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Fall 2019 - Spring 2023 "Healing: Survival and Resiliency in the Arts and Humanities”
The activities at the HISB will center around the concepts of healing, resiliency and survival as they are explored, practiced, and represented in the Arts and Humanities. We will examine not only the medical aspects of healing, but we will also place equal emphasis on the exploration of healing, resiliency and survival within at the social/community level and at the environmental ones.
Certainly, the recent happenings in connection to my personal health have had a strong impact on my selection of this topic. Beyond that, however, questions of healing, resiliency and survival are central to our understanding and management of current challenges in connection to individual, social, and environmental issues which are perceived as acute crises, and imminent threats. These concepts speak of experiences that are central to the human experience. They also offer a point of interdisciplinary and trans-methodological crossroads of contact and contrast, transecting fields such as medicine, psychology, environmental studies, gender studies, and sociology.
Throughout the semesters we will explore questions such as:
- How do we recover from illness, violence, loss, exhaustion, grief, and environmental disasters?
- What is the rhetoric of illness and recovery, the metaphors through which they are represented?
- What performative and affective powers do narratives, music, and the visual arts have in relation to illness and healing?
- How does racism interfere with the delivery of medical care?
- Which bodies meet with a refusal of empathy?
- How do medical technologies enhancing life-extension and fertility affect our human experience?
- Are there alternatives to reconciliation, or reparation to deal with historical trauma and difficult pasts?
- What is the role of the humanities in the Anthropocene?
Spring 2023 Events
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.
| Date |
Event |
|---|---|
| February 10 |
"Doing Our Time On The Outside": A Conference on Carceral Justice. Discussion of
the project and readings from participants. Made possible through a post-incarceration
partnership initiative with Herstory Writers Network and Humanities New York, in collaboration with the Humanities Institute at Stony
Brook University, Hofstra University’s Criminology Program, St. Joseph’s College Criminology
Department, Prison Families Alliance, and S.T.R.O.N.G. Youth, Inc., 12:30pm-5:30pm, 1006 HUM. Please click here to register. |
| February 17 | Virtual lecture by Stef Craps, Ghent University in Belgium – “An Inconvenient Comparison: Climate Change and the Holocaust”. Part of the Memory in the Disciplines is an initiative of the Departments of Sociology and English, with support from the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Co-sponsored by the Institute for Globalization Studies and HISB, 12:00pm. Click here to register. |
| February 20 | Lecture by jazz musician Luke Stewart – "Works for Upright Bass and Amplifier: a Presentation". Followed by a 7:30pm concert in the Cabaret Theater/Staller Center. Concert details TBD. Part of the "Pressing Matters" lecture series. Co-sponsored by the Music Department. |
| February 28 | HISB Faculty Fellows lecture by Peggy Spitzer/PWR -- "Female Empowerment and Climate Change: Oral Histories from around the World". |
| March 1 |
Faculty lecture by Rita Nezami/PWR -- "The Rooftop: A Culture-Specific Feminine Space in Muslim Society", 1:00-2:20pm. |
| March 7 |
Faculty lecture by Ryan Minor/MUS -- "Wagner’s Black Dutchman: Race, Casting, and Der Fliegende Holländer on the European Stage". |
| March 8 | Zoom lecture by Tristan Josephson, California State University -- “Transfer Points: Trans Migrants and Immigration Detention”. Part of the Q/F/T Lecture Series. Sponsored by Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and HISB. Zoom registration required. Please click here to register. |
| March 9 | Zoom lecture by Julie Reiss, Art History scholar -- "Artists as Agents of Change: Eco-Activism and Contemporary Art”, 1:15-2:35pm. Zoom registration required. Please click here to register. |
| March 22 | Faculty book lecture by Edward S. Casey/PHI -- "Awe and Empathy". Anthony Steinbock/PHI, Respondent. Please click here to see video of his lecture. |
| March 28 | "A Soundtrack for Black Ecologies", a listening-based exploration of ecology/ environmental justice through the frame
of black experience(s) guided by experts whose work in academia and activism speaks
to this intersection. Featuring Mary Annaïse Heglar, climate justice essayist and J.T. Roane, Rutgers University. Moderated by Kevin Holt/MUS, Stony Brook University. In-person and via Zoom. Zoom registration required. Please click here to register. |
| March 29 |
Faculty lecture by Kathleen Wilson/HIS and Nicholas Hoover Wilson/SOC -- "Empire’s Runes, or how the British Empire produced the Modern World". A discussion on their research and their respective forthcoming Spring 2023 books on the British Empire. |
