Events

2011-12 CALENDAR


Spring 2012 (download in PDF format)

Tuesday, February 14, 12:50 PM - 2:10 PM, SBS N320
New Interdisciplinary Perspectives - "Why a World of Many Flags: Privateering and the Strange Sovereignty of The Provincial Oriental"
Lauren Benton, New York University - History Department

Wednesday, March 14, 12:50 PM to 2:00 PM, SBS N403
Stony Brook Faculty Workshop- "What can the Arab Revolution of 2011 and the Iranian Revolution of 1979 add to the Comparative Sociology of Revolution"
Said Arjomand , Stony Brook University - Sociology Department

Fall 2011

Wednesday, September 28th, 12:50 PM to 2:00 PM, SBS N-320
Faculty Workshop - "The Third World in the Two Germanys: An Entangled History of the Cold War and Decolonization"
Young-Sun Hong, Stony Brook University - History Department

Wednesday, October 19th, 12:50 PM to 2:00 PM, SBS N-320
New Interdisciplinary Perspectives - "Why State Strength and Weakness Persist: The Social Origins of State Power in 20th Century Latin America"
Hillel Soifer, Temple University - Department of Political Science

2010-11 CALENDAR



Spring 2011

Thursday, March 24th, 12:00 Noon to 2:00 PM
Author Meets Critic Session
Robin Wagner-Pacifici, New School, will comment on the recently published book "Human Rights and Memory" by Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider (Penn State Press, 2010).

Thursday, April 28th - Saturday, April 30th
National Borders in the 21st Century - XXXVth Conference of the Political Economy of the World System (PEWS)
Keynote Speakers include Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University, and Ulrich Beck, University of Munich and the London School of Economics

Fall 2010 (download in pdf format)

Tuesday, September 21st, 12:50 pm,
FICTIVE KIN: RACE AND FAMILY IN AMERICAN IMMIGRATION POLICY
Catherine Lee, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University

Tuesday, October 19th, 2:20 pm,
IN THE INTERSTICES OF EMPIRES: CHINESE TRANSOCEANIC LABOR & CROSS-CULTURAL NETWORKS IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Iona Man-Cheong, Department of History, Stony Brook University

Wednesday, November 3rd, 12:50 pm,
CULINARY NATIONALISM
Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, Department of Sociology, Columbia University

2009-10 CALENDAR

Spring 2010 (download in pdf format)

Thursday, February 11, 12:50 pm, STONY BROOK FACULTY WORKSHOP
DISGUST, C. 1610, FARINGDON WARD WITHOUT
Benedict Robinson, Department of English, Stony Brook University

Tuesday, March 9, 12:50 pm, NEW RESEARCH IN HISTORICAL SOCIAL SCIENCES
MURDER AND POLITICS IN TWENTIETH CENTURY MEXICO
Pablo Piccato, Department of History, Columbia University. Director of ILAS - Institute of Latin American Studies

Wednesday, April 14, 12:50 - 2:10 pm, NEW CROSS-DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES
HUMAN HISTORY AND POLITICAL BEHAVIOR - RICH NEW LESSONS FROM EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
Paul Bingham and Joanne Souza, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University

Fall 2009

Unless indicated, all events meet on Wednesdays at 12:50-2:15 pm in SBS N320. (Download Calendar in adobe pdf format).

Wednesday, September 30, 12:50 pm EMPIRE AND TOLERATION: SOME COMPARATIVE THOUGHTS
KAREN BARKEY, Department of Sociology, Columbia University

Photo from the Barkey Colloquium

Wednesday, October 28, 12:50 pm LAW, CRIME AND SOVEREIGNTY ON THE HYDERABAD-BOMBAY FRONTIER
ERIC BEVERLEY, Department of History, Stony Brook University

Wednesday, November 18, 12:50 - 2:10 pm, BE A SHAREHOLDER IN VICTORY! FINANCIAL NATIONALISM AND THE AMERICAN CITIZEN INVESTOR IN WORLD WAR I
JULIA CATHLEEN OTT, Committee on Historical Studies, The New School for Social Research

2008-09 CALENDAR

Spring 2009

Unless indicated, all events meet on Wednesdays at 12:50-2:15 pm in SBS N320. (Download Calendar in adobe pdf format). Electronic workshop papers will be available from: www.stonybrook.edu/sociology/ihss/

