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LONG BEFORE THE INFORMATION AGE, NETWORKS HAVE SHAPED IMAGINATIONS, SOCIAL RELATIONS, AND SYSTEMS OF POWER.Proliferating digital and social media across local and global contexts illustrates networks’ broad relevance.
They also make it necessary to think through conventional ideas about authorship, power, privacy, collective
action, and cultural production.
Networks are not just a recent phenomenon: moreover, networks have many different meanings. Networks
signify af � liations, arrangements, connections, and histories; they can facilitate interdependence but also
exclude. In terms of knowledge, power, communication, cultural production, and collaboration, networks may
be “horizontal” or may reinforce hierarchy and inequality.
This Fall, Syracuse Symposium™ explores networks’ diverse meanings, possibilities, and histories. What
alternative ways of thinking do networks make possible (and what do they foreclose)? Do networks offer new
opportunities for collective action, different means of artistic collaboration, or alternative paths to knowing?
How can we think about networks and networked cultures without reducing them to a single, undifferentiated
mass of nodes? Join us in exploring these questions and more in our engaging lineup of events!
IMAGINATIONS, SOCIAL RELATIONS, AND SYSTEMS OF POWER.Proliferating digital and social media across local and global contexts illustrates networks’ broad relevance.
They also make it necessary to think through conventional ideas about authorship, power, privacy, collective
LONG BEFORE THE INFORMATION AGE, NETWORKS HAVE SHAPED IMAGINATIONS, SOCIAL RELATIONS, AND SYSTEMS OF POWER.LONG BEFORE THE INFORMATION AGE, NETWORKS HAVE SHAPED IMAGINATIONS, SOCIAL RELATIONS, AND SYSTEMS OF POWER.Proliferating digital and social media across local and global contexts illustrates networks’ broad relevance.
LONG BEFORE THE INFORMATION AGE, NETWORKS HAVE SHAPED IMAGINATIONS, SOCIAL RELATIONS, AND SYSTEMS OF POWER.Proliferating digital and social media across local and global contexts illustrates networks’ broad relevance.
They also make it necessary to think through conventional ideas about authorship, power, privacy, collective
Networks are not just a recent phenomenon: moreover, networks have many different meanings. Networks
signify af � liations, arrangements, connections, and histories; they can facilitate interdependence but also
exclude. In terms of knowledge, power, communication, cultural production, and collaboration, networks may
IMAGINATIONS, SOCIAL RELATIONS, AND SYSTEMS OF POWER.Proliferating digital and social media across local and global contexts illustrates networks’ broad relevance.
They also make it necessary to think through conventional ideas about authorship, power, privacy, collective
LONG BEFORE THE INFORMATION AGE, NETWORKS HAVE SHAPED IMAGINATIONS, SOCIAL RELATIONS, AND SYSTEMS OF POWER.LONG BEFORE THE INFORMATION AGE, NETWORKS HAVE SHAPED IMAGINATIONS, SOCIAL RELATIONS, AND SYSTEMS OF POWER.Proliferating digital and social media across local and global contexts illustrates networks’ broad relevance.
IMAGINATIONS, SOCIAL RELATIONS, AND SYSTEMS OF POWER.IMAGINATIONS, SOCIAL RELATIONS, AND SYSTEMS OF POWER.IMAGINATIONS, SOCIAL RELATIONS, AND SYSTEMS OF POWER.Proliferating digital and social media across local and global contexts illustrates networks’ broad relevance.
They also make it necessary to think through conventional ideas about authorship, power, privacy, collective
LONG BEFORE THE INFORMATION AGE, NETWORKS HAVE SHAPED IMAGINATIONS, SOCIAL RELATIONS, AND SYSTEMS OF POWER.LONG BEFORE THE INFORMATION AGE, NETWORKS HAVE SHAPED IMAGINATIONS, SOCIAL RELATIONS, AND SYSTEMS OF POWER.LONG BEFORE THE INFORMATION AGE, NETWORKS HAVE SHAPED
SEPTEMBER09.106:30 PM
BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE PRACTICE: THE CREATIVE CAPITAL APPROACHRUBY LERNER, PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CREATIVE CAPITAL | WATSON THEATERRuby Lerner is the founding President and Executive Director of Creative Capital, a non-pro� t that supports innovative and adventurous artists in � ve disciplines: visual art, performing arts, emerging � elds, � lm/video and literature.
