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Academic Year 2006-2007
Fall 2006
Civic Performance Conference
Opening Ceremonies: Building Bridges to a Better Tomorrow
Sustainability: Immigration and the Long Island Economy
Surviving Teenage Years: Youth and Violence
Protecting Long Island's Ecosystem: Competing Interests for Improving the Environment
HISB Faculty Lectures
Roger Rosenblatt (English, Stony Brook University), "Why Write?"
Herman Lebovics (History, Stony Brook University), "Art of Darkness: Opening of the New Museum of the Colonial "Other"
Co-Sponsored Events
"The Philosophy of Luce Irigaray" Conference, with Philosophy and Women's Studies
Gilles Philippe, Universite Stendhal Grenoble 3, "Is Language All About Communicating?" with Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies
Spring 2007
Voices in Cultural Studies Lectures
Lydia Liu (Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, Columbia University), "Figures of Life in the Imperial Coding Machine"
Saidiya Hartman (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University), "Venus in Chains: Fictions of the Archive"
Saba Mahmood (Professor of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley), "Feminism, Democracy and Empire: Islam and the War on Terror"
HISB Faculty Lecture Series
Peniel E. Joseph (Africana Studies, Stony Brook University), "Revolution in Babylon: Stokely Carmichael and America in the 1960s"
Co-Sponsored Events
"Black Power Today" Symposium
"Islam and Europe: Past and Present Perspectives" Conference