Buffalo State University's Department of Economics and Finance, The Dead Economists Society, and the School of Arts and Sciences Dean's Office welcome Dr. Michael Zweig for a public talk at Burning Books on Tuesday, March 19. Michael Zweig is a Professor Emeritus of economics and founding director of the Center for Study of Working Class […]
PLASMA Speaker Series MONDAYS 6:00- 8:30 pm EST Zoom Meeting ID: 983 4611 3436 Email eliavarg@buffalo.edu with PLASMA2024 in subject line for password. Ceci Moss is a curator, writer and educator with twenty years of professional practice organizing solo, group, touring, and online exhibitions, as well as public programs, performances and screenings, in museums, galleries and artist-run […]
The Humanities Institute invites you to join us as we learn more about the work of new humanities faculty at UB. Coffee, tea, and cookies will be served. Please feel free to bring your own lunch for this noon session. Rinaldo Walcott is Professor and Chair in the Department of Africana and American Studies at […]
Juxtapositions Lecture Series welcomes Prof. Mbaye Lo of Duke University The Impossible Archives: The Writings of Omar ibn Said, an Enslaved African in America Archives usually consist of historical documents or records that provide insights into a specific place, institution, or community. But what happens when these documents are seemingly unreadable? Such is the case […]
Presented by the UB Humanities Institute in collaboration with the UB Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program, in conjunction with Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. Please join us for a screening of THE WARRIOR PRINCESS (dir. Vianca Fuster, 2021, 10 mins.), AMPE: LEAP INTO THE SKY, BLACK GIRL! (dirs. Claudia Owusu and Ife Oluwamuyide, 2022, 18 mins.), and […]
Trans Longevity: A Poetry & Poetics Symposium MARCH 28-29 with TRISH SALAH, CACONRAD, KAY GABRIEL, TAYLOR JOHNSON The concept of "trans longevity" engages with all that enables more-than-survival for transpeople today, for a long time to come. While attending to the precariousness of trans lives, trans longevity resists the specter of death organizing (cis) narratives and institutional configurations of transness - and is […]
The directors of the Humanities Institute and the Gender Institute invite faculty to join us for weekly virtual group writing sessions. Each Friday of the term, from 10:00 to noon, meet up (virtually, via zoom) and work independently on your own writing projects in company with Gender Institute Director Victoria Wolcott, HI Director Libby Otto, […]
SEX AND THE SOCIAL LIFE OF OBJECTS develops three interwoven dialogues across eight current projects from renowned and emerging voices engaging psychoanalytic theory: 1) A dialogue between French and American approaches to the question of the object, interrogating the relationship between negation and objects, desire and sociality by way of objects, and subtraction and reality. […]
PLASMA Speaker Series MONDAYS 6:00- 8:30 pm EST Zoom Meeting ID: 983 4611 3436 Email eliavarg@buffalo.edu with PLASMA2024 in subject line for password. Jenson Leonard (b. 1990, Detroit, Michigan) is an artist whose work takes form out of the collapsed context of the internet, often critiquing its slippage of meaning and techno-capital excess while pointing out its attraction at […]
For Earth Month (April), the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures is offering a film series loosely based on farming and food production. All films are free and open to the public. For more information, Prof. Colleen Culleton at culleton@buffalo.edu The first film will be Alcarrás (Dir. Carla Simón, 2022). Catalan with English subtitles. Writer/director […]
