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2021 Buffalo Humanities Festival: Utopia – Day 2

Silo City 630 Ohio Street, Buffalo, NY, United States

The Buffalo Humanities Festival returns to in-person programming with two afternoons of conversations and exchanges of ideas addressing Utopia. Join us at Silo City as we gather scholars, creators, activists, and our local communities to explore progressive visions from the past in order to illuminate our own utopian horizons. Let’s imagine better, more equitable, life-affirming […]

Free

Latinx Heritage at the Intersections of Culture and Crisis: Prof. Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba, “HipHop, Violence, and Queer Latinx Identity”

Zoom

“Latinx Heritage at the Intersections of Culture and Crisis,”  is a series of Zoom conversations in honor of Latinx Heritage Month (September 15-October 15). The website can be opened here: https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/romance-languages-literatures/news-events/recent-news/LatinxHeritageattheIntersectionsofCultureandCrisis.html The first session is Wednesday, September 22, 2021 at 4:00pm. Prof. Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba (University of Texas, Austin) will speak on “HipHop, Violence, and Queer […]

DSSN workshop: “DH 101 for Graduate Students (& other beginners!)”

Online

September 23, 1:00-3:00: Sarah Handley-Cousins: "DH 101 for Graduate Students (& other beginners!)" - online only So you've heard the term and seen the hype, but what actually is digital humanities? In this virtual workshop designed for graduate students (and other beginners!) we'll provide an accessible introduction to the digital humanities from its origins and definitions to the potential it […]

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”

Zoom

"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 […]