| April 4 | Zoom lecture by Jules Gill-Peterson, Johns Hopkins University - "DIY as Trans Method". Part of the "Pressing Matters" lecture series, 1:15-2:35pm. Zoom registration required. Please click here to register. |
| April 6 |
Lecture by Karen Karbiener/New York University -- "'Starting From Paumanok': Louisa Van Velsor Whitman's Song". |
| April 11 |
HISB Faculty Fellows Zoom lecture by Shirley Jennifer Lim/HIS - "Anna May Wong". Zoom registration required. Please click here to register. |
| April 12 | Symposium - “Pandemic Narratives: Looking at the impact of Covid-19 on Religious Practice and
at the Impact of Religious Practice on Covid-19”. Moderated by Dr. Andrew Flescher/Public Health and EGL. Featuring Dr. Joel Zimbelman, California State University, Chico -- “The Interface of Health and Religion during
a Pandemic”; Julia Brown, Stony Brook University -- “In God We Trust: Community and Immunity in American Religions
During COVID-19”; Dr. Daniel Veidlinger, California State University, Chico and Radhika Patel, Stony Brook University -- “The Benefits of Yoga for Mental and Physical Health During
the COVID-19 Pandemic”. Sponsored by The Pandemic Narratives Initiative and HISB. In-person and via Zoom. Zoom registration required. Please click here to register. |
| April 13 | Sir Run Run Shaw lecture by visual artists Ackroyd and Harvey - "The Green Fuse". The Simons Center Auditorium, 3:30pm. Co-sponsored by the Art Dept and HISB. |
| April 13 | Zoom Presentation by Giulianna Zambrano Murillo /Artist on the origins, research,
and development of her podcast/project, "'Crónicas al borde': Podcasting and Sound Essays in Latin America", a discussion
about the origins and development of sound chronicles, storytelling, and academic
research. In conversation with HISB Faculty Fellow Joseph M. Pierce/HLL. Zoom registration required. Please click here to register. |
| April 19 | Book lecture by Nicholas Mirzoeff/New York University on his book, "White Sight: The Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness". |
| April 20 | Zoom lecture by Blanca Rodríguez-Velasco, family court magistrate in Spain, on the Spanish the judicial system and its treatment of people with a cognitive disability, in particular, guardianship. Part of the "Pressing Matters" lecture series, 3:00-4:30pm. Zoom registration required. Please click here to register. |
| April 25 | HISB Faculty Fellows lecture by Kristina Lucenko/PWR -- "Civil Agents: Women Writing Race in Seventeenth-Century England". |
| April 28 |
"'Writing Beyond the Prison': Incarcerated Authors, Academics, and Activists Confront Mass Incarceration". Featuring keynote presentation by Reginald Dwayne Betts/Yale University and founder/director of Freedom Reads - "The Circumference of a Prison: Youth, Race, and the Failures of the American Justice System", 11:30pm-6:30pm, 1006 HUM. |
Fall 2022 Events
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.
| Date |
Event |
|---|---|
| September 20 | Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) presents a Zoom lecture by Dr. Saudi Garcia, Anthropology Dept at The New School, “Unearthing Blackness: Race, Mining Toxicity and the Biogeopolitics of Health in the Dominican Republic”. Co-sponsored by HISB. See the LACS website for more details. |
| September 20 |
Banned Books: A Roundtable Discussion. SBU Humanities faculty discussion featuring Andrew Newman, Chair of English, Patrice Nganang, Chair of Africana Studies, Vivett Dukes English/Teacher Education, and Kenneth Lindblom English/Teacher Education. Moderated by Michael Rubenstein, HISB Director. In-Person AND via Zoom. Zoom registration required. Registration deadline 2:00pm Sept 20. To register for Zoom, please click here. |
| September 21 | Zoom Faculty book presentation by Loredana Polezzi, Alfonse M. D’Amato Chair in Italian American and Italian Studies, on the edited volume, Transnational Modern Languages: A Handbook. Polezzi, SBU scholars and guests from the US and UK, including the volume's editors, will discuss this core volume in the "Transnational Modern Languages" series (Liverpool University Press). Speakers will offer their responses to the collection and discuss how it can foster innovative teaching & learning practices in and beyond the field of Modern Languages. Event supported in collaboration with the Center for Multilingualism and Intercultural Studies, the Department of Languages and Cultural Studies, and HISB, 1:00-2:30 PM. Zoom Registration is required. Registration deadline September 20. Please click here to register. |
| September 28 |
Lecture by Dong-Yeon Koh, Art Critic on her book, The Postmemory Generation in South Korea: Contemporary Korean Arts and Films on the
Memories of the Korean War, 2000-2020. Moderated by Sandra Kim, AAAS. Sponsored by the Center for Korean Studies and HISB,
2:40pm. |
| September 29 | Opening reception and participatory performance by Jaanika Perna with audience members that explores the question “What would you do if you were handed
the very last piece of natural ice left on Earth?”. Light refreshments from CulinArt.
Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery and HISB, 5:00-7:00pm, Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery in the Staller Center for the Arts. |
| September 29 |
Zoom discussion by Jennifer Rhee, Jennifer Rhee, Virginia Commonwealth University, 7:30-9:00 PM. Sponsored by the Future Histories Studio and HISB. Zoom registration details TBA. |
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October 4 |
Presentation by Amir Issaa, rapper, writer and antiracist activist, on his life as an Italian rapper of Egyptian origins, the influence of US hip-hop (in particular discourses about race in US hip-hop, the influence of BLM in Italy) in his life and music. Sponsored by the Alfonse M. D'Amato Endowed Chair in Italian American and Italian Studies, the Center for Italian Studies, and HISB, 1:15-2:30pm, Wang Center Theater. |
| October 6 |
Art Crawl - A Guided Exhibition Tour of Campus Galleries. Tour of the Charles B. Wang Center, the Zuccaire Gallery, the Alloway Gallery, the Central Reading Room, and the Simons Center Gallery. 1:00-3:30pm, Sponsored by the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery in the Staller Center for the Arts and HISB. |
| October 18 |
Faculty book lecture by Lorenzo Simpson/PHI on his book, Hermeneutics as Critique: Science, Politics, Race, and Culture. Respondent Kenneth Baynes, Syracuse University. |
| October 19 | Sir Run Run Shaw Lecture by New York Times Bestselling writer, Timothy Snyder, Yale University, author of the book, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. Lecture title ,"The War in Ukraine and the Future of Democracy". HUM 1006. Registration required. Please click here to register. Registration deadline Oct 18. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute at Stony
Brook, the Center for Changing Systems of Power, and the Office of the Provost. |
| October 23 |
Herstory Writers Workshop Gala Luncheon. Includes memorial tribute to former HISB Director Adrián Pérez Melgosa, 11:30am-2:30pm,
Wang Center Zodiac Lobby. Click here for details and ticket information. |
| October 24 |
Faculty book lecture by Patrice Nganang/AFS on his highly acclaimed fiction trilogy, Mount Pleasant, When the Plums are Ripe, and A Trail of Crab Track, and his novel Dog Days, Respondent Amy Reid, New College of Florida, the books' translator from French. |
| October 25 |
Lecture by Alice Gerosa, Art History scholar on "War, Storytelling, and Moral Questions in the Emergence of Press Photographs: The Controversy Surrounding Robert Capa's 'Falling Soldier' [photograph] during the Spanish Civil War", 3:00-4:30pm. Part of the "Pressing Matters" lecture series. |
| October 26 | Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) presents"Latinx, Latine, Hispanic–What’s the Difference? Community Plática", at the LACS Gallery, SBS 3rd Floor, N-320. Co-sponored by HISB. See the LACS website for details. |
| November 1 | POSTPONED: Presentation by Giulianna Zambrano Murillo /Artist on the origins, research,
and development of her podcast/project, "'Crónicas al borde': Podcasting and Sound Essays in Latin America", a discussion
about the origins and development of sound chronicles, storytelling, and academic
research. In conversation with HISB Faculty Fellow Joseph M. Pierce/HLL. Event will be rescheduled in Spring 2023. |
| November 3 |
Zoom Lecture by Dr. Allison Morehead, Queen’s University, Canada, on how might art
and art history encourage the larger public to address pressing matters such as the medicalization of life and death, healthcare inequities, and ongoing crises
of care, 9:45 -11:05am. Part of the "Pressing Matters" lecture series. Zoom registration required. Registration
deadline November 2. Please click here to register. |
| November 3 |
Faculty book lecture by Karen J. Lloyd/ART, "Art, Patronage, and Nepotism in Early Modern Rome". Respondent Xavier F. Salomon, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at The Frick Collection. |
| November 9 |
Lecture byAlicia Ríos, Syracuse University - "War and Race in Latin America: From Bolívar to Contemporary
Cultural Production". Part of the “Pressing Matters” lecture series. |
| November 10 |
Faculty book lecture by Benedict Robinson/EGL on his book, Passion's Fictions from Shakespeare to Richardson: Literature and the Sciences of Soul and Mind.Respondent Adam Zucker, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. |
| November 16 | Faculty book lecture by Douglas Pfeiffer/EGL on his book, Authorial Personality and the Making of Renaissance Texts: The Force of Character. Respondent Laura Kolb, Baruch College. In-person and via Zoom. Registration for Zoom participation required. Please click here to register. |
| November 17 | Lecture byAri-Elmeri Hyvönen, University of Helsinki - "Truth, Conspiracism, and Democracy in the Digitalized Public Sphere", 11:30am-12:50pm. Part of the “Pressing Matters” lecture series. |
| November 18 |
POSTPONED: Doing Time on the Outside: Writing Beyond the Prison – A Herstory Writers Workshop Post-Incarceration Project. Discussion of the project and readings from participants. Community partnership with Prison Families Anonymous, the Criminology Program at Hofstra University and HISB, 10:30am-2:30pm in HUM 1006.Event has been rescheduled for Friday, Feb 10, 2023. |
Spring 2022 Events
In an effort to increase precautionary health measures and reduce community spread
of COVID-19, all HISB events for Spring 2022 will be a mix of virtual and hybrid in-person.
