The 2017–2018 academic year programming at HISB, DISSENT!: CURRENTS AND COUNTERCURRENTS.
Multi-Day Conference:
“Caribbean Cosmopolis: Timeports of Modernity", Oct 12-13, 2017
Fall 2017 Events
All event are at 4pm in 1008 Humanities unless otherwise noted
September 14 |
Jennifer Christine Nash, Northwestern University -- "Love Letter from a Critic, or Notes on the Intersectionality Wars". Part of the Q/F/T* Series. Co-sponsored by Women's Gender & Sexuality Studies and HISB. |
September 21 |
Richard Steigmann-Gall, Kent State -- "Resistance and Bystanding: Does the History of Fascism Provide Lessons for Today?" |
September 26 |
Women's Gender & Sexually Studies book launch/discussion for The Hormone Myth: How Gender Politics, Junk Science, and Lies About PMS Keep Women Downby dept alumni Robyn Stein DeLuca. Co-sponsored by WGSS and HISB. |
September 28 |
Steven Pincus, Yale -- “The Ideological Origins of the Irish Revolution” |
October 4 |
Faculty Lunchtime Lecture Series: Women's Gender & Sexuality Studies, 1:00-2:30pm. |
October 5 |
Christina Sharpe, Tufts University -- "Reflection on In the Wake: On Blackness and Being" |
October 12-13 |
Conference,"Caribbean Cosmopolis: Timeports of Modernity”, 9:00am - 6:00pm Oct 12, 9:00am -1:00pm Oct 13. Co-sponsored by the Hispanic Languages & Literature, Latin American & Caribbean Center and HISB. |
October 18 |
Jason Oliver Chang, University of Connecticut, Storrs -- "Anti-Chinese Racism and the Making of the Mexican Mestizo". Co-sponsored by the Confucius Institute and HISB. |
October 19 |
Human Rights film festival -- showing of The Great Wall. Co-sponsored by the Confucius Institute and HISB. |
October 26 |
Bilingual reading by Italian poet Maria Attanasio, author of Blu della cancellazione. Co-sponsored by European Languages & Literatures and HISB, 5:30pm.Co-sponsored by European Languages and Literatures and HISB. |
November 3 |
Conference , "Culture and Identity: The Legacy of Herman Lebovics", 9:00am - 5:30pm. Co-sponsored by History, SBU Alumni Association and HISB. |
November 9 |
Lectures by Environmentalists J. Drew Lanham, "The Color of the Land --Southern History and Hang-ups in Conservation"; and Lauret Savoy, "Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape", Rm 1006 Humanities. Co-sponsored by Sustainability Studies, Environment for the Humanities and HISB. |
November 14 |
Human Rights film festival -- Silvered Water. Co-sponsored by the Confucius Institute and HISB. |
November 16 |
Jason Farr, Texas A&M; Ula Klein, Texas A&M; Rachel Adams, Columbia Univ -- "Fictions of Queerness and Disability" -- panel workshop |
December 7 |
Jhasikarn Dhillon, New School -- “Reflections on Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention” |