The Department of Media Study's PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, Screenings of Media Artists) will feature a lecture by Sindhu Thirumalaisamy. The Zoom Meeting ID for the lecture series is 959 5554 2975. Email paigesar@buffalo with PLASMA2021 in the subject line for password. Sindhu Thirumalaisamy's work across moving images, sound, and text, is rooted in a critical […]
Photo credit: Imranda Ward Based on Rosy’s creative practice, this workshop is intended to create space for refuge and rest – for the body, the heart, the mind, and spirit. We will move, breathe, hear, see, and practice deep listening to ourselves and our environment. Register here: https://buffalo.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sceihpz0tE9KflbPzVHD_jNrqMCLb6Chq After registering, you will receive a confirmation […]
“Senegalese Stagecraft: Decolonizing Theater-Making in Francophone Africa” Brian Valente-Quinn Assistant Professor of French University of Colorado Boulder Sponsored by the Melodia E. Jones Chair of French, the Humanities Institute Performance Research Workshop, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and the College of Arts and Sciences Full details can be found at the RLL BHM/BLM webpage. Register at […]
Convened by Dr. Patricia A. Matthew, dialogues are scheduled for March 10th, March 24th, April 14th, and April 21st. Travis Chi Wing Lau and Marcos Gonsalez will be in conversation on April 21st and will talk about how their research informs their public writing (Marcos’ first book was included in a recent review essay in […]
Claudio Saunt is the Richard B. Russell Professor in American History, Associate Director of the Institute of Native American Studies and Co-Director of the Center for Virtual History at the University of Georgia. He will discuss his work in digital public history, specifically in mapping, which has included the Invasion of America and Pox Americana projects. Co-Sponsored by […]
The Translation Zone Research Workshop is hosting an interactive session where we will be working together to translate a ghazal by the 13th-century Persian poet Jalaluddin Rumi. This event will be led by Shima Bagheri of Allameh Tabatabai University in Iran. Instruction on how to participate in this interactive workshop are available here: http://bit.ly/rumiworkshop2021 Shima […]
REGISTER NOW Join us for a virtual edition of our Faculty Fellows talks, our last session for 2020-21! This lecture series brings current UB humanities research out into the community. Eero will present his talk live on Zoom with a Q+A session following. Mascots and costumed characters often function as figures for communities to playfully […]
On behalf of the UB Center for Diversity Innovation, along with the UB departments of Music and Anthropology and the University of Southern Chile, you are cordially invited to participate in an open, roundtable diversity discussion based on the new album, "Excavated Shellac: An Alternate History of the World's Music. This astounding new digital album/archive project […]
The Department of Media Study's PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, Screenings of Media Artists) will feature a conversation with Gregg Bordowitz. The Zoom Meeting ID for the lecture series is 959 5554 2975. Email paigesar@buffalo with PLASMA2021 in the subject line for password. Since the late 1980s, writer, artist, and activist Gregg Bordowitz has made diverse works— […]
Speaker Series: Race, Health, and Science Speaker: Nicolae Morar, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy and Associate Member of the Institute for Ecology and Evolution at the University of Oregon Title: “Recording Injustices Genetically? The Case of the Human Microbiome” Time: 12:00 to 1:30pm on Wednesday, April 28 Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute Science […]
