Works in Progress seminar, Fred Klaits, “‘Catch the Word’: Prophecy and Mentoring in African American Pentecostalism”
Anne Burnidge, work-in-progress, "Dancing with the Human Microbiome: Embodying the Research, Researching the Body."
Silk Road Songbook brown bag workshop with Millie Chen, Department of Art Light lunch - please e-mail cflaugh@buffalo.edu to sign up by 3/15/17.
“Meaning of Life” and “Moral of the Story”: Lukacs, Benjamin, and Theories of the Novel Hiroki Yoshikuni, University of Tokyo Part of the Just Theory Lecture Series.
“Origins of a Legitimation Crisis: Medical Science, Private Profit, and the Challenge of Big Pharma” Joseph M. Gabriel, Ph.D. Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of The Lancet, has recently suggested that as much as half of all published medical literature may be false. Horton is not alone in making such a claim: over the past two decades […]
Jerome McGann On March 30, 5:00 pm, Jerome McGann, John Stewart Bryan Professor at the U of Virginia and author or editor of over 24 books, will be lecturing on “Reading Poetry”—a reflection tracking key stylistic innovations in poetry that were developed in England and America after 1790 and arguing that these innovations were directed […]
The connection between Jews and melancholia is a long-standing one in Western thought and culture, and is grounded in religious, medical, astrological, artistic, literary, and philosophical traditions that extend all the way to antiquity. The association begins in late Roman antiquity, when the Jewish Sabbath was identified with the worship of Saturn, the planet of […]
UB School of Social Work Presents: SECOND ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM Indigenous Women: Human Rights Protections and Activism Thursday, March 30, 2017 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Buffalo & Erie County Central Public Library 1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY 14203 Free and Open to the Public CLICK TO REGISTER Keynote Beverly Jacobs, LL.B., LL.M., "The Resiliency of […]
42nd Annual Conference of the New York African Studies Association Hosted by the University at Buffalo. Full schedule and location information forthcoming. Roundtable Discussion: Immigration, Diversity, and America’s Shifting Priorities March 31 @ 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm | Student Union Theater This roundtable will discuss the impact of Trump administration policies on refugees, immigrants, […]
A lecture by James Maynard, Curator UB Poetry Collection Graduate Student Symposium Open Poetry Reading: all are invited to read their favorite poem—whether of their own composition or by someone else.
This roundtable will discuss the impact of Trump administration policies on refugees, immigrants, and international students in Buffalo. Participants will include: Myron Glick, Director, Jericho Road Community Health Center Anna Ireland, Jericho Road Community Health Center Fidele Nlemvo Menavanza, Staff Paralegal, Center for Elder Law & Justice Ellen Dussourd, Assistant Vice Provost and Director, International […]
Please join the UB Humanities Institute for presentations by our 2016-2017 Humanities New York Public Graduate Fellows: John Marsland and Laticia McNaughton. This FREE and open to the public event will be held in downtown Buffalo's historic Market Arcade building (617 Main Street) at the Partnership for the Public Good. Light fare and refreshments will […]
Discussion of Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, as well as her other work depending on what participants have read, in an intimate setting. On Wednesday, April 5th, 4:30 - 5:30 pm (Baird 250), meet Roxane Gay!
This is a series of events held over the course of three days. 12:30 pm, Tuesday, April 4: “The Ecstasy of Time” (in conversation with Heidegger) 3:30 pm, Wednesday, April 5: “Time Absent/Time Present” (discussing with Maurice Blanchot) 3:30 pm, Thursday, April 6: “Time Being” (reading with Clarice Lispector)
$8 general, $6 students/seniors, $5 Hallwalls members. The film will be introduced at Hallwalls by Professor David R. Castillo, Director of the UB Humanities Institute, professor of Spanish language and literature, and co-author (with William Egginton) of Medialogies: Reading Reality in the Age of Inflationary Media (Bloomsbury Academic, November 17, 2016). Screening licensed by arrangement […]
Homeland: Iraq Year Zero (2015), Abbas Fahdel Screening, Part I Organized by: Center for Global Media, Department of English Location: Student Union 330 Description: In February 2002—about a year before the U.S. declared war in 2003—Iraqi filmmaker Abbas Fahdel traveled home from France to capture everyday life as his country prepared for war. He zeroed […]
Homeland: Iraq Year Zero (2015), Abbas Fahdel (attending in person) Screening, Part II Organized by: Center for Global Media, Department of English Location: Center for the Arts 112 Followed by @6 pm Conversation with director Abbas Fahdel (Clip Talk) Introduced by Prof. of Film and Media Theory Tanya Shilina-Conte, Department of English This event is […]
Intersections: Collage of Urban Networks 6th Annual Graduate Student Conference for Romance Languages and Literatures Friday, April 7 4:00 PM | Keynote | Baldy 101 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Phillip Thomas Penix-Tadsen, University of Delaware Followed by a short play (Norton Hall 112) Saturday, April 8 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Breakfast | Clemens 904 […]
“Messy Ground: Wind, Profits and Livelihoods” Jaume Franquesa’s April 7th talk, “Messy Ground: Wind, Profits and Livelihoods,” offers a historically informed and ethnographically grounded study of the unparalleled development of wind energy in Spain. Franquesa, a professor of Anthropology, analyzes the contradictions pervading this process (local opposition, boom-and-bust cycles, and modest environmental benefits) and reveals […]
