Feel free to drop in whenever you’re able to share in food, drink, and fellowship. While we’ve seen many of you at PRW events this semester we have yet to hold our membership meeting, and our 12/9 gathering will let us reconnect, announce spring events, and celebrate the inspiring work the membership is doing at […]
Victoria W. Wolcott, Professor, History and 2019-20 Humanities Institute Faculty Fellow. Photographer: Douglas LeverePhotographer: 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 […]
Samia Henni Assistant Professor of History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism, Cornell University Join for a conversation with Samia Henni, whose research and teaching at Cornell University's School of Architecture, Art and Planning explores the history and theory of the built environments in relation to colonialism, displacement, gender, resource extraction. Henni will discuss her […]
Please join us for the first Digital Humanities Research Workshop event of the semester, where we will hear from Katie Barnum, Web Developer in the UB College of Arts and Sciences, on best practices and strategies for designing Digital Humanities websites for your project's user community. Following a general introduction, time is reserved for Q&A […]
Join us for the New Faculty Seminar Series where we will feature the work of new colleagues in the Humanities at UB. By bringing together scholars from a variety of fields, we hope that these seminars will initiate and encourage the development of interdisciplinary conversations. This brown bag lunch seminar series is free and open […]
Bonnie Sheehey, Montana State University
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 […]
Neil Coffee, Professor, Classics 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 public. Modern technology […]
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”
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 […]
