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Department of Art Visiting Speaker Series: Tony Bluestone

112 Center for the Arts (Screening Room)

Tony Bluestone (b. Englewood, New Jersey) received an MFA from Hunter college and has participated in residencies including The Shandanken Project, The Basil Alakazi Residency in Detroit, DNA Residency in Provincetown and The Prattsville Art Center. She has had solo shows at Freight & Volume Gallery, Elaine L Jacob gallery at Wayne State University in […]

Dept. of Indigenous Studies: Waylon Wilson, “Designing Anti-Colonial Video Game Culture”

212 O'Brian Hall

  Please join the Department of Indigenous Studies for a research talk by Waylon Wilson, Skarù:rę (Tuscarora) Nation, Deer clan and Ph.D. Candidate in Performing & Media Arts at Cornell University.   Designing Anti-Colonial Video Game Culture Can “Critical Play” make an anti-colonial intervention in game play? The interactive subjectivity of the gamer in 21st […]

Dept. of Geography Colloquium Series: Dr. Julie Silva, “Research Projects Past, Present and Future”

170 Academic Center (Ellicott Complex)

The Geography Department will welcome Dr. Julie Silva, University of Maryland, College Park, on Wednesday, October 19, 2022, at 10:00 am in 170 Academic Center (formerly 170 Fillmore).   Research Projects Past, Present and Future In the first section of the talk, Dr. Silva will introduce her work on economic globalization, trade, and development. She has worked on these issues for over 15 […]

Arts Management Program: Laura Raicovich, “Culture Strike”

Zoom

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 […]

Dept. of Indigenous Studies: The Mush Hole presented by Santee Smith and Kaha:wi Dance Theatre

Center for the Arts

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

Department of Art Visiting Speaker Series: Helina Metaferia

112 Center for the Arts (Screening Room)

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 […]

Science Studies Research Workshop: “Modeling Across Disciplines”

474 Park Hall 211 Mary Talbert Way, Buffalo, NY, United States

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 […]

Social Reproduction Lecture Series: Premilla Nadasen, “How Capitalism Invented the Care Economy”

509 O'Brian Hall North Campus

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. […]

UB Arts Collaboratory and CFA: “ART IN THE OPEN”

Center for the Arts

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 […]

Scholars@Hallwalls: Paul Vanouse, “On the Matter of Human Emissions”

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

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, […]