2019 - 2022 "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 semesters 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 2021 Events
In an effort to increase precautionary health measures and reduce community spread
of COVID-19,
all HISB events for Fall 2021 will be a mix of virtual and hybrid in-person.
All events are 4:30-6:00 pm 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, event registration and how to log in.
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August 31 |
Zoom Lecture Lecture "Visualizing Covid" with
Chantal Zakari from School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Zakari will be discussing
her artist’s book, Drop Dead Gorgeous,
9:30-11:00 AM. Sponsored by The Pandemic Narratives and HISB.
Zoom Registration is required for this event.
Registration deadline, August 30.
Please click here to register.
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| September 1 | Pedagogy Slam: Teaching in and about Pandemics, a virtual forum for sharing ideas and activities about teaching in and about pandemics, 9:30-11:00 AM. Sponsored by The Pandemic Narratives Initiative and HISB. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline, August 31. Please click here to register. |
| September 2 | Virtual Pedagogy round table discussion - "Teaching About Race: Breaking Through the Misconceptions about Critical Race Theory, Inclusion, and Diversity in the Classroom". Moderated by Tracey Walters/AFS, 6:00-7:30pm. Part of the Abolitionist Futures Initiative. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline September 1. Please click here to register. |
| September 23 |
Virtual Round table discussion - "The Post (?) Pandemic University: Month One" Sponsored by The Pandemic Narratives
and HISB. Moderated by
Andrew Flescher/EGL & Public Health. Sponsored by The Pandemic Narratives Initiative and HISB.
Zoom Registration is required for this event.
Registration deadline
September 22.
Please click here to register.
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| September 28 |
Zoom Faculty Fellows lecture by
Paul Firbas/HLL - "Transatlantic and Colonial Media Culture: the Lima Periodical News Sheets
1700-1711"
Zoom Registration is required for this event.
Registration deadline
September 27.
Please click here to register. |
| September 29 | Zoom Discussion - Pandemic Podcasting, Stony Brook Style. SBU undergrads who are using podcasts to reflect on the pandemic: Melanie Formosa (JRN) host of "Tuesdays with Melanie: the Comeback Podcast" on WUSB; Zarya Shaikh (Biochem and WGSS) one of the hosts, and Jameson Coleman (Physics and Astronomy), the editor of the "Queer Diagnosis" podcast series queerdiagnosis.com, 1:00-2:20 PM. Sponsored by The Pandemic Narratives and HISB. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline September 28. Please click here to register. |
| September 30 |
Zoom lecture by Solana Chehtman, Director of Civic Programs at The Shed in NYC, "Public
Engagement & the Social Impact of Culture and Art",
3:00-4:30 PM. Sponsored by Zuccaire Gallery, Staller Center for the Arts at Stony Brook University
and HISB.
Zoom Registration is required for this event.
Registration deadline
September 29.
Please click here to register. |
| October 7 |
Zoom lecture by disabled activist
Alice Wong. Lecture title TBA.
9:45-11:00 AM. Part of the "Pressing Matters" lecture series. Co-sponsored by Vice President for
Equity and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer at Stony Brook University.
Zoom Registration is required for this event.
Registration deadline
October 6.
Please click here to register. |
| October 13 | Zoom lecture, "Tahar Ben Jelloun: Literature, Racism, Migration, and Literary Translation" - The Author in Conversation with his Translator Rita Nezami, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, on his novel, The Pleasure Marriage. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline October 12. Please click here to register. |
| October 22 |
Zoom Lecture by artist, archivist and author, "Cuban Poster Art and the Spirit of
Revolution". Moderated by Eric Zolov/HIS,
3:00-4:30 PM. Sponsored by Zuccaire Gallery, Staller Center for the Arts at Stony Brook University,
Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Art Department and HISB.
Zoom Registration is required for this event.
Registration deadline
October 21.
Please click here to register. |
| October 28 |
“Primal Loss: Four Hundred Years of Orpheus and Eurydice in Opera”, a lecture and
recital by award-winning composer Matthew Aucoin and selections performed by soprano
Liv Redpath.
Staller Recital Hall, 8:00-9:30 PM. Proof of vaccine or valid exemption required for all attendees. (See
stallercenter.com/contact/Covid for details.)
Sponsored by the English Department, the Office of the Provost, the Music Department,
the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook, The Hellenic Center, the Graduate Student
Organization, the Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department, the Walt Whitman
Birthplace, and the Walt Whitman Initiative.
Click here for more event information.
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| November 3 |
Zoom Lecture by
Kay Sohini PhD Candidate in English - "Drawing Unbelonging: Climate, Spatiotemporality and Comics".
Part of the Abolitionist Futures Initiative.
Zoom Registration is required for this event.
Registration deadline
November 2.
Registration details TBA. |
| November 16 | Faculty Fellows lecture by Allegra De Laurentiis/PHI, "Commercialization of Everything or Freedom of Commerce? Two Historical Views on Civil Society". Humanities RM 1008. Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline November 15. Please click here to register. |
| November 18 |
Zoom lecture by
Daphne Brooks, Yale University. Lecture title TBA. Part of the "Pressing Matters" lecture series.
Zoom Registration is required for this event.
Registration deadline
November 17.
