In this talk, Fernando Amador III, a PhD candidate in the History Department, will present digital humanities work completed during his Spring 2020 internship in the Center for Digital Humanities at Stony Brook University Libraries. Headed by Dr. Lori Flores,…
Speaker: Nancy Moses Author What’s real? What’s fake? Why do we care? In these days of fake news and pseudo-science, these questions are more relevant than ever. In her new book, Fakes, Forgeries, and Frauds, Nancy goes beyond the headlines,…
Speaker: Christian White Artist Christian will discuss the influences and ideas from Rome, Providence, and Tribeca that informed his career, including his family’s close ties to people like Fairfield Porter, Wolf Kahn, Paul Georges and Aldous Huxley. Having spent much…
Speaker: Helen A. Harrison Director, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center Helen will examine the relationship between Jackson Pollock’s “action painting” technique, which reached its apogee in 1947-1950, and the jazz music he loved. His spontaneous creation of free-flowing forms is…
The Three Village area of Long Island is home of the Culper Spy Ring, formed in 1778 to secretly provide General George Washington with the information he needed to turn the tide of the American Revolution. Join us for Virtual…
Please join us for a seasonal literary karaoke. All are welcome to read a short passage from a favorite autumn- or Halloween- themed text, or just to listen. This event will be held virtually. Please register in order to receive…
University Libraries wants you to show it off! We appreciate your efforts to keep yourselves and your friends safe by wearing masks! Love yours? Want to win a prize? Post a pic of you in your wacky, fun or creative…
Do you often copy and paste online images into your projects to make them more visually appealing? Do you sometimes wonder whether it’s ok to use certain images, and, if so, how and whether you should cite them? In this…
This event is a live, virtual dramatization of stories from the pulp fiction magazine Weird Tales that are out of copyright, having entered the public domain (published 1923-1924). The readers are drawn from library faculty and staff, students, and the university…
Stony Brook University Libraries is pleased to announce “Documenting COVID-19: Stony Brook University Experiences,” a new digital archive project established to collect, preserve, and publish the institutional history of Stony Brook University during this unprecedented moment in history. The entire…