Humanities Graduate Student Professional Development Series Spring 2026 - Digital Humanities Research & Digital Humanities librarians

3/23/2026, 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM (ET)

Join Stony Brook’s Digital Humanities librarians for a seminar on conducting Digital Humanities Research and learn more about the resources available through the library and beyond for conducting research in the humanities.

Book Discussion Featuring Joseph Pierce/HLL and Jodi A. Byrd/University of Chicago

3/25/2026, 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM (ET)

Book discussion featuring Joseph Pierce/HLL on his book, "Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair", and Jodi A. Byrd/University of Chicago on their book, "Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession".

Conference: “Global Waterways: Between the Natural World and the Built Environment”

3/26/2026, 3:00 PM - 7:30 PM (ET)

The conference will explore the ways in which waterways are imagined, traversed, transformed, engineered and lived in different political and historical contexts.

Conference: “Global Waterways: Between the Natural World and the Built Environment”

3/27/2026, 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM (ET)

The conference will explore the ways in which waterways are imagined, traversed, transformed, engineered and lived in different political and historical contexts.

From Capitalist Realism to Realistic Utopianism: Imagining and Enacting Alternative Capitalisms Through Cassettes in Argentina

3/30/2026, 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM (ET)

A Sound Studies conversation with Dr. Agustina Checa (CUNY, Lehman College) on contemporary, grassroots, cassette production and circulation in Argentina

Lecture by Agustina Checa/Lehman College (CUNY) - "From Capitalist Realism to Realistic Utopianism. Imagining and Enacting Alternative Capitalisms Through Cassettes in Argentina"

3/30/2026, 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM (ET)

This workshop examines contemporary, grassroots, cassette production and circulation in Argentina to propose a framework to study and amplify alternative capitalisms in music practice. Part of the "Sound Studies" lecture series.

A Conversation with Rafal Syska/Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland and Miroslaw Przylipiak/Gdansk University, Gdansk, Poland - "The Discreet Art of Political Dissent: Celebrating the Centennial of Andrzej Wajda"

3/30/2026, 3:30 PM - 4:50 PM (ET)

In this conversation, Rafał Syska and Mirosław Przylipiak, alongside Stony Brook’s Izabela Kalinowska-Blackwood will examine key moments in Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda’s extraordinary filmography and the subtle strategies of political dissent that define his art.

A Conversation with Dr. Leo Douglas/New York University - "Reimagining 'Nanny' with Leo Douglas: Narrative Agency and Identity (Re)positioning Through Film"

4/2/2026, 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM (ET)

Drawing from his own experience as a documentarian of Jamaican history, Dr. Leo Douglas will discuss how he uses film to re-imagine sociocultural narratives about identity. Part of the "Pressing Matters" series.

TURMOIL! A DIY Zine-Making Workshop with Hannah Waterman/Grad MUS

4/7/2026, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM (ET)

In this workshop, students will get inspired by examining punk zines held in the Turmoil Radio Collection (Stony Brook University Special Collections & Archives), then create zines of their own using provided poems and lyric texts as a starting point.

Panel discussion - "Who Changed My Mind?"

4/8/2026, 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM (ET)

“Who Changed My Mind?” features lightning talks by 10 faculty in leadership positions across campus, selected and introduced by SBU undergrads. Each speaker will introduce the Humanities figures who transformed the way they think: which historian shape.

Public Humanities presentation by Beatriz Solla-Vilas/PhD candidate in HLL. Title TBD

4/15/2026, 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM (ET)

Presentation by Beatriz Solla-Vilas/PhD candidate in HLL, on her public humanities project creating and implementing a Spanish-language memoir writing program for incarcerated and system-impacted individuals.