Special Collections and the Three Village Historical Society collaborated on a private grant sponsored by the New York Council for the Humanities. The project was awarded full funding ($3,000) and will support “Rebels, Resistors, and Rioters,” a public program of lectures on the American Revolution…
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Special Collections co-sponsors public program on American Revolution, Civil War
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“The American Revolution on Long Island and in New York”
A special event sponsored by the Three Village Historical Society in cooperation with Special Collections of the University Libraries and the Center for Global and Local History. Monday, October 4th from 8:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. “The American Revolution on…
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Melville Library Author Series: An Afternoon of Poetry
Featuring Alexandra van de Kamp, Julie Sheehan, and Rowan Ricardo Phillips Javits Room, Melville Library (level 2) Free and open to all. Refreshments will be provided. Sponsored by the University Libraries. Alexandra van de Kamp lives in Port Jefferson, NY,…
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Reminder: Masten on Art Work: Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-19th Century NY, October 28 @ 12:45
Melville Library Author Series: Art Work: Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York featuring April F. Masten, Associate Professor of History. Mary Hallock made what seems like an audacious move for a nineteenth-century young woman. She became an artist.…
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Melville Library Authors Series: April F. Masten on October 28 @ 12:45
Melville Library Author Series: Art Work: Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York featuring April F. Masten, Associate Professor of History. Mary Hallock made what seems like an audacious move for a nineteenth-century young woman. She became an artist.…
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9/30 The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg
Melville Library Author Series: The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg featuring Robert P. Crease, Professor of Philosophy.Robert Crease tells the stories behind ten of the greatest equations in human history in The Great Equations. Was Nobel…
Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz & American Culture
Hotter than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture featuring Krin Gabbard, Professor of Comparative Literature and English. Hotter Than That, the latest book by Krin Gabbard, Professor of Comparative Literature and English, is a cultural history of the trumpet…
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5/13: Melville Author Series presents Dr. Shetal Shah
WEDNESDAY, MAY 13 at 4 p.m. Javits Room (2nd floor of the Melville Library) Melville Library Author Series: Passport to Illness: Voyages In and Out of Medicine featuring Dr. Shetal Shah, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Stony…
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5/13: “Cooking from China’s Fujian Province” special lecture featuring Dr. Jacqueline M. Newman.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 2009 FROM 12:30 – 2 p.m. at the Charles B. Wang Center, Room 301 “Cooking from China’s Fujian Province” special lecture featuring food historian and scholar Dr. Jacqueline M. Newman. Reception follows with Fujianese food tasting. Fujian,…
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Independent Filmmaker, Loni Ding, on campus Thursday, 10/2
Thursday, October 2, 2008, Wang Center Theatre, 12:50-2:10 pm. 4-time Emmy Award winning independent filmmaker, Loni Ding, will discuss her latest documentary projects and her passion for social justice. Ding, who is a recipient of an honorary doctorate from SBU…
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