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- Working Lunch (October 7, 2005)
In the spirit of building community and laying the foundations for working groups and other interdisciplinary research and teaching interactions, this event was devoted to intellectual self-portraits by the Departments of English and History. Each department gave a short profile of the kinds of research, creative activities, and teaching that are going on (including faculty research areas, current dissertation projects, recent seminars, etc). There was also a display with books and other publications from the two departments.
In June 2005 FAHSS hosted three Roundtables discussions about future directions for the Fine Arts and Humanities at Stony Brook. Over seventy faculty and staff participated, along with President Kenney, Provost McGrath, Deputy Provost Mark Aronoff, Associate Provost Joseph Auner, and the Dean Staros.
The discussions will serve as the basis for a campus response to the American Association of University’s report, "Reinvigorating the Humanities," which includes some interesting examples of related initiatives at other institutions (the complete document is available at www.aau.edu).
- In Spring 2005 FAHSS organized the first two of an ongoing series of working lunches devoted to faculty issues.
Working Lunch 1 (March 20, 2005) was devoted to building awareness of areas of common interest. Twelve recently-hired faculty members gave brief introductions to their research to a group of faculty and administrators. We also began collecting information for a database of faculty Working Groups and Interest Areas.
Working Groups
Working Lunch 2 (April 6, 2005) focused on the impact of the changing terrain of academic publishing for research, teaching, and tenure and promotion. The featured speakers were Mary Francis, Cinema and Music Editor of the University of California Press, Christian Filstrup, Director of the Library, Professor Fred Gardaphe, former chair of the Promotion and Tenure Committee.
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roundtable summer 2005
interdisciplinary discussions
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