Syracuse Symposium is an intellectual festival celebrating
interdisciplinary thinking, imagining, and creating. Our theme this fall is “humor.” Humor is a crucial dimension of our lives, individual and social, but it is not often the subject of academic conversation. We seek to correct that for our campus. Throughout the semester, we will explore topics such as the role of humor in society; the craft of humor; what’s funny and what’s not and why; what are we allowed to poke fun at and what not and why; cross-cultural perspectives on humor; political cartoons; how humor allows us to express things we otherwise cannot; how humor provokes thinking; humor and diversity — the list of possible subjects to discuss is long, as you can imagine.

>>Enter the Cartoon Contest here!