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 […]
Democracy Moving: Models of Civic Life in Bill T. Jones’s Lincoln Dances 100 Migrations, a 2008 site-specific performance at the University of Virginia about Abraham Lincoln’s legacy in the Obama-era United States, is a study in what choreographer Bill T. Jones terms “democracy moving.” New Theater and Dance faculty member Ariel Nereson examines the cultural […]
Sam Magavern, Co-Director, Partnership for the Public Good will give a talk on "Anti-Displacement Strategies in Buffalo."
The Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture is pleased to welcome Dr. Dany Nobus to UB, where he will deliver a lecture,"On the Poetic Wisdom of Psychoanalysis: On the Trail of Lacan's New Signifier," on Wednesday, March 1, 2017. Professor Nobus currently serves as the Chair of Psychoanalysis at Brunel University London, and […]
In Part One of our Forum on Publishing in an Age of Upheaval, editor/critic/author John Freeman and novelist Heather O’Neill will engage in a wide-ranging discussion of literary magazine publishing and editing, including issues of design and marketing. Ms O’Neill will read from and sign copies of her just-released novel, The Lonely Hearts Hotel (Riverhead). Freeman […]
