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The University at Buffalo Humanities Institute sponsors and co-sponsors a variety of events throughout the year. In addition to events organized directly the Institute, we are proud co-sponsors of many humanities and arts-related events taking place on the UB campus and in the local community.
Click here to view a Listing of Past Events
Calendar of Upcoming Events
Fall 2008
September 5 4:00 PM Albright-Knox Art Gallery 1285 Elmwood Avenue |
"Forgetting and Willful Transformation of Memory: The Death and Rebirth of a Mapuche Shaman in Chile" Fridays at Muse Series Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, Anthropology University at Buffalo |
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September 18 12:30 PM 420 Capen Hall |
"Double Book Launch of Karen MacCormack's Implexures (Complete Edition) and Steven McCafferey's Slightly Left of Thinking, English University at Buffalo |
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September 19 1:00 PM Location TBA |
"Digital Humanities Initiative in Buffalo Opening Seminar, Lecture, and Reception" Keynote Speaker Katherine Hayles, UCLA. Respondents and seminar leaders Gregory Crane, Tufts University and Stephen Ramsay, University of Nebraska |
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September 22-26 |
University at Buffalo Gender Week Organized by the Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender |
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September 25 8:00 PM Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center |
Chinua Achebe of Nigeria, author of Things Fall Apart Just Buffalo Literary Center Babel Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute |
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September 25-27
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"Out of the Cube: Aesthetic, Political, Medical, and Discursive Approaches to Gendered Identities" University at Buffalo Gender Week Conference organized by the Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender |
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October 10 4:00 PM Albright-Knox Art Gallery 1285 Elmwood Avenue |
"Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492-1800" Fridays at Muse Series Erik Seeman, History University at Buffalo |
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October 15 1:00 PM 830 Clemens Hall |
"The Queer Pleasure and Frustrations of Chang and Eng's Autopsy" Humanities Institute New Faculty Seminar Series Cynthia Wu, American Studies University at Buffalo |
October
Series: Lecture or Other Event
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Date: Friday, October 17, 2008
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Speaker(s): Jed Deppman, Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature and English, Oberlin College
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Series: Poetics Plus Series
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Date: Tuesday October 28, 2008
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Speaker(s): Geraldine Monk
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Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time:. 8:00 P.M.
Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Title: BABEL
Speaker(s): Michael Ondaatje of Canada, author of The English Patient
Location: Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
Description: Babel ...a series of readings and conversations with the world's best writers at the Church, downtown Buffalo’s most exciting address for the arts. Babel is now in its second year and features four acclaimed international authors annually. Babel supports the Buffalo Niagara region's ongoing efforts to define and promote itself as a vibrant center for the exploration of global cultures. Event co-sponsored by the UB Humanities Institute.
Special Instructions: http://www.justbuffalo.org/babel/index.php
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Series: Poetics Plus Series
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Date: Thursday October 30, 2008
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Speaker(s): Alan Halsey
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Series: Humanities Institute Annual Conference
Time: 9:00 A.M.
Date: Thursday, October 30-November 1, 2008
Title: THE OTHER SIDE OF REASON: THE HISTORY OF MADNESS TODAY
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Location: Screening Room, UB Center for the Arts, North Campus
Description: Taking its inspiration from the recent publication of the complete English translation of Michel Foucault’s History of Madness, this conference aims to examine various histories of madness and what “madness” means today. Foucault reinvented history as a discourse capable of articulating the intimate yet hostile relationship between madness and reason, especially on the far side of the most ambitious attempts to uphold rationality as the basis of human institutions. The questions raised by History of Madness seem especially timely in an era that increasingly invokes “reason” to adjudicate unforeseen ethical and political crises. Yet the urgency of contemporary predicaments all too easily rationalizes the speedy elimination of “madness,” thereby prompting a return to forms of violent confinement—such as “indefinite detention”—that were the object of Foucault’s original critique. Mindful of this critique, our conference seeks to think through manifestations of madness that remain inseparable from its “others,” whether understood as reason, civilization, philosophy, normalcy, law, the university, and so on.
Special Instructions: http://humanitiesinstitute.buffalo.edu/initiatives/annual-conference.shtml
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November
Series: Student Workshop
Time: 5:30 – 6:30 P.M.
Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Title: CAREER SUCCESS FOR VISUAL STUDIES MAJORS
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Description: Majors in Art, Art History and Media Study have a variety of options available after graduation. This panel discussion will allow you to hear from UB alumni about how they used their major to achieve career success. Don't miss this opportunity to meet professionals currently working in the "real world" and get advice on how to prepare now for your future. Special Instructions: Register at http://workshops.buffalo.edu/
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Series: Just Theory Lecture Series
Time: 5:30 P.M.
Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008
Title: WHO IS POLITICAL?
Speaker(s): Scott Michaelsen, Professor of English, Michigan State University
Location: 640 Clemens Hall, North Campus
Description: Presented by the Department of Comparative Literature
Series: Scholars at Muse
Time: 4:00-6:00 PM
Date: Friday November 7, 2008
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Speaker(s): Theresa Runstedtler, Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies & 2008-09 HI Faculty Fellow
Location: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1285 Elmwood Avenue
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Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time: 8:00 P.M.