All events are 4:30-6:00 pm 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, event registration and how to log in.
| Date |
Event |
|---|---|
| February 10 |
Presentation by Josh MacPhee designer/artist/archivist and Jen Hoyer Electronic Resources and Technical Services Librarian at CUNY City College of Technology
- “Interference Archive: Origins and Activation”, 2:30-4:00 PM. Part of the "Pressing Matters" series. Sponsored by the Zuccaire Gallery, Staller
Center for the Arts at Stony Brook University, and HISB. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline February 9. Please click here to register. |
| March 8 | A Conversation with composer/performer Pamela Z. Part of the "Pressing Matters" series, 1:00-2:30 PM. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration details TBA. |
| March 22 |
Discussion by erin Khuê Ninh, Univ of CA, Santa Barbara on her book, Passing for Perfect. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration details TBA. |
| March 28 |
Zoom discussion with SBU alum Max Liboiron, Memorial University of Newfoundland and their recent book, Pollution is Colonialism, 1:00-2:30 PM. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration details TBA. |
| April 5 |
Faculty Fellows lecture by Nerissa Balce/AAAS. Title TBA. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration details TBA. |
| April 7-8 |
Conference - "The Global Sixties in the Global South". Sponsored Art History, History, Music, the Institute for Globalization Studies, and Latin American & Caribbean Studies, and HISB. Event details TBA. |
| April 8 |
Presentation by Astrid Erll, Goethe-University Frankfurt - "Pandemics in/and Collective Memory: Covid as Mnemonic Seismograph", 12:00-1:30 PM. Sponsored by Memory in the Disciplines, an initiative of the Departments of Sociology and English, with support from the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Co-sponsored by HISB. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration details TBA. |
| April 12 |
Symposium, "Global & Local Dimensions of the Plastics Crisis", 6:45-8:45 PM. Sponsored by Africana Studies, the Safina Center and HISB.Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration details TBA. |
| April 19 |
Faculty book discussion by Margarethe Adams/MUS, "Almaty Under Duress: Protest and Temporality in Kazakhstan". Sponsored by AAAS and MUS.Zoom Registration is required for this event. Please click here to register. |
| April 20 |
Lecture by Mari J. Matsuda lawyer, activist & law professor at the University of Hawai'i, "Radical Asian Pacific
Women of 1945: Origins of Critical Race Theory in Multi-racial Resistance", 4:00 PM. Sponsored by the Critical Race Theory Reading Group and HISB. Zoom Registration is required for this event. This event is limited to SBU students, faculty and staff.You must use your SBU e-mail address to register. Please click here to register. |
| April 21 |
Critical Race Theory Panel discussions, 4:00-7:00 PM.Please click here for details. Sponsored by Sponsored by the Critical Race Theory Reading Group and HISB.Zoom Registration is required for this event.This event is limited to SBU students, faculty and staff.You must use your SBU e-mail address to register. Please click here to register. |
| April 26 | Presentation by Pablo Francisco Amador Marrero, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, UNAM, Mexico - , "Indigenous Materiality and Mobility across the Global Spanish Empire: The Cristos
de Caña", 6:00-7:30 PM. Part of the "Pressing Matters" series. In-person in HUM 1008 and via Zoom. Registration required.Please click here to register. |
| April 28 |
A Zoom Conversation with Hillary Chute, Distinguished Professor, Northeastern University “Maus Now: Spiegelman’s Graphic Novel and the Present Tense”. Sponsored by the Empowerment Charitable Trust Endowed Professor in Global Citizenship,
Eric Haralson; English; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and HISB. Zoom registration required. Registration deadling April 27. Please click here to register. |
Fall 2021 Events
In an effort to increase precautionary health measures and reduce community spread
of COVID-19, all HISB events for Fall 2021 will be a mix of virtual and hybrid in-person.
