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Disability Studies Research Workshop: Natalia Pamuła, “‘Crisis Ordinariness’ and the Slow Transformation of 1989: Disability and Gender in Poland”

214 Parker - South Campus

Pamuła’s talk will focus on the Polish disability memoirs published in 1991 in the volume Cierpieniem pisane: Pamiętniki kobiet niepełnosprawnych (Written through Suffering: Disabled Women’s Memoirs). Written through Suffering consists of twenty-one short memoirs submitted as a response to a memoir competition in 1990. Published two years after the first democratic elections, which took place […]

Performance Research Workshop: Rhaisa Williams, “Three Black Mothers in a Cleveland Cabaret as the City Comes Crumbling Down”

Zoom

The Performance Research Workshop welcomes Rhaisa Williams. This is a story of Cleveland, Ohio in the 1970s—when it was affectionately known as “the mistake by the lake.” The city, once a booming manufacturing town, positioned between the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie, had begun a rapid decline in industry and population starting in the late […]

Technoculture Research Workshop: Alexander R. Galloway, “No Deconstruction without Computers”: Learning to Code with Derrida and Kittler

Zoom

The Technoculture Research Workshop welcomes Alexander R. Galloway. What are the machines that determine thinking? We may approach the question in a number of ways. The typical approach is to consider (or perhaps even craft) a philosophy of media. This comes under the name of media studies or media theory, where media artifacts are taken […]

UB Critical Ecologies Research Collaborative and Science Studies Workshop: Hannah Holleman, No Empires, No Wastelands: “The Necessity of Forging a Real Ecological Solidarity for the 21st Century”

170 Academic Center (Ellicott Complex)

In this lecture, Professor Holleman will discuss the vital lessons we can learn from one of the first global environmental problems of modern capitalism, which reached its apogee in the “dust-bowlification” of agricultural lands in the 1920s and 1930s. Based on award-winning research, Prof. Holleman explains that the regional crises of soil erosion in this […]

Scholars@Hallwalls: Maximilian Goldfarb, “Remote Viewing”

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center 341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY

Please join us in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! Goldfarb will present his project ‘Remote Viewing’. Beginning as a publication of observational writing, this object-based inquiry is derived from the margins of found photographic source material; documents of tools, equipment, and devices that mediate our interactions with our environments. As a sculptural project, Remote Viewing explores the relationship […]

Humanities to the Rescue | Communities: Trust (Campus Conversations Day 1)

SAVE-THE-DATE Humanities to the Rescue Campus Conversations (Day 1) Please join us for two days of campus conversations, centered on the Humanities Institute 2023 theme of COMMUNITIES: TRUST. If the humanities remind us of our interdependence on one another, then we can discover in our stories, histories and all forms of art how that interrelatedness […]

Humanities Institute/Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program Film Series: INNER WOUND REAL and WORK

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center 341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY

Presented by the UB Humanities Institute in collaboration with the UB Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program. Please join us as we honor Pride Month (observed early for the academic schedule) with screenings of Inner Wound Real, an animated short by Carrie Hawks, and Work, a short film by April Maxey. This event is free and open […]

Humanities to the Rescue | Communities: Trust (Campus Conversations Day 2)

SAVE-THE-DATE Humanities to the Rescue Campus Conversations (Day 2) Please join us for two days of campus conversations, centered on the Humanities Institute 2023 theme of COMMUNITIES: TRUST. If the humanities remind us of our interdependence on one another, then we can discover in our stories, histories and all forms of art how that interrelatedness […]

Science Studies Research Workshop: Dr. Lauren Richter, “Strategic Science Production and the Case of PFAS”

474 Park Hall 211 Mary Talbert Way, Buffalo, NY

This talk will examine the capacity of chemical manufacturers to influence the scope of U.S. regulatory decision-making through mobilizing the scientific field surrounding PFAS (per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances). Drawing on participant observation at two offices within Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in-depth interviews, and analyses of industry documents, Richter will share a portion of her research investigating […]

Performance Research Workshop: Trevor Boffone and Danielle Rosvally, “Digital Elevator Pitches: How to Put Your Research on TikTok”

310 Silverman Library/Capen Hall

The Performance Research Workshop welcomes Trevor Boffone (University of Houston) and Danielle Rosvally (UB). How do you articulate your research for a broad public via social media? In this workshop, Dr. Boffone and Dr. Rosvally will discuss how TikTok has shaped and informed their work on Yassified Shakespeare, a multimedia project that seeks to better […]

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