Upcoming Events

2026 Social Justice Summer Grants Roundtable

Thursday, October 22, 2026
12 - 2 pm
Humanities 1009, SBU

 

Join CCSP for a roundtable featuring 2026 summer grantees. Students will share their research, creative work, and community-based projects, and reflect on what they learned, the impact of their work, and what comes next.

• Julian Maceren (PhD student, Chemistry) - "Towards a Waste-Free Community: Quantifying Waste Production at Stony Brook University to Establish a Zero-Waste Plan"
• Megan Knighton (PhD student, History) - "Disentangling Stories of Violence and Mental Illness through Oral History"
• Neha Yalamanchi (Undergraduate student, major in Biology & minor in Health, Medicine, and Society) - "Home After Stroke on Long Island: A Community-Based Stroke Recovery Resource"
• Angelina Goura Mancini (Undergraduate student, double major in Africana Studies and Anthropology) - "Death by Incarceration"

Te Ata's Travels: Reflections on Global Indigeneity. A Talk with Anne Lambright

Wednesday, November 4, 2026
3:30 pm
Humanities 1008, SBU

 

Today terms like “global” and “transnational” indigeneity provide important frameworks for understanding Native peoples, movements, intellectualism, and aesthetics. But when does our contemporary sense of a global Indigenous consciousness emerge?

Indigenous peoples have always been “global,” travelling and connecting with others beyond their homelands. In the Americas, these routes and relations were interrupted by 16th century European colonialism and were effectively halted for centuries. That is until activist exchange in the 1960s and ‘70s renewed global Indigenous solidarities. By examining the international travel of renowned Chickasaw actress and storyteller, Te Ata Thompson (1895-1995), specifically her journey to Peru in 1937, this talk argues that a contemporary global indigenous consciousness among US-based Native Americans can partially trace its roots to the travels, networks, and writings of Native artists decades earlier.

Cosponsored by: Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, Department of Sociology, and Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.