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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
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 initiative 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, 1006 Humanities.
September 26 Ed Kashi/photojournalist and filmmaker. On his experiences photographing vulnerable communities, center on seeking solutions and driving policy change, 3:30-4:50pm in The Wang Center Lecture Hall 2.
October 2
Faculty Lecture by Shabona Shankar/HIS, An Uneasy Embrace: Africa, India, and the Spectre of Race. Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan/New York University, respondent.
October 10 Conference, Hitchhiker's Guide to the British 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 British 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 controversies in Spain regarding architectural sites that date back to the Islamic period.
October 24 Bishakh Som/Indian-American trans-femme cartoonist and architect, on her graphic narrative, Spellbound, 2:00-3:20pm.
October 29
HISB Faculty Fellow lecture by Lena Burgos-Lafuente/HLL, Cosmopolitanism and its Limits: The Caribbean Communist Left.
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, respondent.The Poetry Center, Rm 2001 Humanities.
November 12 HISB Faculty Fellow lecture by Ken Weitzman/EGL, The Theatre of Well-Being.
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.

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.