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 […]
Lucy Winer, award-winning documentary filmmaker of “Kings Park: Stories from an American Mental Institution”, presents "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 odyssey on which she […]
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 […]
