Upcoming Events:
We plan to hold a participatory community archiving day in April 2025. Please get in touch with us if you would like to be involved, and stay tuned for further details.
Past Events:
Curators’ Talk
Emmanuel College
Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 5pm
This coincided with the Boston Little Syria exhibition at Emmanuel College’s Cardinal Cushing Library and featured several members of the community discussing objects from its history.
Exhibition Tour & Reception
Grossmann Gallery, Healey Library, UMass Boston
Saturday, April 20, 2024, 12:30-2:30pm
This in-person event coincided with a semester-long exhibition at the University of Massachusetts Boston and featured community members discussing items they had contributed to the exhibition, as well as a curator tour.
“Peddlers, Bootleggers, and Acrobats: An Urban Geography of Boston’s Little Syria“
Emile Bustani Seminar, MIT, Cambridge, MA (Hybrid)
November 7, 2023
This talk will wove together the history of the modern Middle East together and the urban history of Boston to tell the story of the city’s first Arabic-speaking community. As the present Syrian diaspora reaches around the world, the story of Boston’s Little Syria offers a window onto how an earlier wave of migrants shaped the places they landed.
Wandering Boston’s Little Syria
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA (Hybrid)
April 19, 2023
This event featured a multimedia presentation on the neighborhood’s history by project leads Chloe Bordewich and Lydia Harrington, as well as a moderated discussion with panelists who recounted their families’ experiences living in Little Syria earlier and the dispersal of the community into the Boston suburbs. Watch a recording of the event here.