2019 - 2021 "Healing: Survival and Resiliency in the Arts and Humanities”
The activities at the HISB will center around the concepts of healing, resiliency and survival as they are explored, practiced, and represented in the Arts and Humanities. We will examine not only the medical aspects of healing, but we will also place equal emphasis on the exploration of healing, resiliency and survival within at the social/community level and at the environmental ones.
Certainly, the recent happenings in connection to my personal health have had a strong impact on my selection of this topic. Beyond that, however, questions of healing, resiliency and survival are central to our understanding and management of current challenges in connection to individual, social, and environmental issues which are perceived as acute crises, and imminent threats. These concepts speak of experiences that are central to the human experience. They also offer a point of interdisciplinary and trans-methodological crossroads of contact and contrast, transecting fields such as medicine, psychology, environmental studies, gender studies, and sociology.
Throughout the year we will explore questions such as:
- How do we recover from illness, violence, loss, exhaustion, grief, and environmental disasters?
- What is the rhetoric of illness and recovery, the metaphors through which they are represented?
- What performative and affective powers do narratives, music, and the visual arts have in relation to illness and healing?
- How does racism interfere with the delivery of medical care?
- Which bodies meet with a refusal of empathy?
- How do medical technologies enhancing life-extension and fertility affect our human experience?
- Are there alternatives to reconciliation, or reparation to deal with historical trauma and difficult pasts?
- What is the role of the humanities in the Anthropocene?
Fall 2020 Events
In an effort to increase precautionary health measures, reduce community spread of
COVID-19,
all HISB events for Fall 2020 will be virtual.
All events are 4:00-5:30pm unless otherwise noted. Dates and times of HISB events
are subject to change. Please continue to check our website for updates and detailed
event information on logging in.
Date |
Event |
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September 3 | Community Virtual Workshop with Herstory Writers Workshop. Registration is required. Space is limited. Please click here to register. |
September 10 | Community Virtual Workshop with Herstory Writers Workshop. Registration is required. Space is limited. Please click here to register. |
September 17 |
Faculty lecture by
Zebulon Vance Miletsky/Africana Studies, “How to Be a New Abolitionist: Whiteness Studies & the Origins
of Antiracist Education”. Lea Borenstein, PhD Candidate in English, respondent. Part
of the “Abolitionist Futures” Series.
Zoom Registration is required for this event.
Registration deadline September 16.
Please click here to register.
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September 17 | Community Virtual Workshop with Herstory Writers Workshop. Registration is required. Space is limited. Please click here to register. |
September 21 |
A Conversation with Edwidge Danticat, novelist, essayist on storytelling and how writing about trauma and pain can be a tool to help students make sense of what is incomprehensible and impossible. Part of the “Pressing Matters” Lecture Series. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline September 20. Please click here to register. |
September 23 |
HISB Faculty Fellows lecture by Anne O’Byrne/Philosphy, “Democratic Violence and the Genocide Continuum”. Zoom Registration is required. Please click here to register. |
September 24 |
Community Virtual Workshop with Herstory Writers Workshop. Registration is required. Space is limited. Please click here to register. |
October 1 | Community Virtual Workshop with Herstory Writers Workshop. Registration is required. Space is limited. Please click here to register. |
October 7 |
HISB Virtual Brown Bag: Public Humanities Seminar with
Michael Rubenstein/English and
Alfreda James/SBU Career Center, “Digital Proficiency in Teaching and Working in the Humanities”,
12:00-1:30pm.
Zoom registration is required.
Please click here to register.
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October 7 | Faculty Book Discussion: Eric Zolov/History, “ The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties. Mary Kay Vaughan, University of Maryland and Patrick Iber, University of Wisconsin at Madison, respondents. Co-sponsored by Latin American & Caribbean Studies and the Institute for Globalization Studies at Stony Brook. Zoom registration is required for this event. Please click here to register. |
October 8 |
CommunityVirtual Workshop with Herstory Writers Workshop. Registration is required. Space is limited. Please click here to register. |
October 12 | A Conversation with Sebastián Calfuqueo Aliste, Mapuche visual artist. They will present about their recent work, contemporary Chilean politics, and the ongoing extractive industries in Wallmapu. Part of the “Pressing Matters” Lecture Series, 6:00-7:30pm. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline October 11. Please click here to register. |
October 15 |
Community Virtual Workshop with Herstory Writers Workshop. Registration is required. Space is limited. Please click here to register. |
October 16 | HISB Virtual Brown Bag: “Irrigation Technology and Women’s Empowerment in India – A look at the Process from the Ground Up”. Conversations with the working partners in this ongoing project. Peggy Spitzer Christoff, Stony Brook University and Jamie M. Sommer, Co-Researcher, University of South Florida, 12:00-1:30pm. Registration required. Please click here to register. Made possible by support from the Faculty in the Arts, Humanities and lettered Social Sciences (FAHSS) Fund, Stony Brook University Libraries and HISB. |
October 21 | HISB Faculty Fellows lecture by Heejeong Sohn/Asian and Asian American Studies, “Modernities in Motion: Coincidental Rises of Nationalism and Vernacular Photography in Late Chosŏn Korea (1905-1910)”, 4:30pm. Zoom registration is required. Please click here to register. |
October 22 | Lecture by
Jill H. Casid, University of Wisconsin-Madison, speaking on their forthcoming two-book project,
Form at the Edges of Life
.
