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2008
Series: Digital Humanities Initiative Workshop
Time: 9:00-5:00 P.M.
Date: Tuesday, January 8-10, 2008
Title: THREE DAY HANDS-ON WORKSHOP ON TEI/XML ENCODING USING oXygen
Speaker(s): Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman, of the Scholarly Technology Group at Brown University
Location: 450 Park Hall, North Campus
Description: Participants in the workshop will learn how to use the editing software package called oXygen. This is a beginning workshop, and will also attempt to answer questions like: What is mark-up for? What is XML? How do I do cool stuff with my digital texts? How the TEI system organized and what is is it for? How do I customize the TEI system to create digital texts the way I want them?
Special Instructions: There are a limited number of spots available. If you are interested in participating, please contact Maureen Jameson <jameson@buffalo.edu> or Cris Miller <ccmiller@buffalo.edu>. Also, if you have graduate using mark-up language, in need of such training, or wanting to learn it as a part of their graduate training, please also encourage them to contact one of us.
Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time: 7:30-9:30 P.M.
Date: Friday February 1, 2008
Title: JOYCE WITH GUSTO
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Location: Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Description: Riverrun and Cinegael Buffalo present the Third Annual James Joyce with Gusto program: "Roll Away the Reel World: James Joyce and the Moving Image"
7:00 pm (Auditorium): Cinegael Buffalo presents two experimental art films of the 1920s
7:30 pm (Auditorium): Professor Laurence Shine, "Roll Away the Reel World". Before James Joyce published any of his major writings, he co-founded Ireland's first film theater, the Volta, in 1909. From 1921, Joyce worked at the center of the Parisian art scene, amongst Brancusi, Picasso, Duchamp, Leger, Moholy-Nagy, Matisse and others. Join Laurence Shine as he explores the breaking of the image and the making of modernism.
Part of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery 's "Gusto at the Gallery" Series. Sponsored by the Humanities Institute of the State University of NY at Buffalo, Kennedy, Stoeckl and Martin, PC, and the William C Rupp Foundation
Series: Humanities Institute Open House
Time: 4:00 P.M.
Date: Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Title:”'HARD, ISOLATE, STOIC AND A KILLER': WHAT DO THE HUMANITIES HAVE TO SAY ABOUT VIOLENCE AND THE AMERICAN CHARACTER?
Speaker(s): David Schmid, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, UB English Department
Description: The public debate about violence in America --especially when dealing with cases that become the focus of media frenzies, such as OJ Simpson, JonBenet Ramsey, Columbine, or the Virginia Tech shootings--is characterized more by heat than light. The problem is not only that the same limited questions are asked time and time again but also that other, more resonant, questions are implicitly (and sometimes explicitly) disallowed. In this lecture, I will open up and explore such questions by asking what a humanities-centered perspective has to contribute to an understanding of the relationship between violence and Americanness. Through analysis and debate, I hope that together we will arrive at a full understanding of just how complex these issues are before we can begin to discuss solutions.
David Schmid is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the English Department at the University at Buffalo . Born and raised in England , he received his B.A. from Oxford University , his M.A. from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. from the Modern Thought and Literature Program at Stanford University . He teaches and researches in the areas of popular culture, cultural studies, and twentieth-century British and American Literature. He is the author of "Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture" (Chicago 2005) and is currently working on a book entitled "The Scarlet Thread: A History of Homicide in American Popular Culture."
Location: UB Libraries Special Collections Research Room, 420 Capen Hall, North Campus
Special Instructions: Click Here to Read a Recent Buffalo News Article on David Schmid
Click Here to Listen to a WBFO Radio Interview with Dr. Schmid Feb. 19, 2008 :
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wbfo/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1230708§ionID=1
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Series: Cutting Edge Lecture Series
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Date: Saturday February 23, 2008
Title: DETECTING DECEPTION IN THE AGE OF TERRORISM
Speaker(s): Mark Frank, Associate Professor, Communication Department
Location: Screening Room, UB Center for the Arts, North Campus
Description:
Special Instructions: http://humanitiesinstitute.buffalo.edu/initiatives/cutting-edge.shtml
Visuals: Click here to watch lecture online: mms://stream.buffalo.edu:7080/shared/cas/cuttingedge/CuttingEdge022308.wmv
Viewing requires Windows Media Player v.9 or above. Those with Macs can use Windows Media Player 9 for Mac OSX or Flip4Mac. Windows Media Player is a free download. Flip4mac is free for those affiliated with UB.
Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time: 3:30 P.M.
Date: Thursday, February 28, 2008
Title: STAGING AMERICAN INDIANS IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY SPANISH DRAMA Speaker(s): Moises Castillo, Trinity College
Location: 1004 Clemens Hall, North Campus
Description: Presented by the Department of American Studies and co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute
Series: Humanities Institute New Faculty Seminar Series
Time: 1:00-3:00 pm
Date: Friday, February 29, 2008
Title: CULTURAL POLICY AND THE LIFE OF THE HUMANITIES IN COMMUNITIES
Speaker(s): Carole Rosenstein, Assistant Professor, Arts Management Program; Affiliated Scholar, The Urban Institute
Location: 830 Clemens Hall, North Campus
Description:
Special Instructions: Please refer to texts that are on-line under the Humanities Institute's Recommended Readings List that are to be pre-circulated.
