Ray Smith Symposium 2024
Rupture, Resistance, and Community: The Crisis of Violence against Women
Symposium Events
Friday, October 18
4-5:30 p.m.
Galleria, Shaffer Art Building
- Reception
Mithila Women Paint Gender-Based Violence in the 21st Century
Syracuse University Art Museum (on display Aug. 22–Dec. 10, 2024)
6-7:30 p.m.
Life Sciences Auditorium (LSB 001)
- Film screening:
Sama in the Forest
2023/Maithili, English with English subtitles/77 mins
Directed by Carlos G. Goméz - Conversation with producer
Coralynn Davis,
Bucknell University (CART provided)
Saturday, October 19
9:15-9:45 a.m.
220 Eggers Hall, Strasser Legacy Room (SLR), Maxwell School
- Continental Breakfast
10-11:30 a.m.
220 Eggers Hall, Maxwell School
- Webinar Panel Discussion
"Why I Paint about Women"
Shalinee Kumari, Mithila artist
Mahalaxmi Karn, Mithila artist
Tula Goenka, Syracuse University
Susan Wadley, Syracuse University
11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
- Exhibition Viewing
Mithila Women Paint Gender-Based Violence in the 21st Century
1:30-3 p.m.
220 Eggers Hall, Maxwell School
- Keynote Address
"Gender-based Violence, Bangladeshi Feminists, and Late 20th Century Transnational Networks"
Elora Shehabuddin, University of California, Berkeley
3-3:30 p.m.
220 Eggers Hall, Maxwell School
- Tea
3:30-5 p.m.
220 Eggers Hall, Maxwell School
- Panel Discussion
"Resistance and Repair: Violence against Women in the United States"
Sujata Warrier, Battered Women's Justice Project
Natasha Senjanovic, Syracuse University
Kamala Ramadoss, Syracuse University
Tiffany Brec, Center for Justice Innovation
Sunday, October 20
9:15-9:45 a.m.
220 Eggers Hall, Strasser Legacy Room (SLR), Maxwell School
- Continental Breakfast
10-11:30 a.m.
220 Eggers Hall, Maxwell School
- Art-Making Workshop
Shalinee Kumari, Mithila artist
Contact
For more information, contact Matthew Baxter at mhbaxter@syr.edu or 315.443.2553.
Presented by the College of Arts and Sciences in collaboration with:
the South Asia Center, Syracuse Symposium, Renée Crown University Honors Program, Lender Center for Social Justice, CODE^SHIFT and the Syracuse University Art Museum’s Fall 2024 exhibit “Women Paint Gender-Based Violence in the 21st Century”.
We acknowledge, with respect, the Onondaga Nation, firekeepers of the Haudenosaunee, the Indigenous people on whose ancestral lands Syracuse University now stands.