What’s New
TWO EXHIBITIONS:
Central New York's Connection to Struggle for Armenian Independence
"The Syracuse Connection to the Armenian Independence Movement," two exhibitions of historic photos and other archival material, are now on display at Syracuse University through Jan. 16, 2008. The exhibitions are co-sponsored by the 2007 Syracuse Symposium, presented by Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences, and the SU Library.
Mounted in the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC), located on the sixth floor of E.S. Bird Library, and in the Panasci Lounge in the Hildegarde and J. Myer Schine Student Center, the exhibitions were developed from the collections of noted historian, Syracuse native and SU alumnus Robert G. Koolakian.
Koolakian, a 1966 graduate of SU's College of Arts and Sciences, is the author of the forthcoming book "Struggle for Justice: A Story of the American Committee for the Independence of Armenia, 1915-1920," a unique account of the beginning of the American Committee for the Independence of Armenia, as told through the surviving papers of Koolakian's grandfather, George Koolakian, and two of his friends, all accomplished Armenian Americans from Syracuse.
These men served as liaisons between local and national organizations concerned with providing humanitarian aid to the victims of the Armenian massacres in the Ottoman Empire. When in 1915 the massacres escalated into genocide, these organizations, with the support of President Woodrow Wilson, began to focus on Armenian independence. The City of Syracuse, including Syracuse University, was hospitable to Armenian refugees, and many local citizens who had connections with nationally known reformers offered their support to this cause.
Koolakian delivered a lecture on this quest on Nov. 27 at SU.
Gallery hours at the SCRC are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays (excluding holidays). Gallery hours in the Panasci Lounge are 8 a.m.-11:30 p.m. Monday-Friday and 11 a.m.-11:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday (excluding holidays).
NOVEMBER 7th CANCELLATION
GAIL SMALL:
The presentation by Gail Small, founder and director of Native Action, has been cancelled due to a development in a legal case that Native Action is involved in. Small was scheduled to speak on Wednesday, November 7 at 7:30 p.m. in Gifford Auditorium.
NEW FEATURED PANELIST
Supreme Makeover:
Inventing a New Model of Judicial Openness on the High Court
The panel now features Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor and Supreme Court correspondent for Slate.com. Lithwick, one of the leading journalists covering and commenting on the Court and the law, has joined the event to replace ABC News’ Jan Crawford Greenburg, who is unable to travel to Syracuse for the September 18 event because of an unavoidable work obligation in Washington, D.C. Lithwick joins veteran Supreme Court reporter Tony Mauro, and Benjamin Wittes of the Brookings Institution.
Tuesday, September 18
4 p.m., Grant Auditorium
CONFIRMED LOCATION
Carole Boyce Davies, African and African
New World Studies Scholar
“Of Levees and Limits: Black Women, Leadership and Political Power”
Thursday, September 27
5 p.m., Stolkin Auditorium, Physics Building
NEW INFORMATION
5th Annual Human Rights Film Festival
Thursday, October 4 through Saturday, October 6
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Detailed schedule of the screenings and director discussion
Screening Free Speech Film Festival
Friday, October 19 through Sunday, October 21
Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium and Robert Halmi Jr. Screening Room, Newhouse III
Keep it Slick: Infiltrating Capitalism with the Yes Men
November 13 – January 26, 2008
Reception: November 15, 5–8 p.m.
The Warehouse Gallery