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Science Studies Research Workshop: “Nostalgia for Armpit Goats? Body Odor and Biopower,” with historian Cari Casteel and media artist Paul Vanouse

Coalesce Center for Biological Art - 308 Hochstetter Center for the Arts, University at Buffalo

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 […]

2021 Global Film Series | Chinese-Language Cinemas: Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan: Prof. Jean Ma, “Pandemic Premonitions: Revisiting Tsai Ming-liang’s The Hole”

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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 […]

Digital Scholarship Studio & Network: Jeannette Eileen Jones, Nemata Blyden, and John Cullen Gruesser, “To Enter Africa from America” [online]

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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 […]

Global Film Series Chinese-Language Cinemas: Prof. Zhen Zhang, “‘We Are Alive’: Minor Transnationalism and Yau Ching’s Experimental Filmmaking”

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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, […]

Scholars@Hallwalls: Erin Hatton, “Working for Rehab: Labor, Addiction, and Salvation in American Racial Capitalism”

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

Please join us as we return to in-person talks in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! The Salvation Army operates a nationwide network of addiction treatment programs for the poor, providing free housing, food, Bible study, and sober living while requiring residents to work eight hours a day without pay. They call it […]

PLASMA presents ELLEN HORNE, Podcast and Radio Producer [ZOOM]

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Monday, February 7th, the Department of Media Study's PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, And Screenings of Media Artists)​ will feature a remote-lecture by ELLEN HORNE, a podcast and radio producer. The Zoom Meeting ID for the lecture series is 939 5189 1859. Email paigesar@buffalo with PLASMA2022 in the subject line for the password.​ After studying theater and religion in college, ELLEN HORNE was […]

Scholars@Hallwalls: Christine Varnado, “How Many Children?: The Queer Materiality of Reproduction and the Problem of Life”

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

Please join us as we return to in-person talks in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! This talk revisits the much-maligned joke question of 20th century literary critical debates, "How many children had Lady Macbeth?," taking the problem of what counts as a child, and how a child comes (or does not come) […]

PLASMA presents SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY

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The Department of Media Study's PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, And Screenings of Media Artists)​ will feature a remote-lecture by SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY, new media artist and poet. The Zoom Meeting ID for the lecture series is 939 5189 1859. Email paigesar@buffalo with PLASMA2022 in the subject line for the password.​   Brief remarks addressed to the students who are enrolled […]

Museum of the American Revolution: Read the Revolution Speaker Series with Kari Winter (UB GGSS) featuring Rhonda Brace [Hybrid event]

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On February 17, Kari Winter (Professor, Global Gender & Sexuality Studies) will be featured along with Rhonda Brace (descendant of Jeffrey Brace) as part of the Museum of the American Revolution's Read the Revolution Speaker Series. This conversation is a continuation of the work showcased in the 2017 Humanities Institute Annual Conference, "Reclaiming Our Ancestors: […]

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Democracy Wide Open: Critiquing the Present, Imagining a Feminist Future

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REGISTER NOW Globally, there is rising concern over the future of liberal democracies. Far-right politicians and political parties are gaining power, often threatening the institutions, norms and practices of democratic governments. Building a politics of resentment that targets racial and ethnic minorities, LGBTQ communities, women and feminists, religious minorities, immigrants and the poor, they question […]

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