All events are 4:30-6:00 pm 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, event registration and how to log in.
| Date |
Event |
|---|---|
| August 31 |
Zoom Lecture Lecture "Visualizing Covid" with Chantal Zakari from School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Zakari will be discussing
her artist’s book, Drop Dead Gorgeous, 9:30-11:00 AM. Sponsored by The Pandemic Narratives and HISB. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline, August 30. Please click here to register. |
| September 1 | Pedagogy Slam: Teaching in and about Pandemics, a virtual forum for sharing ideas and activities about teaching in and about pandemics, 9:30-11:00 AM. Sponsored by The Pandemic Narratives Initiative and HISB. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline, August 31. Please click here to register. |
| September 2 | Virtual Pedagogy round table discussion - "Teaching About Race: Breaking Through the Misconceptions about Critical Race Theory, Inclusion, and Diversity in the Classroom". Moderated by Tracey Walters/AFS, 6:00-7:30pm. Part of the Abolitionist Futures Initiative. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline September 1. Please click here to register. |
| September 23 | Virtual Round table discussion - "The Post (?) Pandemic University: Month One" Sponsored by The Pandemic Narratives
and HISB. Moderated by Andrew Flescher/EGL & Public Health. Sponsored by The Pandemic Narratives Initiative and HISB. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline September 22.Please click here to register. |
| September 28 | Zoom Faculty Fellows lecture by Paul Firbas/HLL - "Transatlantic and Colonial Media Culture: the Lima Periodical News Sheets
1700-1711" Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline September 27.Please click here to register. |
| September 29 | Zoom Discussion - Pandemic Podcasting, Stony Brook Style. SBU undergrads who are using podcasts to reflect on the pandemic: Melanie Formosa (JRN) host of "Tuesdays with Melanie: the Comeback Podcast" on WUSB; Zarya Shaikh (Biochem and WGSS) one of the hosts, and Jameson Coleman (Physics and Astronomy), the editor of the "Queer Diagnosis" podcast series queerdiagnosis.com, 1:00-2:20 PM. Sponsored by The Pandemic Narratives and HISB. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline September 28.Please click here to register. |
| September 30 | Zoom lecture by Solana Chehtman, Director of Civic Programs at The Shed in NYC, "Public
Engagement & the Social Impact of Culture and Art", 3:00-4:30 PM. Sponsored by Zuccaire Gallery, Staller Center for the Arts at Stony Brook University
and HISB. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline September 29. Please click here to register. |
| October 7 | Zoom lecture by disabled activist Alice Wong. Lecture title TBA. 9:45-11:00 AM. Part of the "Pressing Matters" lecture series. Co-sponsored by Vice President for
Equity and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer at Stony Brook University. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline October 6. Please click here to register. |
| October 13 | Zoom lecture, "Tahar Ben Jelloun: Literature, Racism, Migration, and Literary Translation" - The Author in Conversation with his Translator Rita Nezami, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, on his novel, The Pleasure Marriage. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline October 12. Please click here to register. |
| October 22 | Zoom Lecture by artist, archivist and author, "Cuban Poster Art and the Spirit of
Revolution". Moderated by Eric Zolov/HIS, 3:00-4:30 PM. Sponsored by Zuccaire Gallery, Staller Center for the Arts at Stony Brook University,
Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Art Department and HISB. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline October 21.Please click here to register. |
| October 28 | “Primal Loss: Four Hundred Years of Orpheus and Eurydice in Opera”, a lecture and
recital by award-winning composer Matthew Aucoin and selections performed by soprano
Liv Redpath. Staller Recital Hall, 8:00-9:30 PM. Proof of vaccine or valid exemption required for all attendees. (See stallercenter.com/contact/Covid for details.) Sponsored by the English Department, the Office of the Provost, the Music Department,
the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook, The Hellenic Center, the Graduate Student
Organization, the Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department, the Walt Whitman
Birthplace, and the Walt Whitman Initiative. Click here for more event information. |
| November 3 | Zoom Lecture by Kay Sohini PhD Candidate in English - "Drawing Unbelonging: Climate, Spatiotemporality and Comics".