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Series: Student Workshop
Time: 5:00 – 6:00 P.M.
Date: Monday, March 3, 2008
Title: CAREER SUCCESS FOR HUMANITIES MAJORS
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Location: 145B Student Union
Description: Majors such as English, Philosophy, Linguistics, American Studies and others have a wide variety of options available after graduation. This panel discussion will allow you to hear from UB alumni about how they used their Humanities 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: Lecture or Other Event
Time: 11:30 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
Date: Tuesday March 4, 2008
Title: OPPORTUNITIES IN THE PUBLIC HUMANITIES
Speaker(s): Mary Foltz, 2007-08 NY Council of Humanities Reading Between the Lines Fellow; UB English Department
Location: 830 Clemens Hall, North Campus
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Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time: 7:30 P.M.
Date: Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Title: V TO THE 10TH: AN EVENING WITH EVE ENSLER
Speaker(s): Eve Ensler
Location: Woldman Theatre, 112 Norton Hall
Description: Ensler is creator of the Vagina Monologues and is appearing for a special V-Day Program on ending violence against women. Sponsored by the SoFem Graduate Group, the School of Social Work, and the Gender Institute; co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute
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Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time: 1:00 PM
Date: Thursday, March 6, 2008
Title: TRAUMATIC MIMESIS: DOUGLASS AND DU BOIS ON JOHN BROWN'S RAID
Speaker(s): Dr Christina Zwarg, Associate Professor, Dept. of English, Haverford College
Location: 436 Clemens
Description:
Special Instructions: Graduate Americanist Group Spring Speaker. Event co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute
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Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time: 6:30-10:00 P.M.
Date: Friday, March 7, 2008
Title: IMPERIAL DREAMS: HERMAN MELVILLE AND JAMES JOYCE
Speaker(s): Dr Vincent Cheng and Dr. Denis Donoghue; exhibition of rare materials by the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library; performance by Vincent O'Neill
Location: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1285 Elmwood Avenue
Description: Two of the most influential literary scholars in the United States will make their first visits to Buffalo to headline the program. Denis Donoghue, Henry James Chair of English and American Letters at NYU, is the author or editor of more than 30 books, including Speaking of Beauty, a NY Times Notable Book (2003) and The American Classics (2006). Dr Donoghue will speak on Melville in a presentation entitled “The Ambiguities of Herman Melville.” Dr. Vincent J, Cheng, Sutton Professor of Literature at the University of Utah is the author of Joyce, Race, and Empire, a milestone study of political context and ideology in Joyce's writing, among other works. Dr, Cheng's presentation is titled, "Amnesia, Forgetting, and the Nation in James Joyce's Ulysses." A panel at the end of the evening will consider contemporary political implications, among other matters, and will be moderated by Patrick Martin, Director of Riverrun.
The evening will begin at 6:30 pm with a comic enactment of "Bloom and the Citizen" from "The Cyclops" chapter of Joyce's Ulysses, by Vincent O'Neill of the Irish Classical Theater. At 6:45 pm, the new Director of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, Bridget Quinn-Carey, formerly of Essex, Connecticut, will begin her tenure in Buffalo by introducing a first-ever exhbition of selected rare materials from the Library, on display in the Gallery as part of the "Imperial Dreams" program. Dr Cheng will speak at 7:00 pm; Dr.Donoghue will speak at 8:00 pm. The panel will commence at 9:00 pm, followed by a public reception and book signing at 10:00 pm, in Muse, the Gallery Restaurant. This event is free and open to all. It is cosponsored by Cinegael Buffalo, the William C Rupp Foundation, the University at Buffalo Humanities Institute, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, and Kennedy, Stoeckl and Martin, PC.
Special Instructions: Presented by riverrun. The first program in its "Writers and Politics" series. Part of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery's "Gusto at the Gallery" Series
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Series: Cutting Edge Lecture Series
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Date: Saturday March 8, 2008
Title: TREASURES OF THE SPANISH MAIN, OR THE HIDDEN ORIGINS OF AMERICAN SOCIETIES
Speaker(s): José F. Buscaglia-Salgado, Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, Romance Languages and Literatures Department; Director of the Program in Caribbean Studies
Location: Screening Room, UB Center for the Arts, North Campus
Description:
Special Instructions: http://humanitiesinstitute.buffalo.edu/initiatives/cutting-edge.shtml
Visuals: Click here to watch lecture online: mms://stream.buffalo.edu:7080/shared/cas/cuttingedge/CuttingEdge030808.wmv
Viewing requires Windows Media Player v.9 or above. Those with Macs can use Windows Media Player 9 for Mac OSX or Flip4Mac. Windows Media Player is a free download. Flip4mac is free for those affiliated with UB.
Series: NY Council for the Humanities Reading Between the Lines Series
Time: 10:30 A.M.-12 P.M.
Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Title: WASTING AWAY: CONTEMPORARY WRITERS ON ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES
Speaker(s): Mary C. Foltz, UB Graduate Student, UB English Dept., New York State Council for the Humanities Fellow
Location: Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens, 2655 South Park Avenue
Description: Programs meets the second Wednesday of every month up to June. Click here for more program information.
Special Instructions: Click Here for Recommended Reading List
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Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time:. 8:00 P.M.
