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Poetics Plus: Talks & Performance | Contemporary Environmental Arts

Burchfield Penney Art Center 1300 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, NY, United States

Joshua Schuster is Associate Professor of English at Western University in London, Ontario. His first book is The Ecology of Modernism: American Environments and Avant Garde Poetics (U of Alabama Press 2015). He has recently published essays on ecopoetics, Will Alexander’s exopoetics, Edward Burtynsky’s photography, and the philosophy of Derrida, Blanchot, Catherine Malabou, and Roberto […]

Sovereignty Lab Research Workshop: Lecture | Justin Read and Michael Martínez-Raguso on Yuri Herrera’s Señales que precederán al fin del mundo

640 Clemens Hall

Two short lectures on Yuri Herrera’s Señales que precederán al fin del mundo (Signs Preceding the End of the World) Justin Read, “Death Programs: In-Forming the Borderzone in Yuri Herrera’s Señales que precederán al fin del mundo” Michael Martínez-Raguso, “Decoloniality and Infrapolitics in Yuri Herrera’s Señales que precederán al fin del mundo”

[POSTPONED] Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis & Culture: Julian Parks Lecture | Rebecca Comay, “Freud sets a deadline: the Wolfman and interminable analysis”

904 Clemens

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO ILLNESS. A new date will be announced soon. The lecture and seminar form part of a larger project called Deadlines, on the strange temporality of the deadline — political, theological, psychoanalytic, literary, legal, biological, environmental and other sorts. The lecture discusses the question of time in Freud’s famous […]

Gender Institute Symposium: Legacies of Suffrage: Women’s Civic Activism Then and Now

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Thursday, March 5th | 7pm Screening of Documentary “Knock Down the House,” with post-screening discussion with two NY State politicians. Burchfield Penney Auditorium (in collaboration with Ruth Goldman’s film series of Buffalo State) Friday, March 6th | 9am-5pm Symposium, “Legacies of Suffrage” 9am - noon : CFA Screening Room 1pm-5pm : 250 Baird Co-sponsored by […]

Community Event: Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center presents The Women of the Bauhaus and Haunted Bauhaus

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

A New Documentary Film by Susanne Radelhof & Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics A New Book Presented by Author Elizabeth Otto (MIT Press, 2019) Books to be provided for sale and signing by Talking Leaves. One more event to wrap up the Bauhaus Centennial: a book signing for former […]

$5 – $8

[POSTPONED] Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis & Culture: Seminar | Rebecca Comay, “Deadlines – Literally”

Capen 107 (Inside the Silverman Library) University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO ILLNESS. A new date will be announced soon. The lecture and seminar form part of a larger project called Deadlines, on the strange temporality of the deadline — political, theological, psychoanalytic, literary, legal, biological, environmental and other sorts. The lecture discusses the question of time in Freud’s famous […]

Dept of Romance Languages and Literatures: Lecture | Aris Moreno Clemons, “Benefits vs Burdens: A raciolinguistic analysis of World Language Mission Statements and Testimonios of Bilingualism in the United States”

Baldy 200G

This talk explores the ways that established discourse frames are implicated in the racialization of particular groups of speakers. Specifically it explores the ways in which the goals presented in foreign language mission statements compare with the experiences of latinx and hispanic bilinguals who have attended spanish language learning programs. In her study, Clemons argues […]

Digital Humanities Research Workshop: “My Phone Lies to Me: Fake News Poetry Workshops as Radical Digital Media Literacy Given the Fact of Fake News”

112 Center for the Arts (Screening Room)

This interactive Digital Humanities event—somewhere between a scholarly talk, a poetry reading, some video viewing, and some doing—will serve as an invitation and invocation for your participation, with others, in an ongoing experiment in knowing and working with the internet differently. Professor Juhasz has developed Fake News Poetry Workshops​ as one way to counter the […]