REGISTER TO ATTEND Join us for a virtual edition of our Faculty Fellows talks! This lecture series brings current UB humanities research out into the community. This talk rethinks the stakes of Arendt’s notion of narrative in the context of the new regime of power characteristic of Big Data. Intertwined with judgement and public sphere, […]
REGISTER NOW Where there is limited freedom of expression, how can one creatively and collectively mourn, remember, persist, and declare? Songs have the capacity to turn sorrow and outrage into fortitude and optimism. Silk Road Songbook, made in collaboration with Arzu Ozkal, is a socially driven, multidisciplinary art project that weaves song into landscape, challenging censorship and […]
REGISTER NOW Throughout his life, W.E.B. Du Bois actively engaged the scientific racism infecting natural sciences and popular thought. Nevertheless, he also demonstrated a sophisticated and critical engagement with natural science. Debate remains, however, regarding exactly how and why Du Bois incorporated such natural scientific knowledge into his own thinking. In this presentation, Besek draws […]
JOIN NOW Join us for a virtual edition of our Faculty Fellows talks! This lecture series brings current UB humanities research out into the community. Karin will present her talk live on Zoom with a Q+A session following. In this talk, Karin Michelson confronts an issue faced by anyone contemplating writing a comprehensive reference grammar […]
REGISTER NOW Join us for a virtual edition of our Faculty Fellows talks! This lecture series brings current UB humanities research out into the community. John will present his talk live on Zoom with a Q+A session following. Fiege is developing a podcast, called Ecosphere, that explores key questions at the heart of our ecological […]
REGISTER NOW Join us for a virtual edition of our Faculty Fellows talks, our last session for 2020-21! This lecture series brings current UB humanities research out into the community. Eero will present his talk live on Zoom with a Q+A session following. Mascots and costumed characters often function as figures for communities to playfully […]
Please join us as we return to in-person talks in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! *Following the University at Buffalo's on-campus protocols, attendees are asked to kindly wear masks regardless of vaccination status. This event will be simultaneously live-streamed. CLICK HERE to watch the live-streamed video feed. Medieval Portuguese song was composed […]
Please join us as we return to in-person talks in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! Our homes are disappearing. The crisis is already part of our lexicon—when someone owes more than a house is worth, people say the mortgage is “underwater.” During the 2008 global financial crisis, that phrase was figurative, but […]
Please join us as we return to in-person talks in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! The Franciscan friar and historian Toribio de Benavente Motolinía fashions a New World hagiography in his account of three child martyrs from the Central Mexican city of Tlaxcala. Multiple histories of the early colonial period reproduce and […]
Please join us as we return to in-person talks in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! The Salvation Army operates a nationwide network of addiction treatment programs for the poor, providing free housing, food, Bible study, and sober living while requiring residents to work eight hours a day without pay. They call it […]