Date: Thursday, March 13, 2008
Title: BABEL
Speaker(s): Derek Walcott of St. Lucia, 1992 Nobel Prize Winner, Selected Poems
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.
Just Buffalo Literary Center and Hallwalls are proud to introduce Babel, an exciting new reading and conversation series that will feature four acclaimed international authors each year. Babel will support the Buffalo Niagara region's ongoing efforts to define and promote itself as a vibrant center for the exploration of global cultures. In our first season, we will present two Nobel Prize winners, one Man Booker Prize winner, and an acclaimed Broadway playwright. Event co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute
Special Instructions: http://www.justbuffalo.org/babel/index.php
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Series: Humanities Institute Library Fellowship Lecture
Time: 4:00 P.M.
Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Title: MUSICO, POETA Y LOCO, DE TODOS TENEMOS UN POCO: WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS AND LATINA/O CULTURAL POLITICS
Speaker(s): Edith Morris Vasquez, Assistant Professor of English, Pitzer College
Location: Special Collections Reading Room, 420 Capen Hall, North Campus
Description:
Special Instructions: Further information at http://humanitiesinstitute.buffalo.edu/fellowshipsresearch/fellows0708.shtml#vasquez
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Series: Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship Lecture
Time: 4:00-6:00 P.M.
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2008
Title: PLATO AND HEGEL ON AN OLD QUARREL
Speaker(s): Kalliopi Nikolopoulou, Assistant Professor and Director, Undergraduate Studies, Department of Comparative Literature
Location: 318 Clemens Hall, North Campus
Description: Moderator: Joan Copjec, UB Distinguished Professor, Department of English; Respondent: Susan Cole, Professor Emerita, Department of Classics
Special Instructions: http://humanitiesinstitute.buffalo.edu/fellowshipsresearch/fellows0708.shtml#kalliopi
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Series: Cutting Edge Lecture Series
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Date: Saturday March 29, 2008
Title: WHY ARE SO MANY PEOPLE BAD SINGERS YET GOOD TALKERS (OR ARE THEY)?
Speaker(s): Peter Q. Pfordresher, Associate Professor, Psychology Department
Location: Screening Room, UB Center for the Arts, North Campus
Description :
Special Instructions: http://humanitiesinstitute.buffalo.edu/initiatives/cutting-edge.shtml
Visuals: Click here to watch lecture online: mms://stream.buffalo.edu:7080/shared/cas/cuttingedge/CuttingEdge032908.wmv
Viewing requires Windows Media Player v.9 or above. Those with Macs can use Windows Media Player 9 for Mac OSX or Flip4Mac. Windows Media Player is a free download. Flip4mac is free for those affiliated with UB.
Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time: 1:00 P.M. Date: Saturday March 29, 2008
Title: UB POETRY CONTEST PROGRAM AND WORKSHOP
Speaker(s): Michael Basinski, Curator, Poetry/Rare Books Collection, University Libraries
Location: Screening Room, UB Center for the Arts, North Campus
Description:
Special Instructions: http://humanitiesinstitute.buffalo.edu/initiatives/poetry-contest.shtml
Visuals: Click here to watch Workshop online: mms://stream.buffalo.edu:7080/shared/cas/poetry/PoetryReading.wmv
Viewing requires Windows Media Player v.9 or above. Those with Macs can use Windows Media Player 9 for Mac OSX or Flip4Mac. Windows Media Player is a free download. Flip4mac is free for those affiliated with UB.
Series: Conference
Time: Friday 8:30 A.M.; Saturday 9:00 A.M.
Date: April 4-5, 2008
Title: SURVEY: RE-MAPPING BUFFALO'S URBAN SPACE
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Location: April 4: Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, 220 North Street, April 5: King Urban Life Center, 938 Genesee Street
Description: SURVEY: Re-mapping Buffalo's Urban Space is a university-community symposium bringing together local university students and faculty, community and activist groups, artists, and policy-makers to discuss current conceptualizations and reconfigurations of space in Buffalo. Presentations will address the city's built environment, green spaces, neighborhoods, and online communities, with specific topics of discussion ranging from theories of space and identity to the significance of Buffalo's post-industrial heritage for today's economy. Such dialogue amongst various community groups is especially important as UB looks to build its presence in the downtown district. Organized by the UB Interdisciplinary Group for Social Engagement
Special Instructions: Click here for schedule and list of speakers. Click here to read press release
Visuals: Poster pdf
Series: Cutting Edge Lecture Series
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Date: Saturday April 5, 2008
Title: IDEAJACKED - TSUNAMI LEVEL CHAOS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN TECHNOLOGY AND TRADE
Speaker(s): Patrick Kennedy, UB Alumnus; Founder & CEO/Chairman, Cellport Systems, Boulder CO
Location: Screening Room, UB Center for the Arts, North Campus
Description:
Special Instructions: http://humanitiesinstitute.buffalo.edu/initiatives/cutting-edge.shtml
Visuals: Click here to watch lecture online: mms://stream.buffalo.edu:7080/shared/cas/cuttingedge/CuttingEdge040508.wmv
Viewing requires Windows Media Player v.9 or above. Those with Macs can use Windows Media Player 9 for Mac OSX or Flip4Mac. Windows Media Player is a free download. Flip4mac is free for those affiliated with UB.
Series: NY Council for the Humanities Reading Between the Lines Series
Time: 10:30 A.M.-12 P.M.
