Spring 2025 Calendar of Events -- REMEDIATION
All events are 5:00-6:30 pm in Humanities Rm 1008 unless otherwise noted. Dates and times of HISB events are subject to change. Please continue to check our website for updates and detailed event information, registration for specific Zoom events, and how to log in.
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Event |
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February 3 |
CAS/Guiliano Fellowship Information Session, 12:30-1:50pm |
February 12 |
Religion and the State: Christian Nationalism and American Democracy. A conversation with Katherine Stewart, author journalist, 3:30-5:00pm |
February 20 |
Chris Wiggins/Columbia University and Matthew L. Jones/Princeton University, How Data Happened. They are co-authors of the book, How Data Happened. |
February 24 | "Sound Studies" Workshop, with Rodrigo Viqueiro/IDEA Fellow, HLL, Sounding Race: Early Phonographic Culture and Racial Narratives in Argentina. Sponsored by HIS and HISB. 12:30-1:50pm |
February 27 | NEH/ACLS Regional Workshop, hosted by HISB. Sponsored by the Office of the Provost and CAS. 9:30am-5:30pm in Wang Center Lecture Hall 2 |
February 27 |
Lecture by Peter Carravetta/PHI, Whither the Human in Humanism?Peter Manning/EGL Respondent. Co-sponsored by the Center for Italian Studies. |
February 28 | Writing to Heal: Memoir in Urgent Times. Sponsored by Herstory Writers Network, Stony Brook University School of Social Welfare, the Vanderbilt Divinity School, and HISB. 1:00-5:00pm in HUM 1006 |
March 4 | Faculty book talk/panel discussion by Brooke Belisle/ART, Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation. Sam Dodd/Art, Lorraine Walsh/Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Zabet Patterson/Art, and Kaya Turan/PhD candidate in Art History and Criticism, Respondents |
March 10 | Alberto Harambour Ross-Universidad Austral de Chile, End of Worlds at the Worlds’ Ends: Future Pasts in Amazonia and Patagonia. Part of the "Pressing Matters" lecture series. 3:30-5:00pm |
March 11 | Nelson Maldonada-Torres/University of Connecticut and Rosabel Ansari/PHI, Philosophy and Gaza: Frameworks of Decolonization and Genocide. Sponsored by The Center for Changing Systems of Power, the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Center, and HISB. |
March 26 | Lecture by Kevin Holt/MUS, I Bet You Won't Get Crunk: The Performative Resistance of Atlanta Hip-Hop Party Culture |
March 28 |
HLL Gradute Conference, Territorios en crisis / desafíos de las humanidades. Keynote speaker, Mary Louise Pratt/New York University 4:00-7:00pm |
April 2 | A Soundtrack for Black Healing, featuring Fredara Hadley/Juilliard and Courtney-Savali Andrews/Oberlin College. Hosted by Kevin Holt/MUS. Part of the "A Soundtrack for Blackness" Series. Co-sponored by MUS. |
April 8 |
A Film Screening and Panel Discussion: Amplifying Authentic Immigrant Experiences via Drama and Film with Neisha Terry Young/EGL and Mindy Fried/film producer and sociologist, showing of the film, Open Your Heart: Immigrant Stories from Boston and Beyond. |
April 10 | A Symposium on Campus Policing, Surveillance, and Academic Freedom. Sponsored by Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and HISB.1:30-6:00 PM |
April 14 | Lecture by visiting artist Carolyn Lazard, Carolyn Lazard: Artist Talk. Funded by the Office of the Provost’s Arts, Humanities, and Lettered Social Sciences (AHLSS) initiative. Co-sponsor by the Art Department and HISB. 5:30-7:00pm |
April 17 |
Film screening, Access Materialities, featuring visiting artist Carolyn Lazard. Title TBD. Funded by the Office of the Provost’s Arts, Humanities, and Lettered Social Sciences (AHLSS) initiative. Co-sponsor by the Art Department and HISB. 5:30-7:00pm in HUM 1006 |
April 21 | "Sound Studies" Workshop with Benjamin Tausig/MUS, Migrations of Soul: Afro-Latin Music in Cold War Thailand. Sponsored by HIS and HISB. 12:30-1:50pm |
April 23 | Faculty Fellows lecture by Kenneth Weitzman/EGL, The Theatre of Well-Being. |
April 29 | Lecture by Kara Pernicano/WGSS & SBU Humanities NY 2024-2025 grant awardee, Together Love Self: A Series of Poetic Meditations |
Fall 2024 Calendar of Events -- REMEDIATION
All events are 5:00-6:30 pm in Humanities Rm 1008 unless otherwise noted. Dates and times of HISB events are subject to change. Please continue to check our website for updates and detailed event information, registration for specific Zoom events, and how to log in.
