
The 2017–2018 academic year programming at HISB, DISSENT!: CURRENTS AND COUNTERCURRENTS.  
Multi-Day Conference:
“Caribbean Cosmopolis: Timeports of Modernity", Oct 12-13, 2017
Fall 2017 Events
All event are at 4pm in 1008 Humanities unless otherwise noted
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                               September 14  | 
                           
                               Jennifer Christine Nash, Northwestern University -- "Love Letter from a Critic, or Notes on the Intersectionality Wars". Part of the Q/F/T* Series. Co-sponsored by Women's Gender & Sexuality Studies and HISB.  | 
                        
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                               September 21  | 
                           
                               Richard Steigmann-Gall, Kent State -- "Resistance and Bystanding: Does the History of Fascism Provide Lessons for Today?"  | 
                        
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                               September 26  | 
                           
                               Women's Gender & Sexually Studies book launch/discussion for The Hormone Myth: How Gender Politics, Junk Science, and Lies About PMS Keep Women Downby dept alumni Robyn Stein DeLuca. Co-sponsored by WGSS and HISB.  | 
                        
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                               September 28  | 
                           
                               Steven Pincus, Yale -- “The Ideological Origins of the Irish Revolution”  | 
                        
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                               October 4  | 
                           
                               Faculty Lunchtime Lecture Series: Women's Gender & Sexuality Studies, 1:00-2:30pm.  | 
                        
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                               October 5  | 
                           
                               Christina Sharpe, Tufts University -- "Reflection on In the Wake: On Blackness and Being"  | 
                        
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                               October 12-13  | 
                           
                               Conference,"Caribbean Cosmopolis: Timeports of Modernity”, 9:00am - 6:00pm Oct 12, 9:00am -1:00pm Oct 13. Co-sponsored by the Hispanic Languages & Literature, Latin American & Caribbean Center and HISB.  | 
                        
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                               October 18  | 
                           
                               Jason Oliver Chang, University of Connecticut, Storrs -- "Anti-Chinese Racism and the Making of the Mexican Mestizo". Co-sponsored by the Confucius Institute and HISB.  | 
                        
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                               October 19  | 
                           
                               Human Rights film festival -- showing of The Great Wall. Co-sponsored by the Confucius Institute and HISB.  | 
                        
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                               October 26  | 
                           
                               Bilingual reading by Italian poet Maria Attanasio, author of Blu della cancellazione. Co-sponsored by European Languages & Literatures and HISB, 5:30pm.Co-sponsored by European Languages and Literatures and HISB.  | 
                        
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                               November 3  | 
                           
                               Conference , "Culture and Identity: The Legacy of Herman Lebovics", 9:00am - 5:30pm. Co-sponsored by History, SBU Alumni Association and HISB.  | 
                        
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                               November 9  | 
                           
                               Lectures by Environmentalists J. Drew Lanham, "The Color of the Land --Southern History and Hang-ups in Conservation"; and Lauret Savoy, "Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape", Rm 1006 Humanities. Co-sponsored by Sustainability Studies, Environment for the Humanities and HISB.  | 
                        
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                               November 14  | 
                           
                               Human Rights film festival -- Silvered Water. Co-sponsored by the Confucius Institute and HISB.  | 
                        
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                               November 16  | 
                           
                               Jason Farr, Texas A&M; Ula Klein, Texas A&M; Rachel Adams, Columbia Univ -- "Fictions of Queerness and Disability" -- panel workshop  | 
                        
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                               December 7  | 
                           
                               Jhasikarn Dhillon, New School -- “Reflections on Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention”  | 
                        
 
 
