Community Calendar

Join FOCUS Greater Syracuse, Inc. for our October 24th FOCUS Forum. This hybrid forum will feature a presentation from Joe Heath, Onondaga Nation General Counsel and Adjunct Professor at Cornell Law School, as he delves into the ongoing legal efforts to reclaim ancestral lands. This presentation will explore the historical context of the Onondaga Nation's Land Rights Act, the legal challenges faced in U.S. courts, and the role of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in advancing the Nation's case.

SUNY Oswego's Living Writers Series is back again this year! Join the English and Creative Writing Department to hear from author Shannon Luders-Manuel on Monday, October 27, from 3 - 4:20 p.m. This is a virtual event.

Shannon Luders-Manuel’s critically acclaimed memoir, "The One Who Loves You: A Memoir of Growing Up Biracial in a Black and White World," explores identity, race, and belonging with honesty and nuance. Her essays and cultural criticism have appeared in publications including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, and JSTOR Daily. In addition to her writing, Luders-Manuel works as an editor and sensitivity reader.

"The One Who Loves You" is a coming-of-age memoir about the search for home for a young girl who doesn't fit into the binary of Black or white or the permanency of a steady family unit. The book explores both the unique experience of growing up mixed race and the universality of looking for a place to belong. The quest for an elusive idea of home propels young Luders-Manuel throughout the narrative--in the spaces of religion, friendships, and relationships--ultimately causing us to ask ourselves if finding home is the lighthouse beacon we need for safety and happiness, or if it's something shining inside us.

Michael Pittavino, curator of the H. Lee White Maritime Museum, will present a virtual historic tour of the Oswego West Pierhead Lighthouse, offering insight into the significant events and individuals that have shaped our understanding of this National Register of Historic Places site. Peter Cardone will talk about his photography series at the Lighthouse, which is on view in All That Remains, and how his research led him to this location.

All That Remains features artwork by two SUNY Oswego art faculty members, Peter Cardone and Christopher McEvoy. While each artist explores themes of slippage, memories, and the push pull of reality, their artworks engage these concepts in very different ways.

Using the title All that Remains as a jumping-off point, poets will reflect on the constant work of assembling coherence from fragments. Following the recitation, Christopher McEvoy will talk about his painting practice and how he assembles meaning using visual fragments.

All That Remains features artwork by two SUNY Oswego art faculty members, Peter Cardone and Christopher McEvoy. While each artist explores themes of slippage, memories, and the push-pull of reality, their artworks engage these concepts in very different ways.

About the Artists
Cardone’s photographic series depicts the Lighthouse at the H. Lee Maritime Museum and scenes of Lake Ontario. The images of the Lighthouse are devoid of people or living things. They feature liminal interior spaces with views of the lake shown through another frame, such as a door or a window. Other works look down on the water from a higher vantage point, framing the view with bits of roof, gutter, and railings. Cardone says, “The photographs simultaneously generate feelings of presence and absence. Standing by the water, I feel grounded in a particular place and time. Yet, as I look out, I am untethered from the present, tracing the water’s path to memories of other lakes, oceans, places, and people.”

Christopher McEvoy’s abstracted paintings inhabit the gap between perception and imagination. His large paintings are heavily layered with organic and geometric components. These forms overlap, fuse, and create a conflicting linear perspective. This evokes a feeling of falling apart and coming together simultaneously. McEvoy says, “These aren't paintings about confusion but consciousness. In fractured moments and invented landscapes, I witness my own daily negotiations with meaning—the constant work of assembling coherence from fragments.”

Tuesdays; August 5 and 19, September 2 and 16, starts at 5 p.m, ends by 7 p.m., held online

Breast cancer survivorship focuses on a person’s well-being after they complete treatment. This four-part series will address a variety of topics for survivors, including intimacy, long-term and late-term side effects, early menopause and self-care. The target audience for this series is for women with breast cancer, or who have completed treatment for breast cancer, who are under age 49.

