Fall 2025 Calendar of Events | Humanities Institute

Fall 2025 Calendar of Events -- Life/Support

All events are 5:00-6:30 pm in Humanities Rm 1008 unless otherwise noted. Dates and times of HISB events are subject to change. Please continue to check our website for updates and detailed event information, registration for specific Zoom events, and how to log in.

Date	Event
September 10	Panel Discussion - Immigration Detention Inc: The Big Business of Locking Up Migrants. With Nancy Hiemstra/WGSS, Deirdre Conlon/University of Leeds, Ulla D. Berg/Rutgers University-New Brunswick, and Sarah Tosh/Rutgers University-Camden. In-person and via Zoom. Click here for Zoom registration. Registration deadline September 9.
September 16	Lecture by Michelle H. S. Ho/National University of Singapore, Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies. Co-sponsored by WGSS, AAAS, EGL and HISB.
September 18	African Languages and the Test of Modernity: Writing Challenges, Teaching Strategies, Vision for the Future, a International Conference on African Languages.
September 19	Philosophy and Gaza, with John Davenport/Fordham University and Allegra de Laurentiis/PHI, in 1006 Humanities. Sponsored by CCSP, and HISB.
September 30	Lecture by Rita S. Nemazi/PWR, The Rooftop: A Culture Specific Feminine Space in Morocco – Fez, Marrakech, and Meknes.
October 16	HISB Faculty Fellows lecture by Jennifer L. Anderson/HIS, Transforming Hempstead Plains: The Demise of the “Public Commons” on Long Island.
October 20	Sir Run Run Shaw lecture – Presentation by the Shinnecock Kelp Farmers, From Seaweed to Sovereignty: Shinnecock Kelp Farmers and Indigenous-Led Climate Solutions, 12:30-1:50 PM. Location TBD. Presented by the Department of Art, the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, and HISB.
October 28	Faculty lecture by Richard H. Tomczak/Director of Faculty Engagement, Division of Undergraduate Education – Workers of War & Empire from New France to British America, 1688-1783.
November 5	HISB Faculty Fellows lecture by Kristina Lucenko/PWR, Women Writing Race in the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic: Civil Agents, in converastion with Jean E. Howard/Columbia University and Bernadette Andrea/University of California, Santa Barbara. Click here for Zoom registration. Registration deadline September 4.
November 7	On Call: June Jordan, Palestine, and the Black Radical Tradition, featuring authors Lena Khalaf Tuffaha and Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Time TBD, in 2001 Humanities The Poetry Center. Funded by the SBU Fine Arts, Humanities, and (lettered) Social Sciences (FAHSS) Research and Interdisciplinary Initiatives Fund. Co-sponsored by The Lichtenstein Center, AFS, and HISB.
November 13	Faculty Fellows lecture by Cristina Khan/WGSS, Divine Dancers.

Events from previous theme, REMEDIATION (Spring 2024-Spring 2025) can be found here.

Events from previous theme, "Healing: Survival and Resiliency in the Arts and Humanities(Fall 2019 - Spring 2023 )" can be found here.