Joseph Conte, Professor of English, UB "The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be: 1990s Virtual Reality Enters the 21st Century"
Two hemispheres, two presentations, light lunch, and discussion Speakers Venkat Srinivasan , National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India Douglas Lambert , PhD Candidate, UB Department of Environmental Engineering Moderator: Michael Frisch , PhD, Principal, The Randforce Associates/ Talking Pictures LLC Sponsors: UB Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering; UB Humanities Institute Science Studies […]
Giuseppe Gerbino, Professor of Historical Musicology, Columbia University presents, “Music, Mind, and Soul in the Renaissance.”
“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 […]
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 […]
Yan Liu, Assistant Professor of History, UB "From Text to Practice: The Transformation of Medical Knowledge in Medieval China"
Advance screening of Lucy Winer's “Kings Park: Stories from an American Mental Institution”, prior to her Sept. 21st talk, "Lessons from the Asylum." When filmmaker Lucy Winer set out to make a film about her commitment to Kings Park State Hospital as a teenager in the late 1960’s, she had little idea of the life-changing […]
A second advance screening of Lucy Winer's “Kings Park: Stories from an American Mental Institution”, prior to her Sept. 21st talk, "Lessons from the Asylum." When filmmaker Lucy Winer set out to make a film about her commitment to Kings Park State Hospital as a teenager in the late 1960’s, she had little idea of […]