Date: Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Title: WASTING AWAY: CONTEMPORARY WRITERS ON ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES
Speaker(s): Mary C. Foltz, UB Graduate Student, UB English Dept., New York State Council for the Humanities Fellow
Location: Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens, 2655 South Park Avenue
Description: Programs meets the second Wednesday of every month up to June. Click here for more program information.
Special Instructions: Click Here for Recommended Reading List
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Series: Cutting Edge Lecture Series
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Date: Saturday April 12, 2008
Title: HOW ONE SPENDS THE 20 YEARS LEADING TO OVERNIGHT SUCCESS
Speaker(s): Stephen M. Henderson, Associate Professor, Theatre and Dance Department
Location: Screening Room, UB Center for the Arts, North Campus Description:
Special Instructions: http://humanitiesinstitute.buffalo.edu/initiatives/cutting-edge.shtml
Visuals: Click here to watch lecture online: mms://stream.buffalo.edu:7080/shared/cas/cuttingedge/CuttingEdge041208.wmv
Viewing requires Windows Media Player v.9 or above. Those with Macs can use Windows Media Player 9 for Mac OSX or Flip4Mac. Windows Media Player is a free download. Flip4mac is free for those affiliated with UB.
Series: Humanities Institute Scholar Session
Time: 4:00 PM
Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Title: BODILY SENSES: A CROSS-DISCIPLINARY CONVERSATION ON TASTE, SMELL, AND TOUCH
Speaker(s): Susan Feagin, Research Professor, Department of Philosophy and Editor, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism,Temple University; Rosemary Feal, Executive Director, Modern Language Association & Professor, UB Department of Romance Languages & Literatures; Janet Lyon, Associate Professor of English, Women's Studies, and Science, Technology, and Society, Penn State
Location: UB Libraries Special Collections Research Room, 420 Capen Hall, North Campus
Description: Honoring the Work of Carolyn Korsmeyer, Professor, UB Philosophy Department
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Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time: 12:00 P.M.
Date: Tuesday April 22, 2008
Title: SEMINAR Speaker(s): Leo Bersani, Emeritus Professor of French, University of California, Berkeley
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Description: This event is hosted and sponsored jointly by the Group for the Study of the History of Ideas and the Humanities Institute.
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Series: Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship Lecture
Time: 4:00-6:00 P.M.
Date: Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Title: METAPHYSICS OF THE SOUL AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF GREEK AND CHINESE ETHICS
Speaker(s): Jiyuan Yu, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
Location: 280 Park Hall, North Campus
Description: Moderator: Roger Desforges, Professor, Department of History; Respondent: Arabella Lyon, Associate Professor, Department of English
Special Instructions: http://humanitiesinstitute.buffalo.edu/fellowshipsresearch/fellows0708.shtml#yu
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Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time:. 8:00 P.M.
Date: Thursday, April 24, 2008
Title: BABEL Speaker(s): Kiran Desai of India, 2006 Man Booker Prize Winner, The Inheritance of Loss
Location:
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. Just Buffalo Literary Center and Hallwalls are proud to introduce Babel , an exciting new reading and conversation series that will feature four acclaimed international authors each year. Babel will support the Buffalo Niagara region's ongoing efforts to define and promote itself as a vibrant center for the exploration of global cultures. In our first season, we will present two Nobel Prize winners, one Man Booker Prize winner, and an acclaimed Broadway playwright.
Special Instructions: http://www.justbuffalo.org/babel/index.php
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Series: Humanities Institute New Faculty Seminar Series
Time: 1:00-3:00 pm
Date: Friday, April 25, 2008
Title: THE ORIGINS OF SLAPSTICK MODERNISM
Speaker(s): William Solomon, Associate Professor, Department of English
Location: 830 Clemens Hall, North Campus
Description:
Special Instructions: Please refer to texts that are on-line under the Humanities Institute's Recommended Readings List that are to be pre-circulated. Click here to read a recent interview with Solomon
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Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time: 7:30-9:30 P.M.
Date: Friday, April 25, 2008
Title: BROKEN DREAMS
Speaker(s): Broken Dreams by Vincent O'Neill, Josephine Hogan, and Mary Ramsey. Film, "Yeats and Theater" RTE, 2006.
Location: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1285 Elmwood Avenue
Description: Riverrun, the UB Humanities Institute and the Buffalo Arts Commission PresenT BROKEN DREAMS~~~A one-hour celebration of the life and works of WB Yeats by Vincent O’Neill and Josephine Hogan, with original music by Mary Ramsey
7:30 PM: The Hon. Byron W. Brown, Mayor of Buffalo, for the Buffalo Arts Commission
7:45 PM: Patrick Martin, Director of Cinegael Buffalo, presents the United States premiere of the award winning short film “Players and the Painted Stage: WB Yeats and the Theatre”, RTE productions (22 minutes).
8:15 PM: “Broken Dreams”, Vincent O’Neill, Josephine Hogan and Mary Ramsey
Afterwords: Reception, Muse Restaurant.
Free and Open to all
Co-Sponsored by the William C Rupp Foundation and the Irish Classical Theatre. Part of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery's "Gusto at the Gallery" Series
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Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 PM
Date: April 29, 2008
Title: DIGITAL HUMANITIES INITIATIVE WORKS IN PROGRESS PRESENTATION
Speaker(s): Ronan Crowley, Department of English
Location: 306 Clemens Hall, North Campus
Description: Ronan Crowley spoke about editing the "Circe" manuscripts of Joyce's Ulysses.
