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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.

Date	Event
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.