An ontology is a category system developed to classify and reason about entities of different sorts. In former times such systems were developed manually, sometimes by philosophers. Nowadays ontologies are created inside the computer and UB is a world center of this new digital ontology research. UB faculty and students are involved in efforts to develop ontologies […]
Ianna Hawkins Owen, Asst. Professor English and African American Studies Boston University Tuesday, March 30 4:00-5:00 pm (on Zoom) “‘No New Watchword:’ Asexuality, Incarceration, and Freedom” a discussion of asexuality, prison abolition, and former Black Panther Party leader Ericka Huggins Sponsor: UB Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies To register, email Prof. Kari Winter at […]
Black French studies are at an embryonic stage compared to that of Great Britain and the United States. The field has increasingly attracted interest since the 2000s, and the publication of Pap Ndiaye’s La Condition Noire. As an area of scholarly inquiry, Black French studies focus on the emergence of Black identity politics within the universalist […]
The Department of Media Study's PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, Screenings of Media Artists) will feature a lecture by Jenson Leonard (@coryintheabyss). The Zoom Meeting ID for the lecture series is 959 5554 2975. Email paigesar@buffalo with PLASMA2021 in the subject line for password. Jenson Leonard's practice involves the intersection of poetry, conceptual art, and internet memes. […]
The Lorca Lectures will offer virtual presentations by four leading experts on the work, life, and legacy of Federico García Lorca and his contemporaries in the Hispanic avant-garde movements of the 20th century. Each event will consist of a talk of about 40 minutes will be followed by discussion. Prof. Jonathan Mayhew, University of Kansas Please […]
Teresa Shewry, Hope at Sea: Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature (University of Minnesota Press, 2015):
REGISTER NOW Join us for a virtual edition of our Faculty Fellows talks! This lecture series brings current UB humanities research out into the community. John will present his talk live on Zoom with a Q+A session following. Fiege is developing a podcast, called Ecosphere, that explores key questions at the heart of our ecological […]
Monday April 12th at 6:00pm, the Department of Media Study's PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, Screenings of Media Artists) will feature a lecture by Ekrem Serdar. The Zoom Meeting ID for the lecture series is 959 5554 2975. Email paigesar@buffalo with PLASMA2021 in the subject line for password. Ekrem Serdar is the curator at Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center (2015–present), where he is responsible for the organization’s […]
This conversation between Mishuana Goeman and Theresa McCarthy will delve the racialization of Indigenous peoples in North America and its effect on individuals and communities. These ways of “seeing race” and implementing them in settler policies have had profound effects on understanding American Indians as political entities. By unpacking some of the history and they ways […]
Convened by Dr. Patricia A. Matthew, dialogues are scheduled for March 10th, March 24th, April 14th, and April 21st. The two historians speaking April 14th are doing exciting work using their research for program building and developing digital projects. Jessica Marie Johnson and Christienna Fryar will help attendees think more carefully about Caribbean histories in […]
