Coordinated by Syracuse University’s Engaged Humanities Network & SUNY ESF's Writing, Rhetoric, and Communications Program:
This annual series of linked events, programs, workshops, and courses engages the impacts of the climate crisis on central New York and interconnected ecosystems around the world.
Storytellers
Recently Featured Artists
These storytellers embody the ESCNY mission of foregrounding humanistic interpretations
In this interactive fiction reading, National Book Award finalist Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah reads from his debut novel, Chain Gang All-Stars. Chain-Gang All-Stars, a look at the American prison system’s alliance of systemic racism, unchecked capitalism, and mass incarceration, and a clear-eyed reckoning with what freedom in this country really means.
In this interactive film screening, award-winning filmmaker and science communicator Dena Seidel and her students from Rutgers University will showcase a series of short films that focus largely on food systems and the collaborative work of scientists and communities to better understand and improve these systems.
United States Poet Laureate Emeritus Juan Felipe Herrera leads a creative writing workshop for students of all ages. Herrera will discuss how his own poetic work connects with environmental concerns while pointing us toward methods of communal storytelling and repair.
Community gallery
Explore central New York’s vibrant gardens and past ESS events
