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Dept. of Music: Jeff Perry, “Meanwhile, in the Village: The Composers of the New York School and their Painters”

Baird Recital Hall, Second Floor

This talk examines correspondences between the innovations of the New York School composers (John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, Christian Wolff) and those of the painters and sculptors they associated with in the post-war downtown art world. While issues of structure, frame, representation, indeterminacy, surface, abstraction, action, and modularity interested both groups, differences between the […]

Humanities Institute/Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program Film Series: WITHOUT A WHISPER – KONNÓN:KWE

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. Co-sponsored by the UB Department of Indigenous Studies. Please join us as we honor Women's History Month with a screening of Without a Whisper - Konnón:kwe, a documentary film by Katsitsionni Fox. This event is free and open to the […]

Disability Studies Research Workshop: Natalia Pamuła, “‘Crisis Ordinariness’ and the Slow Transformation of 1989: Disability and Gender in Poland”

214 Parker - South Campus

Pamuła’s talk will focus on the Polish disability memoirs published in 1991 in the volume Cierpieniem pisane: Pamiętniki kobiet niepełnosprawnych (Written through Suffering: Disabled Women’s Memoirs). Written through Suffering consists of twenty-one short memoirs submitted as a response to a memoir competition in 1990. Published two years after the first democratic elections, which took place […]

PLASMA presents hiba ali

112 Center for the Arts (Screening Room)

hiba ali is a producer of moving images, sounds, garments and words. they reside in many time zones: chicago, toronto and eugene. born in karachi, pakistan, they belong to east african, south asian and arab diasporas. they are a practitioner and (re)learner of swahili, urdu, arabic and spanish languages. they work on two long term […]

Digital Scholarship Studio and Network: UB DH Minor Roundtable, “The Future of Digital Literacy in the Humanities” [ONLINE ONLY]

Zoom

Where does the humanities intersect with computing, and how will it do so in the future? This roundtable consisting of faculty and students will explore the development of UB’s Digital Humanities program, currently offered as a minor available to undergraduates throughout the university. Focusing on the hands-on application of technologies such as artificial intelligence and […]

Computational Media Literacies Collaboratory Workshop: Joan Nobile, “Glitch-It-Yourself”

218 Baldy Hall

Please RSVP for this event here. Glitch is an error, a malfunction. Glitch is a broken system. Glitch is something gone awry. Glitch is also widely embracing these flaws. Glitch shows the beauty in imperfections. Glitch can provide opportunities to change, remix, and create something never seen before. Glitch is the cycle of destruction and […]

Performance Research Workshop: Rhaisa Williams, “Three Black Mothers in a Cleveland Cabaret as the City Comes Crumbling Down”

Zoom

The Performance Research Workshop welcomes Rhaisa Williams. This is a story of Cleveland, Ohio in the 1970s—when it was affectionately known as “the mistake by the lake.” The city, once a booming manufacturing town, positioned between the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie, had begun a rapid decline in industry and population starting in the late […]

Department of Africana and American Studies: Prof. Biko Mandela Gray, “Four Black Lives: Philosophy of Religion and State-Sanctioned Antiblack Violence”

Clemens 19

The Department of Africana and American Studies welcomes Professor Biko Mandela Gray. Aiyana Stanley-Jones. Tamir Rice. Alton Sterling. Sandra Bland. These four black lives mattered. They matter. They matter for those of us who care and cared for them; they also matter to those who killed them and those who justify their deaths by appeals to police. In […]

Technoculture Research Workshop: Alexander R. Galloway, “No Deconstruction without Computers”: Learning to Code with Derrida and Kittler

Zoom

The Technoculture Research Workshop welcomes Alexander R. Galloway. What are the machines that determine thinking? We may approach the question in a number of ways. The typical approach is to consider (or perhaps even craft) a philosophy of media. This comes under the name of media studies or media theory, where media artifacts are taken […]

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 […]