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Scholars@Hallwalls: Michael Rembis, “‘A fact was no less a fact because it was told by a crazy person’: Popular Responses to 19th Century Asylums”

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center 341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY, United States

Join us at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center for our ninth year of Faculty Fellows talks! This lecture series brings current UB humanities research out into the community – with complimentary wine and hors d’oeuvres. Free and open to the public. Michael Rembis, Associate Professor, History and Director, UB Center for Disability Studies, 2019-20 OVPRED/HI Public […]

Digital Humanities Research Workshop: Inaugural Meeting

1032 Clemens Hall

Please join us for the inaugural meeting of the new Digital Humanities Research Workshop, sponsored by the UB Humanities Institute and affiliated with the Digital Scholarship Studio & Network. This event is open to all who are working on or interested in digital research topics, as well as those who may be curious about what […]

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2019 Buffalo Humanities Festival: DEMOCRACY–Of the people? By the people? For the people?

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Visit the Buffalo Humanities Festival website for full details and ticket information. Around the world the (re)emergence of nationalism, authoritarianism, and fundamentalism has given rise to a crisis of democracy. Whose voices are being heard? Whose voices are you listening to? What guides your voice? The 2019 Buffalo Humanities Festival tackles the current crisis of […]

Theatre and Dance: Urban Bush Women perform “Walking With ‘Trane”

Center for the Arts

Urban Bush Women  (UBW) will perform the evening-length work Walking With ‘Trane, inspired by legendary jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. Esteemed UB Department of Music instructor and jazz pianist, George Caldwell, is co-composer of the music, and will accompany UBW live on stage. Walking With "Trane offers two unique experiences, SIDE A and SIDE B, inspired […]

Gender Institute: Moya Bailey, “On Misogynoir”

Baldy Conference Center (509 O'Brian Hall)

Moya Bailey is an Assistant Professor of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University. Named to Essence Magazine’s Woke 100 Women for 2018, Professor Bailey coined the word “misogynoir” in 2010, a term that describes the intersection of race and gender-based bias that black women face in popular […]

Performance Research Workshop: Kareem Khubchandani, “Lessons in Drag with LaWhore Vagistan”

Center for the Arts - Atrium

In “Lessons in Drag,” Kareem Khubchandani (Tufts University)—a performance artist who works in drag, storytelling, body art, theater, and digital media—puts critical theory into conversation with a lipsync performance as his alter ego, LaWhore Vagistan. Organized by the UB Arts Collaboratory with support from the Performance Research Workshop.

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Science Studies Research Workshop: LSD as a medicine, “Did it work?”

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences - RM 2120B

The panels feature three leading U.S./Canadian historians of LSD and other hallucinogens. Speakers: Erika Dyck, University of Saskatchewan, author Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD from Clinic to Campus; editor, A Culture’s Catalyst: Historical Encounters with Peyote and the Native American Church in Canada. Matthew Oram, author The Trials of Psychedelic Therapy: LSD Psychotherapy in America. Lucas Richert, […]

Science Studies Research Workshop: LSD as medicine, “The Rise, Fall, and Rise of LSD”

330 Student Union (UB North Campus)

The Rise, Fall, and Rise of LSD 2:30pm-4:00pm | 330 Student Union Erika Dyck, Hitting highs at rock bottom In the 1950s, psychedelic research attracted attention for its dramatic breakthroughs in addiction treatment. Treating patients with a single dose of psychedelic was seen as an attractive, cost-effective approach for previously intractable problems. In the 21st […]

Sovereignty Lab Research Workshop: Hannah Burdette, “Visibilizar/Visualizar: Poetic Knowledge and the Radical Imagination in Contemporary Abiayala”

904 Clemens

From the Idle No More movement in Canada and the Zapatista uprising in Mexico to the Water and Gas Wars in Bolivia and the Mapuche movement in Chile, the turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed a notable surge in indigenous political action and literary production. Whether produced in Native languages, in the dominant European […]

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