PLASMA Speaker Series MONDAYS 6:00- 8:30 pm EST Zoom Meeting ID: 983 4611 3436 Email eliavarg@buffalo.edu with PLASMA2024 in subject line for password. Mark Shepard is an artist, architect and researcher whose work addresses contemporary entanglements of people and data, code and space, knowledge and power. His recent book, There Are No Facts: attentive algorithms, extractive data […]
Please join Talking Leaves...Books & Hallwalls in launching the new book co-edited by distinguished UB English Professor Cristanne Miller, The Letters of Emily Dickinson. Cristanne Miller will do a reading and there will be a book signing session. This new edition of Emily Dickinson’s correspondence co-edited (with Domhnall Mitchell) by the noted Dickinson scholar offers […]
For Earth Month (April), the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures is offering a film series loosely based on farming and food production. All films are free and open to the public. For more information, Prof. Colleen Culleton at culleton@buffalo.edu The fourth film in this month-long series will be Sunú—Mexican Maize Farmers (Dir. Teresa Camou, […]
If you think that you don’t belong in this museum, this talk is for you. Please join the Buffalo AKG as we host a panel discussion that will explore the question of whether people make art, or whether art makes people, with renowned Hip-Hop scholar Bakari Kitwana (UB Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Department of Africana and […]
Please join us at FITZ BOOKS as we celebrate the publication of two new volumes in the Humanities to the Rescue Series, along with recent publications by Humanities Institute Faculty Fellows and HI/OVPRED Research Funding in the Arts and Humanities Awardees. Complimentary brunch fare will be served along with celebratory beverages (first drink free per […]
PLASMA Speaker Series MONDAYS 6:00- 8:30 pm EST Zoom Meeting ID: 983 4611 3436 Email eliavarg@buffalo.edu with PLASMA2024 in subject line for password. PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, and Screenings in Media Art) brings to Buffalo celebrated theorists and artists who are exhibiting in some of the world’s most renowned museums and galleries, and writing on the cutting edge of […]
Please join the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Amy Graves Monroe, for "Pieces of Circumstance." This conference is the inaugural colloquium of "Converge @ UB", a series of the vice provost of international education. The theme of the conference addresses how early moderns inhabited the circumstances of their lived reality. It is designed to […]
The UB RENEW Institute and the HI Science Studies Research Workshop will host James Elliott of Rice University for his talk, "How and Why Social Inequities Matter for Climate Resilience”. Despite their global nature, climate change and related hazards are not things we experience “together.” Rather they reveal and exacerbate social inequities that call for […]
All are welcome to attend a celebration and reading of David Alff's recently published book, The Northeast Corridor, at Fitz Books on Thursday, May 9. The Northeast Corridor is the story of how some crooked train tracks became the fastest railroad in North America and one of the world’s most important infrastructures. It’s about trains, […]
The Department of Africana and American Studies presents The Tops Memorial Lecture and welcomes Dr. Christina Sharpe for her talk "What Could a Vessel Be?" Christina Sharpe is a Writer, Professor, and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University. She is the author of: In the Wake: On […]
