Archive for October, 2011

Vito Cannavo, Esq., Department Commencement Speaker, 2011

Thursday, October 27th, 2011

Vito Cannavo graduated from Stony Brook in 1975. He received his law degree from Cornell three years later and subsequently served as law clerk to U.S. District Court Judge Mark Constantino. He worked at the New York City Law Department Office of the Corporation Council, before joining and becoming a partner of Sullivan Papain Block [...]

Graduate Core Seminar Recommended Readings, Part 3

Sunday, October 16th, 2011

Colonialism, Capitalism, Modernity
Early Modern Colonialism/Latin America:
Clendinnen, Inga. Ambivalent conquests : Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570. 2nd ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Mignolo, Walter. The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization. 2nd ed. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003.
Capitalism/World Systems:
Abu-Lughod, Janet L. Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350. New [...]

Talk by Andrew Hurley, Monday, Oct. 31, 11:45-1 pm

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

A Continuing Series on Environmental Studies and History Presents:
A talk by Professor Andrew Hurley
University of Missouri, St. Louis
Interpreting History in 3D:Applications of the Virtual City
in Communities, Classrooms, and Scholarship
Professor Hurley, a leading environmental and cultural historian, will speak about his and colleagues’ creation of the Virtual City, a “simulated world of downtown St. Louis from [...]