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Science Studies Research Workshop: A Tour of “Lake Sturgeons’ Guide to Surviving the Anthropocene” with Media Artist Anna Scime

Burchfield Penney Art Center 1300 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, NY, United States

This artist-guided event will explore Lake Sturgeons' Guide for Surviving the Anthropocene (LSGFSA), an experimental media artwork created by Anna Scime from nine years of research and fieldwork collaborations with scientists working in biology, geology and ecology. The work consists of a series of short video essays and interrelated multimedia installations that examine history, art, […]

LGBTQ FSA Brown Bag Conversation: “Becoming with Queer/Trans Video Games,” Dr. Cody Mejeur (Media Study)

240 Student Union

Gather with members of the LGBTQ FSA in the Intercultural and Diversity Center for an informal informational talk, Q&A and conversation with Dr. Cody Mejur, visiting assistant professor with the Department of Media Study. Video games are a powerful and growing entertainment medium and many queer and trans folks play, create, and share games related […]

DSSN presents David Castillo: “Un-Deceptions: A Cervantine Take on Truth in the Disinformation Age.”

Online

While disinformation may be as old as humanity, spreading lies is exponentially easier in our media environment. At its core, the vulnerability of the “information market” stems from the blind trust that the market itself enjoys as the neutral guarantor of democratic freedoms, particularly at a time when “market values” have come to govern just […]

Queer Studies Research Workshop *Work in Progress* talk, “Refusing Erasure: Nugent, Fire!!, and the Legacies of Queer Harlem,” Sam King-Shaw (GGS)

1004 Clemens Hall

https://fb.me/e/778MTLEoj First-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies Sam King-Shaw has been selected as a 2021 Portz Scholar by the National Collegiate Honors Council.  Their thesis, "Refusing Erasure: Nugent, Fire!!, and the Legacies of Queer Harlem," was nominated for this award as the best honors thesis of its year at Washington […]

Social Justice Praxis Works-in-Progress Series: Barbara Bono, “Peace of the City’s ‘Shakespeare Comes to 716’ and Reparative Theater”

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"Peace of the City’s ‘Shakespeare Comes to 716’ and Reparative Theater" Barbara Bono Associate Professor Emerita, English and Global Gender and Sexuality Studies Barbara Bono is Associate Professor Emerita of English and Global Gender and Sexuality Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo.  She is a specialist in the literature of Shakespeare […]

2021 Victor E. Reichert Robert Frost Event: Setsuko Yokoyama, “Difference, #slowDH, and the Poetics of Robert Frost Tapes”

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Please join us for the Poetry Collection’s Seventh Victor E. Reichert Robert Frost Event. Featuring a virtual talk by Setsuko Yokoyama titled “Difference, #slowDH, and the Poetics of Robert Frost Tapes.” Tuesday, October 12, 2021 7:00 – 8:00 pm EDT Via Zoom For registration and more information: library.buffalo.edu/pl/reichertfrost This event is funded by the Jonathan […]

2021 Global Film Series | Chinese-Language Cinemas: Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan: Christopher Rea, “What Disney (and the Rest of Us) Can Learn from the Earliest Surviving Mulan Film”

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Prof. Christopher Rea, University of British Columbia, Department of Asian Studies    Lecture: “What Disney (and the Rest of Us) Can Learn from the Earliest Surviving Mulan Film”    Recommended films: Hua Mu Lan (Mulan Joins the Army, Mulan congjun, 木蘭從軍, 1939), directed by Richard Poh (Bu Wancang);  Mulan (2020), directed by Niki Caro To register please contact the Confucius Institute: […]

Latinx Heritage at the Intersections of Culture and Crisis: Juliet Hooker, “The Place of Blackness in Latinidad” [ZOOM]

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Juliet Hooker is Professor of Political Science at Brown University. She is a political theorist specializing in racial justice, multiculturalism, Latin American political thought, Black political thought, and Afro-descendant and indigenous politics in Latin America. She is the author of Race and the Politics of Solidarity (Oxford, 2009) and Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, […]