Alexander Gardner"
October 23, 2012 at 1:00 PMBird Library, Lemke Room
- Physics Colloquia
October 23, 2012 at 3:45 PMPhysics Building Room 202/204
- Chemistry Colloquium
October 23, 2012 at 4:00 PM1-019 CST
- Music Beyond Borders Call for Volunteers
October 24, 2012 (All Day) - Fall 2012 Raymond Carver Reading Series: Horror and Mystery
October 24, 2012 at 5:30 PMHBC Gifford Auditorium
- Music Beyond Borders Call for Volunteers
October 25, 2012 (All Day) - Music Beyond Borders Call for Volunteers
October 26, 2012 (All Day) - Physics Fundamental Theory Seminar
October 26, 2012 at 2:30 PMphysics Building Room 202/204
- Film Forum: Black in Latin America
October 26, 2012 at 5:30 PMLa Casita Cultural Center, 109 Otisco St.
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