For the last sixty years, there has been a consistent pattern of the growth of democratic governments produced by engaged citizens working together in social movements. Often led by diverse women, these social movements won the expansion of civil rights, political participation, and new laws to ensure equality. However, we now face a global rise […]
Poor mestizos in northern Peru offer a new way to theorize humanism and sentient landscapes that interact with humans in terms of environmental justice, collective ethics, and health. This model transcends the limits of ontological cosmopolitics and political ecology. Mestizos respond to climate change and environmental devastation and challenge the governance of late liberalism by […]
Mary Nell Trautner, Associate Professor of Sociology and OVPRED/HI Public Humanities Faculty Fellow Why do some medical problems become legal problems and others do not? This project is based on interviews with 100 parents of children who experienced the same kind of birth injury about their decisions whether or not to pursue legal action against […]
The Italian Student Association with the support of NIAF (National Italian American Foundation), the Italian Fund and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures is pleased to welcome Anthony Tamburri, Dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute (Queens College, CUNY) and Distinguished Professor of European Languages and Literatures. Tamburri will give a talk […]
Andrew Lison (UB-DMS) presents "New Media, 1989: Cubase and the New Temporal Order." Please join us for a discussion/workshop of Andrew Lison's article and the larger book project from which it emerges, New Media at the End of History. His book proposal/project overview and article draft are available by request (alison@buffalo.edu). ARTICLE ABSTRACT: The year […]
Educator Dr. Peggy O’Brien and actor/director Michael Tolaydo have for many years collaborated in the public humanities mission of making Shakespeare accessible to students nationwide. In this workshop they will describe their work and show us how it is done. In addition to being the long-term Director of the Education Division of the Folger Shakespeare […]
Marjorie Howes, Associate Professor in English and Irish Studies at Boston College, will be giving the annual W. B. Yeats Lecture, sponsored by the International Yeats Society and Joseph Valente, at 4pm on Monday, 29 April in Clemens 306. Her title is "Alchemical Yeats."
Cinematographer Joan Hutton csc was born and raised in southern Ontario. She completed her education at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto and immediately began work as director of The Rise and Fall of Nina Polanski, a highly regarded animated film produced by the National Film Board of Canada. She was one of Canada's first woman […]
Save the date! The Digital Dialogues series highlights ongoing digital scholarship across campus by faculty, staff, and students, bridging the disciplines to spark conversations on creating and using digital tools in higher education, both in and outside of the classroom. The series is hosted by the UB Libraries and organized by Heidi Dodson and Rachel […]
Employing four incendiary examples of onstage gun use from within the American musical canon, theatre historian Meredith Conti appraises how the popular performance genre variously reinforces and resists enduring tropes imbedded within the nation’s gun culture. In particular, Conti considers the centering and decentering of the country’s naturalized gun handler—the white, Christian, cisgender man—within the […]
