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PLASMA screening of 90 MILES with filmmaker and Visiting Professor Juan Carlos Zaldívar

112 Center for the Arts (Screening Room)

The Department of Media Study's PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, And Screenings in Media Art) ​series kicks off their season with a screening of Visiting Professor Juan Carlos Zaldívar's award-winning documentary film 90 MILES (2001). Zaldívar will join us for Q and A after the screening. In 90 MILES (2001), Cuban-American filmmaker Juan Carlos Zaldívar, recounts the strange twist […]

Humanities Institute/Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program Film Series: THE SUN RISES IN THE EAST

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 Black History Month with a screening (free and open to the public) of The Sun Rises in the East, a documentary film by Tayo Giwa and Cynthia Gordy Giwa. 6:00 pm | Reception | […]

Scholars@Hallwalls: Lewis Powell, “Style vs. Substance in Early Modern Philosophy”

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

Please join us in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! John Locke called figurative language and the art of rhetoric an abuse of language used "for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment".  Meanwhile, the 17th and 18th centuries were a flourishing time for a […]

Poetics Plus Series: Tyrone Williams

Western New York Book Arts Center 468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY, United States

The Poetics Program and the English Department warmly welcome Professor Tyrone Williams, the David Gray Chair of Poetry and Letters. All are welcome to attend a poetry reading by Professor Williams on Friday, February 10 at 7:30 at the Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington Street). Reception to follow.

PLASMA presents Anna Scime

112 Center for the Arts (Screening Room)

The Department of Media Study's PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, And Screenings in Media Art)​ presents a live and in-person presentation by Anna Scime, artist and filmmaker (UB MFA Alum). Anna Scime is an internationally exhibited media artist, who experiments with and explores ecological systems, structures, and exchanges. Her work operates at the intersection of art, technology, […]

Indigenous Studies: Bayley Marquez, “Better Land, Better Stock, Better People.”: Agricultural education as a technology of settlement

240 Capen Hall Capen Hall

In recognition of February being Black History Month the UB Department of Indigenous Studies invites you to a talk in Indigenous Studies. The framing and institutionalization of education for Black and Indigenous peoples has been tied to the assertions that contact with the white race, enslavement, and the settlement of Native lands are in and […]

DSSN Annual Symposium: “We’ve been here all along.”: DH and (in)visible labor

Zoom

In December 2021, librarian and technologist Andromeda Yelton published “'Just a few files’: technical labor, academe, and care” in response to an academic article that dismissed the work required to host digital humanities projects. “...he labor conditions of your techies’ work lives are an important part of that plan” she argues, after breaking down the […]

PLASMA presents Elia Vargas

112 Center for the Arts (Screening Room)

The Department of Media Study’s PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, And Screenings in Media Art)​ will host a presentation by Dr. Elia Vargas, Visiting Assistant Professor in Media Study. Dr. Elia Vargas is an artist and a scholar working across multiple mediums, ranging from video and sound to writing and performance, focused on naturecultural media practices. His […]

UB Libraries screening of KILLER OF SHEEP, a film by Charles Burnett

305 Silverman Library, Capen Hall Capen Hall, Buffalo, NY, United States

In honor of Black History Month, the UB Libraries will present a screening of Killer of Sheep, a film by legendary black filmmaker Charles Burnett. Dr. Donte McFadden, Director of the UB Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program, will present opening remarks. About Killer of Sheep Killer of Sheep examines the black Los Angeles ghetto of Watts […]