AI Advocacy Fair

April 30, 2024

Humanities Building Room 1008 | Stony Brook University

Hosted by WRT302 and the Center for Changing Systems of Power.

The goal of the AI Advocacy Fair is to learn more about advocating for causes that matter to our community in the AI age. WRT302: AI and Advocacy delves into the transformative impact of new Generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Google Gemini. The AI Advocacy Fair explores how these tools reshape our approach to communication and writing and impact our ability to change people's minds and take action on urgent issues like climate change, racial justice, and gender equality.

During Spring 2024 students of WRT302: AI and Advocacy, directed by their instructor, Dr. Matthew Salzano, created a public-facing report identifying major risks and opportunities for social justice advocates seeking to use AI. This report is the result of an undergraduate research collaboration.

Download the “AI and Advocacy: Maximizing Potential,  Minimizing Risk” report here.   

How SUNY Benefits from Prison Labor: A Teach-in

March 25, 2024 | 4:30 pm

Humanities Building Room 1006 | Stony Brook University

Join the conversation with academics and activists on how SUNY benefits from prison labor. 

Speakers

Robert Chase (Associate Professor, History, Stony Brook University)
Wilfredo Laracuente (Community Organizer)
Patrice Nganang (Professor, Africana Studies, Stony Brook University)
Rosemary Rivera (Executive Director, Citizen Action of New York and The Public Policy and Education Fund)

This event is organized by 13th Forward, the Center for Changing Systems of Power, Citizen Action of New York, and United University Professions, and supported by Mellon's Affirming Multivocal Humanities program. 

To learn more and for additional resources, click HERE. 

Academics Under Attack: A Faculty First Responder Workshop

March 4, 2024; 5:00 pm 

Online

Faculty First Responders monitors the right-wing media ecosystem to track targeted harassment of higher education workers, to defend workers’ academic freedom and free speech rights, and to support workers targeted by the right-wing media. Learn about the causes and consequences of right-wing attacks on higher education workers, how to protect and defend yourself from attacks without curtailing your academic freedom, and about available resources for higher education workers facing targeted harassment, and advice on how to effectively respond to attacks. 

Sponsored by the Center for Changing Systems of Power and supported by Mellon’s Affirming Multivocal Humanities program.

Casa Común/Communal House | Collaborative Art Exhibition

February 8-22, 2024 

Melville Library, North Reading Room | Stony Brook University

"Casa Común/Communal House" is a collaborative art project that confronts the atrocities of the war in Colombia and gives healing, reconciliation, and hopes for a peaceful future through the handcrafted work of victims.

Co-sponsors: The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center | Department of Sociology | Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature | The Humanities Institute at Stony Brook University.

OPENING RECEPTION: February 8, 2024; 6:00 pm (Food & drinks will be served!)

To learn more about Casa Común  here

Sir Run Run Shaw Lecture Series: "Künü: A Space for Dialogue" | Documentary film screening and conversation with Francisco Huichaqueo

February 9, 2024; 4:00 pm 

Charles B. Wang Center Lecture Hall 1 | Stony Brook University

"Künü" by Mapuche filmmaker Francisco Huichaqueo, is a documentary that captures the collaborative efforts of 80 Mapuche communities to reclaim part of their ancestral lands from a large transnational forestry company in Chile, in the Araucanía-Loncoche region. "Künü" documents the creation of a space for difficult dialogue between groups with a long history of mistrust and power imbalances but at the same time focuses on the perspective of exercising the ancestral and political self-determination of local Mapuche communities.

Francisco Huichaqueo is a filmmaker, artist, curator of memory garments, and a professor at the University of Concepción. His films have been showcased in various Chilean and international venues, including the Mother Tongue Film Festival at the Smithsonian, ImagineNATIVE in Toronto, Museo Reina Sofía, and the 11th Berlin Biennale.

Co-sponsors: The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center | Department of Sociology | Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature.

War is not the answer: A teach-in on peace and human rights

November 16, 2023; 4:00 pm 

Humanities Building Room 2001 (Poetry Center) | Stony Brook University

Learn about how the occupation and violence in Palestine and Israel are affecting communities.

Speakers

Noura Farouk (Founder of Mothers4Justice, organizer, published writer, doula birth worker, and oral history archivist)

Farrah Mozawalla (President of the Asian American Institute for Research and Engagement)

Ruth Sergel (Artist, director, writer, interactive technology designer, and creator of Chalk and Voices of 9.11)

Bringing Human Rights Home: The work of human rights cities | A talk with Jackie Smith

November 1st, 2023; 4:00 pm 

Humanities Building Room 1008 | Stony Brook University

Jackie Smith’s research focuses on how globalization impacts people and communities, and how social movements for the environment, health, and economic justice have advanced transformative struggles. She has documented long-term trends in transnational social movement organizations and coalitions, and connections between global politics and activism in cities and communities. Smith is currently engaged in participatory research with Pittsburgh and national human rights organizers. She is also engaged in work to connect municipalities with United Nations human rights work.