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 […]
There is an increasingly obvious conflict between the culture of a genuine cosmopolitanism, originating in the qualitative creativity of local contexts yet in communication with a worldwide Republic of Letters, and globalization, with its quantitative anti-culture of commodification, cost-benefit, and publicity motivated by monetary profiteering. Of this conflict, Pierre Bourdieu, in Firing Back (2001) wrote: […]
Ann Little (Professor of History, Colorado State) is author of Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial New England and The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright. She is also the irrepressible persona behind the popular Historiann blog on history and sexual politics. The events are sponsored by the Early Modern Research Workshop with co-sponsorships […]
Conversation: “Social Media and Being a Historian in Public,” Tues. Oct. 24, 2-3pm, Park 532. With current and former UB History Ph.D. students of the DIG Podcast. Sponsored by the Early Modern Research Workshop with co-sponsorships from the History Department and Gender Institute.
