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Department of Music, Guest Lecture Series: Tamara Levitz, “”Comparative Musicology, Comparative Literature: The Racial Foundations of Comparison”

211 Baird Hall, Department of Music

Professor Tamara Levitz, Department of Comparative Literature and Musicology, UCLA "Comparative Musicology, Comparative Literature: The Racial Foundations of Comparison." Tamara Levitz is a Professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and Musicology at UCLA in Los Angeles. Her work takes place at the cutting edge of disciplinary critique and projects of academic decolonization in the […]

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Humanities to the Rescue: An Evening with Molly Crabapple

Diefendorf Hall 147 - South Campus

Illustration from Brothers of the Gun by Molly Crabapple, courtesy of the artist Through her illustrated journalism, painting, and collaborations with cultural/political influencers such as Jay Z, Matt Taibbi, and Spike Jonze, Molly Crabapple tackles the injustices of our time with an arsenal of weapons comprised of pens, brushes, and words. Her work has taken […]

New Faculty Seminar: Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah, “Planning the Postcolony: Planning Dilemma within Africa’s Plural Legal Land System”

904 Clemens

LOCATION CHANGE: new location is 904 Clemens This talk presents initial findings from an ongoing project on postcolonial planning and land tenure dilemmas in sub-Sahara Africa (SSA). The work interrogates how plural legal land systems support or constrain practices used to declare areas of value, zones of exception, and property ownership for development purposes. Discussing […]

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UB Libraries Digital Dialogues Series featuring Melanie Sage (School of Social Work)

130 Abbott Hall - South Campus

At this brown-bag lunch in the library series, "Digital Dialogues," we will hear from Melanie Sage, Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work, who will speak about her work on the perception, application, and best practices of technology and social media in the child welfare setting. Library postdoctoral fellows Heidi Dodson and Rachel Starry […]

Early Modern Research Workshop: Howard G. Brown, “Mass Violence and New Media: Psychological Responses in France, 1550-1880”

280 Park Hall

The Early Modern Research Workshop presents: Howard G. Brown, Binghamton University (SUNY) 2:00-3:00pm | Park 545: Conversation with Graduate Students 3:30-5:00pm | Park 280: “Mass Violence and New Media: Psychological Responses in France, 1550-1880” Abstract: New visual and textual media, ranging from pamphlets and woodblock prints in the sixteenth century to illustrated newspapers and collodion […]

Political Economy and Culture Research Workshop: Paul Vanouse, “Labor”

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

Paul Vanouse (UB-Art Department) will join us for a discussion about his new bio-media artwork, Labor, at the Burchfield Penny Art Gallery on Thursday, March 28, 5-6PM. Labor is a dynamic, self-regulating art installation that re-creates the scent of people exerting themselves under stressful conditions. There are, however, no people involved in making the smell […]

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Scholars@Hallwalls: Charles L. Davis, II, “The Spatial Allegories of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Prairie Style Architecture”

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

Charles L. Davis, II, Assistant Professor of Architecture and OVPRED/HI Public Humanities Faculty Fellow This presentation examines the racial politics of space that were manifest by Frank Lloyd Wright’s vision of a Prairie Style architecture. While the American prairie was spatially defined by the wide-open spaces that inspired the horizontal massing and flowing interior spaces […]

New Faculty Seminar: Jeehyun Lim, “James Albert Michener’s Korea”

830 Clemens Hall University at Buffalo, Buffalo

This talk explores James A. Michener’s journalism and fiction on the Korean War. Unlike the Vietnam War, the Korean War lacks representations that mark its place in American cultural memory. Using Michener’s “Forgotten Heroes of Korea” and The Bridges at Toko-ri (1953) as a case study of the forgotten war’s representation that was widely circulated […]

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Performance Research Workshop Lecture: Robin Bernstein, “The Tragedy of William Freeman: A Story of Convict Labor, Mass Murder, and Slavery in the North”

109 Knox Hall

The University at Buffalo Department of Theatre and Dance presents The Tragedy of William Freeman: A Story of Convict Labor, Mass Murder, and Slavery in the North Robin Bernstein, Dillon Professor of American History and Professor of African American Studies and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University Generously supported by the Department […]

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Humanities to the Rescue: “Sounds: Avant-Garde, Modernism, and Fascism” (part of the Kurt Weill Festival)

250 Baird Hall

A One-Day Symposium CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Organized by: Laura Chiesa for the UB Humanities Institute’s Modernisms Research Workshop (co-coordinator Damien Keane), part of the Humanities Institute’s Humanities to the Rescue programming for 2018-19, which also includes “An Evening with Molly Crabapple” on Friday, March 8, 2019 The Humanities Institute’s Modernisms Research Workshop will participate […]

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