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Department of Art Visiting Speaker Series: Cassils

112 Center for the Arts (Screening Room)

CASSILS is a transgender artist who makes their own body the material and protagonist of their performances. Cassils's art contemplates the history(s) of LGBTQI+ violence, representation, struggle and survival. Cassils has had recent solo exhibitions at HOME Manchester, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Perth Institute for Contemporary Arts, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, NYC; Institute for Contemporary […]

Technoculture: Jeremy Packer, Paula Nuñez de Villavicencio, and Kate Maddalena, “The Prison House of the Circuit: From Bentham to Buffalo and Back”

538 Clemens

A talk about the book and its polyauthored process. A rollicking romp of signaling without signification, hueing and crying across Civil War dirigibles, deathbed toe tags, and bobby call-boxes, from the Circus Maximus to the highway, all of it ending in an invisible prison of our own design. This polyauthored book will ask you for […]

Department of Art Visiting Speaker Series: Adham Faramawy – virtual

Zoom

Adham Faramawy is an artist based in London. Their work spans media including moving image, sculptural installation, and print, thinking through issues of materiality, touch, and toxic embodiment to question ideas of the natural in relation to marginalized communities. They lecture at both Goldsmiths University in London and Ruskin School of Art in Oxford. Faramawy’s […]

Department of Art Visiting Speaker Series: xtine Burrough

112 Center for the Arts (Screening Room)

xtine burrough (x/x or she/her) is a media artist. Her projects center on bringing visibility to women’s experiences, invisible labor, and the dehumanizing effects of capitalism. x creates participatory works crafted for the web browser, the media wall, or person-to-person exchange. She also creates printed etchings, engravings, and hybrid digital transfer prints with alternative photographic […]

Gender Institute | Feminist Research Alliance: Deborah Reed-Danahay, “Finding One’s ‘Place’: Life Stories of Middle-Class French Women in 21st century London”

Zoom

This talk draws upon Reed-Danahay’s longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork (since 2015) among French citizens who migrated to London in recent decades. She will focus on issues of emplacement and displacement among middle-class French women, and will explore their motivations, desires, and aspirations for moving to London through examples of life stories and personal narratives. This discussion draws upon a book manuscript […]

Scholars@Hallwalls: Miguel Guitart, “Flattened American Landscapes: Documenting the Loss of Material Memory”

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

Please join us in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! Materials embody the capacity to carry, preserve, and reveal the memory of places and users. When original materials are modified or eliminated, the identity of places is partially lost. This presentation examines the loss of material memory in the American landscape through processes of ground occupation and material modification […]

Science Studies Research Workshop: Workshop with Dr. Wangui Muigai, “The Widening Gap: The 1980s Crisis of Black Infant Survival.” [HYBRID]

545 Park Hall

Workshop on a pre-circulated chapter-in-revision, “The Widening Gap: The 1980s Crisis of Black Infant Survival.” WANGUI MUIGAI, PHD, ASSISTANT PROF., BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY 545 Park Hall, 10:45am to 12:15pm, and can also be attended by Zoom at https://buffalo.zoom.us/j/97306125070?pwd=VDlQMFR1Y0paemhFZEJTM0hKSFpTdz09 The chapter traces the historical origins of the Black infant mortality crisis, and how new medical theories and […]

Science Studies Research Workshop: Dr. Wangui Muigai, “To Protect the Mother and Baby: Black Infant Death in Historical Perspective.” [HYBRID]

532 Park Hall

Formal talk, “To Protect the Mother and Baby: Black Infant Death in Historical Perspective.” WANGUI MUIGAI, PHD, ASSISTANT PROF., BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY 532 Park Hall, 3-5pm, and can also be attended by Zoom at https://buffalo.zoom.us/j/91630026180?pwd=djdDM2ZDN3NlNFF0bTVSUVVmY3FwZz09 Dr. Muigai will trace the long history of efforts to reduce Black infant mortality. Through exploring how politicians, physicians, midwives, and […]

Department of Art Visiting Speaker Series: Ilona Gaynor

112 Center for the Arts (Screening Room)

Ilona Gaynor works across photography, narrative texts, schemata, objects and film. Her work is drawn from the methods and histories of a wide range of research and disciplines: from design, architecture, literature, theatre and cinema, to the histories of labour, forensic science, risk management and insurance. Using the language and methods from non-visual enterprises such […]