This festival showcases work by five documentary filmmakers who have tried in very different ways to spark environmental activism. What works and what doesn’t? Curated by UB Professor Adam Rome, Department of History Free and open to the public. Complimentary snacks and beverages will be provided between screenings. Saturday, March 10 | Center for the […]
Please join the UB Humanities Institute for public presentations by our 2017-18 Humanities New York Public Humanities Graduate Fellows. Public Humanities Project Summaries: In “Our City, Our Selves: Migrant Perspectives,” Tanja Aho, Department of Transnational Studies, will engage Buffalo’s refugee and migrant populations to gain their perspectives on the city’s future and their role in […]
Jonathan Davies, University of Warwick (UK), “Dissertation Lightning Round: The State of Early Modern Studies.”
Jonathan Davies, University of Warwick (UK), "Violence in Early Modern Europe: Questions and Debates"
Spring 2018: DifCon (Difficult Conversations About Current Issues) Considering the phenomenal success of Black Panther, and the hope and inspiration it has fostered among many people, we ask: Is art on the side of the oppressed, as South African Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer claimed? Or is it on the side of the oppressor, as Hollywood’s […]
Margarita Vargas (RLL): “Hermeneutics and Poetics of Violence in the Plays of Bárbara Colio”
Judith Peraino will be giving a talk entitled “I’ll Be Your Mixtape: Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, and the Queer Intimacies of Cassettes.” This paper discusses a tape found in the Andy Warhol Museum Archives of uniquely compiled and never-released songs by Lou Reed, and the circumstances of its making that illuminate the affective affordances of […]
James Beebe In “Healthy Skepticism vs. Denialism: How to Tell the Difference,” Philosophy professor James Beebe will draw upon insights from skeptical traditions in both the ancient and the modern worlds in an effort to understand what distinguishes healthy, constructive doubt from crude denialism. He will consider the role that humanistic disciplines can play in […]
This is a reminder that this Friday will be our next Making Money meeting. Like last time, we’ll meet at 1pm–3pm at Chris Lee’s apartment at 171 Linwood Ave, Apt. 5G (please call or text 716.559.5405 upon arrival, I have to come down and get you!). For this meeting Jim Swan (UB English Professor Emeritus) […]
The UB department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies invites you to a free gallery tour at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery guided by its curators, of the current exhibition "We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85." RSVP: kkulicka@buffalo.edu
