In our current historically precarious moment, what is the role of cultural organizations and art? How might they adapt and change to the demands of these times? Is it enough? Writer and curator, Laura Raicovich, will discuss her recent book, Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest (Verso 2021) providing her personal […]
The Department of Indigenous Studies welcomes Santee Smith and the Kaha:wi Dance Theatre for a presentation of The Mush Hole. This heart-breaking performance moves through North America's residential school history with hope and empathy. This event is free but tickets are required. Tickets are available at: https://forms.gle/CisfGbGCzM29pPYQ6
Helina Metaferia is an interdisciplinary artist working across collage, assemblage, video, performance, and social engagement. Her work integrates archives, somatic studies, and dialogical practices, creating overlooked narratives that amplify BIPOC/femme bodies. Recent solo exhibitions include Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (2022); New York University's The Gallatin Galleries, New York, NY (2021); Michigan State University's […]
Modeling Across Disciplines: A conversation with an atmospheric scientist, a family sociologist, and a philosopher about how we can (and cannot) use models to better understand our world. The world is almost as messy as it is complex. This is a big problem for anyone attempting to understand…well… anything. How are we to tease apart […]
Premilla Nadasen is a Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University. Nadasen is the author of four books, most recently Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement, which is a new classic of history-from-below that reconstructs the work of mainly Black women domestic workers in the post-war period. […]
The UB Center for the Arts is the hub of a bustling arts community where dancers, actors, filmmakers, musicians, and artists of every imaginable stripe come to work and perform. Each Fall, the UBCFA opens our studios, rehearsal spaces, and doors to bring this wealth of creativity out into the open. The work of artists […]
Please join us in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! The smells of the human body are generally considered abject, unwanted and never polite. Much of western culture is designed to minimize these odors—deodorants, toothpastes, mouthwash, laundry detergents, soaps, room deodorizers, as well the modern toilet. Historically, odors and myths of their effects, […]
Marina Zurkow is a research-based media artist committed to systemic change in ecological justice. Her projects (sometimes with collaborators) offer emotional connections to multispecies and geologic phenomena that modern humans often take for granted or deprioritize in favor of “humans on top.” The materials / technologies Zurkow employs include software, animation, sound, food, mushroom mycelium, […]
The English Department welcomes translator and poet Christian Hawkey as part of the Poetics Plus Series. Author of the poetry collections The Book of Funnels (Wave 2004) and Citizen Of (Wave 2007), Christian Hawkey has published a bi-lingual erasure with Uljana Wolf, Sonne from Ort (kookbooks verlag 2013), a co-translation with Wolf of a selection of Ilse Aichinger’s short prose, Bad Words (Seagull Books […]
Please join Joining Forces-UB for the next Joining Forces Research Colloquium. Leslie Reagin, Ph.D., Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will present: Veterans and Agent Orange - An International Story Professor Reagan will discuss her current research on the history of Agent Orange, one of several herbicides used in then American War […]
