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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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February 3
EventCAS/Guiliano Fellowship Information Session, 12:30-1:50pm.
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February 12
EventA conversation with Katherine Stewart, author journalist, Religion and the State: Christian Nationalism and American Democracy,  3:30-5:00pm. Part of the "Pressing Matters" lecture series.
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February 20
EventLecture by Chris Wiggins/Columbia University and Matthew L. Jones/Princeton University, How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms. Co-authors of the book, How Data Happened.
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February 24
Event"Sound Studies" Workshop lecture by Rodrigo Viqueiro/IDEA Fellow, HLL, Sounding Race: Early Phonographic Culture and Racial Narratives in Argentina,12:30-1:50pm. Sponsored by HIS and HISB.
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February 27
EventNEH/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. Click here for details and registration.
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February 28
EventSymposium, Writing to Heal: Memoir in Urgent Times,1:00-5:00pm in HUM 1006. Sponsored by Herstory Writers Network,  Stony Brook University School of Social Welfare, the Vanderbilt Divinity School, and HISB.
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March 4
EventFaculty 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.
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March 5
EventLecture by Peter Carravetta/PHI, Whither the Human in Humanism? Introduction by Peter Manning/EGL. Co-sponsored by the Center for Italian Studies.
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March 11
EventPanel discussion with 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. 
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March 24
EventZoom lecture by Alberto Harambour/Universidad Austral de Chile, End of Worlds at the Worlds’ Ends: Future Pasts in Amazonia and Patagonia,3:30-5:00pm. Part of the "Pressing Matters" lecture series. Please click here to register. Registration deadline March 23.
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March 26
EventLecture by Kevin C. Holt/MUS, I Bet You Won't Get Crunk: The Performative Resistance of Atlanta Hip-Hop Party Culture.
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March 28
EventHLL Gradute Conference, Territorios en crisis / desafíos de las humanidades. Keynote speaker, Mary Louise Pratt/New York University, 4:00-7:00pm.
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April 2
EventA Soundtrack for Black Healing, featuring Fredara Hadley/Juilliard and Courtney-Savali Andrews/Oberlin College. Moderated by Kevin C. Holt/MUS. Part of the "A Soundtrack for Blackness" Series. Co-sponored by MUS.
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April 8
EventA 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. 
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April 10
EventAcademic Freedom at Risk: A Symposium on Campus Policing, Surveillance, and Censorship,2:00-6:00 PM. Sponsored by Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies/Mellon Foundation’s Affirming Multivocal Humanities Program, and HISB. Please click here to RSVP.
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April 14
EventLecture 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, 5:30-7:00pm. Co-sponsor by the Art Department and HISB.
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April 17
EventFilm screening, Access Materialities, featuring visiting artist Carolyn Lazard,5:30-7:00pm in HUM 1006. Funded by the Office of the Provost’s Arts, Humanities, and Lettered Social Sciences (AHLSS) initiative. Co-sponsor by the Art Department and HISB. 
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April 21
Event "Sound Studies" Workshop lecture with Benjamin Tausig/MUS, Migrations of Soul: Afro-Latin Music in Cold War Thailand, 12:30-1:50pm. Sponsored by HIS and HISB.
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April 23
EventFaculty Fellows lecture by Kenneth Weitzman/EGL, The Theatre of Well-Being.
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April 29
EventLecture 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.

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September 11
EventFaculty 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.
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September 19
EventLecture 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.
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September 24
EventHussein 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.
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September 26
EventEd 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.
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September 30
EventLecture 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.
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October 2
EventFaculty Lecture by Shobana Shankar/HIS, An Uneasy Embrace: Africa, India, and the Spectre of Race.
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October 10
EventConference, 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.
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October 11
EventConference, 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.
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October 17
EventLecture 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.
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October 23
EventFernando 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.
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October 24
EventBishakh Som/Indian-American trans-femme cartoonist and architect, on her graphic narrative,Spellbound,2:00-3:20pm. Part of the "Pressing Matters" lecture series.
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October 29
EventHISB Faculty Fellow lecture by Lena Burgos-Lafuente/HLL, Cosmopolitanism and its Limits: The Caribbean Communist Left. POSTPONED until February 11, 2025.
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October 30
EventFaculty 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.
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November 6
EventWriting 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.
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November 12
EventHISB Faculty Fellow lecture by Ken Weitzman/EGL, The Theatre of Well-Being. POSTPONED until April 23, 2025
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November 18
EventSound 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.
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November 20
EventFaculty lecture by Lisa Diedrich/WGSS, The Theatre Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism. Nancy Tomes/HIS, respondent.
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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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February 6
EventPublic 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.
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February 22
EventFilm 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.
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February 22
EventA Conversation with Hussein Fancy/Yale on Muslim-Jewish relations in the Middle Ages with Sara Lipton/HIS.  Part of the "Pressing Matters" lecture series.
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February 22
EventFilm 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.
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February 27
EventLecture by Michael Zweig/ECO emeritus, Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism as a Task of Social Remediation.
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February 29
EventFaculty Research Lecture by Douglas Pfeiffer/EGL ,Inventing Leap Year: Calculation and Confusion in the Modern Calendar.
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March 5
EventA 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.
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March 7
EventZoom 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.
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March 7
EventZoom 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.
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March 19
EventFaculty Lecture by Matthew Reuter/Applied Mathematics and IACS,  On A Definition of Death: The Interplay of [American] Culture, Technology, and Law.
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March 21
EventA 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.
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March 21
EventFaculty lecture by Linda O'Keeffe/ART, Art + Climate = Change.
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March 26
EventDiscussion - 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”.
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April 2
EventFaculty 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.
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April 4
EventDiscussion/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.
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April 9
EventFaculty Research Lecture by Carl W. Lejuez, Executive Vice President and Provost, What if Plato was a Clinical Psychologist?
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April 11
EventFilm 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.
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April 15
EventA 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.
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April 18
EventFaculty lecture by Anne O'Byrne/PHI, The Problem of Time for Democracies.
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April 23
EventA 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.
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April 24
EventRoundtable 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.
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Events from previous theme, "Healing: Survival and Resiliency in the Arts and Humanities(Fall 2019 - Spring 2023 )" can be found here.