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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
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October Series: Lecture or Other Event Time: Date: Friday, October 17, 2008 Title: Speaker(s): Jed Deppman, Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature and English, Oberlin College Location: Description: Visuals: Series: Poetics Plus Series Time: Date: Tuesday October 28, 2008 Title: Speaker(s): Geraldine Monk Location: Description: Visuals: 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 Visuals: Series: Poetics Plus Series Time: Date: Thursday October 30, 2008 Title: Speaker(s): Alan Halsey Location: Description: Visuals: 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 Speaker(s): 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 Visuals: Poster PDF November Series: Student Workshop Time: 5:30 – 6:30 P.M. Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Title: CAREER SUCCESS FOR VISUAL STUDIES MAJORS Speaker(s): Location: 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/ Visuals: 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 Title: Speaker(s): Theresa Runstedtler, Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies & 2008-09 HI Faculty Fellow Location: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1285 Elmwood Avenue Description: Special Instructions: Visuals: Series: Lecture or Other Event Time: 8:00 P.M. Date: Friday, November 14, 2008 Title: Speaker(s): Alastair Reid Location: 250 Baird Hall Description: Annual Oscar Silverman Reading Visuals: Series: Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship Lecture Time: 4:00-6:00 P.M. Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 Title: 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 Visuals: December Series: Scholars at Muse Time: 4:00-6:00 PM Date: Friday December 5, 2008 Title: Speaker(s): Carole Emberton, Assistant Professor, Department of History & 2008-09 HI Faculty Fellow Location: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1285 Elmwood Avenue Description: Special Instructions: Visuals: 2009 January Series: Scholars at Muse Time: 4:00-6:00 PM Date: Friday January 30, 2009 Title: Speaker(s): Tony Conrad, Professor of Media Study & 2008-09 HI Faculty Fellow Location: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1285 Elmwood Avenue Description: Special Instructions: http://humanitiesinstitute.buffalo.edu/fellowshipsresearch/fellows0809.shtml#conrad Visuals: February Series: Scholars at Muse Time: 4:00-6:00 PM Date: Friday February 27, 2009 Title: 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 Description: Special Instructions: Visuals: March Series: Scholars at Muse Time: 4:00-6:00 PM Date: Friday March 6, 2009 Title: Speaker(s): Joan Copjec, UB Distinguished Professor, Department of English & 2008-09 HI Faculty Fellow Location: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1285 Elmwood Avenue Description: Special Instructions: http://humanitiesinstitute.buffalo.edu/fellowshipsresearch/fellows0809.shtml#copjec Visuals: Series: Conference Time: Date: Thursday, March 19- Saturday, March 21, 2009 Title: IDIOMS OF THE POST-GLOBAL Speaker(s): Location: Description: Special Instructions: Visuals: 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 Visuals: Series: Lecture or Other Event Time: 4:00 PM Date: Friday, April 3, 2009 Title: Speaker(s): Victoria Kahn, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Berkeley Location: 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. Special Instructions: Visuals: Series: Lecture or Other Event Time: Date: Friday, April 10, 2009 Title: Speaker(s): Walter Benn Michaels, Professor, Department of English, Universoty of Illinois at Chicago Location: 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 Visuals: 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 Visuals: Series: Lecture or Other Event Time: 8:00 AM-10:00 PM Date: Saturday, April 19, 2009 Title: EMILY DICKINSON MARATHON READING Speaker(s): Location: Description: Presented by the Department of English Visuals: Series: Scholars at Muse Time: 4:00-6:00 PM Date: Friday April 24, 2009 Title: Speaker(s): Elizabeth Otto, Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Studies & 2008-09 HI Faculty Fellow Location: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1285 Elmwood Avenue Description: Special Instructions: Visuals: June Series: Conference Time: Date: Saturday, June 12-16, 2009 Title: EIRE ON THE ERIE - NORTH AMERICAN JAMES JOYCE CONFERENCE Speaker(s): Location: 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/ Visuals: |
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