Part of the Abolitionist Futures Initiative. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline November 2. Registration details TBA. |
| November 16 | Faculty Fellows lecture by Allegra De Laurentiis/PHI, "Commercialization of Everything or Freedom of Commerce? Two Historical Views on Civil Society". Humanities RM 1008. Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline November 15. Please click here to register. |
| November 18 | Zoom lecture by Daphne Brooks, Yale University. Lecture title TBA. Part of the "Pressing Matters" lecture series.
Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline November 17. Please click here to register. |
| November 30 |
Lecture by Jeffrey Santa Ana/EGL - "Environmental Graphic Memory: Transpacific Ecological Imagination in Asian
Diasporic Comics", Humanities RM 1008. Part of the Abolitionist Futures Initiative. Registration details TBA. |
Spring 2021 Events
In an effort to increase precautionary health measures and reduce community spread
of COVID-19, all HISB events for Spring 2021 will be virtual.
All events are 4:00-5:30pm 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, event registration and how to
log in.
| Date |
Event |
|---|---|
| February 3 | Lecture by Cathy N. Davidson, Graduate Center, CUNY, "Revolutionizing Learning". Sponsored by the College of Arts
and Sciences Sir Run Run Shaw Fund, the English Department, The Women's Gender and
Sexuality Studies Department and the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Please click here to register.Registration deadline, February 2. |
| February 11 | Lecture by SA Smythe, UCLA, "Abolition & the Ivory Tower: Cops Off Campus, Cops Off the Planet & Some Lessons from Black Study". Part of the "Abolitionist Futures" series. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline, February 10. Please click here to register. |
| February 15 | A Conversation with Abigail Huston Boggs, Wesleyan University and Nick Mitchell, University of California at Santa Cruz. "Abolitionist University Studies", grappling with higher education’s historical entanglements with racial capitalism and the carceral colonial state. Part of the “Pressing Matters” Lecture Series, 2:30-4:00pm. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline February 14. Please click here to register. |
| February 17 |
Spotlight on College of Arts and Sciences new humanities faculty: George Aumoithe/AFS, Mohamad Ballan/HIS, and Loredana Polezzi/ELLC, 1:00-2:30pm. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline February 16. Please click here to register. |
| March 3 | Italian writer Shirin Ramzanali Fazel in conversation with Loredana Polezzi/ELLC, “Writing About Islam, Narrating a Diaspora”. This event is made possible by funding from the Presidential Mini-Grants for Departmental Diversity and HISB, and is organized in collaboration with the Islamic Society and the Muslim Student Association at Stony Brook University, 1:00-2:30pm. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline March 2. Please click here to register. |
| March 9 | Faculty Lecture by Eric Haralson/English on "Global Citizens, Global Perils: The Limits of an Ideal", 4:30-6:00pm. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline is Mar 8. Please click here to register. |
| March 16 |
Lecture by scholar Sara Ahmed, "Knocking on the Door: Complaints and Other Stories about Institutions", 1:00-2:30pm. Sponsored by the office of the Vice President for Equity & Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department, Concerned Women of CAS, and HISB. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline March 15 Please click here to register. |
| April 6 | Lecture by Fred Everett Maus, University of Virginia. "The B-52s, Loss, and Defiance". Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline April 5. Please click here to register. |
| April 8 | A Zoom Conversation with performing artist Jlin. Part of the Spring 2021 “Pressing Matters” Series, 1:00-2:30pm. Zoom registration is required. Registration deadline April 7. Please click here to register. |
| April 13 |
Public Humanities Fellows lecture by Moisés Hassan Bendahan/PhD candidate in Hispanic Languages and Literature, “Empowerment Through Reading and Visual Storytelling". Zoom registration is required. Registration deadline April 12. Please click here to register. |
| April 15 |
A Conversation with Bernard E. Harcourt, Columbia University. “Towards a Critical Praxis of Equality and Justice: From Foucault’s Discipline and Punishment to Harcourt’s Critique and Praxis”, discussing how Foucault's Discipline & Punish informs points made about equality and justice in his latest book, Critique & Praxis,12:30-2:15pm. Part of the “Pressing Matters” Lecture Series. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline April 14. Please click here to register. |
| April 19 | "Where Campus and Community Meet", the Herstory Writers Workshop Community Workshop Spotlight Zoom Reading. Sponsored by the Herstory Writers Workshop, Long Island and HISB. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline April 14. Please click here to register. |
