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The series seeks to address issues that have acquired wide public visibility in the
current moment from a scholarly, artistic, literary, activist, or critical perspective.
Topics include the pandemic, confinement, BLM, protests, new-nationalisms, global
realignment, environmental emergencies, vulnerable groups.
To download a pdf of the event poster, click here.
To view the Spring 2021 call for proposals for SBU CAS humanities faculty, click here.
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Monday, September 21, 2020 4:00-5:30pm
A Conversation with Edwidge Danticat, Novelist, Essayist
She will discuss storytelling and how writing about trauma and pain can be a tool
to help students make sense of what is incomprehensible and impossible. Zoom Registration is required.Registration deadline September 20.Please click here to register.
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Monday, October 12, 2020 6:00-7:30pm
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. Zoom Registration is required.Registration deadline October 11. Please click here to register.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2020 4:30-6:00pm
A Conversation with Simon Balto, University of Iowa
He will discuss the historical context of police brutality and systematic racism. Zoom Registration is required.Registration deadline October 11.Please click here to register.
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Tuesday, December 8, 2020 5:00-6:30pm
A Conversations with Tyshawn Sorey, Musician and Composer
Students in the music theory and analysis courses of Professors August Sheehy and
Judy Lochhead will engage in conversation with composer and improviser Tyshawn Sorey,
MacArthur grant winner and Presidential Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania.
The discussion will focus on Invisible Ritual, a largely improvised work created by Sorey and violinist Jennifer Curtis, the recording
of which was released on New Focus Recordings earlier in 2020. Students will share
and discuss their analyses of the work with Sorey and discuss creative processes in
contemporary music.
The discussion is open to all interested members of the Stony Brook community. You must have a Stony Brook e-mail address to participate.
Zoom Registration is required.Please click here to register.
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Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti and was raised by her aunt and uncle there. At the age of 12 she
and her brothers joined her parents in the United States. A prolific writer of multiple
genres, her books include Breath, Eyes, Memory; Krik? Krak!; The Farming of Bones; The Dew Breaker; Brother, I’m Dying;The Art of Death; and Everything Inside. Her memoir, Brother, I'm Dying, was a 2007 finalist for the National Book Award and a 2008 winner of the National
Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. She is a 2009 MacArthur fellow, a 2018
Ford Foundation “The Art of Change” fellow, and the winner of the 2018 Neustadt International
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Of Mapuche origin, Sebastián Calfuqueo Aliste’s work appeals to their cultural inheritance in order to propose a critical reflection
on the social, cultural and political status of the Mapuche subject in contemporary
Chilean society and Latin America. Spanning installation, ceramics, performance and
video art, their work explores the cultural similarities and differences as well as
the stereotypes produced from the cross between indigenous and western ways of thinking.
Their work has been exhibited in many countries across the Americas, Europe and Australia.
More recently, they were awarded with the Municipalidad de Santiago award in 2017
and Premio Fundación FAVA in 2018.
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Simon Balto teaches, researches, and writes about African American history in the United States
in the University of Iowa’s Department of History. His research has been funded by
multiple fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American
Council of Learned Societies, and the Mellon Foundation, among others. His first book, Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power which explores the development of a police system in Chicago’s Black neighborhoods,
won the Hooks Institute’s National Book Award on the American Civil Rights Movement
and its legacy. His writing has also appeared in TIME magazine, The Washington Post, The Progressive, the Journal of African American History, Labor, and numerous other popular and scholarly outlets.
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Newark-born Newark-born multi-instrumentalist and composer Tyshawn Sorey is celebrated for his incomparable virtuosity, effortless mastery and memorization
of highly complex scores, and an extraordinary ability to blend composition and improvisation
in his work. Sorey has composed works for major orchestras and performers nationwide,
while his music has been performed at notable venues such as the Walt Disney Concert
Hall, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the Newport Jazz Festival,
to name a few. He has performed nationally and internationally with his own ensembles,
as well as artists such as John Zorn, Vijay Iyer, Roscoe Mitchell, Muhal Richard Abrams,
and Wadada Leo Smith. Sorey has released twelve critically acclaimed recordings that
feature his work as a composer, co-composer, improviser, multi-instrumentalist, and
conceptualist. Among his awards, he was the 2015 recipient of the Doris Duke Impact
Award and was named a 2017 MacArthur fellow. Sorey will join the faculty at the University
of Pennsylvania in Fall 2020.
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