New Play Reading Series! Come participate in a reading of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' play Everybody on 11/28 at 6:30 p.m., in AA 190. No need to RSVP, just be ready to show up and read. Roles will be assigned at the reading (you can also just listen, if you prefer), and we'll have time for some […]
“Mostess," a five course performance experience with J Dellecave, Visiting Assistant Professor (Fall 2018), Theatre & Dance Click here for more information on J’s work as an interdisciplinary performance maker, scholar and educator More details to come!
Carole Emberton’s talk explores freedpeople’s struggles to find, establish, and maintain a sense of home in the decades after emancipation in the nineteenth century. In particular, she will explore the ways that the sites of enslavement—the plantation—continued to shape their understanding of self and family and provide them with a sense of rootedness and belonging […]
Please save the date for a brown-bag lunch in the new library series, "Digital Dialogues," on Monday, December 3 (12-1pm in 310 Silverman Library / Capen Hall). At this event, we will hear from Neil Coffee, Professor of Classics and Co-Director of the Tesserae Project, a web interface for exploring intertextual parallels, and from Kevin […]
At this brown-bag lunch in the library series, "Digital Dialogues," we will hear from Michael Frisch, Senior Research Scholar and Professor Emeritus of History, who will speak about his work on new software approaches for indexing and annotating audio and video documentation, including the PixStori app. We will also hear from Zoé Hamstead, Assistant Professor of Environmental Planning and […]
How does medicine help us understand society? Using Chinese medicine as an example, my talk shows the conception of illness and the therapeutic rationale of deploying poisons in first-millennium China. Liu identifies a striking parallel: Just like doctors’ use of potent drugs to eliminate malign entities out of a physical body, the state established stringent […]
Alexandra Zirkle of Boston University Presents: "Re-imagining Sex: World-Building Exegesis and Heinrich Graetz's Song of Songs" How are norms around gender and sexuality produced or subverted through the medium of biblical interpretation? This lecture illustrates how the famous historian and exegete, Heinrich Graetz, wielded biblical exegesis to subvert late nineteenth-century German tropes around Jewish sexuality […]
Increasingly linked to our daily routines, photographs uncannily index and distort the real while mimicking our own biological mechanisms for seeing. Despite their commonly current form as dematerialized screen information, photographs emerged out of the natural world through the harnessing and organizing of observed physical phenomena into a program that produces predictable outcomes. In a […]
LOCATION CHANGE: Now 930 Clemens Danielle Rosvally, Ph.D., Department of Theatre and Dance “Roman Violence, Contemporary Voices: A Look at Julius Caesar In Progress” Rosvally is serving as both director and fight director for UB’s MainStage production of Julius Caesar (Feb. 28 to March 2). In this talk, she will give insight into both her contemporary production vision for […]
German and Italian contemporary artists address Italian rationalist architecture of the 1920s-40s. Curated by Miriam Paeslack and organized by UB Art Galleries. When: Saturday, February 9 , 6-8pm Where: Anderson Gallery, 1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY (SUNY)