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Series: NY Council for the Humanities Reading Between the Lines Series
Time: 10:30 A.M.-12 P.M.
Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Title: WASTING AWAY: CONTEMPORARY WRITERS ON ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES
Speaker(s): Mary C. Foltz, UB Graduate Student, UB English Dept., New York State Council for the Humanities Fellow
Location: Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens, 2655 South Park Avenue
Description: Programs meets the second Wednesday of every month up to June. Click here for more program information.
Special Instructions: Click Here for Recommended Reading List
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Series: NY Council for the Humanities Reading Between the Lines Series
Time: 10:30 A.M.-12 P.M.
Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Title: WASTING AWAY: CONTEMPORARY WRITERS ON ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES
Speaker(s): Mary C. Foltz, UB Graduate Student, UB English Dept., New York State Council for the Humanities Fellow
Location: Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens, 2655 South Park Avenue
Description: Programs meets the second Wednesday of every month up to June. Click here for more program information.
Special Instructions: Click Here for Recommended Reading List
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Series: Lecture or Other Event
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Date: Friday June 13-15, 2008
Title: CINEGAEL
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Location: Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, 341 Delaware Avenue
Description: Co-sponsored by the University at Buffalo Humanities Institute
Special Instructions: More information at www.riverrunbuffalo.org
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Series: Lecture or Other Event
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Date: Monday June 16, 2008
Title: BLOOMSDAY BUFFALO
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Location: Andrews Theater, 625 Main Street Buffalo
Description:
Special Instructions: http://www.bloomsdaybuffalo.com/
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Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time: 4:00 PM
Date: Friday September 4, 2008
Title: SCHOLARS AT MUSE
Speaker(s): Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
Location: Muse Restaurant, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1285 Elmwood
Description: Forgetting and Willful Transformation of Memory: The Death and
Rebirth of a Mapuche Shaman in Chile
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Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time: 5:00 PM
Date: Thursday September 11, 2008
Title: JUST THEORY GUEST LECTURE SERIES
Speaker(s): Kalpana Rahita Seshadri
Location: 640 Clemens Hall
Description: "First Words" HumAnimal: Tales of the Bio-Political
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Series: Conference
Time: 1:30 PM
Date: Friday September 19, 2008
Title: Digital Humanities Initiative at Buffalo
Opening Seminar, Lecture and Reception
Speaker(s): Katherine Hayles, Duke, Gregory Crane,
Tufts University, Stephen Ramsay, University of Nebraska
Location: 120 Clemens Hall and CFA
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Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time: 4:00 PM
Date: Wednesday September 24, 2008
Title: HUMANITIES INSTITUTE FACULTY FELLOWSHIP LECTURE
Speaker(s): Jim Bono, David Castillo
Location: 830 Clemens Hall
Description: "Dogs, Witches, and Other Unreliable Narrators:
A Cervantine Twist on Fantasy and Exemplarity"
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Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time: 4:00 PM
Date: Thursday October 2, 2008
Title: DAVID GREY CHAIR LIBRARY FELLOWSHIP LECTURE
Speaker(s): Peter Quartermain
Location: 420 Capen Hall
Description: "Editing Robert Duncan: Problems and Procedures"
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Series: Lecture or Other Event
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Date: Friday February 2, 2007
Title: JOYCE WITH GUSTO
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Location: Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Description: Part of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery's "Gusto at the Gallery" Series. Sponsored by the Humanities Institute of the State University of NY at Buffalo, Kennedy, Stoeckl and Martin, PC, and the William C Rupp Foundation
Special Instructions: Link to Program
Visuals: Poster PDF
Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Date: Wednesday February 14, 2007
Title: HUMANITIES INSTITUTE FACULTY FELLOW LECTURE
Speaker(s): Elliot Caplan, Professor, UB Department of Media Study and Director, UB Center for the Moving Image
Location: Screening Room, UB Center for the Arts, North Campus
Description: "Hidden Things: A Children's Story". Introduction by Nancy Anderson, Assistant Professor, UB Department of Visual Studies
Special Instructions: Click here for more information
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Series: Cutting Edge Lecture Series
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Date: Saturday February 24, 2007
Title: HOMICIDE AND AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE
Speaker(s): David F. Schmid, Associate Professor, UB English Department
Location: Screening Room, UB Center for the Arts, North Campus
Description:
Special Instructions: http://www.cas.buffalo.edu/outreach/cutting-edge/pages/cutting_edge.html
Visuals: Poster PDF
Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Date: Wednesday February 28, 2007
Title: INAUGURAL CRITICAL STUDIES SEMINAR
Speaker(s): Kari Winter, Associate Professor, UB Department of American Studies
Location: 830 Clemens Hall, North Campus
Description: "From Vermont Abolitionist to Virginia Slaveholder? Benjamin Franklin Prentiss and the Familial Politics of Antebellum America"
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Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Date: Thursday March 1, 2007
Title: DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE'S 'JUST THEORY' LECTURE SERIES
Speaker(s): Catherine Malabou, University of Paris , France
