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 […]
The Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture is pleased to welcome Dr. Dany Nobus to UB, where he will lead a seminar, "Psychoanalysis in the Boudoir (On Lacan's 'Kant with Sade'), on Thursday, March 2, 2017. Professor Nobus currently serves as the Chair of Psychoanalysis at Brunel University London, and as Chair of […]
Review of programming and budget from the 2015-17 academic years Appointment of new Co-Directors, 2017-2019 academic years 25 Years of the Folger Institute: A Review of Programming and Benefits, and looking ahead Other business
Donna V. Jones, University of California at Berkeley, presents, “Race, Time and Difference” This is a part of the Just Theory Lecture Series. Co-sponsored by the Modernisms Research Workshop.
In Part Two of our Forum on Publishing in an Age of Upheaval, esteemed editor Elisabeth Schmitz will introduce one of her newest authors, Emily Fridlund, whose novel History of Wolves has just been released to great acclaim. Joining them in conversation will be literary agent Nicole Aragi, who represents Ms Fridlund and many other authors in […]
Laura Chiesa (Romance Languages & Literatures), with Omar Khan (Chair, Architecture) as respondent: "Beyond Space as Storyteller: Spatial Jumps in Architecture, Critical Theory, and Literature."
