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Dept of Romance Languages and Literatures: Lecture | Aris Moreno Clemons, “Benefits vs Burdens: A raciolinguistic analysis of World Language Mission Statements and Testimonios of Bilingualism in the United States”

Baldy 200G

This talk explores the ways that established discourse frames are implicated in the racialization of particular groups of speakers. Specifically it explores the ways in which the goals presented in foreign language mission statements compare with the experiences of latinx and hispanic bilinguals who have attended spanish language learning programs. In her study, Clemons argues […]

Digital Humanities Research Workshop: “My Phone Lies to Me: Fake News Poetry Workshops as Radical Digital Media Literacy Given the Fact of Fake News”

112 Center for the Arts (Screening Room)

This interactive Digital Humanities event—somewhere between a scholarly talk, a poetry reading, some video viewing, and some doing—will serve as an invitation and invocation for your participation, with others, in an ongoing experiment in knowing and working with the internet differently. Professor Juhasz has developed Fake News Poetry Workshops​ as one way to counter the […]

On Violence and Gender – Spring 2020 Lecture Series: Amy Trabert, LMSW

408 Fronczak Hall

Amy Trabert, LMSW Child & Family Services, Haven House High Risk Team Coordinator Topic: the high risk team and the domestic violence homicide issue in Erie County *Donation drive for Haven House: Please consider donating food and other items from the wish list below. *Donation drive for Haven House, ending March 10, 2020 The Dept. of […]

UB Arts Collaboratory: Work In Real Time with guest judge Annie Bielski

Center for the Arts

Have 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 […]

CANCELLED: Dept of Jewish Thought: Lecture: Heidi Ravven, “Discoveries in Brain Science and New Ethical Challenges: What Can Spinoza Teach Us?”

120 Clemens Hall

Professor Heidi M. Ravven, of Hamilton College, is a specialist on the philosophy of the seventeenth century Jewish philosopher, Baruch Spinoza. She was the first philosopher to propose that Spinoza anticipated central discoveries in the neuroscience of the emotions. Ravven has published widely on Spinoza's philosophic thought, on the twelfth century philosopher Moses Maimonidea, on […]

CANCELLED: Dept of Jewish Thought: Lecture: Heidi Ravven, ” “Spinoza and the Remaking of American Civil Religion: Insights from the Jewish Philosophical Tradition and the New Brain Sciences”​

112 O'Brian Hall

Professor Heidi M. Ravven, of Hamilton College, is a specialist on the philosophy of the seventeenth century Jewish philosopher, Baruch Spinoza. She was the first philosopher to propose that Spinoza anticipated central discoveries in the neuroscience of the emotions. Ravven has published widely on Spinoza's philosophic thought, on the twelfth century philosopher Moses Maimonidea, on […]

POSTPONED: New Faculty Seminar: Margaret Rhee, “In Search for My Robot: Emergent Media, Racialized Gender, and Creativity”

830 Clemens Hall University at Buffalo, Buffalo

Join us for the New Faculty Seminar Series where we will feature the work of new colleagues in the Humanities at UB. By bringing together scholars from a variety of fields, we hope that these seminars will initiate and encourage the development of interdisciplinary conversations. This seminar series is free and open to the public; […]