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Postponed: Humanities to the Rescue: Mary Grace Sullivan and Hanyu Liao present “I have a baby whose name is no one”

500 Seneca 500 Seneca St, Buffalo, NY, United States

I have a baby whose name is no one is an interdisciplinary convergence of mixed-media and performance vignettes conceived by Mary Grace Sullivan (UB Department of Theatre and Dance MFA candidate) and Hanyu Liao (UB Department of Media Study MAH candidate). The work will be presented off-site at 500 Seneca, where the audience, artists, and […]

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POSTPONED: Environmental Humanities Research Workshop: Lecture | Yanoula Athanassakis, “Environmental Humanities and Animal Studies”

306 Clemens Hall

Yanoula Athanassakis (NYU), “Environmental Humanities and Animal Studies” Yanoula Athanassakis is Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Co-founder of the NYU Environmental Humanities Series at New York University, and Instructor in English and Environmental Studies. Her research and teaching interests include American literature, the environmental humanities, animal studies, food studies, race and ethnic studies, gender […]

CANCELLED: Just Theory Lecture Series: Eugenio Donato Seminar | Jayne Svenungsson, “Theology after Religion: Retrieving the Sense of Wonder”

640 Clemens Hall

Jayne Svenungsson, Lund University, Sweden Tuesday, March 31 | 3:30 pm “Romanticism: Rethinking Religion as an Aesthetic Category” Wednesday, April 1 | 3:30 pm “Phenomenology: Rethinking Metaphysics through Experience” Thursday, April 2 | 3:30 pm “Return of Religion or End of Religion? Beyond the Religious-Secular Divide”

POSTPONED: Dept of Jewish Thought: Lecture | Robert Bernasconi, “Two Responses to National Socialism: Hannah Arendt and the Failure of Ethics, Emmanuel Levinas and the Failure of Politics”

708 Clemens Hall

Professor Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies, Penn State University, is one of the world’s most distinguished scholars of the thought of Jacques Derrida and of Emmanuel Levinas, and a leading scholar in African-American Studies.   Besides editing three academic journals (Eco-ethica, Levinas Studies, and Critical Philosophy of Race), and […]

Environmental Humanities Research Workshop: Reading Group | Teresa Shewry, Hope at Sea: Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature

538 Clemens

In anticipation of Teresa Shewry's April 16th lecture, the reading group will meet to discuss Hope at Sea: Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature (University of Minnesota Press, 2015). Teresa Shewry is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received a PhD in Literature from Duke University and a BA in English and Japanese […]