Archive for March, 2011

Initiative for Historical Social Sciences (IHSS)

Friday, March 18th, 2011

Spring 2011 Calendar:
Thursday, March 24th, 12:00 Noon to 2:00 PM
Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N320
Author Meets Critic Session
Robin Wagner-Pacifici, New School, will comment on the recently published book “Human Rights and Memory” by Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider (Penn State Press, 2010).
Thursday, April 28th – Saturday, April 30th
Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N320
National Borders in [...]

History of Medicine Lecture

Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

“Reinventing Chronic Disease in the 20th Century”
George Weisz, PhD, McGill University
Cotton-Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine in the
Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill Univ.
I: Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 4:00-5:00 PM
Health Sciences Center, Level 2, Lecture Hall 4
II: Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 12:45-2:00 PM
Social & Behavioral Sciences (SBS), 3rd Floor, N318
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Dominick Cavallo

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

It is my sad duty to inform you of the passing of Professor Dominick Cavallo, a Stony Brook graduate who was Professor of History at Adelphi University. A native of Long Island, he received his bachelor and doctorate degrees from Stony Brook, his dissertation directed by William Taylor and Fred Weinstein. He published often, his [...]

HIS 340-J: PACIFIC ISLANDS: HISTORIES OF PARADISE (Summer 2011)

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

Summer Session II (July 11 – August 18)
TuTh 1:30-4:55
Tiki torches at a luau; hula dancers wearing coconut bras and grass skirts; surf boards floating atop crashing waves; warm welcomes of aloha. Perhaps we automatically conjure up these images when we think of Pacific islands. Yet the history of Pacific islands and peoples is deeper and richer than these [...]