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 […]
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 […]
