On September 24, SBU students, faculty, staff and neighbors gathered for a panel discussion on “Chinese and Diasporic Food, Identity, and Memory: A Panel Discussion.” Dr. Jacqueline M. Newman delivered opening remarks and SBU professors and scholars Timothy August (Department…
Professor Margaret Schedel will discuss how, for over one hundred years, artists, composers and inventors have been developing sculptures, instruments and systems to transcode visual data into sonic material. Margaret Anne Schedel is a composer and cellist specializing in…
More than 80 history enthusiasts visited Special Collections on Saturday, September 15 as part of the fourth annual Culper Spy Day. Personalized guided and interpretative tours were hosted to showcase Stony Brook University’s two original George Washington spy letters written during the…
The topic is child bilingualism, specifically family bilingualism (where one or both parents speak something other than the mainstream language). I will talk about the benefits of family bilingualism and common misconceptions associated with it, ways of promoting it, and…
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 –…
On Thursday, November 8, Professor Margarethe Adams will give her presentation, “Treading Across the Precarious Present: Music, Pilgrimage, and Healing in Kazakhstan.” Kazakhstan’s shrine pilgrimages are widely varying in scope and kind, including sites dedicated to traditional musicians. The sacred focus…
This event is a performance of “Dirt Road, (2006),” a gentle, quiet work for violin and percussion by Stony Brook alumna Linda Catlin Smith. The music is an hour long, and never rises about a “piano,” dynamic. It was written…
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The University Libraries will present “Chinese and Diasporic Food, Identity, and Memory: A Panel Discussion” on Monday, September 24 at 4pm. SBU professors and scholars Timothy August (Department of English), Nerissa Balce (Department of Asian and Asian American Studies), Shirley…
We’ve got a new display up in the library highlighting the fascinating diversity of wildlife in and around Shinnecock Bay. From underwater to the skies above, it’s a rich and diverse ecosystem that never ceases to amaze. The photographs in…