Part of the Art History and Criticism Lecture Series. Co-sponsored by the Art History
Department. Zoom registration required.
Please click here to register.
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October 23 | Graduate Seminar by Jill H. Casid, University of Wisconsin-Madison will conduct a seminar discussion for graduate students on “the performative, (or, rather, deformative) work of the photograph at the intersection of queer theory, institutional critique, and the question of the relation to the non-historicity or necessarily unfinished and unresolved of the once contemporary.” Part of the Art History and Criticism Lecture Series. Co-sponsored by the Art History Department, 3:00-5:00pm. Zoom r egistation required. Please click here to register. Deadline, Thursday, October 15. |
October 28 |
A Conversation with
Simon Balto, University of Iowa on the historical context of police brutality and systematic
racism. Part of the “Pressing Matters” Lecture Series,
4:30-6:00pm.
Zoom Registration is required for this event.
Registration deadline October 27.
Click here to register.
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October 29 |
Community Virtual Workshop with Herstory Writers Workshop. Registration is required. Space is limited. Please click here to register. |
November 5 |
Community Virtual Workshop with Herstory Writers Workshop. Registration is required. Space is limited. Please click here to register. |
November 12 | Lecture by Yalile Suriel, PhD candidate in History, "Policing University Space: How Law and Order Infiltrated the Campus". Robert Chase/History, respondent. Part of the “Abolitionist Futures” Series. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration dedaline Nov 11. Click here to register. |
November 12 | Community Virtual Workshop with Herstory Writers Workshop. Registration is required. Space is limited. Please click here to register . |
November 13 | HISB Virtual Brown Bag: “Irrigation Technology and Women’s Empowerment in India –
A look at the Process from the Ground Up”. Conversations with the working partners
in this ongoing project. Speaker Victoria Pilato, Digital Projects Librarian, Stony
Brook University, Libraries, Shafeek Fazal, Acting Dean, Stony Brook University Libraries,
Christian Marc Schmidt, Principal, Schema Design and Erin Kendig and Project Coordinator,
Schema Design
, 12-1:30pm. Registration required.
Please click here to register. Made possible by support from the Faculty in the Arts, Humanities and lettered Social
Sciences (FAHSS) Fund, Stony Brook University Libraries and HISB.
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November 18 |
HISB Faculty Fellows lecture by August Sheehy/Music, “Liberal Fantasies, Musical Forms”. Zoom registration is required. Please click here to register. |
November 19 | Community Virtual Workshop with Herstory Writers Workshop. Registration is required. Space is limited. Please click here to register. |
December 3 |
“Human” Afterlives - How technology is changing what it means to be human. Registration is required. Please click here to register. |
December 3 | Community Virtual Workshop with Herstory Writers Workshop. Registration is required. Space is limited. Please click here to register. |
December 8 | A Conversations with Tyshawn Sorey, musician and composer, on his reflections on composing in the 21st Century. Part of the “Pressing Matters” Lecture Series, 5:00-6:30pm. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Please click here to register. |
Spring 2020 Events
Update: March 12, 2020:
In an effort to increase precautionary health measures, reduce community spread of
COVID-19, and ensure the successful conclusion of the spring 2020 semester for Stony
Brook University students, beginning March 23, 2020 the university will move to remote
instruction
.
As a result, all remaining HISB events have been postponed and will be rescheduled
in Fall 2020 or the earliest possible date
.
Please continue to check our website for updates.
Fall 2019 Events
All events begin 4pm and are held in 1008 Humanities unless otherwise noted. Dates,
times, and locations of HISB events are subject to change.