Events

18Feb Lecture by Mohamad Ballan/HIS - "The Politics of Pandemic: Rethinking the Black Death in Nasrid Granada"This lecture explores the impact of the Black Death upon Islamic Spain during the middle of the fourteenth century....
10Mar Faculty Book Lecture by Patrice Nganang/AFS - "Scale Boy: An African Childhood"Award-winning author, Patrice Nganang, will present his recent book, the memoir of his childhood in Cameroon during the eighties....
25Mar Book Discussion Featuring Joseph Pierce/HLL and Jodi A. Byrd/University of ChicagoBook discussion featuring Joseph Pierce/HLL on his book, "Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair", and Jodi A. Byrd/Universit...
26Mar Conference: “Global Waterways: Between the Natural World and the Built Environment”The conference will explore the ways in which waterways are imagined, traversed, transformed, engineered and lived in different political an...
27Mar Conference: “Global Waterways: Between the Natural World and the Built Environment”The conference will explore the ways in which waterways are imagined, traversed, transformed, engineered and lived in different political an...
30Mar Lecture by Agustina Checa/Lehman College (CUNY) - "From Capitalist Realism to Realistic Utopianism. Imagining and Enacting Alternative Capitalisms Through Cassettes in Argentina"This workshop examines contemporary, grassroots, cassette production and circulation in Argentina to propose a framework to study and amplif...
30Mar A Conversation with Rafal Syska/Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland and Miroslaw Przylipiak/Gdansk University, Gdansk, Poland - "The Discreet Art of Political Dissent: Celebrating the Centennial of Andrzej Wajda"In this conversation, Rafał Syska and Mirosław Przylipiak, alongside Stony Brook’s Izabela Kalinowska-Blackwood will examine key moments...
2Apr A Conversation with Dr. Leo Douglas/New York University - "Reimagining 'Nanny' with Leo Douglas: Narrative Agency and Identity (Re)positioning Through Film"Drawing from his own experience as a documentarian of Jamaican history, Dr. Leo Douglas will discuss how he uses film to re-imagine sociocul...
15Apr Public Humanitie presentation by Beatriz Solla-Vilas/PhD candidate in HLL. Title TBDPresentation by Beatriz Solla-Vilas/PhD candidate in HLL, on her public humanities project creating and implementing a Spanish-language memo...