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Film screening: Soufra (2017), Dir. Thomas Morgan, 73 mins.

Buffalo & Erie County Public Library - Downtown Central Branch 1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY, United States

Photo by Vivien Killilia Best Soufra follows the unlikely and wildly inspirational story of intrepid social entrepreneur, Mariam Shaar – a generational refugee who has spent her entire life in the Burj El Barajneh refugee camp just south of Beirut, Lebanon. FILM SYNOPSIS Soufra follows the unlikely and wildly inspirational story of intrepid social entrepreneur, […]

Free

Modernisms Research Workshop: 2018-19 Opening Reception

904 Clemens

MRW Opening Reception Thursday 6 September, 4:00–6:00 pm 904 Clemens Hall Food will be provided. We will discuss upcoming events for the year and also request your input regarding works-in-progress workshops and discussion sessions on current research.

Modernisms Research Workshop: Work-in-Progress with Visiting Joyce Fellow Stefano Rosignoli

Poetry Collection, 420 Capen Hall

Stefano Rosignoli (Trinity College Dublin), this year’s Humanities Institute James Joyce Fellow. He has been in Buffalo since May working at the Poetry Collection, and his talk will focus on the early James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. More particulars: Stefano Rosignoli (TCD) Friday 7 September, 2:00–3:30 Poetry Collection Seminar Room (Capen 420).

Scholars@Hallwalls: Erkin Özay, “Cities and Schools in America, 1896-2015”

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center 341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY, United States

Architect and urbanist Erkin Özay’s work explores the role of institutions in addressing the needs of disadvantaged urban communities. Bridging facets of urban development, education policy, and design, Özay’s talk will focus on the recent history of school-led redevelopment in East Baltimore, reflecting on it as an illustrative case to examine the persistent paradigms of community-building in […]

Free

2018 Buffalo Humanities Festival: Revolutions

TICKETS ON-SALE NOW Festival Overview Thursday, Sept. 20, 6 PM | Buffalo & Erie County Public Library – Downtown Central Branch Humanities New York presents “Anti-Social Media: Digital Space and the Destabilization of Democracy” This portion of the festival is FREE, but registration is required. PARTICIPANTS: Safiya Umoja Noble, Assistant Professor at the University of […]

HI Political Economy and Culture Research Workshop: PUERTOPIA and “Trading Systems: Bio-Economic Fairy Tales in the Anthropocene”

1032 Clemens Hall

This meeting will focus on a discussion of an article by Naomi Klein concerning Puerto Rico that served as the early draft of her most recent book The Battle for Paradise. Stephanie Rothenberg will also present her current project “Trading Systems: Bio-Economic Fairy Tales in the Anthropocene.” This project explores the notion of the anthropocene […]

Performance Research Workshop: Judith G. Miller (NYU), “Playing With Arts and Identity in the Theatre of Koffi Kwahulé”

904 Clemens

Ivorian Koffi Kwahulé has authored some 25 plays that are among the most performed francophone works in Europe. Writing often with jazz music in the background, he seeks to build the kind of “monument to absence” that he believes jazz is: recognizing both its origins and its haunting presence. His play Jaz (1998), reveals a […]

Queer Studies Research Workshop: Fall Welcome Dinner

Taste of India 3192 Sheridan Drive, Buffalo, NY, United States

Please join us THIS THURSDAY, September 27, at 7:00 pm at Taste of India restaurant on Sheridan Dr., for the annual Fall Welcome Dinner of the Queer Studies Research Workshop. This is an opportunity to meet other faculty and graduate students interested in sexuality studies across all the disciplines, and to hear about the exciting […]

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