Location: 640 Clemens Hall, North Campus
Description: "Heidegger and Foucault on Post-Historical Change"
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Series: Cutting Edge Lecture Series
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Date: Saturday March 3, 2007
Title: THE ARTIC MELTDOWN: THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF ARCTIC WARMING
Speaker(s): Jason P. Briner, Assistant Professor, UB Geology Department
Location: Screening Room, UB Center for the Arts, North Campus
Description:
Special Instructions: http://www.cas.buffalo.edu/outreach/cutting-edge/pages/cutting_edge.html
Visuals: Poster PDF
Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Date: Monday March 5, 2007
Title: HUMANITIES INSTITUTE FACULTY FELLOW LECTURE
Speaker(s): Amy C. Graves, Assistant Professor, UB Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Location: Screening Room, UB Center for the Arts, North Campus
Description: "Trauma, Time, and Writing: How Historical Narrative Radicalized Huguenot Resistance Theory"
Special Instructions: Click here for more information
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Series: Cutting Edge Lecture Series
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Date: Saturday March 17, 2007
Title: FACEBOOK, MYSPACE, AND WORLD-CLASS PAINTINGS? HOW TO MAKE ART MUSEUMS INTERESTING TO KIDS
Speaker(s): Alan B. Newman, Chief, Division of Imaging & Visual Services, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and former UB student
Location: Screening Room, UB Center for the Arts, North Campus
Description:
Special Instructions: http://www.cas.buffalo.edu/outreach/cutting-edge/pages/cutting_edge.html
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Series: Open House
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Date: Tuesday March 20, 2007
Title: WHY WE HAVE TO READ (AND WORSE YET, THINK ABOUT) THIS STUFF: NEW WORK ON THE PRACTICAL VALUE OF LITERATURE AND EVEN THEORY
Speaker(s): Robert J. Daly, Distinguished Teaching Professor, UB Department of English
Location: UB Libraries Special Collections Research Room, 420 Capen Hall, North Campus
Description:
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Series: Cutting Edge Lecture Series
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Date: Saturday March 24, 2007
Title: THE UNITED NATION'S MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS: A UTOPIAN AGENDA OR A REALISTIC COMMITMENT TO HALF POVERTY BY 2015?
Speaker(s): Marieme S. Lo, Assistant Professor, UB Women's Studies Department
Location: Screening Room, UB Center for the Arts, North Campus
Description:
Special Instructions: http://www.cas.buffalo.edu/outreach/cutting-edge/pages/cutting_edge.html
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Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Date: Monday March 26, 2007
Title: HUMANITIES INSTITUTE FACULTY FELLOW LECTURE
Speaker(s): Everett Yuehong Zhang, Assistant Professor, UB Department of Anthropology
Location: Screening Room, UB Center for the Arts, North Campus
Description: "Life, Sacrifice, and the Transformation of Chinese Socialism"
Special Instructions: Click here for more information
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Series: Cutting Edge Lecture Series
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Date: Saturday March 31, 2007
Title: MEDIA, ARCHITECTURE AND COMPUTING IN A WIRELESS WORLD
Speaker(s): Mark W. Shepard, Assistant Professor, UB Architecture and Media Study
Location: Screening Room, UB Center for the Arts, North Campus
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Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Date: Saturday March 31, 2007
Title: UB POETRY CONTEST PROGRAM AND WORKSHOP
Speaker(s): Carl Dennis, Pulitzer-Prize Winner and Artist-in-Residence, UB Department of English
Location: Screening Room, UB Center for the Arts, North Campus
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Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Date: Friday April 13, 2007
Title: EDITING ACADEMIC JOURNALS: EXPERIENCES, CHALLENGES, PERSPECTIVES
Speaker(s): Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen, Professor, Department of Geography, UB; editor of The Professional Geographer, member Eitorial Board Annals of the Association of American Geographers; James J. Bono, Associate Professor, Department of History and Department of Medicine, UB; founding editor, emeritus, Configurations; member Advisory Editorial Board Bulletin of the History of Medicine; John Dugan, Associate Professor, Department of Classics, UB; co-editor of Arethusa; Michael H. Frisch, Professor, Department of History, UB; former editor of the Oral History Review, member Editorial Board The Public Historian; Bernard Lightman, Professor and Graduate Program Director, Division of Humanities, York University; editor of Isis. Moderated by Andreas Daum, Professor, UB Department of History
Location: 280 Park Hall, North Campus
Description: Do we still need journals in the Internet age? What is their role in the academic community? How do they perform on a competitive publication market? And what do journal editors actually do? This round-table will present observations on these and related questions from distinguished journal editors. They will be asked what their job is like and how they combine the role of scholars and managers; whether their work has an impact on their respective disciplines; and how is it shaped by both scholarly and economic demands. Our round-table addresses issues that scholars, writers, and editors across disciplines deal with. All are welcome, especially students and faculty, administrators and librarians.
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Series: Conference
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Date: Saturday April 14, 2007
Title: OLSON NOW 3: CHARLES OLSON AT BUFFALO
Speaker(s): Featured Presenters include: Anne Waldman, Ammiel Alcalay, Michael Basinski,
Location: Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
Description: Sponsored by the UB Humanities Institute, the UB Poetry Collection, Hallwalls, Just Buffalo
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Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time: 1:30 p.m.
