In support of the Humanities New York Public Humanities Fellowship Program. Pizza lunch and beverages will be provided (RSVP huminst@buffalo.edu by Jan. 31st so that we can have an appropriate amount of food.) Does your doctoral research in a humanities discipline have an application with a broader public? If it does or you would like […]
Erik Seeman, Professor of History, UB “Elegy in Puritan New England” A Work-in-Progress Workshop To receive a digital copy of the work-in-progress paper, please e-mail Barbara Bono at: bbono@buffalo.edu
"Where the Drugs Are" We kick off the spring semester with English professor Elizabeth Mazzolini’s February 10th talk, “Where the Drugs Are,” an ecocritical look at representations of three different drug epidemics—those of crack, meth, and opioids. Mazzolini links drug production, sale, and use to the allowances of various locations and to ideological investment in […]
Brendan Fernandes is a multidisciplinary artist who works at the intersection of dance and visual arts. His unique cultural background as a Kenyan-Indian Canadian who has lived in New York City for the past 12 years and who now resides in Chicago, confronts the hybrid and transitional nature of identity. This compels aspects of his […]
Program Welcomes and sharing of stories Acknowledgements of those who are not here Music, Food, Art Sponsor UB Institute for Research & Education on Women & Gender Cosponsors Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts Burmese Community Services Coalition for Economic Justice Coalition for the Advancement of Moslem Women El Museo Francisco Oller y Diego […]
Christine Varnado, UB Global Gender Studies/Transnational Studies, work-in-progress workshop A Work-in-Progress Workshop in Preparation for the April 2017 Shakespeare Association of America Conference
Musical images of Chopin at the keyboard mediate Romantic fantasies that at once reveal and disavow the mechanisms that bring them to spiritual life. In particular, the digital transmission of Chopinian signals via the keyboard’s grid has been liable to introduce technical artifacts that can be elucidated via phenomena associated with contemporary attempts to mitigate […]
Bruno Duarte, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, presents, “Hegel’s Eleusis – To Hölderlin” This is a part of the Just Theory Lecture Series.
Joseph Conte, Professor of English, UB "The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be: 1990s Virtual Reality Enters the 21st Century"
Elizabeth's creative research interests include the embodied art of acting and somatic approaches to actor training, devising original theatre with a focus on collaborative ensemble works and adaptations, pedagogy, the Meisner technique, on-camera acting, and cross-disciplinary exchange. She teaches in the Physical Theatre Intensive at The Stella Adler Studio of Acting (NYC), and has taught […]
The UB Humanities Institute is pleased to host a Regional Application-Writing Workshop conducted by Dr. Daniel Sack, Senior Program Officer, from the National Endowment for the Humanities. We are honored to have Congressman Brian Higgins of the U.S. House of Representatives joining us for the 4:30 PM post-workshop reception, with an introduction […]
Please join the Humanities Institute for an evening at Torn Space Theater for a performance of Harold Pinter's The Collection. 6:45 PM – Bar opens 7:00 PM – Lecture by Penelope Prentice, author of The Pinter Ethic: The Erotic Aesthetic 7:30 PM – Performance of Harold Pinter’s The Collection The Adam Mickiewicz Dramatic Circle 612 […]
Democracy Moving: Models of Civic Life in Bill T. Jones’s Lincoln Dances 100 Migrations, a 2008 site-specific performance at the University of Virginia about Abraham Lincoln’s legacy in the Obama-era United States, is a study in what choreographer Bill T. Jones terms “democracy moving.” New Theater and Dance faculty member Ariel Nereson examines the cultural […]
Sam Magavern, Co-Director, Partnership for the Public Good will give a talk on "Anti-Displacement Strategies in Buffalo."
The Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture is pleased to welcome Dr. Dany Nobus to UB, where he will deliver a lecture,"On the Poetic Wisdom of Psychoanalysis: On the Trail of Lacan's New Signifier," on Wednesday, March 1, 2017. Professor Nobus currently serves as the Chair of Psychoanalysis at Brunel University London, and […]
In Part One of our Forum on Publishing in an Age of Upheaval, editor/critic/author John Freeman and novelist Heather O’Neill will engage in a wide-ranging discussion of literary magazine publishing and editing, including issues of design and marketing. Ms O’Neill will read from and sign copies of her just-released novel, The Lonely Hearts Hotel (Riverhead). Freeman […]
The Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture is pleased to welcome Dr. Dany Nobus to UB, where he will lead a seminar, "Psychoanalysis in the Boudoir (On Lacan's 'Kant with Sade'), on Thursday, March 2, 2017. Professor Nobus currently serves as the Chair of Psychoanalysis at Brunel University London, and as Chair of […]
Review of programming and budget from the 2015-17 academic years Appointment of new Co-Directors, 2017-2019 academic years 25 Years of the Folger Institute: A Review of Programming and Benefits, and looking ahead Other business
Donna V. Jones, University of California at Berkeley, presents, “Race, Time and Difference” This is a part of the Just Theory Lecture Series. Co-sponsored by the Modernisms Research Workshop.