Date: Friday, November 14, 2008
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Speaker(s): Alastair Reid
Location: 250 Baird Hall
Description: Annual Oscar Silverman Reading
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Series: Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship Lecture
Time: 4:00-6:00 P.M.
Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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Speaker(s): Kari Winter, Professor, Department of American Studies
Location: 830 Clemens Hall, North Campus
Description: Moderator: Keith Griffler, Associate Professor, Department of African American Studies
Special Instructions: http://humanitiesinstitute.buffalo.edu/fellowshipsresearch/fellows0809.shtml#winter
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December
Series: Scholars at Muse
Time: 4:00-6:00 PM
Date: Friday December 5, 2008
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Speaker(s): Carole Emberton, Assistant Professor, Department of History & 2008-09 HI Faculty Fellow
Location: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1285 Elmwood Avenue
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2009
January
Series: Scholars at Muse
Time: 4:00-6:00 PM
Date: Friday January 30, 2009
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Speaker(s): Tony Conrad, Professor of Media Study & 2008-09 HI Faculty Fellow
Location: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1285 Elmwood Avenue
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Special Instructions: http://humanitiesinstitute.buffalo.edu/fellowshipsresearch/fellows0809.shtml#conrad
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February
Series: Scholars at Muse
Time: 4:00-6:00 PM
Date: Friday February 27, 2009
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Speaker(s): Sarah Bay-Cheng, Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance/Media Study & 2008-09 HI Faculty Fellow
Location: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1285 Elmwood Avenue
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March
Series: Scholars at Muse
Time: 4:00-6:00 PM
Date: Friday March 6, 2009
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Speaker(s): Joan Copjec, UB Distinguished Professor, Department of English & 2008-09 HI Faculty Fellow
Location: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1285 Elmwood Avenue
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Special Instructions: http://humanitiesinstitute.buffalo.edu/fellowshipsresearch/fellows0809.shtml#copjec
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Series: Conference
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Date: Thursday, March 19- Saturday, March 21, 2009
Title: IDIOMS OF THE POST-GLOBAL
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April
Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time:. 8:00 P.M.
Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Title: BABEL
Speaker(s): Marjane Satrapi of Iran, author of Persepolis
Location: Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
Description: Babel ...a series of readings and conversations with the world's best writers at the Church, downtown Buffalo’s most exciting address for the arts. Babel is now in its second year and features four acclaimed international authors annually. Babel supports the Buffalo Niagara region's ongoing efforts to define and promote itself as a vibrant center for the exploration of global cultures. Event co-sponsored by the UB Humanities Institute.
Special Instructions: http://www.justbuffalo.org/babel/index.php
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Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time: 4:00 PM
Date: Friday, April 3, 2009
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Speaker(s): Victoria Kahn, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Berkeley
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Description: Victoria Kahn works on seventeenth-century English literature, the literature of the European Renaissance, and early modern political theory. She is the author, most recently, of Wayward Contracts: The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674 (Princeton, 2004). This book explores the emergence of contract theory in the literature and political thought of mid seventeenth-century England. It argues that contract theory should be seen as part of the linguistic turn of early modern thought, when government was imagined in terms of the poetic power to bring new artifacts into existence. Contract theory should thus be seen not simply as the forerunner of liberalism but as anticipating the eighteenth-century discipline of aesthetics. Sponsored by the English Department.
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Date: Friday, April 10, 2009
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Speaker(s): Walter Benn Michaels, Professor, Department of English, Universoty of Illinois at Chicago
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Description: Walter Benn Michaels is a literary theorist, known as the author of Our America: Nativism, Modernism and Pluralism (1995) and The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History (2004). Michaels’s work has generated a powerful set of arguments and questions around a host of issues that are central to literary studies: problems of culture and race, identities national and personal, the difference between memory and history, disagreement and difference, and meaning and intention in interpretation. Presented by the Graduate Americanist Group, Department of English
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Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time:. 8:00 P.M.
Date: Friday, April 17, 2009
Title: BABEL
Speaker(s): Isabel Allende of Chile, author of House of Spirits
Location: Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
Description: Babel ...a series of readings and conversations with the world's best writers at the Church, downtown Buffalo’s most exciting address for the arts. Babel is now in its second year and features four acclaimed international authors annually. Babel supports the Buffalo Niagara region's ongoing efforts to define and promote itself as a vibrant center for the exploration of global cultures. Event co-sponsored by the UB Humanities Institute.
Special Instructions: http://www.justbuffalo.org/babel/index.php
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Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time: 8:00 AM-10:00 PM
Date: Saturday, April 19, 2009
Title: EMILY DICKINSON MARATHON READING
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Description: Presented by the Department of English
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Series: Scholars at Muse
Time: 4:00-6:00 PM
Date: Friday April 24, 2009
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Speaker(s): Elizabeth Otto, Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Studies & 2008-09 HI Faculty Fellow
Location: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1285 Elmwood Avenue
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June
Series: Conference
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Date: Saturday, June 12-16, 2009
Title: EIRE ON THE ERIE - NORTH AMERICAN JAMES JOYCE CONFERENCE
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Description: Eire on the Erie will combine scholarly presentations and civic events centered in the City of Buffalo.
Special Instructions: http://www.english.buffalo.edu/jamesjoyce/
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