Reading for Desire: What Counts as “Queer” in Renaissance Drama? Christine Varnado, Global Gender Studies, Department of Transnational Studies Erotic desire saturates early modern English drama, but it has been a challenge to theorize precisely how it is constituted, how we are able to perceive it, and, specifically, how and why some configurations of it […]
“Color Around the Globe”: Langston Hughes and Comparative Racialization Jang Wook Huh, English The Harlem Renaissance, or the New Negro Movement, was not limited to New York but linked to Paris, Kingston, and even Chongjin, a port city in present-day North Korea. Langston Hughes visited Korea in 1933 at the peak of Japanese imperialism. This […]
Justice and Diversity Ryan Muldoon, PhilosophyPhotographer: Douglas Levere We live in a world of increasing diversity. Historically, liberal political theory was developed to deal with diversity. However, Muldoon contends that contemporary liberal theory fails to fully appreciate how diversity changes the structure of political communities. There is an unfortunate tendency in liberal theory to assume […]
Get to know new humanities faculty at UB at the Humanities Institute’s brown-bag lunch sessions. FREE and open to the public. Coffee and cookies provided. Professional wrestling has a history that reaches back into the nineteenth century and spans the globe, with Mexico, Japan, and the US, in particular, exchanging wrestlers, performance styles, and verbal […]
The aim of the talk is to present the results of the archaeological excavations of the IMPERO Project (Interconnected Mobility of People and Economies along the River Ombrone) in south Tuscany. The Department of Classics is carrying out a number of excavations to understand the settlement network and the economical changes occurred between the late […]
In July 2016, when the world awoke to the news of the passing of Abbas Kiarostami, many netizens, including the filmmaker Jafar Panahi, paid tribute to the late director by replacing their avatar on social media with a black screen. This “non-image” stood as a shroud of mourning, but it also contained within itself the […]
Increasingly linked to our daily routines, photographs uncannily index and distort the real while mimicking our own biological mechanisms for seeing. Despite their commonly current form as dematerialized screen information, photographs emerged out of the natural world through the harnessing and organizing of observed physical phenomena into a program that produces predictable outcomes. In a […]
LOCATION CHANGE: new location is 904 Clemens This talk presents initial findings from an ongoing project on postcolonial planning and land tenure dilemmas in sub-Sahara Africa (SSA). The work interrogates how plural legal land systems support or constrain practices used to declare areas of value, zones of exception, and property ownership for development purposes. Discussing […]
This talk explores James A. Michener’s journalism and fiction on the Korean War. Unlike the Vietnam War, the Korean War lacks representations that mark its place in American cultural memory. Using Michener’s “Forgotten Heroes of Korea” and The Bridges at Toko-ri (1953) as a case study of the forgotten war’s representation that was widely circulated […]
