Archived Activities and Events from Fall 2007
Saturday, Oct. 6th
Trip to NYC, Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island
Cost: Free, Free, Free
Have you always wanted to see the Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island? This is your chance to get a free train ride in and out of NYC, free metro card and a free tour of the Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island.
Contact Greeley College RA Tahir, at messum45@yahoo.com or 216-4695 to reserve your space today!
Seats are limited - 1st come 1st served! $10 deposit, refunded on the trip when you arrive.
Sponsored by: ERQ Weekend Events RA Committee and GLS
October 11, 2007
Our Way Exhibition Presentation
3:30 - 5:30pm, Wang Center Lecture Hall
The First North American Exhibition Of Work Of Young Aboriginal Artists From Australia’s Tropical Northeast.
Thursday, October 11th 4:00 pm
“From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks”
A Very Special Labor History Event
Location: Wang Center Theater
Description: A one man play about Harry Bridges, founder of the ILWU (International Longshore and Warehouse Union), and the San Francisco General Strike of 1934. The play includes excerpts from Bridges’ rallying speeches, his electrifying testimony at his deportation hearings, and music and video documentation of the actual events. Featuring Ian Ruskin, The Harry Bridges Project
co-sponsored by:
The Center for Study of Working Class Life
Undergraduate College of Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Undergraduate College of Global Studies
United University Professions (UUP - Stony Brook Chapter)
Monday, October 15th
Lessons from Oaxaca: Teacher Organizing in Latin America and New York
Location: Wang Center
Description: An evening of cultural entertainment and political discussion. All over the Americas, teachers are in the forefront of the struggles to protect and expand public education and other services. As teachers, we have close relationships with our students and their families, we are leaders in our communities, and we know the power of education for all our people. We demand that our governments provide excellent services for our people. Teachers, kindergarten through graduate school, all over the hemisphere share these common goals and our success is interdependent with the success of our communities.
Nowhere has this struggle been as intense and dramatic as in Oaxaca, Mexico, where teachers have been on strike for better salaries and learning conditions for their students; they have inspired a mass movement in Oaxaca that has called for a new governor, a new constitution, and a new honoring of students, teachers, workers, and the public sphere.
We invite you to a political and cultural event with food and entertainment, honoring the valiant political work of our fellow teachers in Mexico and relating this work to our own organizing efforts here in NYC. Films on Oaxaca, educational materials, and art from Oaxaca will be on display. Speaking that night will be:
Raquel Cruz-Manzano- Teacher and union leader in Oaxaca, Mexico, on strike for over 16 months, organizing against the repression and state sponsored violence against teachers and other workers.
Hugo Aboites- Sociology Professor at the Metropolitan University of Mexico City and a leader in the union representing their faculty and defending the struggle in Oaxaca.
A light Oaxacan dinner will be served at 5:30 pm and the program will begin at 6pm.
For further information, contact: 212-354-0182.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Undergraduate College Commons Day
Join us as we welcome author Billy Collins to campus.
| 9:00am - 10:30am | Breakfast and Meetings with the Author Student Activities Center Ballroom B,by invitation only |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm | Creative Expression Awards Luncheon Student Activities Center Ballroom B,by invitation only |
| 1:00pm - 2:00pm | Author’s Lecture on First-Year Reading– Sailing Alone Around the Room Staller Center Main Stage Book Signing to follow talk. |
| 3:50pm - 4:45pm | An Interview with the Author Student Activities Center Auditorium |
| 4:45pm | Book Signing Student Activities Center Auditorium |
Download the flyer or the bookmark!
Week of October 22
ERQ Around the World
Date/Time TBA.
Thursday, October 25th 4:00-6:00pm
Scientific Integrity in a Political Climate
Speakers: Andrew Revkin, New York Times Science Correspondent and Francesca Grifo, Director, Union for Scientific Integrity.
Location: SAC Auditorium
Description: The lecture will focus on politics, science policies, and globalization.
Wednesday, October 31st 4:00-6:00pm
The Best of all Worlds
Speaker: Jane L. Delgado, President and CEO, National Alliance for Hispanic Health.
Location: SAC Auditorium
Description: The lecture will link healthcare for Americans (particularly Hispanic Americans), cultural proficiency, transnationalism, and the environment.
Thursday, November 1st 4:00-6:00pm
Muslim-Christian Relations in the 21st Century
Speaker: John L. Esposito, Professor of Religion & International Affairs, and Director, Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University
Location: SAC Ballroom A
Description: The lecture will discuss tension, conflict, and reconciliation in Christian-Muslim relations.
Learn and DEBATE about one of the hottest topics in the global arena. Come and participate!
Brought to you by the College of Global Studies and SBU Model United Nations.
The AIDS Quilt is coming to Stony Brook in commemoration of World AIDS Day. We will have the quilt for one day only: Thursday, November 29th, from 10 am to 10 pm in SAC A. In the morning, there will be a ceremony during which the Quilt will be unfolded, President Kenny will speak, and names will be read. The reading of names will continue throughout the day. Counselors will be available to speak to visitors.
About The Quilt
Founded in 1987, The AIDS Memorial Quilt is a poignant memorial, a powerful tool for use in preventing new HIV infections, and the largest ongoing community arts project in the world.
Each "block" (or section) of The AIDS Memorial Quilt measures approximately twelve feet square, and a typical block consists of eight individual three foot by six foot panels sewn together. Virtually every one of the more than 40,000 colorful panels that make up the Quilt memorializes the life of a person lost to AIDS.
As the epidemic continues claiming lives around the world and here in the United States, the Quilt continues to grow and to reach more communities with its messages of remembrance, awareness and hope.
Monday, December 3rd
Monthly Mondays
Monday, October 1st at 3:30pm
Monday, November 5th at 3:30pm
Monday, December 3rd 3:30pm
Location: Wagner College Lounge
Description: An opportunity to meet and mingle with the Global studies team and peers, socialize, and ask questions relating to the college experience. Refreshments will be served.