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The Symposium: Academic Stand Up (Photos courtesy of Mariana Feijo)

Black History Through Comedy at the Symposium: Academic StandUp

NYU alumna Kyle Marian invites black scholars to turn their stories about microaggressive health care, racist museums and woke laws into stand-up comedy for The Symposium’s Blackademia Takeover.
Natalie Doggett, Contributing Writer Feb 13, 2019

The Symposium: Academic StandUp, a monthly stand-up series for research-inspired comedy, welcomed an audience of 116 people on Sunday at Caveat for its Black History Month special,...

Paula Croxson (left) and Erin Barker (right) warm up the crowds before the first set of storytellers.

A Panic Room for the Pedantic

Abe Selby, Contributing Writer Feb 14, 2018
"The first rule of Story Collider is no learning allowed." The troupe, founded in 2010 by physicists Ben Lillie and Brian Wecht, works to to marry scientific discourse with human narratives.

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