Environmental Humanities Research Workshop: Reading Group | Teresa Shewry, Hope at Sea: Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature
538 ClemensIn anticipation of Teresa Shewry's April 16th lecture, the reading group will meet to discuss Hope at Sea: Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature (University of Minnesota Press, 2015). Teresa Shewry is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received a PhD in Literature from Duke University and a BA in English and Japanese […]
Just Theory Lecture Series: Juan Manuel Garrido & Andrés Claro, “Humanities, Science, and the Production of Knowledge: A Conversation”
640 Clemens HallJuan Manuel Garrido, Universidad Alberto Hurtado & Andrés Claro, Universidad de Chile
Dept of Music: Lecture | Kyra Gaunt, “Twerking at the Intersection of Music, Sexual Violence, and Patriarchy on YouTube”
Baldy Conference Center (509 O'Brian Hall)Twerking is the art of bouncing your booty to the beats and rhymes of rap or pop songs but it also lives at the intersection of music, monetization, and patriarchal violence. Twerking began to trend in Google Search results in 2011 and peaked when Miley Cyrus and other mega and micro-celebs went viral with their […]
POSTPONED: Just Theory Lecture Series: Symposium | Algorithms, Bias, and Inequality
567 Capen Hall (Jeanette Martin Room)Organized by the DSSN, Co-sponsored by Julian Park Chair, COL, and HI Digital Humanities Research Workshop “Automating Insecurity: Digital Debt Collection and the Predator State” | Virginia Eubank, SUNY Albany “The Ends of Thinking in the Computational Age” | Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, University at Buffalo
Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis & Culture: Lecture | Tracy McNulty, Cornell University
Capen 107 (Inside the Silverman Library) University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United StatesTracy McNulty's lecture will be "on the role of the body in assuming an unconscious transmission from the French Revolution to the Haitian Revolution, read through CLR James and also through the lens of Moses and Monotheism.” The subsequent seminar will discuss the process of the passe in Lacanian psychoanalysis, with a focus on femininity […]
UB Arts Collaboratory: Work in Real Time with guest judge Lex Brown
Center for the ArtsHave you ever wondered what it would look like if a sculptor were on Shark Tank? Or a contemporary dancer were on America’s Got Talent? Work In Real Time is a monthly arts salon-meets-project incubator that will take place in the atrium of UB Center for the Arts. Every month artists across disciplines will present […]
Postponed: Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis & Culture: Seminar | Tracy McNulty, Cornell University
Capen 107 (Inside the Silverman Library) University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United StatesTracy McNulty's lecture will be "on the role of the body in assuming an unconscious transmission from the French Revolution to the Haitian Revolution, read through CLR James and also through the lens of Moses and Monotheism.” The subsequent seminar will discuss the process of the passe in Lacanian psychoanalysis, with a focus on femininity […]
POSTPONED: Environmental Humanities Research Workshop: Lecture – Teresa Shewry, “Laughter’s Futures: Literary Humor and Climate Change in Australasia”
306 Clemens HallApril 16, 2020, 4pm, 306 Clemens Hall): LECTURE— Teresa Shewry (UC Santa Barbara, English), “Laughter’s Futures: Literary Humor and Climate Change in Australasia” Teresa Shewry is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received a PhD in Literature from Duke University and a BA in English and Japanese from Victoria University, New Zealand. […]
[VIRTUAL] Scholars@Hallwalls: Bill Solomon, “Black Humor and the Making of the Counterculture: Race, Madness, and American Literature in the 1960s”
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center 341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY, United StatesBill Solomon, Professor, English and 2019-20 Humanities Institute Faculty Fellow. Photographer: Douglas Levere Join us for a virtual edition of our Faculty Fellows talks! This lecture series brings current UB humanities research out into the community. Bill Solomon's presentation is available to view online as a video, provided in two parts. Click through the links […]
