Stitching our Stories: Threads of Self, Community, and Future – Part III

January 24, 2026 | 10:00-2pm ET

Location: Onondaga County Central Library, 447 S. Salina St.

Organizers from the College of Arts and Sciences, iSchool, College of Visual and Performing Arts, School of Education, and Hendricks Chapel Quilters continue their series of “sew-in” workshops, celebrating creative expression as refuge. The January session contemplates ideas of community.

OPC Lunch and Learn: Understanding Deaf Culture and Working with the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community: Part 2

January 28, 2026 | 11:45-1pm ET

Location: Schine Student Center, 304

This interactive presentation provides a deeper dive into Mike's Spring 2025 Lunch and Learn. We will explore best practices for working with and understanding Deaf and Hard of Hearing individuals. Attendees will have the unique opportunity to learn directly from Michael Mazzaroppi, a Deaf professional, about effective ways to interact with people experiencing hearing loss. The session will also provide insights into Deaf culture, the Deaf community, and Deaf history. Folks who attended Mike's first Lunch and Learn, as well as those interested in learning more about Deaf and ASL culture, are encouraged to attend (register here).

Is Writing Enough? Creativity, Incarceration, and Trauma

January 29, 2026 | 7-8:30pm ET

Location: Shinder Theater, Downtown YMCA, 340 Montgomery Street (or register for virtual option)

In this public talk hosted by Writing Studies, Rhetoric and Composition, writers Moira Marquis and Johnny Page explore creative self-expression as a path to healing for those who have experienced harm, particularly when that harm is compounded by the criminal legal system.

The Sentences that Create Us

Jan. 30, 2026 | 9:30 a.m. - noon

Location: 304 Tolley Humanities Building

In this workshop facilitated by Johnny Page and Moira Marquis, participants will be guided through writing exercises, interspersed with conversation, designed to help them find their voices and tell their stories.

Space is limited: please register by Jan. 22 -- and note any accessibility accommodation requests.

Restorative Digital Humanities: Oral Histories, Cultural Memory, and Justice-Centered Pedagogy
February 3, 2026 | 7-9pm ET
Location: Virtual
Presented by the National Humanities Center (NHC) and led by Toniesha L. Taylor (Texas Southern University), this webinar delves into the role of digital humanities as a restorative practice, emphasizing Black cultural memory. By focusing on African American oral traditions and storytelling within communities, this session illustrates how educators can turn the classroom into a space for cultural recovery and social justice.

Participants will explore project models that incorporate digital mapping, narrative inquiry, and student-driven research, all aimed at reshaping the humanities curriculum to center on identity, equity, and truth-telling. The session encourages educators to embrace an interdisciplinary, technology-enhanced pedagogy that not only critiques prevailing historical narratives but also creates narratives rooted in the lived experiences of Black individuals.

Scholars to Storytellers: An Introduction to Trade Publishing

February 6, 2026 | 10:00 – 11:30pm ET

Location: Zoom

Have you ever wondered about how trade publishing works, and how it differs from traditional academic publishing? Do you want to learn more about how to write in ways that engage a wider readership? If so, this workshop by John Ghazvinian is for you! Scholars to Storytellers bridges the gap between academic expertise and commercial publishing success. Learn some basics about commercial publishing — its pros and cons, how it differs from academic publishing, and some resources available for scholars interested in making this transition. Bring your questions, as there will be a Q&A at the end of this Zoom workshop.

Visions of Hope: Moving Images by Teens with a Movie Camera

February 7, 2026 | 3:00 – 5:00pm ET

Location: ArtRage Gallery, 505 Hawley Ave

This grand opening gathering celebrates the creativity and vision of young filmmakers from the Teens with a Movie Camera collective. The afternoon features the premiere screening of short films by the teens and officially launches TwMC’s immersive installation VISIONS OF HOPE, which runs through March 21 at the ArtRage Gallery.

Leading with Distinction: Experiential Inquiry Showcase

February 23, 2026 | 3:00 – 4:30pm ET

Location: Schine Student Center, 304

This is the second of two showcases held during the 2025-26 academic year to provide the campus community with the opportunity to come together and explore areas of distinctive excellence and priorities outlined in the University's academic strategic plan, "Leading With Distinction."

