Brendan Fernandes is a multidisciplinary artist who works at the intersection of dance and visual arts. His unique cultural background as a Kenyan-Indian Canadian who has lived in New York City for the past 12 years and who now resides in Chicago, confronts the hybrid and transitional nature of identity. This compels aspects of his […]
"Where the Drugs Are" We kick off the spring semester with English professor Elizabeth Mazzolini’s February 10th talk, “Where the Drugs Are,” an ecocritical look at representations of three different drug epidemics—those of crack, meth, and opioids. Mazzolini links drug production, sale, and use to the allowances of various locations and to ideological investment in […]
Program Welcomes and sharing of stories Acknowledgements of those who are not here Music, Food, Art Sponsor UB Institute for Research & Education on Women & Gender Cosponsors Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts Burmese Community Services Coalition for Economic Justice Coalition for the Advancement of Moslem Women El Museo Francisco Oller y Diego […]
Christine Varnado, UB Global Gender Studies/Transnational Studies, work-in-progress workshop A Work-in-Progress Workshop in Preparation for the April 2017 Shakespeare Association of America Conference
Musical images of Chopin at the keyboard mediate Romantic fantasies that at once reveal and disavow the mechanisms that bring them to spiritual life. In particular, the digital transmission of Chopinian signals via the keyboard’s grid has been liable to introduce technical artifacts that can be elucidated via phenomena associated with contemporary attempts to mitigate […]
Bruno Duarte, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, presents, “Hegel’s Eleusis – To Hölderlin” This is a part of the Just Theory Lecture Series.
Joseph Conte, Professor of English, UB "The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be: 1990s Virtual Reality Enters the 21st Century"
Elizabeth's creative research interests include the embodied art of acting and somatic approaches to actor training, devising original theatre with a focus on collaborative ensemble works and adaptations, pedagogy, the Meisner technique, on-camera acting, and cross-disciplinary exchange. She teaches in the Physical Theatre Intensive at The Stella Adler Studio of Acting (NYC), and has taught […]
The UB Humanities Institute is pleased to host a Regional Application-Writing Workshop conducted by Dr. Daniel Sack, Senior Program Officer, from the National Endowment for the Humanities. We are honored to have Congressman Brian Higgins of the U.S. House of Representatives joining us for the 4:30 PM post-workshop reception, with an introduction […]
Please join the Humanities Institute for an evening at Torn Space Theater for a performance of Harold Pinter's The Collection. 6:45 PM – Bar opens 7:00 PM – Lecture by Penelope Prentice, author of The Pinter Ethic: The Erotic Aesthetic 7:30 PM – Performance of Harold Pinter’s The Collection The Adam Mickiewicz Dramatic Circle 612 […]