The Panel Michelle Benson (Political Science) Brexit: Implications for Conflict Intervention and Human Rights Policies Winston Chang (Economics) Brexit and Its Economic Consequences Patrick McDevitt (History) British and Sub-British Patriotism in the Age of Brexit Deborah Reed-Danahay (Anthropology) Living with Uncertainty post-Brexit: French Citizens in London Randy Schiff (English) Brexit, Ethnonationalism, and the Re-Fragmentation of […]
François Laruelle and Anne-Françoise Schmid François Laruelle is a French philosopher known for developing a science of philosophy that he calls non-philosophy. He has been described as one of the most important and interesting contemporary philosophers in Europe today. He is the author of books such as “Photo-Fiction: A Non-Standard Aesthetics” (2012), “Philosophy and Non-Philosophy” […]
On Integrative Objects A Philo-Fiction workshop/symposium with Anne-Françoise Schmid. This event is connected to the annual PLASMA speaker series at the Department of Media Study and will host François Laruelle and Anne-Françoise Schmid, who will both give talks on April 10th, as a special edition of the PLASMA series. Anne-Francoise Schmid will lead a practice-based […]
Open lecture and screening. DISTANCE AND PRESENCE IN COLLABORATION OR, ...AND HOW TO BE IN TWO PLACES AT ONCE Sponsored by the UB Humanities Institute Embodiment and Research Group and Performance Research Workshops, with additional sponsorship from the Techné Institute.
The Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture is pleased to welcome Aaron Schuster to UB. Dr. Schuster is a former Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies, Rijeka, Croatia and at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry, ICI Berlin. He is currently the Head of the Theory Program at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. […]
Click here to RSVP Buffalo News reporter Jerry Zremski and photographer Derek Gee will discuss their experiences reporting on the lives of refugees from Burma during “From Burma to Buffalo,” a presentation sponsored by the School of Social Work’s Immigrant and Refugee Research Institute. Zremski and Gee, who spent 20 months reporting the series of […]
History Facts is a series of discussions with UB History professors illuminating the background of contemporary issues.
A story of historical truth, spirituality, and resistance, told on behalf of the original nations and peoples of Great Turtle Island, and elsewhere on Mother Earth. We are still here, and still rightfully free. Directed by Sheldon P. Wolfchild, co-produced by Steven T. Newcomb, and narrated by Buffy Sainte-Marie. Following the film, there will be […]
The Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture is pleased to welcome Aaron Schuster to UB. Dr. Schuster is a former Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies, Rijeka, Croatia and at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry, ICI Berlin. He is currently the Head of the Theory Program at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. […]
Theodore Cateforis (Syracuse University) From the twelve bar blues and AABA to the strophic and verse/chorus, the history of popular music has featured various song forms that have proven to be durable generic types. In the 1990s, alternative rock ushered in a novel variation on the verse/chorus, a form often referred to as the “soft/loud.” […]
The Distinguished Speakers Series event with Roxane Gay, originally scheduled for 8 pm on April 5 has been postponed and rescheduled for Thursday, April 13, after her travel plans were disrupted due to unforeseen flight complications and delays. The Informal Session has also been rescheduled for the 13th, at the same time: 4:30-5:30pm. The location […]
The Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture is pleased to welcome Aaron Schuster to UB. Dr. Schuster is a former Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies, Rijeka, Croatia and at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry, ICI Berlin. He is currently the Head of the Theory Program at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. […]
Open to the public. Performance of win.place.show. win. place. show. investigates a set of interrelated themes: the pressures of accomplishment and achievement, the demands of perpetual productivity, and the many ways of “being” in the daily race. Lecture, "Walking in the Academy." The performance is followed by a talk given by dance dramaturg Jeanmarie Higgins, […]
Presented by the Queer Studies Research Workshop Ames Hawkins, Columbia College “Art Activism in the Classroom: Context, Principles and Collaboration as Trans/Feminist Practice.” In this presentation-workshop, Ames Hawkins (whose work is in the exhibit Ill at Ease: Dis-ease and Art, now on display) discusses how development of courses in art activism and her work in […]
The Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture is pleased to welcome Dr. Tom Eyers (Duquesne University) to UB for a lecture, "Psychoanalyzing Form," (introduced by Professor Bill Solomon, UB English). Professor Eyers is the author of Lacan and the Concept of the Real (Palgrave, 2012) and Post-Rationalism: Psychoanalysis, Epistemology, and Marxism in Post-War […]
Presented by the Queer Studies Research Workshop Ames Hawkins, Columbia College Ames Hawkins’s will perform three readings from her installation Paper Violets, Vellum Prose followed by a Q&A. In this work, she creates a multi-layered environment into which the viewers are invited to enter, stay for a while, and engage. The pew, the needlepoint cushion, […]
The Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture is pleased to welcome Dr. Tom Eyers (Duquesne University) to UB for a seminar, "Language Poetry, History, Formalization" (introduced by Professor Judith Goldman, UB English.) Professor Eyers is the author of Lacan and the Concept of the Real (Palgrave, 2012) and Post-Rationalism: Psychoanalysis, Epistemology, and Marxism […]
History Facts is a series of discussions with UB History professors illuminating the background of contemporary issues.
A Celebration of the 25th Anniversary of UB's Membership in the Folger Institute Symposium Schedule 11:00-11:30: Introduction and welcome Barbara Bono, UB Folger representative Jim Swan, UB Folger Institute initiator Robin Schulze, UB Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences 11:30-12:30: "'Purchased by the weight': The Color of Suits in The Merchant of Venice" Olga […]
González de Eslava’s Christian Allegory of the Gran Chichimeca: Reimagining the Ancestral North in New Spain The Fifth Spiritual and Sacramental Colloquy of Fernán González de Eslava is a Christian allegorical drama set in New Spain of the 1570s. This play about Spanish attempts to fortify the northern frontier incorporates striking elements of indigenous lore. […]
DAVE EGGERS is the author of ten books, including most recently Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?, The Circle, and A Hologram For The King, which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. He is the founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco […]
“The Sensation of Time: Reading Water with Roni Horn and Clarice Lispector” SCHEDULE CHANGE: This event was originally scheduled for March 10, 2017. In her March 10th talk, “The Sensation of Time: Reading Water with Roni Horn and Clarice Lispector,” French professor Fernanda Negrete will show how Horn’s installation “Library of Water” (2007 – present) […]
Please join for the 3rd Emily Dickinson Community Marathon Reading. Readers of all ages are invited to join in this community reading. Copies of the poems will be provided. The marathon reading will end with a reception. Westminster Presbyterian Church 724 Delaware Avenue Buffalo, NY 14209
Students, faculty, and members of the public are invited to a symposium on career opportunities for Humanities scholars. The event will feature presentations by UB alumni who have built rewarding and diverse careers outside the academy, as well as a career fair with representatives from regional organizations that employ Humanities graduates both as interns and […]
Presented by the Queer Studies Research Workshop Vin Nardizzi, University of British Columbia “Had” the speaker of Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” “but world enough, and time,” he would write a poem. Its subject and addressee would be his beloved, and its form would be the blazon. He would “praise” her “eyes,” “forehead,” “breast,” her […]
The Alison Des Forges Memorial Committee invites you to an International Symposium on “Counterterrorism, Electoral Politics, and Human Rights” We like to view counterterrorism as an essential policy to keep innocent people safe, and electoral politics as a way to protect human rights. Yet, counterterrorism measures can result in immigration policies and military tactics that […]
Yan Liu, Assistant Professor of History, UB "From Text to Practice: The Transformation of Medical Knowledge in Medieval China"
Please join the UB Humanities Institute for a celebration of recent publications by HI Faculty Fellows. This year's celebration includes titles by: Rachel Ablow (English), Victorian Pain (Princeton University Press, 2017) Ana Mariella Bacigalupo (Anthropology), Thunder Shaman: Making History with Mapuche Spirits in Chile and Patagonia (University of Texas Press, 2016) David Castillo (Romance Languages […]
Participants Laura Chiesa, University at Buffalo Marc Crépon, École Normale Supérieure Aïcha Liviana Messina, Universidad Diego Portales Ginette Michaud, Université de Montréal Laura Odello, Collège International de la Philosophie
Fernanda Negrete (Romance Languages & Literatures), “Louise Bourgeois’ Aesthetic Clinic of Hysteria: A Kind of Intimacy in the Visual.”