09.175:00 PM
NETWORKS AND DIGITAL HUMANITIES: SIX DEGREES OF FRANCIS BACONCHRIS WARREN (CARNEGIE MELLON) & DANIEL SHORE (GEORGETOWN) | PETER GRAHAM SCHOLARLY COMMONS, BIRD LIBRARYSix Degrees of Francis Bacon is a collaborative digital project that attempts to reconstruct the Early Modern Social Network based on the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and other sources. The project, launched in 2012 with the support of a Google Faculty Research Award, aims to enable scholars and students to “collaboratively expand, revise, curate, and critique” the social network.
09.244:00 PM
LEVERAGING COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE TO ADDRESS GRAND SOCIETAL CHALLENGES: KAMESHWAR C. WALI LECTURE IN THE SCIENCES & HUMANITIESNOSHIR CONTRACTOR (NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY) | STRASSER ROOM, EGGERS HALL Drawing on his research in the area of networks, Noshir Contractor argues why computational social science is the foundation on which to unleash intellectual insights locked in big data. He will also illustrate how these insights offer social scientists, in general, and social network scholars, in particular, an unprecedented opportunity to engage more actively in monitoring, anticipating, and designing interventions to address grand societal challenges.
09.24-09.26SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVALPERFORMANCE TIMES & VENUES VARY Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival celebrates its 13th year by showcasing groundbreaking documentaries and � ction � lms about human rights and social justice struggles around the world. The three-day festival opens with (T)error (Lyric Cabral and David Sutcliffe, 2014), the � rst documentary to place � lmmakers on the ground during an active FBI counterterrorism sting operation. Visit SUHRFF.syr.edu.
OCTOBER 10.137:30 PM
SOCIAL INEQUALITY: THE HOW, WHY AND WHAT TO DO?UNIVERSITY LECTURES: CHARLES BLOW & ROSS DOUTHAT | HENDRICKS CHAPELCharles Blow (visual op-ed columnist for the New York Times and regular contributor to CNN) and Ross Douthat (blogger and op-ed columnist for the New York Times) engage in a lively discussion about social inequality from their distinctly different political perspectives.
10.157:30 PM
INSURRECTIONIST CIVICS & DIGITAL ACTIVISM IN AN AGE OF MISTRUSTKEYNOTE: ETHAN ZUCKERMAN (MIT) | WATSON THEATERToday, we � nd a deepening skepticism of institutions of power in the U.S. Yet, despite this mistrust, activists and civic actors are devising networked approaches to activism to challenge longstanding patterns of inequality: their techniques include contesting biases in existing institutions and replacing institutions with distributed networks of power.
10.227:00 PM
THE ROSENQUIST NETWORK: COLLABORATION AND CONNECTIONS IN THE AMERICAN PRINT WORKSHOPPANEL DISCUSSION | SLOCUM AUDITORIUMThis panel assembles some of the most in� uential print publishers and scholars to explore the role of the printmaking workshop in the career of artist James Rosenquist. Presented in conjunction with James Rosenquist: Illustrious Work on Paper, Illuminating Paintings at the SUArt Galleries, August 20 – November 22.
10.21-11.08 SYRACUSE STAGE: THE UNDERPANTSPERFORMANCE TIMES VARY | ARCHIBOLD THEATER, SYRACUSE STAGEA guffaw-inducing comedy from Steve Martin. Dusseldorf, 1910. A public wardrobe malfunction (a young woman’s underpants fall down at a parade — for the King!) becomes the talk of the town in this ribald update of a German farce. Chock-full of sexual innuendo, verbal jousting, and non-stop laughter, The Underpants skewers the absurdity of instant fame.
10.253:30 PM
GLAMOUR & DAMAGE: WOMEN, SCANDAL, & SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKSSYMPOSIUM PANEL FOLLOWING 2 PM MATINEE PERFORMANCE | SUTTON PAVILION, SYRACUSE STAGEHow have social networks of communication — from gossip in the early 20th century to today’s social media network — characterized, victimized, shamed, sensualized and/or sensationalized images, ideas and behaviors of women associated with incidents of so-called scandal? What gender biases are at work in our media-saturated society?
NOVEMBER & DECEMBER11.037:30 PM
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING: CAPITALISM VS. THE CLIMATEUNIVERSITY LECTURES: NAOMI KLEIN | HENDRICKS CHAPELIn her most recent book, 2014’s This Changes Everything, Klein (journalist, syndicated columnist, and author of the 2007 international bestseller The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism) argues that climate change isn’t just another issue to be neatly � led between taxes and health care.
