http://history.sunysb.edu State University of New York, Stony Brook Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:47:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Check out the link to this video, prepared by the American Historical Association's film-making team, on our graduate program here in the history department: Preparing Historians for the Challenge of 21st Century Academia Here are some pictures from the premiere showing of a video featuring our department's graduate program, at the 2010 ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2010/01/26/pictures-from-the-aha-showing/ Spring 2010 Calendar Stony Brook Faculty Workshop Benedict Robinson (Thursday February 11, 12:50-2:10) (Stony Brook University Department of English) “DISGUST, C. 1610, FARINGDON WARD WITHOUT.” New Research in Historical Social Sciences Pablo Piccato (Tuesday March 9, 12:50-2:10) (Columbia University, History Department. Director of ILAS - Institute of Latin American Studies) “MURDER AND POLITICS IN TWENTIETH CENTURY ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2010/01/13/spring-schedule-intiative-for-historical-social-sciences/ As a research project for my history of industrial hazards class (History 414), students created wikis on the history of some of Long Island's hazardous waste sites, regulated under the EPA's Superfund site.  We've now converted the results into publicly available websites.  Check it out if you are interested.... Overview Suffolk County: ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2009/12/22/history-of-long-island-superfund-sites/ Tuesday, December 15, 2009, the Science Times section of the New York Times has published my first Letter to the Editor ever. Some decline. http://history.sunysb.edu/2009/12/17/new-york-times/ Monday, 14 December 2009, volume 21, issue 1, of the LIHJ went online with six articles, eight reviews, a video interview, the first images of its eMuseum and the "enhanced mission" of writing Long Island history into the larger framework of local, national, and global history. The Editor in Chief, Charles ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2009/12/17/long-island-history-journal/ Margaret, Sharon, Gregory, Tao, Nicholas, Erin, Michelle, and William [caption id="attachment_759" align="alignnone" width="445" caption="1st year graduate students at holiday party 2009"][/caption] http://history.sunysb.edu/2009/12/17/1st-year-students-at-holiday-party-2009/ This course will look at the history of “modern” consumption patterns with particular emphasis on gender identities.  We will look at changing conceptions of “producers” (traditionally represented as  male) and “consumers”(traditionally gendered as female) and explore the ideas (“rational consumption”), practices (shopping), and  institutions (department stores, advertising agencies) that intertwine ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2009/11/23/history-532-historyculture-of-consumerism/ This course will explore the history of work and environment during the modern era (nineteenth and twentieth centuries).  We will start with readings from “classic” texts and authors that have  set older and newer agendas for the fields of labor history (Marx, Fink, D. Montgomery) and environmental history (Marx, Worster, ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2009/11/23/international-perspectives-on-history-of-work-and-environment/ This is one of the theme seminars in the Doctoral program of the Department of History.  It is open to all doctoral students and MA students in the History program.  All others, including MAT students, must have the instructor's permission to enroll. The readings will include a mixture of thematic, ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2009/11/23/history-532-theme-seminar-on-gender-religion-and-modernity/ September 30 Empire and Toleration: Some Comparative Thoughts Karen Barkey, Department of Sociology, Columbia University October 28 Law, Crime and Sovereignty on the Hyderabad-Bombay Frontier Eric Lewis Beverley, Department of History, SUNY-Stony Brook November 18 Be a Shareholder in Victory! Financial Nationalism and the American Citizen Investor in World War I Julia Cathleen Ott, Committee on Historical Studies, ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2009/08/19/fall-2009-schedule-initiative-for-historical-social-sciences/