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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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Political Economy and Culture Research Workshop: Work-in-progress with Paige Sarlin (UB-DMS)

1032 Clemens Hall

Paige Sarlin (Assistant Professor, UB-Department of Media Study) will workshop a chapter entitled "An Unassuming Form: Mayhew and the Early Work of the Interview." This is the first chapter of her book manuscript, Interview Work: A Genealogy of a Media Form. Book Synopsis: A contribution to documentary studies as well as cultural and media studies […]

Poetics Plus Reading: Michael Davidson

Western New York Book Arts Center 468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY, United States

Michael Davidson is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. His books include The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century (Cambridge UP, 1989), Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material Word (U of California P, 1997), Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics (U of Chicago, 2003), Concerto […]

Alison L. Des Forges Symposium: “Climate Change and Africa: Impacts and Responses”

Capen 107 (Inside the Silverman Library) University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States

Human beings originated in Africa about 100,000 years ago and have developed societies during the last 100 years that have contributed to climate change, which risks making the globe uninhabitable for our species and many others. This symposium will examine manifestations of global warming in Africa, its differential impacts on African populations, and the successes […]

Poetics Plus Lecture: Michael Davidson

Poetry Collection, 420 Capen Hall

Michael Davidson is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. His books include The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century (Cambridge UP, 1989), Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material Word (U of California P, 1997), Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics (U of Chicago, 2003), Concerto […]

Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis & Culture Lecture: Margaret Iversen

112 Center for the Arts (Screening Room)

Cornelia Parker's "Transitional Object (Psychobarn)” was installed on the Met’s rooftop in 2016. The work alludes to Hitchcock’s Psycho and to Edward Hopper’s paintings, as well as to the concept of transitional object from psychoanalyst D. Winnicot. Margaret Iversen is Emeritus Professor at the School of Philosophy and Art History at University of Essex, UK. […]

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