Stitching our Stories: Threads of Self, Community, and Future – Part IV

February 28, 2026 | 10:00-2pm ET

Location: Zoom, Register here

Hands-on workshop participants reflect on questions of Imagined Futures: “What do I envision for a more just and liberated future? How can I express those dreams?” (See also Jan. 24 event)

PSC Core Workshop: Feminist Ethnography

March 19, 2026 | 9:30-11:00am ET

Location: 304 Tolley and via Zoom

Led by Engaged Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow, Miryam Nacimento, this workshop introduces participants to feminist methodologies for conducting ethnography in community settings. Drawing on concrete cases from fieldwork experience, we will examine specific practices and the challenges they entail, and reflect on how feminist frameworks can expand collaborative, accountable, and care‑centered research with community partners. The workshop equips participants with tools to (re)evaluate their ethical commitments through a feminist ethic of care—one attentive to research participants and to the well-being and positionality of scholars themselves.

Register here.

Translating Scholarship into Impact: Expanding the Reach of Your Work

March 31, 2026 | 5-6pm ET

Location: 114 Bird Library

This workshop introduces a translational approach that extends scholarly, creative, and teaching work beyond traditional academic circles. In most cases, impact is confined to journal readership, conference attendees, or the students enrolled in a course. By intentionally designing projects that can be adapted for multiple platforms and audiences - academic, professional, and public - faculty can transform a single effort into a series of strategic touchpoints.

Participants will learn how to reconceptualize their work so that one project becomes many opportunities, increasing visibility and amplifying influence. The session will outline practical ways to share research insights, creative outputs, and pedagogical innovations through formats that reach broader communities, ensuring their ideas inform, inspire, and engage far beyond the classroom or disciplinary field. Refreshments will be provided!

Creativity in Translation: Workshop

March 26, 2026 | 12:30-2pm ET

Location: Kilian Room, 500 Hall of Languages

A workshop with Ibtisam Azem, author of The Book of Disappearance, and her translator, Sinan Antoon, explores the creative negotiations involved in translation, facilitated by Sevinç Türkkan (Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition). Laura Fish (Syracuse University Press) discusses the legal and practical aspects of publishing translated work.

BARI Presents: Public Reading Featuring Safia Elhillo

April 10, 2026 | 4:30-6pm ET

Location: Watson Theater

The Black Arab Relationalities Initiative (BARI) features a special event with acclaimed Sudanese American poet and writer Safia Elhillo. Elhillo will be giving a public reading, followed by a discussion and a reception. Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), which received the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and an Arab American Book Award; Girls That Never Die (One World/Random House, 2022); and the novel in verse Home Is Not A Country (Make Me A World/Random House, 2021), which was longlisted for the National Book Award. More information about her work can be found here: https://safia-mafia.com/bio.

Community Art as Environmental Activism

April 14, 2026 | 6:30-8pm

Location: Community Folk Art Center, 805 E. Genessee St.

Partnering with the Environmental Storytelling Series of Central New York, Visiting Watson Professor Linda Infante Lyons talks with Tanisha Jackson (African American Studies & Community Folk Art Center) about how art and storytelling illuminate the relationships between people, land, and memory, emphasizing the role of Black and Indigenous women in environmental resilience and healing.

Digital Humanities Workshop: Creating Mini-Zines for Digital Distribution

April 16, 2026 | 2:30-4pm ET

Location: 046 Bird Library

Join Humanities Librarian Patrick Williams in a workshop exploring the history and future of zines, do-it-yourself publications that connect creators to their communities. We will learn about the history of zines as printed publications, consider their place and role in our current technological ecosystem, and work with tools for creating and sharing zines in both physical and digital environments. Intended audience: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Faculty, Staff.

Eco-Crip: Community Workshop on Stimming and Craft Processes

April 17, 2026 | 12:00-2pm ET

Location: TBD

Artists Alex Dolores Salerno and Francisco echo Eraso demonstrate how sensory processes like fiber-based crafting can connect makers to their larger communities, ecologies, and environments. Hosted by the Center on Disability and Inclusion and the SU Art Museum.

Engaged Humanities Network Community Showcase

May 1, 2026 | TBD

This event celebrates the community-centered work of dozens of projects and courses and over 30 collaborating organizations. We’ll have food and giveaways. All ages are welcome, and the event is free and open to the public.