Just Theory Lecture Series: Dennis Schmidt, “Thank Goodness for the Atmosphere: One the Starry Sky and the Moral Law”
640 Clemens HallDennis Schmidt, Western Sydney University, Australia. Free and open to the public.
Dennis Schmidt, Western Sydney University, Australia. Free and open to the public.
Registration is requested: http://bit.ly/UBMisogynyLectures Kate Manne is an Assistant professor of the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University, where she has been teaching since 2013. Before that, she was a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows from 2011 to 2013. She did her graduate work in philosophy at MIT from 2006 to 2011, with […]
Charles Bambach, University of Dallas. Free and open to the public.
4:00 PM | Introductory Presentation, “Performing Feminism in Renaissance Venice” Sarah G. Ross | Professor and Chair, History Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 5:00 PM | Performance Seven women debate gender equality, the true worth of women and the responsibility of husbands, fathers, sons and lovers. From a 1600 book written by a Venetian […]
Anne Marie Butler, Ph.D. candidate in Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, "The Matter of the Body: Queer Considerations of Contemporary Tunisian Women's Art" Abstract: This talk analyses contemporary artworks by four living Tunisian women artists, arguing that the artworks challenge the Tunisian state’s reliance upon nuclear family structure, typical gender roles, and heteropatriarchy as methods […]
Save the Date/Call for Presentations The 7th Annual Haudenosaunee Research Symposium featuring the great work of UB faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, alum, and affiliates will be held from 9am-3pm on Nov 2 in 120 Clemens Hall, North Campus. C’mon down and join us for engaging presentations and Lloyd’s Tacos. The Haudenosaunee-Native American Studies Research […]
UB Humanities Institute Director David Castillo will give a work-in-progress talk on “Not Your Father’s Classroom! Looking Back at the Spanish Golden Age Through the Lens of the #Metoo Movement.”
Autistic narratives unfold under the dueling pressures of diagnostic and literary expectation. The diagnostic expectation holds autism to be a life-long proposition: either a permanent disorder that may be ameliorated but never dissipated or a distinctive mode of being that should never be dissipated but must be accommodated. The literary expectation—set by the mass audience […]
REGISTER NOW Please join fellow scholars and faculty for the first annual Rustgi Undergraduate Conference on South Asia at the University at Buffalo. The conference will feature a keynote lecture by Sujatha Gidla, acclaimed author of Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017). We will […]
Be inspired by history. Participants will embark on a walking tour focusing on Buffalo’s Underground Railroad stories, listening to dramatic accounts based on history as inspiration to write their own personal & family stories. Annette Daniels Taylor is an award-winning playwright, poet, and artist filmmaker. Her debut YA novel, Dreams on Fire, a Junior Library […]