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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Department of Media Study's PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, Screenings of Media Artists) begins NEXT Monday February 8th with Amelia Winger-Bearskin. Her lecture will begin at 6:00pm EST. The Zoom Meeting ID for the lecture series is 959 5554 2975. Email paigesar@buffalo with PLASMA2021 in the subject line for the password. The complete line-up is listed below. Amelia Winger-Bearskin is an artist/technologist who empowers people to leverage […]
Monday February 15th at 6:00pm, the Department of Media Study's PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, Screenings of Media Artists) will feature a presentation by Chris Stults, Associate Curator at the Wexner Center for the Arts, and a conversation about Cinetracts 20, a recent film project commissioned by the Wexner. The Zoom Meeting ID for the lecture series is 959 5554 2975. Email paigesar@buffalo with PLASMA2021 in […]
Please register here: https://buffalo.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvdO2srzMtHdMdKcBpHtP1XapU2p9Gfous. Bénédicte Boisseron is Professor of Afroamerican & African Studies at University of Michigan, specializing in the fields of black diaspora studies, francophone studies, and animal studies. She received an M.A. in English from Université Denis Diderot (Paris, France) and a Ph.D. in French and Francophone Studies from the University of Michigan. She […]
Register at: https://buffalo.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEldOuupjguHtPSal6kgVDFrTW_2CAbnWZi. The presentation revolves around Mario LaMothe’s ethnographic collaboration with queer Haitians and queer Haitian performance scholars who journey with their interlocutors through socio-politically charged endeavors. Teasing out the struggle, discomfort, and benefits that emerge from documenting activist responses to the national policing of same-sex desire, LaMothe previews how embodied and artistic testimonials are […]