Date: Saturday April 28, 2007
Title: LINCOLN ROAD OR ARMAGEDDON? BILLY THE KID AND THE IRISH WEST
Speaker(s): Featuring Michael Wallis
Location: Buffalo and Erie County Public Library , 1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo
Description: Michael Wallis, author of Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride, is a National Book Award and three-time Pulitzer prize nominee. He is also host of the new PBS series American Roads and the voice of the sheriff in the animated Pixar feature Cars. Co-sponsored by the University at Buffalo Humanities Institute
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Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time:
Date: Wednesday June 13-15, 2007
Title: CINEGAEL
Speaker(s):
Location: North Park Theater, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center
Description: Co-sponsored by the University at Buffalo Humanities Institute
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Series: Lecture or Other Event
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Date: Saturday June 16, 2007
Title: BLOOMSDAY BUFFALO
Speaker(s):
Location: Andrews Theater, 625 Main Street Buffalo
Description: Co-sponsored by the University at Buffalo Humanities Institute
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Series: Charles D. Abbott HI Library Fellowship Lecture
Time: 4:00 P.M.
Date: Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Title: THE ENEMY IS HERE. WYNDHAM LEWIS AND THE ARCHIVE OF THE POETRY COLLECTION
Speaker(s): Yolanda Morato, Hired Researcher, University of Huelva, Spain
Location: UB Libraries Special Collections Research Room, 420 Capen Hall, North Campus
Description:
"The Enemy is here. Wyndham Lewis and the archive of the Poetry
Collection"
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Lewis collection at UB, please click here
Series: NY Council for the Humanities Reading Between the Lines Series
Time: 10:30 A.M.
Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Title: WASTING AWAY: CONTEMPORARY WRITERS ON ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES
Speaker(s): Mary C. Foltz, UB Graduate Student, UB English Dept., New York State Council for the Humanities Fellow
Location: Buffalo Museum of Science, 1020 Humboldt Parkway
Description: Programs meets the third Wednesday of every month. Click here for more program information.
Special Instructions: Click Here for Recommended Reading List
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Series: Humanities Institute New Faculty Seminar Series
Time: 1:00 pm
Date: Friday, September 21, 2007
Title: FREEDOM FROM TRANSCULTURATION
Speaker(s): Albert Moreiras, Regular Visiting Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Location: 904 Clemens Hall, North Campus
Description:
Special Instructions: Please refer to texts that are on-line under the Humanities Institute's Recommended Readings List that are to be pre-circulated.
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Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time: 3:00 P.M.
Date: Sunday, September 23, 2007
Title: BOOK READING BY SARAH SCHULMAN
Speaker(s): Sarah Schulman, Professor, City University of NY
Location: Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, 341 Delaware Avenue
Description: Acclaimed author Sarah Schulman (Rat Bohemia, Shimmer) returns with THE CHILD (Carroll & Graff) an absorbing novel about a teenager convicted of murder after seeing his online lover charged with pedophilia. Structured like a classic novel of legal suspense, The Child explores what happens when Stew, a lonely fifteen-year-old boy, looks for and finds an adult boyfriend online. In short order his lover is arrested in an Internet pedophilia sting and Stew's world is turned upside down. He's exposed to his family and community, leaving the outcast to fend for himself against forces intent on his destruction. Desperate and enraged, the confused Stew murders his nephew in a panic. Schulman's novel considers the impact of these events on all those involved — from the parents of the murdered child, to Stew's staunchly Catholic parents, and the attorneys working on his case. Carefully untangling the actions of an isolated teenager denied a natural outlet for his feelings during a critical time in his life, The Child is a haunting meditation on isolation and the prejudices of culture and family.
Special Instructions: http://www.genderbuffalo.org/content/blogcategory/13/28/
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Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time: 4:00 P.M.
Date: Monday, September 24, 2007
Title: UNITED IN ANGER: A HISTORY OF ACT UP
Speaker(s): Sarah Schulman, Professor, City University of NY
Location: 120 Clemens Hall, North Campus
Description: Gender Week keynote speaker, Sarah Schulman, will give a brief history of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, its influence on policy, a tour through the ACT UP Oral History Project, and show a trailer for the feature documentary in progress.
Sarah Schulman is a novelist, historian and playwright. A lifelong political activist, Schulman has been involved in a number of strategic social movements, including Abortion Rights, ACT-UP, and most recently, the Lesbian Avengers. She is the cofounder of the Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival and is a prodigious contributor to the mainstream and progressive press, including The New York Times, The Guardian, Interview, The Face, Mother Jones, Ms. Magazine, Village Voice, The Advocate, Cineaste, and Jump-Cut. 2007 marks the 15th anniversary of her work Empathy, for which a critical edition was recently published by Arsenal Pulp Press. Her current play, Carson McCullers, is available from Playscripts Inc. Schulman is Professor of English at The City University of New York, College of Staten Island.
Special Instructions: http://www.genderbuffalo.org/content/blogcategory/13/28/
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Series: Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship Lecture
Time: 5:15 P.M.
Date: Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Title: MAKE LANGUAGE: LIVING WITH SYNTHETIC SPEECH
Speaker(s): Marc Böhlen, Associate Professor, UB Department of Media Study
Location: Screening Room, UB Center for the Arts, North Campus
Description: Now that machines sound almost like we do it is time to imagine what they might have to say. Moderator: William J. Rapaport, Assoc. Prof, Computer Science; Affiliated Faculty, Philosophy and Linguistics; Respondent: Stephanie Rothenberg, Asst. Prof., Dept. of Visual Studies
Special Instructions: http://humanitiesinstitute.buffalo.edu/fellowshipsresearch/fellows0607.shtml
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Series: Early Modern Reading Group Lecture
Time: 12:30 P.M.
