http://history.sunysb.edu State University of New York, Stony Brook Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:46:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 http://history.sunysb.edu/2012/02/03/stony-brook-initiative-for-historical-social-sciences-ihss/ 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 ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2012/02/03/suzanne-swartz-chosen-for-prestigious-museum-internship/ 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 ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2012/01/23/talk-by-conevery-bolton-valencius-wednesday-feb-8-at-1-p-m-1008-humanities/ Dangerous Trade Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World edited by Christopher Sellers and Joseph Melling Is now out from Temple University Press, December 2011. Based on a December 2007 conference at Stony Brook University.  Follow the further discussion on our Facebook page: From anthrax to asbestos to pesticides, industrial toxins and pollutants ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2012/01/17/publication-of-dangerous-trade/ His 326, Course Description http://history.sunysb.edu/2011/12/07/his-326-history-of-popular-culture/ Environment, Medicine, Techno-Science Crosby, Alfred. Ecological imperialism : the biological expansion of Europe, 900-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Drayton, Richard. Nature’s government : science, imperial Britain, and the “Improvement” of the World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. Foucault, Michel. The order of things : an archaeology of the human sciences. New York: Vintage Books, ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2011/11/28/graduate-core-seminar-recommended-readings-part-5/ Gender, Race, Sexuality Brown, Wendy. States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1995. Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge, 1999. Bynum, Caroline Walker. Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion. New York: Zone ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2011/11/08/graduate-core-seminar-recommended-readings-part-4/ Spring 2012 Course Descriptions http://history.sunysb.edu/2011/11/08/spring-2012-graduate-courses/ Click on link for Spring 2012 Courses: Spring 2o12 http://history.sunysb.edu/2011/11/03/spring-2012-courses/ Vito Cannavo graduated from Stony Brook in 1975. He received his law degree from Cornell three years later and subsequently served as law clerk to U.S. District Court Judge Mark Constantino. He worked at the New York City Law Department Office of the Corporation Council, before joining and becoming a ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2011/10/27/vito-cannavo-esq/