| April 21 | Lecture and discussion by scholar Garrett Felber, "Scholar Activism: Academic Freedom and the University", 4:00-6:00pm. Co-sponsored by the History Department and HISB. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline April 20.Please click here to register. |
| April 23 | Panel discussion with scholar Garrett Felber, Shobana Shankar/HIS and Robert Chase/HIS, 12:00-1:30pm. Co-sponsored by the History Department and HISB.Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline April 20. Please click here to register. |
| April 29 | A Conversation with Victoria Saramago, University of Chicago. Part of the “Pressing Matters” Lecture Series. "The Brazilian Backlands Reconstructed: Environmental Mimesis in João Guimarães Rosa’s The Devil to Pay in the Backlands", discussing how Brazil's foremost 20th century novel has inspired conservationist initiatives and offered counterpoints to developmentalist policies, and how environmental concerns informed the agenda of its author as essayist and public intellectual. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline April 28. Please click here to register. |
| May 4 | Public Humanities Fellows lecture by Sarah Davis/PhD candidate in English, "Crafting Narratives of Long Island Water". Zoom registration is required. Registration deadline May 3. Please click here to register. |
| May 5 |
“The Art of Confinement”, a multi-disciplinary event highlighting artistic creation under quarantine during the COVID-19 global pandemic. Organized by the HISB Student Advisory Board, 1-2:30pm.Zoom registration is required. Event details and registration information TBA. |
Fall 2020 Events
In an effort to increase precautionary health measures, reduce community spread of
COVID-19, all HISB events for Fall 2020 will be virtual.
All events are 4:00-5:30pm 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 on logging in.
| Date |
Event |
|---|---|
| September 3 | Community Virtual Workshop with Herstory Writers Workshop. Registration is required. Space is limited. Please click here to register. |
| September 10 | Community Virtual Workshop with Herstory Writers Workshop. Registration is required. Space is limited. Please click here to register. |
| September 17 |
Faculty lecture by Zebulon Vance Miletsky/Africana Studies, “How to Be a New Abolitionist: Whiteness Studies & the Origins
of Antiracist Education”. Lea Borenstein, PhD Candidate in English, respondent. Part
of the “Abolitionist Futures” Series. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline September 16. Please click here to register. |
| September 17 | Community Virtual Workshop with Herstory Writers Workshop. Registration is required. Space is limited. Please click here to register. |
| September 21 |
A Conversation with Edwidge Danticat, novelist, essayist on storytelling and how writing about trauma and pain can be a tool to help students make sense of what is incomprehensible and impossible. Part of the “Pressing Matters” Lecture Series. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline September 20. Please click here to register. |
| September 23 |
HISB Faculty Fellows lecture by Anne O’Byrne/Philosphy, “Democratic Violence and the Genocide Continuum”. Zoom Registration is required.Please click here to register. |
| September 24 |
Community Virtual Workshop with Herstory Writers Workshop. Registration is required. Space is limited. Please click here to register. |
| October 1 | Community Virtual Workshop with Herstory Writers Workshop. Registration is required. Space is limited. Please click here to register. |
| October 7 | HISB Virtual Brown Bag: Public Humanities Seminar with Michael Rubenstein/English and Alfreda James/SBU Career Center, “Digital Proficiency in Teaching and Working in the Humanities”,
12:00-1:30pm.Zoom registration is required.Please click here to register. |
| October 7 | Faculty Book Discussion: Eric Zolov/History, “The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties. Mary Kay Vaughan, University of Maryland and Patrick Iber, University of Wisconsin at Madison, respondents. Co-sponsored by Latin American & Caribbean Studies and the Institute for Globalization Studies at Stony Brook. Zoom registration is required for this event.Please click here to register. |
| October 8 |
CommunityVirtual Workshop with Herstory Writers Workshop. Registration is required. Space is limited. Please click here to register. |
| October 12 | A Conversation with Sebastián Calfuqueo Aliste, Mapuche visual artist. They will present about their recent work, contemporary Chilean politics, and the ongoing extractive industries in Wallmapu. Part of the “Pressing Matters” Lecture Series, 6:00-7:30pm.Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline October 11.Please click here to register. |
| October 15 |
Community Virtual Workshop with Herstory Writers Workshop. Registration is required. Space is limited. Please click here to register. |
