Please join us as we return to in-person talks in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! Our homes are disappearing. The crisis is already part of our lexicon—when someone owes more than a house is worth, people say the mortgage is “underwater.” During the 2008 global financial crisis, that phrase was figurative, but […]
Prof. Lingzhen Wang, Brown University, Department of East Asian Studies Lecture: “Socialist New Wave: Zhang Nuanxin and 1980s Chinese Women's Cinema” Recommended film: Sacrificed Youth (Qingchunji, 青春祭, 1985), directed by Zhang Nuanxin To register please contact the Confucius Institute: ubci@buffalo.edu Global Film Series Fall 2021 | Chinese-Language Cinemas: Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan Virtual Zoom Talks and Films Co-sponsored […]
A virtual roundtable, Thursday 11th November 2021, 2:00 pm-3:30 pm EST (6:00pm-7:30pm GMT ) “Shakespeare’s Maritime Dream” is a narrated and filmed public humanities performance piece in development by faculty and students from the University at Buffalo. It supports the efforts of the Buffalo Maritime Center to celebrate our Western New York watershed and Great Lakes […]
Prof. Michael Berry, UCLA, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures Lecture: “Jia Zhangke’s Xiao Wu: Chinese Cinema in Transition” Recommended film: Xiao Wu (Pickpocket, 小武, 1997), directed by Jia Zhangke. Restored by The Film Foundation's World Cinema Project. To register please contact the Confucius Institute: ubci@buffalo.edu Global Film Series Fall 2021 | Chinese-Language Cinemas: Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan Virtual Zoom […]
Peggy Brooks-Bertram is presenting a portion of her current research on an important but little-known African American writer, historian, educator, journalist, musician, and screenwriter, Drusilla Dunjee Houston (1876-1941) at a GGSS brown bag (on Zoom) on Friday, Nov. 12th from noon to 1:00pm. CLICK HERE to join the brown bag session. Peggy Brooks-Bertram is the […]
Please join us as we return to in-person talks in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! The Franciscan friar and historian Toribio de Benavente Motolinía fashions a New World hagiography in his account of three child martyrs from the Central Mexican city of Tlaxcala. Multiple histories of the early colonial period reproduce and […]
Nostalgia for Armpit Goats? Body Odor and Biopower Wednesday, Nov. 17, 11:30a to 12:30p at Coalesce (308 Hochstetter) Bodies smell. But what does that mean? Since the Roman Empire took on “armpit goats,” governing body odor has been used as a signal of progress and civilization. Yet the odiferous sweat from an honest day’s work […]
Prof. Jean Ma, Stanford University, Department of Art and Art History Lecture: “Pandemic Premonitions: Revisiting Tsai Ming-liang's The Hole” Recommended film: The Hole (Dòng, 洞, 1998), directed by Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan To register please contact the Confucius Institute: ubci@buffalo.edu Global Film Series Fall 2021 | Chinese-Language Cinemas: Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan Virtual Zoom Talks and Films Co-sponsored by the […]
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER "To Enter Africa from America”: The United States, Africa, and the New Imperialism, 1862−1919 is a collaborative digital project that seeks to reveal little known patterns of American movement across Africa in the context of broader American ideas about the continent that emerged during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Specifically, TEAA […]
Prof. Zhen Zhang, NYU, Department of Cinema Studies Lecture: “‘We Are Alive’: Minor Transnationalism and Yau Ching’s Experimental Filmmaking” Recommended film: We Are Alive (Huai hai zi, 壞孩子, 2010), directed by Yau Ching, Hong Kong Email ubci@buffalo.edu to register and receive Zoom links to the lectures and recommended films. Drawing from a book project on contemporary Sinophone women filmmakers, […]
