Hala Halim, Associate Professor, New York University "Arab Modernity/Modernism, and the Case of Edwar al-Kharrat" Wed November 8, 4-6pm 904 Clemens Dr. Halim's talk will be preceded that day by an informal conversation with graduate students over coffee from 2-3pm, also in 904 Clemens. The Modernisms Research Workshop will also hold a discussion session of […]
Beth Linker, Associate Professor and Graduate Chair, Department of the History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania The Great War and Modern Veteran Care Thursday November 09 12:15 – 1:30 Parker 214 (UB South) Popularly known as “The War to End All Wars,” the First World War was also the war to end all […]
Join the UB Office of Inclusive Excellence, UB Libraries, UB Intercultural and Diversity Center as we commemorate the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s final speech in Buffalo. At the invitation of student associations at UB, Dr. King appeared before a standing-room-only audience at Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo on November 9, 1967. […]
A round-table discussion with Reynald Abad, Professor of History at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne, and Jeffrey Ravel, Professor of History at MIT These are complicated times for students of the early modern period. In many ways the field is flourishing as never before, with an abundance of new studies and innovative approaches. But early modernists […]
Fresh from the Techne Institute's Finnegans Waves event, another free event on campus! This presentation, titled Live Cinema, is a live broadcast of the performance of Mariage-K, from France, in real time! It will take place this Friday, November 10 at 3 pm in the CFA Screening room on North Campus. We invite you to […]
Andrew Bacevich, Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History, Boston University Andrew Bacevich gives an uncompromising critique of the guiding assumptions that lead America's foreign policy and military strategy---that America must always have a massive military capable of rapid engagement and that global stability is dependent on America’s military might. Dubbing these assumptions “Washington rules”, […]
WIP session with Amy Graves Monroe (RLL), “Rational Catastrophes: Plausibility and Verisimilitude in Early Modern Eventhood.” This event was rescheduled from October 17th. New date and time information has been updated.
"Edward Said met the great French novelist only once, in Beirut in 1972. However, the presence (and absence) of the author haunts Said during the last decade of his life when he was battling with leukemia and obsessively preoccupied with questions of music. This was the period in which he founded the now-famous middle-eastern youth […]
For this meeting Eric Drasin (MFA Grad, Art) will present a cursory overview of cryptocurrencies with a particular focus on the ethereum platform. Chris Lee (Assistant Professor, Art/Graphic Design) will sketch out a landscape of (alternative) currencies with an overview of a variety of precedents. In preparation for this meeting and discussion, we suggest reading […]
Please join us! In conjunction with the Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys, 1967-2017 exhibition curated by Rachel Adams (on view: September 7 – December 31, 2017), UB Art Galleries is hosting “Movement, Publics, and Borders: A Roundtable Discussion” on Tuesday, November 14, 2017, at the UB Anderson Gallery from 5:30-7:00 p.m. This event is free and […]
