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 […]
Ariel Nereson, Assistant Professor, Theatre and Dance and 2019-20 Humanities Institute Faculty Fellow. Photographer: Douglas Levere 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 […]
Please join us for the second Digital Humanities Research Workshop event of the semester, where we will hear from Martin Danahay (Brock University) about his research on 3D pedagogy, virtual environments, and online learning. LOCATION CHANGE: new location is 310 Silverman Library. This event is sponsored by the UB Humanities Institute and affiliated with the […]
Multiple sites in the CFA: Open Studios, an event showcasing work in all stages across UB’s arts departments and kicking off the Arts Collaboratory. During Art in the Open, UB opens our studio, rehearsal space and classroom doors to bring creativity out into the open. The work of artists from UB College of Arts and […]
Featuring H. Rosi Song, author (with Anna Riera) of A Taste of Barcelona: A Culinary and Cultural History of Catalan Cuisine, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA With a wine tasting by Melissa Winkler, sommelier, Winkler and Samuels Wine Purveyors, Buffalo, NY. Tasting Barcelona: An Urban (and Political) History of Catalan Cuisine Widely associated with […]
Laura Parnes Tour Without End Buffalo native, Laura Parnes, returns to the city to present a new film, four years in the making. “Tour Without End” is an experimental fiction/documentary hybrid that casts real-life musicians, artists and actors as bands on tour, and expands into a cross-generational, Trump-era commentary on contemporary culture and politics.The UB […]
UB Arts Management Program, Why Manage the Arts Speaker Series, Fall 2019 Kaitlyn Chandler, one of the organizers of the recently established union at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, and Nicole S. Cohen, associate professor and author of Writers’ Rights: Freelance Journalism in the Digital Age (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016) will discuss […]
In anticipation for our visiting lecture of this term, Luca Somigli (Italian Studies, Toronto) has asked that we read the first chapter of Lawrence Rainey’s now-classic-but-still-debated Institutions of Modernism (Yale, 1998): a scan of “The Creation of the Avant-Garde: F.T. Marinetti and Ezra Pound” is attached. We have reserved the Silverman Room (Clemens 318) for […]