| October 16 | HISB Virtual Brown Bag: “Irrigation Technology and Women’s Empowerment in India – A look at the Process from the Ground Up”. Conversations with the working partners in this ongoing project. Peggy Spitzer Christoff, Stony Brook University and Jamie M. Sommer, Co-Researcher, University of South Florida, 12:00-1:30pm. Registration required. Please click here to register. Made possible by support from the Faculty in the Arts, Humanities and lettered Social Sciences (FAHSS) Fund, Stony Brook University Libraries and HISB. |
| October 21 | HISB Faculty Fellows lecture by Heejeong Sohn/Asian and Asian American Studies, “Modernities in Motion: Coincidental Rises of Nationalism and Vernacular Photography in Late Chosŏn Korea (1905-1910)”, 4:30pm.Zoom registration is required. Please click here to register. |
| October 22 | Lecture by Jill H. Casid, University of Wisconsin-Madison, speaking on their forthcoming two-book project,
Form at the Edges of Life. Part of the Art History and Criticism Lecture Series. Co-sponsored by the Art History
Department. Zoom registration required. Please click here to register. |
| October 23 | Graduate Seminar by Jill H. Casid, University of Wisconsin-Madison will conduct a seminar discussion for graduate students on “the performative, (or, rather, deformative) work of the photograph at the intersection of queer theory, institutional critique, and the question of the relation to the non-historicity or necessarily unfinished and unresolved of the once contemporary.” Part of the Art History and Criticism Lecture Series. Co-sponsored by the Art History Department, 3:00-5:00pm. Zoom registation required. Please click here to register. Deadline, Thursday, October 15. |
| October 28 | A Conversation with Simon Balto, University of Iowa on the historical context of police brutality and systematic
racism. Part of the “Pressing Matters” Lecture Series, 4:30-6:00pm. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline October 27.Click here to register. |
| October 29 |
Community Virtual Workshop with Herstory Writers Workshop. Registration is required. Space is limited. Please click here to register. |
| November 5 |
Community Virtual Workshop with Herstory Writers Workshop. Registration is required. Space is limited. Please click here to register. |
| November 12 | Lecture by Yalile Suriel, PhD candidate in History, "Policing University Space: How Law and Order Infiltrated the Campus". Robert Chase/History, respondent. Part of the “Abolitionist Futures” Series. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration dedaline Nov 11.Click here to register. |
| November 12 | Community Virtual Workshop with Herstory Writers Workshop. Registration is required. Space is limited. Please click here to register. |
| November 13 | HISB Virtual Brown Bag: “Irrigation Technology and Women’s Empowerment in India –
A look at the Process from the Ground Up”. Conversations with the working partners
in this ongoing project. Speaker Victoria Pilato, Digital Projects Librarian, Stony
Brook University, Libraries, Shafeek Fazal, Acting Dean, Stony Brook University Libraries,
Christian Marc Schmidt, Principal, Schema Design and Erin Kendig and Project Coordinator,
Schema Design, 12-1:30pm. Registration required. Please click here to register. Made possible by support from the Faculty in the Arts, Humanities and lettered Social
Sciences (FAHSS) Fund, Stony Brook University Libraries and HISB. |
| November 18 |
HISB Faculty Fellows lecture by August Sheehy/Music, “Liberal Fantasies, Musical Forms”. Zoom registration is required. Please click here to register. |
| November 19 | Community Virtual Workshop with Herstory Writers Workshop. Registration is required. Space is limited. Please click here to register. |
| December 3 |
“Human” Afterlives - How technology is changing what it means to be human.Registration is required.Please click here to register. |
| December 3 | Community Virtual Workshop with Herstory Writers Workshop. Registration is required. Space is limited. Please click here to register. |
| December 8 | A Conversations with Tyshawn Sorey, musician and composer, on his reflections on composing in the 21st Century. Part of the “Pressing Matters” Lecture Series, 5:00-6:30pm. Zoom Registration is required for this event.Please click here to register. |
Spring 2020 Events
Update: March 12, 2020: In an effort to increase precautionary health measures, reduce community spread of
COVID-19, and ensure the successful conclusion of the spring 2020 semester for Stony
Brook University students, beginning March 23, 2020 the university will move to remote
instruction.As a result, all remaining HISB events have been postponed and will be rescheduled
in Fall 2020 or the earliest possible date. Please continue to check our website for updates.
Fall 2019 Events
All events begin 4pm and are held in 1008 Humanities unless otherwise noted. Dates,
times, and locations of HISB events are subject to change.