The UB Humanities Institute Science Studies Research Workshop and the Center for Disability Studies present a talk by Nancy Tomes, Ph.D., SUNY Distinguished Professor, Department of History, Stony Brook University, former President of the American Association for the History of Medicine, author of Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients […]

Professor Stephanie Rothenberg (Department of Art), “Trading Systems: Bi-Economic Fairy Tales in the Anthropocene”

Stephanie will present recent work exploring robotic gardens and a new project in progress called “Trading Systems: Bio-Economic Fairy Tales in the Anthropocene.” The new project explores the overlapping trajectories between economics and the sciences, specifically biology. It questions how these intersections between social systems and non-human ecologies are situated within our current anthropogenic, socio-political […]

Professor Kenneth J. Knoespel (School of History and Sociology; School of Literature, Media, and Communication; and McEver Professor of Engineering and the Liberal Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology), “Censorship and Surveillance: The Double-Face of Post-Cards from the Western Front” Thursday, May 3, 2018 12:00-1:30 pm 830 Clemens Hall Professor Knoespel’s published research includes books and […]

FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Professor Knoespel will present a talk (“Working a Family Archive: Post-Cards from the WWI Trenches”) at the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library in connection with the library’s ongoing exhibit, “Buffalo Never Fails: The Queen City and World War I” (http://www.buffalolib.org/content/buffalo-never-fails-queen-city-and-world-war-i ) Professor Knoespel’s published research includes books and […]

Monica Azzolini (Associate Professor of the History of Science, University of Bologna), “The Image, the Saint and the Earthquake: Francisco Borja and the Politics of God and Nature in the Spanish Empire” This paper shall investigate how the cult of Francesco Borja, patron saint of earthquakes, emerged in the Kingdom of New Granada and how […]

Jonathan Reichert (Professor Emeritus of Physics, UB), “The Detection of Gravitational Waves, Revolutionizing our View of The Universe” Wednesday, November 7, 2018 4:00-5:30 pm, 280 Park Hall Throughout all of human history, the only way we humans could attempt to understand our universe was by studying electromagnetic radiation (light, x-rays, radio waves, etc.) or cosmic […]

Announcing a Lecture by Professor Emerita Barbara Heifferon  (English, Louisiana State University) “Ministers vs. Doctors: Rhetoric of the First American Smallpox Inoculation” My research is a rhetorical analysis of the controversy that followed these first inoculations in 1721-22 in which I examine the arguments for and against the practice. Previous research found one or two […]