Please click here to register. |
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November 30 |
Lecture by
Jeffrey Santa Ana/EGL - "Environmental Graphic Memory: Transpacific Ecological Imagination in Asian
Diasporic Comics",
Humanities RM 1008. Part of the Abolitionist Futures Initiative.
Registration details TBA. |
Spring 2021 Events
In an effort to increase precautionary health measures and reduce community spread
of COVID-19,
all HISB events for Spring 2021 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, event registration and how to
log in.
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Date |
Event |
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| February 3 | Lecture by
Cathy N. Davidson, Graduate Center, CUNY, "Revolutionizing Learning". Sponsored by the College of Arts
and Sciences Sir Run Run Shaw Fund, the English Department, The Women's Gender and
Sexuality Studies Department and the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook.
Zoom Registration is required for this event.
Please click here to register.
Registration deadline, February 2.
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| February 11 | Lecture by SA Smythe, UCLA, "Abolition & the Ivory Tower: Cops Off Campus, Cops Off the Planet & Some Lessons from Black Study". Part of the "Abolitionist Futures" series. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline, February 10. Please click here to register. |
| February 15 | A Conversation with Abigail Huston Boggs, Wesleyan University and Nick Mitchell, University of California at Santa Cruz. "Abolitionist University Studies", grappling with higher education’s historical entanglements with racial capitalism and the carceral colonial state. Part of the “Pressing Matters” Lecture Series, 2:30-4:00pm. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline February 14. Please click here to register. |
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February 17 |
Spotlight on College of Arts and Sciences new humanities faculty: George Aumoithe/AFS, Mohamad Ballan/HIS, and Loredana Polezzi/ELLC, 1:00-2:30pm. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline February 16. Please click here to register. |
| March 3 | Italian writer Shirin Ramzanali Fazel in conversation with Loredana Polezzi/ELLC, “Writing About Islam, Narrating a Diaspora”. This event is made possible by funding from the Presidential Mini-Grants for Departmental Diversity and HISB, and is organized in collaboration with the Islamic Society and the Muslim Student Association at Stony Brook University, 1:00-2:30pm. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline March 2. Please click here to register. |
| March 9 |
Faculty Lecture by
Eric Haralson/English on "Global Citizens, Global Perils: The Limits of an Ideal",
4:30-6:00pm. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline is Mar 8.
Please click here to register. |
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March 16 |
Lecture by scholar Sara Ahmed, "Knocking on the Door: Complaints and Other Stories about Institutions", 1:00-2:30pm. Sponsored by the office of the Vice President for Equity & Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department, Concerned Women of CAS, and HISB. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline March 15 Please click here to register. |
| April 6 | Lecture by Fred Everett Maus, University of Virginia. "The B-52s, Loss, and Defiance". Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline April 5 . Please click here to register. |
| April 8 | A Zoom Conversation with performing artist Jlin. Part of the Spring 2021 “Pressing Matters” Series, 1:00-2:30pm . Zoom registration is required. Registration deadline April 7. Please click here to register. |
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April 13 |
Public Humanities Fellows lecture by Moisés Hassan Bendahan/PhD candidate in Hispanic Languages and Literature, “Empowerment Through Reading and Visual Storytelling". Zoom registration is required. Registration deadline April 12. Please click here to register. |
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April 15 |
A Conversation with Bernard E. Harcourt, Columbia University. “Towards a Critical Praxis of Equality and Justice: From Foucault’s Discipline and Punishment to Harcourt’s Critique and Praxis”, discussing how Foucault's Discipline & Punish informs points made about equality and justice in his latest book, Critique & Praxis, 12:30-2:15pm. Part of the “Pressing Matters” Lecture Series. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline April 14. Please click here to register. |
| April 19 | "Where Campus and Community Meet", the Herstory Writers Workshop Community Workshop Spotlight Zoom Reading . Sponsored by the Herstory Writers Workshop, Long Island and HISB. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline April 14. Please click here to register. |
| April 21 | Lecture and discussion by scholar Garrett Felber, "Scholar Activism: Academic Freedom and the University", 4:00-6:00pm. Co-sponsored by the History Department and HISB. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline April 20. Please click here to register. |
| April 23 | Panel discussion with scholar Garrett Felber, Shobana Shankar/HIS and Robert Chase/HIS, 12:00-1:30pm. Co-sponsored by the History Department and HISB. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline April 20. Please click here to register. |
| April 29 | A Conversation with Victoria Saramago, University of Chicago. Part of the “Pressing Matters” Lecture Series. "The Brazilian Backlands Reconstructed: Environmental Mimesis in João Guimarães Rosa’s The Devil to Pay in the Backlands", discussing how Brazil's foremost 20th century novel has inspired conservationist initiatives and offered counterpoints to developmentalist policies, and how environmental concerns informed the agenda of its author as essayist and public intellectual. Zoom Registration is required for this event. Registration deadline April 28. Please click here to register. |
| May 4 | Public Humanities Fellows lecture by Sarah Davis/PhD candidate in English, "Crafting Narratives of Long Island Water". Zoom registration is required. Registration deadline May 3. Please click here to register. |
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May 5 |
“The Art of Confinement”, a multi-disciplinary event highlighting artistic creation under quarantine during the COVID-19 global pandemic. Organized by the HISB Student Advisory Board, 1-2:30pm. Zoom registration is required. Event details and registration information TBA. |
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.
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.