Join the Exhibit X Fiction Series to meet poet and translator Laura Marris to discuss her recent updated translation of Albert Camus's The Plague. CLICK HERE to register via Zoom BIO Laura Marris' work has appeared in The New York Times, The Yale Review, The Believer, The Point, and elsewhere. Her recent translations include Albert […]
Please join us as we return to in-person talks in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! This talk explores the concept of “expanded” elaborated by Gene Youngblood and Rosalind Krauss to argue that expanding spatial dimensions move into extreme spaces and their entanglements to critically make us sense slices of a time period […]
The Queer Studies and Performance Research Workshops Present: A Roundtable Conversation on Twelfth Night with Dr. Christine Varnado (Global Gender and Sexuality Studies) and members of the creative team from UB's Department of Theatre and Dance: Dr. Danielle Rosvally (Director), Kaylie Horowitz (Assistant Director), Natasha McCandless (Choreographer), and Dahlia Frier (Dramaturg) Moderated by Dr. Lindsay Brandon […]
Please join us for this 2-day in-person event examining Life (in the Age of Artificial Intelligence). This series of panels and discussions will bring together UB faculty and students working in art, computer science, early modern studies, music, public health and more in a multi-faceted exploration of the impacts—both beneficial and detrimental—of artificial intelligence, big data […]
In the United States, the term “socialism” has been widely misunderstood and used to discredit even modest reforms. This symposium will explore achievements and missteps in implementing socialism in China, India, Scandinavia, and Latin America. It will weigh socialism’s value in addressing global challenges of climate change, economic inequality, and human rights abuses. Registration Instructions: Register […]
Thursday, April 7 at Fitz Books, join Humanities Institute director David Castillo and former director/founder Ewa Plonowska Ziarek for a Fitz Book Talk about the first Humanities to the Rescue book series title, Continental Theory Buffalo: Transatlantic Crossroads of a Critical Insurrection (SUNY Press). Castillo and Ziarek will speak to the transatlantic dialogue that spawned […]
Recent Pulitzer Prize Finalist (Telephone), Percival Everett is the author of more than thirty novels and story collections, including The Trees, Telephone, So Much Blue, Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, I Am Not Sidney Poitier and Erasure. Everett has won the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle, the Dos Passos […]
The Department of Media Study's PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, And Screenings in Media Art) will feature a remote lecture by new media artist EMILY MARTINEZ. The Zoom Meeting ID for the lecture series is 939 5189 1859. Email paigesar@buffalo with PLASMA2022 in the subject line for the password. Emily Martinez (they/she) is a new media artist working with machine […]
The Department of Media Study's PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, And Screenings in Media Art) will feature a screening and discussion with animator, film director, photographer, and writer NG'ENDO MUKII. The Zoom Meeting ID for the lecture series is 939 5189 1859. Email paigesar@buffalo with PLASMA2022 in the subject line for the password. An independent filmmaker working in Nairobi, NG'ENDO MUKII […]
4/19/22, 2:00-3:00: Yingjie Hu: “Exploring Geo-Text Data with Machine Learning Models for Knowledge Discovery” – online only Recent years have witnessed an exponential growth of data that link geographic locations and textual descriptions (geo-text data for short). Examples include geotagged tweets, news articles containing place names, online neighborhood reviews, and many others. Meanwhile, the fast advancements of […]
