Past Events
AI Advocacy Fair
April 30, 2024
Humanities Building Room 1008 | Stony Brook University
Hosted by WRT302 and the Center for Changing Systems of Power.
The goal of the AI Advocacy Fair is to learn more about advocating for causes that matter to our community in the AI age. WRT302: AI and Advocacy delves into the transformative impact of new Generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Google Gemini. The AI Advocacy Fair explores how these tools reshape our approach to communication and writing and impact our ability to change people's minds and take action on urgent issues like climate change, racial justice, and gender equality.
During Spring 2024 students of WRT302: AI and Advocacy, directed by their instructor, Dr. Matthew Salzano, created a public-facing report identifying major risks and opportunities for social justice advocates seeking to use AI. This report is the result of an undergraduate research collaboration.
Download the “AI and Advocacy: Maximizing Potential, Minimizing Risk” report here.
"How SUNY Benefits from Prison Labor: A Teach-in"
March 25, 2024 | 4:30 pm
Humanities Building Room 1006 | Stony Brook University
Join the conversation with academics and activists on how SUNY benefits from prison labor.
Speakers
Robert Chase (Associate Professor, History, Stony Brook University)
Wilfredo Laracuente (Community Organizer)
Patrice Nganang (Professor, Africana Studies, Stony Brook University)
Rosemary Rivera (Executive Director, Citizen Action of New York and The Public Policy and Education
Fund)
This event is organized by 13th Forward, the Center for Changing Systems of Power, Citizen Action of New York, and United University Professions, and supported by Mellon's Affirming Multivocal Humanities program.
To learn more and for additional resources, click HERE.
"Casa Común/Communal House" | Collaborative Art Exhibition
February 8-22, 2024
Melville Library, North Reading Room | Stony Brook University
"Casa Común/Communal House" is a collaborative art project that confronts the atrocities of the war in Colombia and gives healing, reconciliation, and hopes for a peaceful future through the handcrafted work of victims.
Co-sponsors: The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center | Department of Sociology | Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature | The Humanities Institute at Stony Brook University.
OPENING RECEPTION: February 8, 2024; 6:00 pm (Food & drinks will be served!)
To learn more about "Casa Común," click here.
Sir Run Run Shaw Lecture Series: "Künü: A Space for Dialogue" | Documentary film screening
and conversation with Francisco Huichaqueo
February 9, 2024; 4:00 pm
Charles B. Wang Center Lecture Hall 1 | Stony Brook University
"Künü" by Mapuche filmmaker Francisco Huichaqueo, is a documentary that captures the collaborative efforts of 80 Mapuche communities to reclaim part of their ancestral lands from a large transnational forestry company in Chile, in the Araucanía-Loncoche region. "Künü" documents the creation of a space for difficult dialogue between groups with a long history of mistrust and power imbalances but at the same time focuses on the perspective of exercising the ancestral and political self-determination of local Mapuche communities.
Francisco Huichaqueo is a filmmaker, artist, curator of memory garments, and a professor at the University of Concepción. His films have been showcased in various Chilean and international venues, including the Mother Tongue Film Festival at the Smithsonian, ImagineNATIVE in Toronto, Museo Reina Sofía, and the 11th Berlin Biennale.
Co-sponsors: The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center | Department of Sociology | Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature.