Professor Benjamin Tausig will talk about the ethnographic fieldwork he conducted during the antigovernment Red Shirt protests of 2010-2011 in Bangkok, Thailand. This movement foreshadowed the sonic and media tactics which would soon be employed by the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street and Gezi Park protests, among others. Professor Tausig
University Libraries teamed up with the College of Engineering & Applied Sciences to host the first all-campus and intercollegiate, space-themed hackathon–the hugely successful SBU Hacks–in the Central Reading Room of Melville Library, September 14-15, 2018. For 24 hours, over 300 students from Stony Brook and as far away as California came
We kicked off the fall Art in Focus series in Southampton this past Tuesday with a murder mystery. What if you took one of the most iconic accidents in Long Island history and wove it into a larger plot – one of murder, secrets, and modern art? That’s the
A.A. Milne (1882-1956) is an English author who is best known as the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh. Deep in the Southampton Stacks, however, hides an example of Milne’s earlier work. Milne’s First Plays was published in 1919, a transitional period of his life. He’d begun putting the First World War behind
Edvard Grieg’s (1843-1907) Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, op. 16 is one of the most popular works of its kind in the history of classical music. Composed in 1868, it is his only completed concerto (there are sketches for a second concerto that was never finished). Grieg himself was a
Librarians Claudia McGivney, Head of Academic Engagement, and Bob Tolliver, Head of Science & Engineering, were recently recognized for their outstanding service to the Stony Brook University Senate committees. Claudia McGivney serves as a library representative on the SPD Council, which consults and advises with the Dean of the
Charles Rosen (1927-2012) was a pianist, author and educator. He was a faculty member of Stony Brook University’s Music Department from 1971-1985. Among his many books, the most famous, The Classical Style (1971; updated by Rosen in 1997), received the U.S. National Book Award, and has been translated into several
Stony Brook University Libraries is proud to welcome the Long Island Latino Teachers Association (LILTA) for a personal tour of the Melville Library. A not-for-profit organization with a mission to “…increase graduation rates, and higher education enrollment, retention and completion for all students,” LILTA coming to visit the Central Reading
ACCESSIBILITY Accessibility Standards & Resources Web Accessibility is an important part of creating and maintaining a website. Adhering to standards is a vital requirement for every university website. Stony Brook University Libraries aligns with W3C Accessibility Guidelines and New York State Technology Policy 99-3 to ensure our digital resources are
The Stony Brook University Libraries Center for Scholarly Communication provides expertise, information and resources to scholars and researchers: in meeting grants funders’ public access mandates (NIH, NSF, etc.); for leveraging author’s copyright; for discovering quality, impactful, peer-review scholarship and research (including open access journals); for effectively preserving and sharing research
