Westcott Community Center
Serving the needs of the community

UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORS 2010-2011 LECTURE SERIES PROGRAM

Season Grand Sponsors—Stephanie Miner and John F.X. Mannion

This lecture series, a fundraiser for the Westcott Community Center , has raised over  $18,000 to date. "The lecture series enhances the ability of the Center to provide community programming for the 25,000 people that pass through the Center=s doors,@ says Steve Susman, Executive Director of the WCC. Proceeds from the lecture series have been used to support our youth and senior programs as well as our arts and cultural programming.  We encourage people to come and  meet their neighbors. We welcome people from outside the neighborhood to come and hear the presenters; join us in dialogue and share refreshments after each presentation.


October 7 - Thursday, 7:30 PM   Linda Tunura Barbour  The Sweet and Spicy Road to Healthy Eating (Flyer)

November 4 - Thursday, 7:30 PM  George Saunders A Reading

December 12 - Sunday 3:00 PM Goodwin Cooke Nations and States: problems of ethnicity in international relations

January 30, 2011 - Sunday, 3:00 PM   Roger Hallas  Can Images Bear Witness?: The Visual Culture of AIDS Activism

February 27 - Sunday, 3:00 PM  Andrew Besemer My Old House Love Affair: The joysand struggles of restoring old homes

April 10 - Sunday, 3:00 PM  Sarah Saulson  From Altar Cloths to Lost Socks:  The Fabric of Life

Details

October 7, Thursday, 7:30 PM

Linda Tunura Barbour

THE SWEET AND SPICY ROAD TO HEALTHY EATING

Linda Tunura Barbour has been catering for 18 years.   She converted to Islam in 1970 and her cooking reflects that.  She also makes vegan food, including vegan baked goods.  Her sweet potato pie sells well at her booth at the State Fair.  She works as a Health Consultation for HOME, Inc. (Humanitarian Organization For Multicultural Experiences), teaching healthy lifestyles to people with physical and mental impairments.  Linda, a mother of seven,  taught children how to cook in the afterschool program at the Westcott Community Center in 2004-2005.  She graduated from the Syracuse Entrepreneurs Boot Camp at SU in 2004.   Her talk will be about eating healthy and enjoying it, foods that help you heal , and will include a mini-dessert demonstration.

November 4, Thursday, 7:30 PM

George Saunders

A READING

George Saunders, is the author of six books (including the short story collections “CivilWarLand in Bad Decline,” “Pastoralia,” and “In Persuasion Nation”) and, most recently, the essay collection “The Braindead Megaphone.”  He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, Harper’s, and GQ.  In 2006, he was awarded both a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship. He teaches at Syracuse University.

December 12, Sunday, 3:00 PM

Goodwin Cooke

NATIONS AND STATES:  PROBLEMS OF ETHNICITY IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Goodwin Cooke was born in Paris, France, in 1931, of American parents.  Mr. Cooke graduated from Friends Seminary in New York City, received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Harvard in 1953.  He joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1956, and held a variety of appointments in Embassies in Pakistan, Yugoslavia, Italy, Belgium, Canada, Ivory Coast, and the Central African Republic, where he was U.S. Ambassador. Upon retiring from the Department of State in 1981, he was named Vice resident for International Affairs at Syracuse University. He retired in 2008, but continues to teach as Professor Emeritus in the Maxwell School, and is in demand as a lecturer in the Syracuse community and elsewhere. Ambassador Cooke is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

January 30, 2011, Sunday, 3:00 PM

Roger Hallas

CAN IMAGES BEAR WITNESS?: THE VISUAL CULTURE OF AIDS ACTIVISM

Roger Hallas is Assistant Professor of English at SU, where he teaches film and visual culture, with an emphasis on documentary media. He is author of Reframing Bodies: AIDS, Bearing Witness, and the Queer Moving Image (2009) and co-editor of The Image and the Witness: Trauma, Memory, and Visual Culture (2007). In 2007-08, he programmed a year long series of lectures and screenings on “Queer Visual Culture” for SU’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program. He was also a recipient of the Meredith Teaching Recognition Award in 2008 for excellence in teaching at SU.

February 27, Sunday, 3:00 PM

Andrew Besemer

MY OLD HOUSE LOVE AFFAIR: THE JOYS AND STRUGGLES OF RESTORING OLD HOMES

Andrew Besemer,   a long time resident of the University neighborhood, has restored twenty one homes in Syracuse area and offers a wealth of knowledge on the subject of hands on restoration of vintage homes. A busy local Realtor, active gardener and old house lover, he explains the ups and downs of old house living. His lecture will provide a wonderful opportunity to dialogue with an expert "who has been there."  Andrew's original background is in Horticulture and he maintains a designation with the National Trust for Historic Places.

April 10, Sunday, 3:00

Sarah Saulson

FROM ALTAR CLOTHS TO LOST SOCKS: THE FABRIC OF LIFE

Sarah Saulson, a weaver since childhood,  teaches weaving in the School of Art at SU.   She also works with Syracuse-area elementary-age children teaching them to weave through artist’s residencies and sells her work at Eureka Crafts in Armory Square.  She has maintained an active dyeing and weaving studio near the Westcott Nation for many years.   Her interactive lecture will include spinning and weaving demonstrations and a world tour of weaving through space and time.


Tickets: 6 lecture series subscription: $50 per person, Patron Tickets: (Full series) $75 per person, Individual lecture price : $10 per person.  Student tickets (with ID) $5.