Date |
Event |
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September 11 |
Faculty research lecture by Nancy Tomes/HIS, Epidemics of Fear: Post-COVID Reflections on "Panic" as a Public Health Problem. Katherine D. Johnston/EGL & PWR, Ryan Mitchell/PWR, and Matthew Salzano/SoCJ & PWR respondents. |
September 19 |
Lecture by Audra Simpson/Columbia University, Settler Colonial Apologia in Two Acts. Sponsored by the Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) initiative, the Department of Anthropology, and HISB. |
September 24 |
Hussein Ibish/Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington (AGSIW) and David Myers/University of California at Los Angeles, A Year after October 7: Historical Backdrop, Future Prospects. Sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the Department of History, and the Humanities
Institute at Stony Brook, Wang Center Theater. |
September 26 | Ed Kashi/photojournalist and filmmaker. On his experiences photographing vulnerable communities, centered on seeking solutions
and driving policy change, 3:30-4:50pm in The Wang Center Lecture Hall 2. Part of the "Pressing Matters" lecture series. |
September 30 | Lecture by Martín Cortés/University of Buenos Aires, Non-Western Marxisms: Towards a South-South Perspective.
Sponsored by the Center for Changing Systems of Power and HISB, 12:30-1:50 PM Campus Lifetime. |
October 2 |
Faculty Lecture by Shobana Shankar/HIS, An Uneasy Embrace: Africa, India, and the Spectre of Race. |
October 10 | Conference, Hitchhiker's Guide to the 18th Century Empire: Forging Communities of Global Imperial
Practice,12:00-5:30 pm. Sponsored by FAHSS, CAS, HIS, EGL, AFS, SOC, WGSS and HISB. Event schedule TBD. |
October 11 | Conference, Hitchhiker's Guide to the 18th Century Empire: Forging Communities of Global Imperial Practice, 9:30 am- 4:00 pm. Sponsored by FAHSS, CAS, HIS, EGL, AFS, SOC, WGSS and HISB. Event schedule TBD. |
October 17 | Lecture by Naomi Oreskes/Harvard University, Epistemic Privilege and the Gender 0f Climate Change Denial. Part of the College of Arts and Sciences Sir Run Run Shaw lecture series. Rm 1006 Humanities. Co-sponsored by HISB. |
October 23 | Fernando Luis Martínez Nespral/American Art and Aesthetic Studies Institute, University of Buenos Aires, on the unexpected transatlantic travels of Islamic Iberian art and architecture from
the Iberian Peninsula to North Africa and Latin America following the expulsion of
the Moriscos from Spain and Spain’s conquest of American territories. Part of the "Pressing Matters" lecture series. |
October 24 | Bishakh Som/Indian-American trans-femme cartoonist and architect, on her graphic narrative,Spellbound,2:00-3:20pm. Part of the "Pressing Matters" lecture series. |
October 29 |
HISB Faculty Fellow lecture by Lena Burgos-Lafuente/HLL, Cosmopolitanism and its Limits: The Caribbean Communist Left. POSTPONED until February 11, 2025. |
October 30 | Faculty Lecture by Elyse Graham/EGL, Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II. Michael Rubenstein/HISB & EGL. Michael Rubenstein/HISB & EGL, respondentThe Poetry Center, Rm 2001 Humanities. |
November 6 |
Writing Beyond the Prison: Digital Archive and Curriculum for Incarcerated Authors, 5:00-7:00 pm in HUM 1006. Event registration deadline November 5. Click here to register. Sponsored by The Center for Changing Systems of Power, and HISB. |
November 12 | HISB Faculty Fellow lecture by Ken Weitzman/EGL, The Theatre of Well-Being. POSTPONED until April 23, 2025 |
November 18 | Sound Studies Workshop, with ethnomusicologist Fred Moehn/King's College London, “I’ll never be João Gilberto": The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Attempting to Reproduce a Masterful Bossa Nova Recorded Performance, 12:30-1:50pm, LACS Gallery, SBS N-320. Sponsored by HIS, LACS, HLL and HISB. |
November 20 |
Faculty lecture by Lisa Diedrich/WGSS, The Theatre Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism. Nancy Tomes/HIS, respondent. |
Spring 2024 Calendar of Events -- REMEDIATION
All events are 4:30-6:00 pm in Humanities Rm 1008 unless otherwise noted. Dates and times of HISB events are subject to change. Please continue to check our website for updates and detailed event information, registration for specific Zoom events, and how to log in.
