Attraction is not just another thing to be anxious about. It seems, especially now, in ever shorter supply, ever more unsustainable. The long term threat is that of the death of interest itself, the dark pit of bottomless boredom. This anxiety is thus an ur-anxiety, the fear that there may truly be nothing, not in […]
Akil Fletcher is an award-winning researcher and PhD candidate in the Anthropology department at the University of California Irvine. His work focuses on understanding how Black gamers experience and utilize games and online platforms to create community. Currently, his project funded by the National Science Foundation seeks to understand how online Black communities use these […]
The Asia Research Institute is hosting it's first annual Korean Studies Symposium, Genre, Gender and Language in Korean Film and Drama. Symposium events will take place April 11 (via Zoom), April 13 (at Squeaky Wheel), and April 14-15 (Capen Hall). Click here for a full schedule of symposium events, including keynotes, film screening, literary reading, panels, […]
Please join us for two days of campus conversations, centered on the Humanities Institute 2023 theme of COMMUNITIES: TRUST. Session 1 | 12:00-1:30 pm | 250 Baird Communities of Care A panel rethinking “care” through the multifaceted lenses of indigeneity, veteran identity, and disability. Mishuana Goeman Professor and Chair, Indigenous Studies Vasiliki Neofotistos Associate Professor, […]
Presented by the UB Humanities Institute in collaboration with the UB Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program. Please join us as we honor Pride Month (observed early for the academic schedule) with screenings of Inner Wound Real, an animated short by Carrie Hawks, and Work, a short film by April Maxey. This event is free and open […]
Please join us for two days of campus conversations, centered on the Humanities Institute 2023 theme of COMMUNITIES: TRUST. Session 1 | 12:30-1:45 pm | 250 Baird Getting the Word Out: Writing Humanities for Popular Audiences A presentation and Q+A framed for humanities faculty who would like to make their work available to public audiences […]
The Center for Disability Studies welcomes Yoshiko "Yoyo" Okuyama, PhD. This presentation draws from Yoshiko Okuyama's book, Tōjisha Manga: Japan’s Graphic Memoirs of Brain and Mental Health (2022). Okuyama will begin with a brief statement on how she became involved in disability studies, personally and professionally. Then, to provide some background, she will touch upon […]
Join the Department of History for a celebration and discussion in honor of Prof. Hal Langfur and the publication of his book, Adrift on an Inland Sea: Misinformation and the Limits of Empire in the Brazilian Backlands. Prof. Langfur will be joined in conversation by Dr. Cynthia Radding, Gussenhoven Distinguished Professor of History, University of […]
The UB Poetics Program is hosting a Tribute to Bernadette Mayer with two events that are free and open to the public on Friday, April 14. 3:30-5:30pm - Artist & Scholar Panel on Bernadette Mayer Exhibition of Mayer’s Works in the Poetry Collection UB Poetry Collection, 420 Capen Hall, UB North Campus 7:30-9pm […]
Please join the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures for a joint lecture by Prof. Jorge Mari (NC State) and Luis Prádanos (Miami of Ohio) on the Environmental Humanities and the practices of Ecopedgogy. This team presentation will introduce the audience to the field of Environmental Cultural Studies, and within it, to some of the […]
