Humanities Institute

Prof. Christopher Rea, University of British Columbia, Department of Asian Studies    Lecture: “What Disney (and the Rest of Us) Can Learn from the Earliest Surviving Mulan Film”    Recommended films: Hua Mu Lan (Mulan Joins the Army, Mulan congjun, 木蘭從軍, 1939), directed by Richard Poh (Bu Wancang);  Mulan (2020), directed by Niki Caro To register please contact the Confucius Institute: […]

Juliet Hooker is Professor of Political Science at Brown University. She is a political theorist specializing in racial justice, multiculturalism, Latin American political thought, Black political thought, and Afro-descendant and indigenous politics in Latin America. She is the author of Race and the Politics of Solidarity (Oxford, 2009) and Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, […]

In her lecture "expand into what?," poet, scholar, and professor Simone White will take up the contemporary need for performance in poetry and for poetry as performative event, in the context of poetry becoming more vulnerable to certain kinds of institutional capture. It will explore possibilities for the expansion of poetic practice today: How can […]

Simone White is author of Dear Angel of Death (Ugly Duckling Presse 2018), Of Being Dispersed (Futurepoem 2016), and House  Envy  of  All  the World (Factory School 2010). Her writing has appeared in Artforum, BOMB, e-flux journal, Chicago Review, and The New York Times Book Review. In 2017, she received the Whiting Award for Poetry. […]

Please join Stephanie Vander Wel and Nadine “Dean” Hubbs in conversation about Vander Wel’s recent book Hillbilly Maidens, Okies, and Cowgirls: Women’s Country Music, 1930-1960 on October 27, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. (EST) via zoom. The event is part of the book series “New Books, New Feminist Directions,” sponsored by the Gender Institute of the […]

Prof. Jie Li, Harvard University, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations    Lecture: “Madame Mao and Cinema: Actress, Critic, Censor, and Producer”      Recommended films: The Red Detachment of Women (Hongse niangzijun, 红色娘子军, 1961), directed by Xie Jin OR The Red Detachment of Women (Hongse niangzijun, 红色娘子军, 1971), directed by Pan Wenzhan and Fu Jie;  In the Heat of the Sun (Yang […]

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 […]