Syracuse Symposium Events

FALL 2023 - JOIN US FOR THESE FREE EVENTS

ART EXHIBIT

A painting with a blue ocean and orange sky and sun 3 birds fly

Time: Sept. 13, 2023, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Location: Syracuse Stage, Main Lobby, 820 E. Genesee St.

Part of the Syracuse Symposium series.

Syracuse Stage showcases artwork created by North Side Learning Center and La Casita Cultural Center’s community members, visually interpreting their future.

Visitors to this opening-day exhibit are invited to stay to attend the first performance of What the Constitution Means to Me, by Heidi Schreck. Tickets will be available for whatever price patrons wish to pay through Syracuse Stage's M&T Bank-sponsored “Pay-What-You-Will” program.

Collage with brightly colored text cut from magazines and mixed media paints
Childlike painting of a house with an arrow to a realistic magazine collage of a modern home
Collage of a picture of Founding Fathers against brown paint
Brightly colored flowers and a tree painted with blue sky

PANEL DISCUSSION

Time: Sept. 18, 2023, 7 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Location: Syracuse Stage Archbold Theater, 820 E. Genesee St.

Part of the Syracuse Symposium series.

In conjunction with Syracuse Stage’s production of Heidi Schreck’s
What the Constitution Means to Me, a panel of scholars takes a deeper dive into the landscape of the Constitution and how it will shape the next generation of Americans.

PANELISTS:

  • Suzette Meléndez

    PANEL MODERATOR

    Faculty Fellow for the Office of Strategic Initiatives in Academic Affairs and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Teaching Professor

    Syracuse University College of Law

  • Keith J. Bybee

    Vice Dean Syracuse University College of Law

    Professor, Political Science Department Syracuse University Maxwell School

  • Christopher Faricy

    Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Political Science Department

    Syracuse University Maxwell School

  • Lauryn Gouldin

    Laura J. & L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence 2022-2025

    Syracuse University College of Law

  • Paula C. Johnson

    Professor of Law, Director, Cold Case Justice Initiative

    Syracuse University College of Law

  • Melissa Crespo

    Associate Artistic Director

    Syracuse Stage

SUGGESTED READING LIST:

Articles

Books

  • The Bill of Obligations by Richard Haas 

  • Constitutional Faith by Sanford Levinson 

  • Dahl, R. A. (2008). Democracy and its Critics. Yale university press.

  • Levitsky, S., & Ziblatt, D. (2019). How Democracies Die. Crown.

  • Rothstein, R. (2017). The color of law: A forgotten history of how our government segregated America. Liveright Publishing.

  • The U.S. Constitution in Five Minutes, Joseph Smith and David Klein, eds.

  • Your Rugged Constitution by Bruce Allyn & Ester Blair Findlay

  • Rosalind Rosenberg, Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray (Oxford University Press, 2017)

  • Tomiko Brown-Nagin, The Legal Mind of Constance Baker Motley (Pantheon Books/Random House, 2022)

  •  George B. Daniels, Rachel Pereira, Equal Protection as a Vehicle for Equal Access and

    Opportunity:  Constance Baker Motley and the Fourteenth Amendment Education Cases, 117

    Columbia Law Review 1779-1802 (2017)

  • Mark Tushnet, Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961 (Oxford University Press, 1994)

  • Mark Tushnet, Making Constitutional Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1961-1991 (Oxford University Press, 1997)

Podcasts

  • NPR Throughline episode about the play -

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/11/1098388349/the-shadows-of-the-constitution-2020 

  • NPR Throughline episode about the history of the Supreme Court -

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/22/1039822099/the-supreme-court-2020 

  • More Perfect: Bringing the highest court in the land down to earth -

https://www.npr.org/podcasts/481105292/more-perfect