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Modernisms Research Workshop: Reading Session, Tom McEnaney readings from “Acoustic Properties: Radio, Narrative, and the New Neighborhood of the Americas”

904 Clemens

Our next will be another reading and discussion session, we look forward to and prepare for the upcoming visit of Tom McEnaney (Comparative Literature, Berkeley), this semester’s invited speaker, who will be here on Tuesday 5 March. More details to follow, but please mark down the date. For this next session, we will be reading […]

Digital Dialogues featuring Jeff Good (Linguistics) and Nikolaus Wasmoen (English)

6 Norton Hall

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 […]

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Scholars@Hallwalls: Adam Rome, “Partly Green: The Past and Future of Sustainable Business”

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

Adam Rome, Professor of History and HI Faculty Fellow Can capitalism become green without fundamental changes in the rules of the marketplace? The last 30 years has been a revealing test of the limits of corporate sustainability initiatives. In the United States, no major environmental legislation has passed since 1990, yet many businesses have worked […]

Modernisms Research Workshop: Tom McEnaney, “Lordy I Hope There are Tapes: Sound and Literature from the Cuban Revolution to Pop Art”

904 Clemens

Tom McEnaney (Comparative Literature, UC-Berkeley) “Lordy I Hope There are Tapes: Sound and Literature from the Cuban Revolution to Pop Art” Tom McEnaney works on the history of media and technology, Argentine, Cuban, and U.S. literature, sound studies, linguistic anthropology, computational (digital) humanities and new media studies. He has contributed articles to Cultural Critique, La Habana Elegante, Representations, Revista […]

Department of Music, Guest Lecture Series: Tamara Levitz, “”Comparative Musicology, Comparative Literature: The Racial Foundations of Comparison”

211 Baird Hall, Department of Music

Professor Tamara Levitz, Department of Comparative Literature and Musicology, UCLA "Comparative Musicology, Comparative Literature: The Racial Foundations of Comparison." Tamara Levitz is a Professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and Musicology at UCLA in Los Angeles. Her work takes place at the cutting edge of disciplinary critique and projects of academic decolonization in the […]

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Humanities to the Rescue: An Evening with Molly Crabapple

Diefendorf Hall 147 - South Campus

Illustration from Brothers of the Gun by Molly Crabapple, courtesy of the artist Through her illustrated journalism, painting, and collaborations with cultural/political influencers such as Jay Z, Matt Taibbi, and Spike Jonze, Molly Crabapple tackles the injustices of our time with an arsenal of weapons comprised of pens, brushes, and words. Her work has taken […]

New Faculty Seminar: Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah, “Planning the Postcolony: Planning Dilemma within Africa’s Plural Legal Land System”

904 Clemens

LOCATION CHANGE: new location is 904 Clemens This talk presents initial findings from an ongoing project on postcolonial planning and land tenure dilemmas in sub-Sahara Africa (SSA). The work interrogates how plural legal land systems support or constrain practices used to declare areas of value, zones of exception, and property ownership for development purposes. Discussing […]

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UB Libraries Digital Dialogues Series featuring Melanie Sage (School of Social Work)

130 Abbott Hall - South Campus

At this brown-bag lunch in the library series, "Digital Dialogues," we will hear from Melanie Sage, Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work, who will speak about her work on the perception, application, and best practices of technology and social media in the child welfare setting. Library postdoctoral fellows Heidi Dodson and Rachel Starry […]

Early Modern Research Workshop: Howard G. Brown, “Mass Violence and New Media: Psychological Responses in France, 1550-1880”

280 Park Hall

The Early Modern Research Workshop presents: Howard G. Brown, Binghamton University (SUNY) 2:00-3:00pm | Park 545: Conversation with Graduate Students 3:30-5:00pm | Park 280: “Mass Violence and New Media: Psychological Responses in France, 1550-1880” Abstract: New visual and textual media, ranging from pamphlets and woodblock prints in the sixteenth century to illustrated newspapers and collodion […]

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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