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Presentation/Workshop: Ames Hawkins, “Art Activism in the Classroom: Context, Principles and Collaboration as Trans/Feminist Practice.”

B45-Lower Gallery, Center for the Arts, North Campus

Presented by the Queer Studies Research Workshop Ames Hawkins, Columbia College “Art Activism in the Classroom: Context, Principles and Collaboration as Trans/Feminist Practice.” In this presentation-workshop, Ames Hawkins (whose work is in the exhibit Ill at Ease: Dis-ease and Art, now on display) discusses how development of courses in art activism and her work in […]

Lecture: Tom Eyers, “Psychoanalyzing Form”

538 Clemens

The Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture is pleased to welcome Dr. Tom Eyers (Duquesne University) to UB for a lecture, "Psychoanalyzing Form," (introduced by Professor Bill Solomon, UB English). Professor Eyers is the author of Lacan and the Concept of the Real (Palgrave, 2012) and Post-Rationalism: Psychoanalysis, Epistemology, and Marxism in Post-War […]

Reading: Ames Hawkins, from her installation “Paper Violets, Vellum Prose”

B45-Lower Gallery, Center for the Arts, North Campus

Presented by the Queer Studies Research Workshop Ames Hawkins, Columbia College Ames Hawkins’s will perform three readings from her installation Paper Violets, Vellum Prose followed by a Q&A. In this work, she creates a multi-layered environment into which the viewers are invited to enter, stay for a while, and engage. The pew, the needlepoint cushion, […]

A Concert of the Computer Music of Jean-Claude Risset – In Memoriam 1938-2016

CFA Black Box Theatre

The Hiller Computer Music Studios of the UB Department of Music presents its annual spring Black Box concert of computer music, featuring the works of French composer and electronic music visionary Jean-Claude Risset, who passed away November 21, 2016. Risset studied composition with Andre Jolivet at the Paris Conservatory, and in 1964 moved the USA […]

Seminar: Tom Eyers, “Language Poetry, History, Formalization”

1038 Clemens

The Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture is pleased to welcome Dr. Tom Eyers (Duquesne University) to UB for a seminar, "Language Poetry, History, Formalization" (introduced by Professor Judith Goldman, UB English.) Professor Eyers is the author of Lacan and the Concept of the Real (Palgrave, 2012) and Post-Rationalism: Psychoanalysis, Epistemology, and Marxism […]

“‘As from a voyage rich with merchandise’: Returns from the Folger Institute”

Poetry Collection, 420 Capen Hall

A Celebration of the 25th Anniversary of UB's Membership in the Folger Institute Symposium Schedule 11:00-11:30: Introduction and welcome Barbara Bono, UB Folger representative Jim Swan, UB Folger Institute initiator Robin Schulze, UB Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences 11:30-12:30: "'Purchased by the weight': The Color of Suits in The Merchant of Venice" Olga […]

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New Faculty Seminar: Stephanie Schmidt

830 Clemens Hall University at Buffalo, Buffalo

González de Eslava’s Christian Allegory of the Gran Chichimeca: Reimagining the Ancestral North in New Spain The Fifth Spiritual and Sacramental Colloquy of Fernán González de Eslava is a Christian allegorical drama set in New Spain of the 1570s. This play about Spanish attempts to fortify the northern frontier incorporates striking elements of indigenous lore. […]

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Just Buffalo Literary Center BABEL with Dave Eggers

Kleinhans Music Hall 3 Symphony Circle, Buffalo, NY, United States

DAVE EGGERS is the author of ten books, including most recently Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?, The Circle, and A Hologram For The King, which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. He is the founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco […]

Scholars @ Hallwalls: Fernanda Negrete (Date Changed)

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center 341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY, United States

“The Sensation of Time: Reading Water with Roni Horn and Clarice Lispector” SCHEDULE CHANGE: This event was originally scheduled for March 10, 2017. In her March 10th talk, “The Sensation of Time: Reading Water with Roni Horn and Clarice Lispector,” French professor Fernanda Negrete will show how Horn’s installation “Library of Water” (2007 – present) […]

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