Events – Syracuse University Press

Date/Time	Event
03/15/2025 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm	*Adam Saltsman Book Talk at Association for Asian Studies Conference* Hilton Columbus, Columbus OH Adam Saltsman will discuss his recent book Border Humanitarians: Gendered Order and Insecurity on the Thai-Burmese Frontier at the annual Association of Asian Studies Conference.
03/25/2025 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	*The Irish on American Screens and Streams: Matthew Fee lecture at LeMoyne College* Grewen Auditorium, LeMoyne College, Syracuse NY Matthew Fee, author of the forthcoming book Fantastic Spaces: Irish Cinema and the Supernatural, will explore how Ireland’s significant investment in content for streaming services provocatively reframes—yet also often replays—ongoing debates regarding the depiction of Irishness in film and television.
03/27/2025 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Meet the author of Watching TV The Paley Museum, New York NY Meet the authors Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik of Watching TV: American Television Season by Season Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 3:00 pm The Paley Museum, 25 West 52 Street, New York City Learn the secrets of writing and researching television history. Syracuse University Press has just published an updated edition of one of the best books on media history: Watching TV: American Television Season by Season. Authors Walter J. Podrazik, a TV curator at the Chicago Museum of Broadcast Communications, and Harry Castleman, a lawyer and coauthor of eight books with Wally, will explore how they created Watching TV in the eighties and have now brought this detailed, entertaining history of TV up to 2024, surveying how the medium has evolved every year. In addition, Wally and Harry along with Paley TV Curator Ron Simon have chosen rare clips from the Paley Archive to screen, including one of the of the strangest series ever, The Continental, and the Beatles’s first appearance in primetime before the Sullivan show. Free for Paley Members, included in General Admission. Get tickets!
04/17/2025 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	*Mad Scholars Book Talk* Bird Library, Syracuse NY Join coeditors Melanie Jones and Shayda Kafai as they discuss their new book Mad Scholars: Reclaiming and Reimagining the Neurodiverse Academy. They will explore how disabled and neurodiverse scholars’ work is richer because of their differences, not in spite of them, and where higher education could go if Mad scholars were treasured as resources, recognized as assets, and embraced as change-makers. This event is co-sponsored by the Center on Disability and Inclusion.
05/03/2025 8:30 am - 4:00 pm	*New York State Archaeological Association Annual Meeting* Crowne Plaza – Riverside, Niagara Falls, Niagara Falls NY New York State Archaeological Association Annual Meeting