Ron Athey is considered to be one of the most important performance artists working today. Famed for his work that dealt with issues of pain and endurance as a metaphor for those living with HIV/AIDS (among whom Athey counts himself) he has begun a series of new works exploring the prospect of achieving transcendence in […]
Please join us next Tuesday, 10/10, at 11:00 am in Alumni 190 for discussion of Soyica Colbert's Black Movements.
Cuban Cinema and Culture Date: October 12-14, 2017 Venue: Burchfield Penney Art Center 1300 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, New York GREAT FILMS OVER 3 DAYS Free admission made possible this year by riverrun and the Burchfield Penney Art Center Cuban-inspired cuisine available at the Burchfield Café Series Curator: Tanya Shilina-Conte, UB English Assistant Directors: Jocelyn E. […]
This lecture in the Department of Music's Lecture series is being presented as part of the Department's and the Music Library's Celebration of Henri Pousseur's seminal score "Votre Faust," which was conceived when Pousseur was the Slee Professor here in 1967, in collaboration with the important French author Michel Butor, who at that time held […]
Participants: Dr Andre Bergegere (Composer and Independent Scholar) Fernanda Negrete (Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages) John Bewley (Chief Music Librarian and Archivist) James Currie (Associate Professor, Department of Music). This roundtable discussion is to celebrate the opening of John Bewley's new exhibition on the composer Henri Pousseur, who composed his seminal "Votre Faust" in […]
Lindsay Brandon Hunter, Theatre & Dance This talk considers the process by which stage performances are rendered into digital video (as in the National Theatre’s popular NT Live series), examining the potential of such products to translate theatre for a multifarious screen audience. Exploring how such translations act didactically to reify, conserve, or even construct […]
The next meeting will be a leap into our workshop’s concerns with a focus on labor (see minutes below on more about what’s to come). We will hear a short presentation from Nicole Hallett (Law) from her recent article on wage theft. See abstract below and text attached to read before our meeting. Katja Praznik […]
Irus Braverman, Professor of Law, will preview her forthcoming book, Coral Whisperers: Scientists on the Brink.
Peter DeGabriele is Associate Professor of English at the Mississippi State University, and the author of -Sovereign Power and the Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Literature and the Problem of the Political- (Bucknell University Press, 2015). Professor DeGabriele specializes in the study of eighteenth-century literature and culture; his research explores the relationship between literary texts and the political […]
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Acclaimed scholars and activists will discuss how to democratize our imaginative, intellectual, artistic, and public landscapes through the inclusion of diverse histories. The galvanizing center of our conversations will be an extraordinary group of descendants of prominent 18th- and 19th-century African American antislavery activists. Partnering with humanities scholars, the descendants will […]
