Friday, February 3rd, 2012
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14th
1:00-2:15 PM
Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., Room N320
“A World of Many Flags: Privateering and the Strange Sovereignty of the Provincia Oriental”
Lauren Benton, New York University
Papers will be posted on the IHSS website: http://www.stonybrook.edu/sociology/ihss/events.shtml
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Suzanne Swartz, PhD student in Department of History chosen for Lipper Internship Program at the Museum of Jewish Heritage
Swartz, a PhD student in the Department of History, has studied the Museum’s exhibitions, heard testimony from Holocaust survivors and attended seminars led by Museum scholars. “Lippers” then begin sharing the knowledge they have obtained with their [...]
Monday, January 23rd, 2012
The Departments of History and Geosciences and the Humanities Center
Stony Brook University
Present
Conevery Bolton-Valencius
Department of History, University of Massachusetts Boston
Vernacular Science of the New Madrid Earthquakes:
Creating Knowledge in the Early United States
In the winter of 1811-12, a series of sizable tremors rippled out from the middle Mississippi Valley. What we now term the New Madrid [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
Initiative for Historical Social Sciences (IHSS)
Wednesday, October 19th, 12:50 – 2:00 PM, SBS, Room N-320
New Interdisciplinary Perspectives – “Why State Strength and Weakness Persist: The Social Origins of State Power in 20th Century Latin America”
Hillel Soifer, Temple University – Department of Political Science
Wednesday, November 9th, 4:00 – 5:30 PM, SBS, Room N-318
Faculty Workshop – “The [...]
Friday, September 16th, 2011
Click on link to open page: 2012 Winter Session Courses Offered
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Colloquium Series held during Campus Lifetime (12:50-2:10 pm) in Room N318
Wednesday, September 21, 2011:
Marisa Balsamo, Rational Recreation in the Spectacle of Victorian London.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011:
Ying-Ying Chu, Measuring Cultural Change: A History of the Cornell-Peru Project, 1952-1964.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011:
Adam Charboneau, John Lindsay’s Fun City and New York’s Open Spaces, 1966-1973
Tuesday, November 1, 2011:
Andrew Ehrinpreis, [...]
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
SBS N-310
Wednesdays
5:20-8:10 PM
Taking oceans, rather than nations or empires, as key units for historical study focuses attention on the movement of people, ideas and commodities across space, and the political and cultural formations that emerge from these circulations. This course will accordingly consider several different [...]
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 [...]
Thursday, November 4th, 2010
Mon 2:20-5:10
During the last several centuries, the global imperial ambitions of Europe (and more recently, the US) have remade politics and culture across the world. This course considers people and places linked together by Empire from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. In a context provided by historical and theoretical readings, we will explore the [...]
Department of History