Wednesday, February 25, 12:50 pm NEW PERSPECTIVE IN HISTORICAL SOCIAL SCIENCES
MIGUEL CENTENO, Department of Sociology, Princeton University
Liberalism without State or Nation

Photo from Centeno Colloquium

Thursday, March 19, 12:50 pm NEW RESEARCH IN HISTORICAL SOCIAL SCIENCES
DONNA GABACCIA, Immigration Research Center, University of Minnesota and Russell Sage Foundation
Nation of Immigrants: Do Words Matter

Wednesday, April 15, 12:50 pm STONY BROOK FACULTY WORKSHOP
ANDREW NEWMAN, Department of English, Stony Brook University
"Writing, Memory, and Native Land: Delawares and Colonists"

Photo from the Newman Colloquium

All talks are followed by a Reception.

Fall 2008 Events
Unless indicated, all events meet on Wednesdays at 12:50-2:10 pm in SBS N320. (Download Calendar in adobe pdf format).

Thursday, September 18, 12:50 pm NEW INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES
JOHN TORPEY, Department of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
"America: Still Crazy After All These Years?"

Thursday, October 16, 12:50 pm SBU FACULTY WORKSHOP
IAN ROXBOROUGH, Departments of Sociology and History, Stony Brook University
"Counter-Insurgency and the History of the Global State System"



2007-08 CALENDAR

Spring 2008
Unless indicated, all events meet on Wednesdays at 12:50-2:15 pm in SBS N320 (Download Calendar in adobe pdf format).

Thursday, February 7, 12:50 pm RESEARCH IN NEW HISTORICAL SOCIAL SCIENCES
JEFFREY OLICK, Department of Sociology, University of Virginia
Why the Angel of Revenge was a Jew: From Psychoanalytic to Cultural Perspectives on Postwar Germany." (Download Paper in Adobe PDF Format)


Photo from Olick Colloquium
Photo from the February 7th colloquium with Jeff Olick



Wednesday, March 12, 12:50 pm PETER SAHLINS, The Social Science Research Council
"Immigration and Nationality in the Old Regime and After: Critical Responses"

Photo from Sahlins talk
Photo from the March 12th colloquium with Peter Sahlins


GRANTS WORKSHOP

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 11:30AM - 12:30PM, SBS N320

Fellowship Opportunities for Graduate Students in the Social Sciences and Humanities from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC)

with

Peter Sahlins and Camile Peretz
Social Science Resaearch Council

Photo from Grants Workshop
Photo from the March 12th Grants Workshop


Wednesday, April 16, 12:50 pm FACULTY WORKSHOP
LARRY FROHMAN, Dept. of History, Stony Brook
Is the Social Always Disciplinary? Genealogies of Welfare and the Meaning of the Social in Germany, 1830 - 1930

Photo from Faculty Workshop
Photo from the 16th Faculty Workshop




Fall 2007
Unless indicated, all events meet on Wednesdays at 12:50-2:15 pm in SBS N320. Electronic workshop papers will be available from dalevy@ms.cc.sunysb.edu. (Download calendar in Adobe pdf format)

Wed., September 19, 12:50 pm FACULTY WORKSHOP
PAUL GOOTENBERG, Dept. of History, Stony Brook
Scientific Research and Global Commodity Chains: The Case of Bignon’s 1880's Cocaine Nationalism in Peru
"Meeting Report" by Can Ersoy

Wed., October 3, 12:50 pm NEW INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES
GEORGE STEINMETZ, Dept. of Sociology, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
The Vagaries of the History-Sociology Relationship in the United States
(Prof. Steinmetz will also participate in the HIS544 Cultural History Seminar at 4:30 pm.)

Wed., November 7, 12:50 pm RESEARCH IN NEW HISTORICAL SOCIAL SCIENCES
OZ FRANKEL, Dept. of History, The New School
The State and Social Investigation: The U.S. and Great Britain in the Nineteenth Century
"Meeting Report" by Can Ersoy

Photo from Oz Colloquium
Photo from the November 7th colloquium with Oz Frankel

All talks are followed by a Reception.

PAST EVENTS

Spring 2007

Feb. 22, 2007:
Inaugural organization meeting for faculty and graduate students from departments of Sociology and History.

March 19, 2007: Internal IHSS Workshop
Herman Lebovics (History): Pierre Bourdieu’s Own Cultural Revolution

April 20, 2007: External IHSS Seminar
Julia Adams (Sociology, Yale): Remaking Modernity: Politics, History, and Sociology (Duke University Press, 2006).