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Sovereignty Research Workshop: “Indians” in the Archives: Mobilizing Native Voices within Settler Colonial Structures for Indigenous Sovereignty

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Drawing on two decades of work in archives and special collections, as a student and researcher, faculty instructor, and program director, Mt. Pleasant will discuss opportunities and challenges for a range of approaches to capacity building in support of Indigenous sovereignty that engage rare book and manuscript collections held by a range of institutions. Date: […]

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[Virtual] Scholars@Hallwalls: Randy Schiff, “Catastrophic Companionship: General Systems Theory, the General Prologue, and the Collapsing Canterbury Tales”

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REGISTER TO ATTEND Join us for a virtual edition of our Faculty Fellows talks! This lecture series brings current UB humanities research out into the community. Exploring general systems theory, Randy argues that Canterbury Tales criticism both benefits from, and enriches, environmental studies.  Showing that Chaucer thinks systematically in fashioning his tale-telling contest, Randy compares […]

Haudenosaunee Native American Research Workshop: Brianna Theobald, “Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century”

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Please join us on Wednesday November 18th at 4pm for a presentation by Dr Brianna Theobald on Native women’s reproductive histories and their activism from her new, multi award-winning book Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 2019). Register in advance for this webinar: […]

Technoculture Research Workshop: Andrew Lison, “Convolutional Neural Networks, AI, and the Physical Limits of Computing”

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CLICK HERE to RSVP It is commonly held that recent advances in “artificial intelligence” have largely been possible due to recent increases in computing power. Moreover, it has long been an engineering assumption, emblematized by Gordon E. Moore's “law,” that this power will continue to improve over time. This talk interrogates the first assumption by […]

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Black Utopias in a Post-Pandemic World

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REGISTER NOW There is a powerful tradition of utopian practice and thought in African American communities. From black towns like Mound Bayou, Mississippi to the lyrical imaginings of Afrofuturism Black utopias have been a potent response to racial inequality and suffering. At this moment of rupture, with the related crises of the pandemic, racial uprisings, […]

The Translation Zone Research Workshop: Christi A. Merrill, “The artistry and afterlives of anti-caste activism.”

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We at The Translation Zone workshop are happy to invite you to our end-of-semester talk by Dr. Christi A. Merrill, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, South Asian Literature, and Postcolonial Theory, University of Michigan. The title of her talk is the artistry and afterlives of anti-caste activism. The hour-long event will take place at 4:00 […]

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[Virtual] Scholars@Hallwalls: Ewa Ziarek, “A Crisis of Narrative and Judgement in the Age of Big Data”

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REGISTER TO ATTEND Join us for a virtual edition of our Faculty Fellows talks! This lecture series brings current UB humanities research out into the community. This talk rethinks the stakes of Arendt’s notion of narrative in the context of the new regime of power characteristic of Big Data. Intertwined with judgement and public sphere, […]

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[Virtual] Scholars@Hallwalls: Millie Chen, “Silk Road Songbook: Notes on Making Art Under Censorship and Globalization”

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REGISTER NOW Where there is limited freedom of expression, how can one creatively and collectively mourn, remember, persist, and declare? Songs have the capacity to turn sorrow and outrage into fortitude and optimism. Silk Road Songbook, made in collaboration with Arzu Ozkal, is a socially driven, multidisciplinary art project that weaves song into landscape, challenging censorship and […]

Sovereignty Lab Research Workshop: Dalia Muller, “As Free Men and As Foreigners: African Political Imaginaries in Early 20th-Century Cuba”

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Please join the Sovereignty Lab Research Workshop for a virtual talk with Dr. Dalia Muller.  Title: As Free Men and As Foreigners: African Political Imaginaries in Early 20th-Century Cuba Date: Monday, February 8 at 3 p.m. We invite you to register for Dr. Dalia Muller’s talk Monday, Feb. 8 at 3:00 p.m. Please just click on the Zoom link to register. We will then send you a […]

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