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Robert Creeley Lecture in Poetry & Poetics: Simone White, “expand into what?” [ZOOM webinar]

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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 […]

Robert Creeley Lecture in Poetry & Poetics: Simone White and Hannah Black | Reflections & Conversation [ZOOM webinar]

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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. […]

Gender Institute | New Books, New Feminist Directions Series: Stephanie Vander Wel and Nadine “Dean” Hubbs in conversation [ZOOM]

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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 […]

2021 Global Film Series | Chinese-Language Cinemas: Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan: Prof. Jie Li, “Madame Mao and Cinema: Actress, Critic, Censor, and Producer”

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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 […]

2021 Global Film Series | Chinese-Language Cinemas: Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan: Prof. Lingzhen Wang, “Socialist New Wave: Zhang Nuanxin and 1980s Chinese Women’s Cinema”

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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 […]

The Imaginative Flows of “Shakespeare’s Maritime Dream”: A Conversation About Public Humanities and Performance [virtual]

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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 […]

2021 Global Film Series | Chinese-Language Cinemas: Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan: Prof. Michael Berry, “Jia Zhangke’s Xiao Wu: Chinese Cinema in Transition”

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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 […]

GGSS Brown Bag with Peggy Brooks-Bertram [ZOOM]

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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 […]

Scholars@Hallwalls: Stephanie Schmidt, “Christian Hagiography and Ancestral Discourse in the Nahuatl ‘Vida de tres niños tlaxcaltecas'”

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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 […]