11.057:00 PM
SOCIETY, POLITICS, POETRY: A READING BY POETSMARTHA COLLINS & MINNIE BRUCE PRATT | THE YMCA’S DOWNTOWN WRITERS CENTER, 340 MONTGOMERY STREET, SYRACUSEPoets Minnie Bruce Pratt and Martha Collins have long addressed social Injustice through their work, � nding unique stories and forms to explore the fraught edges of our neighborhoods, cities, economies, and justice systems.
11.087:30 PM
NETWORKED ARTS: MUSIC, DANCE, PAINTING, VISUALS (SOCIETY FOR NEW MUSIC)COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE | JOYCE HERGENHAN AUDITORIUM AT NEWHOUSE 3This site-networked performance of new music for acoustic instruments with computer performed at Syracuse University will interact with live dance at Cornell, and live ink painting and erhu performance at the Central Conservatory in Beijing.
11.126:30 PM
WE WERE NEVER HUMANFILM SCREENING & CONVERSATION WITH THE OTOLITH GROUP AT UVP | EVERSON MUSEUM OF ARTAnjalika Sagar, co-founder of The Otolith Group, will discuss their research-based � lmmaking and curatorial practice, including the piece, Anathema, on view outside at Urban Video Project (UVP).
11.176:00 PM
MATRIX, MESHWORK, MOIRÉ: PATTERNS IN AMERICAN PRINTJENNIFER ROBERTS (HARVARD UNIVERSITY) | PETER GRAHAM SCHOLARLY COMMONS, BIRD LIBRARYJennifer Roberts investigates a key question that lies at the intersection of network studies and print studies: how might we de� ne the relationship between the social networks that replicated images enable, and the physical networks that enable those images to be replicated in the � rst place?
11.185:00 PM
NETWORKS AND DIGITAL HUMANITIES: OTHER NETWORKSLORI EMERSON (UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO) | PETER GRAHAM SCHOLARLY COMMONS, BIRD LIBRARYLori Emerson is currently writing Other Networks, a history of telecommunications networks that existed before or outside of the Internet.
12.013:30 PM
NETWORKED ETHICS AFTER FACEBOOK’S EMOTIONAL CONTAGION EXPERIMENTEVAN SELINGER (SENIOR FELLOW, FUTURE OF PRIVACY FORUM) | KILIAN ROOM, 500 HALL OF LANGUAGESProfessor Evan Selinger delivers a lecture on the key ethical challenges facing networked culture. While the controversy surrounding Facebook’s experiment on emotional contagion has died down, it’s crucial to examine that controversy in detail, and how it relates to broader, ongoing trends.
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Networks and Digital Hum
anities: Six Degrees of Francis BaconC
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Scholarly C
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Leveraging Computational Social Science
to Address Grand Societal ChallengesK
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Septem
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Syracuse University Human Rights Film
FestivalP
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Social Inequality: The How, W
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. Hendricks C
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Insurrectionist Civics & Digital Activism in an Age of M
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October 15, 7:30 p.m
. Watson Theater
The Rosenquist Network:
Collaboration and Connections in the American Print W
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October 22, 7:00 p.m
. Slocum
Auditorium
Syracuse Stage: The UnderpantsP
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October 21—
Novem
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Glamour and Dam
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October 25, 3:30 p.m
. Sutton P
avilion, Syracuse S
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Clim
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Novem
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endricks Chapel
Society, Politics, Poetry: A Reading by Poets M
AR
THA
CO
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& M
INN
IE B
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CE
PR
ATT
Novem
ber 5, 7:00 p.m. Y
MC
A’s Dow
ntown W
riters Center
Networked Arts: M
usic, Dance, Painting, Visuals (Society for New
Music)
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BO
RATIV
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FOR
MA
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Novem
ber 8, 7:30 p.m. Joyce H
ergenhan Auditorium
, New
house 3
We W
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FILM S
CR
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CO
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LITH G
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Novem
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osmer A
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useum of A
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Matrix, M
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oiré: Patterns in American Print
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Novem
ber 17, 6:00 p.m. P
eter Graham
Scholarly C
omm
ons, B
ird Library
Networks and Digital Hum
anities: Other Networks
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Novem
ber 18, 5:00 p.m. P
eter Graham
Scholarly C
omm
ons, B
ird Library
Networked Ethics After Facebook’s Em
otional Contagion Experim
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Decem
ber 1, 3:30 p.m. K
ilian Room
, 500 Hall of Languages
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