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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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) […]
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 […]
