2010 WORKING GROUPS & PROJECTS
PHI3: Upstate NY Early Modern Workshop and Speaker Series March 6, 2010: Upstate NY Early Modern Workshop and Speaker Series: Descartes Day: A Cartesian Colloquium, (Organizers: Kara Richardson, Philosophy, SU and Andrew Chignell, Philosophy, CU) Syracuse University. ‘A Cartesian Colloquium’ focused on recent work on Descartes’ metaphysics and philosophy of mind. It featured a keynote address by Raffaella De Rosa of Rutgers University, as well as papers by Shoshana Brassfield, Colin McLear of Cornell University, and Kurt Smith of Bloomsburg University. Benjamin Hill of the University of Western Ontario, Kris McDaniel of Syracuse University, Sydney Penner of Cornell University and Kimberly Blessing of Buffalo State were our commentators. The workshop was held on March 6 at Syracuse University. The event attracted about twenty-five participants from the upstate/central region. view website alternate link
LINGUISTICS [LIN]:
LIN 4: State of the Art Workshop (Organizer: Jaklin Kornfilt, Linguistic, SU) — The workshop at Syracuse University will focus on the interfaces between syntax, semantics, and phonology. Visiting scholars and local faculty in the three corridor institutions will serve as discussants.
INTERFACE OF HUMANITIES AND SCIENCES/TECHNOLOGY [HST]:
HST2: Mellon CNY Digital Humanities Corridor Series (Organizers: Timothy Murray, Humanities, CU, Thomas DiPiero, Art and Art History, UR, Gregg Lambert, Humanities, SU) — Research initiative that attempts to build capacity and provide technical support for developing virtual and interdisciplinary humanities projects, including distance initiatives for Mellon CNY Humanities Corridor events between the three research institutions (SU, Cornell, and University of Rochester). Spring lecture series at Cornell planned (see Society of Humanities website).
HST 3: October 1, 2010: Digital Witness: A Symposium on Human Rights in the Era of Media Convergence (Organized by Roger Hallas and Tula Goenka), Syracuse University
This symposium will bring three internationally recognized experts in the field of human rights media to Syracuse to discuss the ongoing innovations and futures implications of this increasing turn to new media by human rights activism and extend the Human Rights Film Festival into vital new areas of human rights media. The participants are Mallika Dutt (Breakthrough), Sam Gregory (WITNESS), and Fred Ritchin (NYU) who are both media professionals and scholars.
VISUAL ARTS AND CULTURES [VAC]:
VAC 7: Graduate Student Forum Imagining America (IA) SU Humanities Center Graduate Student Forum on Publicly Engaged Scholarship (Organizer: Kevin Bott, SU-Imagining America) — Organized in partnership with Imagining America and The SU Graduate School, a graduate student conference on publically engaged scholarship will take place on SU campus end of spring semester 2010 and will include participation of graduate students and faculty from the CNY Humanities Corridor institutions. view website
VAC 9: May 2010: Subvention Funding for Sighting Memory: Rhetoric, Remembrance, and Visual Form [summary publication project] (Organizer: Anne Demo) In October 2008, the Visual Culture Cluster of the Mellon Central New York Humanities Corridor held the Visible Memories Conference, which featured three plenary sessions, a film screening, keynote lecture, graduate seminar, and over twenty-two competitive panels with eighty-two presenters. Based on the conference’s success, Anne Demo and Brad Vivian (conference organizers) put together an edited volume based on the strongest submissions from the interdisciplinary conference. In May 2010they submitted the manuscript to University of Illinois Press, which has requested exclusive review. Because the volume will feature more than 50 images, subvention funding was approved to offset the reproduction costs.
MUSICOLOGY/MUSIC HISTORY [MMH]:
MMH 4: Brave New Works: Musicology/Music History Performance (Organizer: Andrew Waggoner, Music, Syracuse University) — Initiative to bring Brave New Works to Upstate New York to present four concerts over a five day residency period and teach master-classes to students, particularly – as a large, conducted ensemble – in the preparation and direction of large-scale chamber works. In addition, one student work and one faculty work will be presented from each of the corridor institutions. view website
MMH 5: “Sampling the Past,” Syracuse University Lubin House (Organizer: Sean Quimby, E.S. Bird Library, SU) — symposium on historical recorded sound collections, sampling, and copyright involving recording artists together with industry representatives and academic copyright experts to discuss the theory, legality, and mechanics of musical sampling Key-note lecture by senior Copyright Counsel at Google, Inc. William Patry. view website
MMH8: September 14-15, 2010: Music of Conflict and Reconciliation: Power and Resistance in the Second World War (Organizer: Stephen Meyer, SU)--As part of the larger symposium entitled Music of Conflict and Reconciliation, the musicologists in the Department of Art and Music Histories, in collaboration with the Eastman School of Music and Cornell University, will be hosting a cluster of events on the topic of music in World War II on September 14–15, 2010. This two-day symposium will include invited speakers, respondents drawn from the three Mellon Humanities Corridor institutions, a seminar for faculty and graduate students, and musical performances.
CULTURES AND RELIGION [CR]
CR3: Summer, 2010: Conference and book project: Islam & International Humanitarian Law (Organizer: William Banks, SU)
The project has two component parts: (1.) a summer Dialogue and Refinement Session for the Cambridge UP book, The Role of Islam in International Humanitarian Law; and (2.) support for Corri Zoli and Marlene Diamond and new technology-sharing initiative for interviewing and data collection between INSCT and SU Humanities Center. The Role of Islam in International Humanitarian Law explores from interdisciplinary perspectives the many ways in which Islam, Islamic jurisprudence, and Islamic approaches to warfare affect international humanitarian law (IHL) today—including the challenges posed by asymmetric warfare to traditional norms governing international conflict.