There is a wealth of information waiting to be mined from digitized newspaper collections. Beyond coverage of breaking events, there are obituaries, advertisements, radio schedules, maps and more. This workshop will introduce you to searching in these databases through Stony…
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…
Lewis C. Kachur Professor of Art History, Kean University Lewis will trace the initial New York reception of Parisian Surrealism from the early 1930s, with the recognition of Salvador Dalí’s painting and public persona as a key aspect. Pollock’s awareness…
A hybrid in-person/remote intro workshop on ArcGIS StoryMaps for humanities instructors with an emphasis on using the online storytelling platform to enhance your courses with maps and geodata. Open to all SBU teaching faculty and grad students, limited to 5…
This semester, Science and Society 102.23 first-year seminar students practiced using a variety of databases and digital collections to explore questions related to new technologies. One project was to delve into the past and investigate how society reacted to emerging…
Participate in Our Digital Project The anti-racism task force, along with student workers and personnel from Stony Brook University Libraries and the Africana Studies department are documenting racial encounters, experiences, and feelings about racial injustice that members of the SBU…
In conjunction with the online exhibition, “Seeing Past the Future,” hosted by the Pollock-Krasner House, the panel will discuss the exhibition in relation to the concept of sideshadowing, a theory that reminds us that every present moment, every event—major and…
Marion Wolberg Weiss Film historian Watching movies has become a different experience during the pandemic. Viewers are often isolated, interrupted and disorientated. Yet Netflix has been offering films that are especially arresting and offbeat, like “The Queen’s Gambit” and “I…
Thomas McCormick Gallerist, author of Mary Lee Abbott, a painter In conjunction with “Mary Abbott: The Living Possibility of Paint,” the current exhibition at the Pollock-Krasner House, Tom will share his personal recollections of Mary and discuss her remarkable career.…
Professor Jennifer Frautschi’s students will perform selections from the violin repertory. No registration is required for this event!