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 […]
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.
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, […]
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 […]
A brown bag lunch session with Hannah Burdette, California State University, Chico.
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 […]
This event has been postponed, but will be rescheduled at a later date. Thank you for your understanding. Get to know new humanities faculty at UB at the Humanities Institute’s brown-bag lunch sessions. FREE and open to the public. Coffee and cookies provided. Eric Darnell Pritchard is an award-winning writer, cultural critic, and Associate Professor […]
Please join us for a talk by Jennifer Lambe, professor of history and Latin American studies at Brown University, who will discuss her research on psychiatry in Cuba. Jennifer Lambe (PhD, Yale University) is an Assistant Professor of Latin American and Caribbean history. Her first book, Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History, traces the […]
October 18, 9-9:50 am, Clemens 436: Reading Group—Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson, Elaine Gan, and Nils Bubandt, eds. Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts of the Anthropocene / Monsters of the Anthropocene. (University of Minnesota Press, 2017).
All are welcome to attend the first History Faculty New Book Celebration, on Fri. Oct. 18 at 3pm in Park 532, in honor of Sasha Pack’s The Deepest Border: The Strait of Gibraltar and the Making of the Modern Hispano-African Borderland. Adrian Shubert of York University will help contextualize the book’s contributions and Dr. Pack […]
