Paige Sarlin (Assistant Professor, UB-Department of Media Study) will workshop a chapter entitled "An Unassuming Form: Mayhew and the Early Work of the Interview." This is the first chapter of her book manuscript, Interview Work: A Genealogy of a Media Form. Book Synopsis: A contribution to documentary studies as well as cultural and media studies […]
Michael Davidson is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. His books include The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century (Cambridge UP, 1989), Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material Word (U of California P, 1997), Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics (U of Chicago, 2003), Concerto […]
Human beings originated in Africa about 100,000 years ago and have developed societies during the last 100 years that have contributed to climate change, which risks making the globe uninhabitable for our species and many others. This symposium will examine manifestations of global warming in Africa, its differential impacts on African populations, and the successes […]
Michael Davidson is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. His books include The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century (Cambridge UP, 1989), Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material Word (U of California P, 1997), Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics (U of Chicago, 2003), Concerto […]
Cornelia Parker's "Transitional Object (Psychobarn)” was installed on the Met’s rooftop in 2016. The work alludes to Hitchcock’s Psycho and to Edward Hopper’s paintings, as well as to the concept of transitional object from psychoanalyst D. Winnicot. Margaret Iversen is Emeritus Professor at the School of Philosophy and Art History at University of Essex, UK. […]
The UB Humanities Institute's City and Society Research Workshop and the UB School of Architecture & Planning present: Sarah Lopez (Assistant Professor of Architectural History, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin) on "Migrant Detention, Incarceration and the Spatial Imagination." Sarah Lopez is a built environment historian, as well as a migration scholar. Lopez' […]
Moyra Davey's "Fifty Minutes." Canadian, New York-based Moyra Davey’s video regarding her own psychoanalytic treatment, 9/11, and everyday life. Margaret Iversen is Emeritus Professor at the School of Philosophy and Art History at University of Essex, UK. She is one of the leading international authorities in the field of art theory and contemporary art. Her […]
Message from the organizers: Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, Professor Cary Wolfe will be unable to travel to Buffalo to give his much anticipated talk, “(Auto)Immunities,” (see original announcement, below). He deeply regrets this turn of events, and we hope to have him come to UB at some later date. A lecture by Cary Wolfe, […]
Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University, will give the talk "The Timeliness of the Spirit of Utopia" which addresses Socialism and race studies. Dr. Drucilla Cornell is a professor at Rutgers University in Political Science and a Professor Extraordinaire and the University of Pretoria in South Africa. From 2003 to the present Professor Cornell has run a […]
In conjunction with the exhibition Photographic Recall: Italian Rationalist Architecture in Contemporary German Art at the Anderson Gallery (through May 12), this panel discussion Staging Fascism: Contemporary Artistic Practice and Rationalist Urban Space will take place on April 11, 5:30-8pm at the Anderson Gallery, 1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY. This panel tackles the complex […]