Experts: Susan Tiffany, BSN, RN, OCN, Survivorship Navigator and Maureen Garvey, BSN, RNC, Patient Navigator, Breast Cancer Program, Upstate Cancer Center

Moderated by SUNY Oswego Director of Arts Programming, Lowell Hutcheson, this upcoming Civic Discourse Series discussion on Arts, Culture and American Democracy features panelists Davana Robedee (Director of Tyler Art Gallery), Laura Donnelly (Professor and Chair, Department of English and Creative Writing), Danielle Hodgins (Assistant Professor, Theatre Department), and Michael Raicht (Assistant Professor, Department of English and Creative Writing). The group will discuss the role of the arts in shaping, critiquing and influencing American culture and politics, as well as the state of the arts in the current political climate.

This conversation will be offered both in person and via Zoom.

For Zoom information, please visit https://calendar.oswego.edu/event/arts-culture-and-american-democracy

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Looking for your next great read? Mark your calendars for our 2025 Author Expo on Saturday, November 1, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Cayuga Museum Carriage House Theater, 203 Genesee Street, Auburn, NY.

This year’s theme: Mystery Loves Company.
Get a behind-the-scenes look into the world of romance and mystery writing with two panel discussions featuring authors from all over New York! Panels will be followed by an audience Q&A. Authors will be signing and selling copies of their books, and refreshments will be provided.

Tickets are $10.00 in advance and $15.00 the day of the event and will be available online (PayPal) and at Seymour Library starting September 22.

Proceeds from this year’s event will go directly to support Seymour Library’s programs and services.

SUNY Oswego's Living Writers Series is back again this year! Join the English and Creative Writing Department to hear from author Shana Youngdahl on Monday, November 3, from 3 - 4:20 p.m.

Shana Youngdahl’s novel "A Catalog of Burnt Objects" received a starred review from Kirkus. Her debut novel, "As Many Nows as I Can Get," was selected as a New York Public Library Top Ten Best Book of the Year, a Seventeen Best Book of the Year, and a Kirkus Best Book of the Year. She is the author of two books of poetry and the chapbook Winter/Windows. She is currently an Associate Professor in the MFA Writing Program at Lindenwood University.

Hamilton College’s Common Ground program features the co-authors of "After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency" in a discussion about “The Power, Responsibility, and Limitations of the Presidency."

Bob Bauer, a professor of practice and distinguished scholar in residence at the New York University School of Law, and Jack Goldsmith, the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University, will discuss the power, responsibility, and limitations of the presidency. The event will be moderated by Hamilton alumnus Michael Grygiel, who co-chairs Greenberg Traurig, LLP’s National Media and Entertainment Litigation Group.

Bauer served as White House Counsel to President Obama from 2009 to 2011. In 2013, the President named him to be co-chair of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration. In 2021, President Biden named him to be co-chair of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States.

Goldsmith served as Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, from October 2003 through July 2004, and Special Counsel to the General Counsel for the Department of Defense from September 2002 through June 2003 during the George W. Bush administration.

Bauer and Goldsmith run a Substack called Executive Functions that decodes controversies of the day.

Common Ground is Hamilton’s multi-format program that helps prepare students for active citizenship. Designed to explore cross-boundary political thought and complex social issues, Common Ground brings respected thought leaders to Hamilton to participate in small classroom dialogues and large event discussions.

The program is free and open to the public. Parking is available in lots on College Hill Road.

Learn about common hand and wrist conditions and the surgical treatment options. Dr. Mohammad will discuss several surgical procedures, including hand and wrist microsurgery, and will include what is expected during recovery and rehab, as well as long-term expectations. Also discussed will be preventative measures to reduce pain or malfunction of the hands and wrist, along with future research and advancements in treatments/prevention.

Expert: Saeed Mohammad, MD, Surgeon, Upstate Orthopedics, Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Upstate Medical University

Thursday, November 6 @ 6 PM, Online