Date: Thursday, September 27, 2007
Title: RACIAL THINKING AND COLONIAL NUMERACY: GENDER AND THE TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
Speaker(s): Jennifer Morgan, New York University
Location: 280 Park Hall, North Campus
Description: Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute
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Series: Humanities Institute Library Fellowship Lecture
Time: 4:00 P.M.
Date: Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Title: STRONG AS DEATH-THE IMAGE OF AUTONOMY AND THE INSIGHT OF THE OBJECT
Speaker(s): Idit Alphandary, Tel Aviv University, Israel, Departments of Literature and NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program
Location: UB Libraries Special Collections Research Room, 420 Capen Hall, North Campus
Description:
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Series: NY Council for the Humanities Reading Between the Lines Series
Time: 10:30 A.M.
Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Title: WASTING AWAY: CONTEMPORARY WRITERS ON ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES
Speaker(s): Mary C. Foltz, UB Graduate Student, UB English Dept., New York State Council for the Humanities Fellow
Location: Buffalo Museum of Science, 1020 Humboldt Parkway
Description: Programs meets the third Wednesday of every month. Click here for more program information.
Special Instructions: Click Here for Recommended Reading List
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Series: James Joyce Library Fellowship Lecture
Time: 4:00 pm
Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Title: THE JAMES JOYCE BIBLIOGRAPHY PROJECT
Speaker(s): Stacey Herbert, Independent Scholar, Dublin, Ireland
Location: UB Libraries Special Collections Research Room, 420 Capen Hall, North Campus
Description:
Special Instructions: http://humanitiesinstitute.buffalo.edu/content/fellowshipsresearch/fellows0708.html
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Series: Early Modern Reading Group Lecture
Time: 12:30 P.M.
Date: Thursday, October 18, 2007
Title: OLAUDAH EQUIANO OR GUSTAVA VASSA (1745?-1797), FOUNDING FATHER OF ABOLITION
Speaker(s): Vincent Carretta, University of Maryland
Location: 280 Park Hall, North Campus
Description: Co-sponsored by the University at Buffalo Humanities Institute
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Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time: 2:15 p.m.
Date: Thursday, October 18, 2007
Title: NOT FOR SPECULATION: THE VALUE OF EQUIANO AND HIS INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE
Speaker(s): Wilfred Samuels, Departments of African American Studies and English, University of Utah
Location: 1004 Clemens Hall
Description: Co-sponsored by the University at Buffalo Humanities Institute
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Time:. 12:00 P.M.
Date: Monday October 22, 2007
Title: PICTURING PREJUDICE: DEPICTING ANTI-SEMITISM IN AMERICAN FEATURE FILMS
Speaker(s): Lawrence Baron, Nasatir Professor of Jewish History, San Diego State University
Location: 1004 Clemens Hall, North Campus
Description: Dr. Baron traces the topic back to the generic prejudice movies of the late 1930s like Black Legion, the post-war films like Gentleman's Agreement, the linking of Jews with the civil rights movement (the Intruder), movies where anti-Semitism is treated as something in the past (Liberty Heights) and multicultural movies about anti-Semitism as a result of ethnic and racial tension (Get on the Bus, Crown Heights or Wandering View). Sponsored by: Department of American Studies, Humanities Institute, General Education Program, History Department and Graduate Group for German and Austrian Studies
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Series: Student Workshop
Time: 5:00 P.M.
Date: Monday, October 22, 2007
Title: CAREERS FOR HISTORY/POLITCAL SCIENCE MAJORS
Speaker(s):
Location: 145B Student Union
Description: History and Political Science majors have a wide variety of career options after graduation. This panel discussion will allow attendees to hear from UB alumni about how they used their History or Political Science major to achieve a successful career.
Special Instructions: Register at http://workshops.buffalo.edu/
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Series: Humanities Institute Annual Conference
Time: 9:00 A.M.
Date: Friday, October 26-27, 2007
Title: HUMAN TRAFFICKING CONFERENCE
Speaker(s):
Location: Screening Room, UB Center for the Arts, North Campus
Description: “Human Trafficking”
Special Instructions: http://humanitiesinstitute.buffalo.edu/about/annualconference.shtml
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Series: Polish Studies Program Lecture
Time: 5:00 pm
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Title: PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN POLAND 2007: RESULTS AND POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES
Speaker(s): Dr Slawomir Jozefowicz, University of Warsaw, Polish Studies Program UB, Kosciuszko Foundation Visiting Scholar
Location: 280 Park Hall, North Campus
Description: co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute
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Series: Lecture or Other Event
Time:. 8:00 P.M.
Date: Thursday, November 8, 2007
Title: BABEL
Speaker(s): Orhan Pamuk of Turkey , 2006 Nobel Prize Winner, Snow
Location:
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.
Just Buffalo Literary Center and Hallwalls are proud to introduce Babel , an exciting new reading and conversation series that will feature four acclaimed international authors each year. Babel will support the Buffalo Niagara region?s ongoing efforts to define and promote itself