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UB Critical Ecologies Research Collaborative and Science Studies Workshop: Hannah Holleman, No Empires, No Wastelands: “The Necessity of Forging a Real Ecological Solidarity for the 21st Century”

170 Academic Center (Ellicott Complex)

In this lecture, Professor Holleman will discuss the vital lessons we can learn from one of the first global environmental problems of modern capitalism, which reached its apogee in the “dust-bowlification” of agricultural lands in the 1920s and 1930s. Based on award-winning research, Prof. Holleman explains that the regional crises of soil erosion in this […]

Scholars@Hallwalls: Maximilian Goldfarb, “Remote Viewing”

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

Please join us in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! Goldfarb will present his project ‘Remote Viewing’. Beginning as a publication of observational writing, this object-based inquiry is derived from the margins of found photographic source material; documents of tools, equipment, and devices that mediate our interactions with our environments. As a sculptural project, Remote Viewing explores the relationship […]

PLASMA presents Dr. Jaynelle Nixon, “Watching Monsters: The Horror of Racialized Monsters, Disabled Monsters, and Gender Nonconforming Monsters in Embodied Gothic Horror Films”

112 Center for the Arts (Screening Room)

Dr. Jaynelle (Jay) Nixon has an interdisciplinary background in literature, transnational studies, and global gender and sexuality studies. She currently teaches classes on Gothic fiction as well as gender, race, and media. Her primary research focus is the body—particularly the ways certain bodies are surveilled and monsterized based on appearance. As always, PLASMA lectures are […]

Humanities Institute: Grant Workshop for Humanities Graduate Students

Zoom

Attention Graduate Students! Join the Humanities Institute and special guest Adam Capitanio—Programming Director of Humanities New York (https://humanitiesny.org/)—on Tuesday April 4 from 4:00-5:00pm (zoom) for a new grant workshop designed for graduate students in the humanities. We will discuss where to target grants in your field, how to apply for them, and offer tips on improving […]

Dept. of Music: Margret Grebowicz, “Are We Interesting? On Whale Song”

250 Baird Hall

Attraction is not just another thing to be anxious about. It seems, especially now, in ever shorter supply, ever more unsustainable. The long term threat is that of the death of interest itself, the dark pit of bottomless boredom. This anxiety is thus an ur-anxiety, the fear that there may truly be nothing, not in […]

PLASMA presents Akil Fletcher

112 Center for the Arts (Screening Room)

Akil Fletcher is an award-winning researcher and PhD candidate in the Anthropology department at the University of California Irvine. His work focuses on understanding how Black gamers experience and utilize games and online platforms to create community. Currently, his project funded by the National Science Foundation seeks to understand how online Black communities use these […]

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Humanities to the Rescue | Communities: Trust (Campus Conversations Day 1)

Please join us for two days of campus conversations, centered on the Humanities Institute 2023 theme of COMMUNITIES: TRUST. Session 1 | 12:00-1:30 pm | 250 Baird Communities of Care A panel rethinking “care” through the multifaceted lenses of indigeneity, veteran identity, and disability. Mishuana Goeman Professor and Chair, Indigenous Studies Vasiliki Neofotistos Associate Professor, […]

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Humanities Institute/Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program Film Series: INNER WOUND REAL and WORK

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

Presented by the UB Humanities Institute in collaboration with the UB Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program. Please join us as we honor Pride Month (observed early for the academic schedule) with screenings of Inner Wound Real, an animated short by Carrie Hawks, and Work, a short film by April Maxey. This event is free and open […]

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Humanities to the Rescue | Communities: Trust (Campus Conversations Day 2)

Please join us for two days of campus conversations, centered on the Humanities Institute 2023 theme of COMMUNITIES: TRUST. Session 1 | 12:30-1:45 pm | 250 Baird Getting the Word Out: Writing Humanities for Popular Audiences A presentation and Q+A framed for humanities faculty who would like to make their work available to public audiences […]

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