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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; […]

POSTPONED: Humanities to the Rescue: Workshop with Susan Leigh Foster, “Choreographing Relationality”

Center for the Arts - Rehearsal Workshop

IMPORTANT UPDATE Humanities to the Rescue is an event series intended to bring the broader Buffalo community together to celebrate the humanities. We have been closely monitoring how current health and travel issues are evolving with regard to the Coronavirus (COVID-19). After consultation with University at Buffalo leadership and a great deal of deliberation, our […]

Free

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 […]

Free

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 […]