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Event |
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February 6 |
Public Humanities lecture by Genevieve Lipinsky de Orlov/PhD student Art History in Criticism, The Humanities and the Public University. In-person in 1008 Humanities AND via Zoom.Registration required for Zoom participation. Please click here to register. Registration deadline February 5. |
February 22 | Film showing of Stonebreakers (2022) followed by Q&A with film director Valerio Ciriaci. Sponsored by the D'Amato Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies, Center for
Italian Studies, EGL, HISB, and LCS, 1:00-3:00 PM. |
February 22 | A Conversation with Hussein Fancy/Yale on Muslim-Jewish relations in the Middle Ages with Sara Lipton/HIS. Part of the "Pressing Matters" lecture series. |
February 22 |
Film showing of If Only I Were that Warrior(2015) followed by Q&A with film director Valerio Ciriaci. Sponsored by the D'Amato Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies, Center for
Italian Studies, EGL, HISB, and LCS, 5:30-8:00 PM , 1006 Humanities. |
February 27 | Lecture by Michael Zweig/ECO emeritus, Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism as a Task of Social Remediation. |
February 29 |
Faculty Research Lecture by Douglas Pfeiffer/EGL ,Inventing Leap Year: Calculation and Confusion in the Modern Calendar. |
March 5 |
A Soundtrack for Black Imagination, featuring Regina N. Bradley/Kennesaw State University and La Marr Jurelle Bruce/University of Maryland. Moderated by Kevin Holt/MUS. Click here to listen to our Spotify playlist. |
March 7 |
Zoom lecture by Julie Reiss/Art Scholar, Artists as Agents of Change: Eco-Activism and Contemporary Art, 1:00-2:20 PM,1006 Humanities. Registration required for Zoom participation. Please click her to register. Registration deadline March 6. |
March 7 |
Zoom panel discussion, When Will the Joy Come: Black Women in the Ivory Tower -- An Authors Panel discussing Black women in higher education, with co-authors Abena Ampofoa Asare/AFS, Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine/Stanford University Center for African Studies and Michelle Thompson/Resistant Vision Coaching and Consulting, LLC. Moderated by Crystal Fleming/Stony Brook University, 4:00-6:00 PM. Registration required for Zoom participation. Please click her to register. Registration deadline March 6. Read the book introduction here. |
March 19 |
Faculty Lecture by Matthew Reuter/Applied Mathematics and IACS, On A Definition of Death: The Interplay of [American] Culture, Technology, and Law. |
March 21 |
A conversation with Lebert (Sandy) Bethune, poet, filmmaker and writer, on 20th century Black intellectual life and political
thought. Part of the "Pressing Matters" lecture series. |
March 21 | Faculty lecture by Linda O'Keeffe/ART, Art + Climate = Change. |
March 26 | Discussion - Kebedch Tekleab, visual artist and E. Ethlebert Miller, poet, Journeys That Led to Collaborations: Poetry and Visual Art on their 2023 exhibition, “On Blue & Grey: This Era of Exile”. |
April 2 |
Faculty research lecture by Matthew Salzano/IDEA Fellow (School of Communication and Journalism, and PRW), How to Train Your Bot to Deliberate? Lessons from Twitter Bots. |
April 4 | Discussion/Reading - Black Women Creating Long Island: A Speaker/Archival Series spotlighting educator Barbara Jean Coley/SCCC Emeritus and community activist Lillie B. Crowder, 6:00-7:30 PM, The Poetry Center, 2001 Humanities. Co-sponsored by AFS. |
April 9 |
Faculty Research Lecture by Carl W. Lejuez, Executive Vice President and Provost, What if Plato was a Clinical Psychologist? |
April 11 | Film showing, Return to Sender: Women of Color in Colonial Postcards & the Politics of Representation (2023) followed by discussion with director Mara Ahmed, 1006 Humanities. Co-sponsored by WGSS, HIS, and HISB. |
April 15 | A Conversation with Spanish-Chinese artist/graphic novelist Quan Zhou on her work detailing the lives and experiences of children of immigrants in Spain,
4:00-5:30 PM. Part of the "Pressing Matters" lecture series. |
April 18 |
Faculty lecture by Anne O'Byrne/PHI, The Problem of Time for Democracies. |
April 23 | A Zoom Conversation with Wilfredo Flores/University of North Carolina at Charlotte and McKinley Green/George Mason University on their BIPOC queer oral history history/podcasting project,
Storying Sex. Part of the "Pressing Matters" lecture series. Registration required for Zoom participation. Please click her to register. Registration deadline April 21. |
April 24 |
Roundtable discussion on the book, Disrupting DC: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City with co-authors Katie J. Wells/scholar, Kafui Attoh/CUNY, and Declan Cullen/George Washington University. Their book is a critical study of the gig economy, through a case study of Uber in Washington D.C. |
Events from previous theme, "Healing: Survival and Resiliency in the Arts and Humanities(Fall 2019 - Spring 2023 )" can be found here.