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NEW DATE! Scholars@Hallwalls: Yan Liu, “Use poison to attack poison: Medicine, illness, and society in early imperial China”

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

How does medicine help us understand society? Using Chinese medicine as an example, my talk shows the conception of illness and the therapeutic rationale of deploying poisons in first-millennium China. Liu identifies a striking parallel: Just like doctors’ use of potent drugs to eliminate malign entities out of a physical body, the state established stringent […]

Jewish Thought Lecture: Alexandra Zirkle, “Re-imagining Sex: World-Building Exegesis and Heinrich Graetz’s Song of Songs”

708 Clemens Hall

Alexandra Zirkle of Boston University Presents: "Re-imagining Sex: World-Building Exegesis and Heinrich Graetz's Song of Songs" How are norms around gender and sexuality produced or subverted through the medium of biblical interpretation? This lecture illustrates how the famous historian and exegete, Heinrich Graetz, wielded biblical exegesis to subvert late nineteenth-century German tropes around Jewish sexuality […]

New Faculty Seminar: John Opera, “Where are photographs?”

830 Clemens Hall University at Buffalo, Buffalo

Increasingly linked to our daily routines, photographs uncannily index and distort the real while mimicking our own biological mechanisms for seeing. Despite their commonly current form as dematerialized screen information, photographs emerged out of the natural world through the harnessing and organizing of observed physical phenomena into a program that produces predictable outcomes. In a […]

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Early Modern and Performance Research Workshops: Danielle Rosvally, “Roman Violence, Contemporary Voices: A Look at Julius Caesar In Progress”

930 Clemens Hall

LOCATION CHANGE: Now 930 Clemens Danielle Rosvally, Ph.D., Department of Theatre and Dance “Roman Violence, Contemporary Voices: A Look at Julius Caesar In Progress” Rosvally is serving as both director and fight director for UB’s MainStage production of Julius Caesar (Feb. 28 to March 2).  In this talk, she will give insight into both her contemporary production vision for […]

Performance and Early Modern Research Workshops: “Sweet up-locked treasure” (Shakespeare, Sonnet 52) Opening the Resources of the Folger Shakespeare Library

904 Clemens

The resources of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. are unparalleled not only in many of the fields of early modern study, but also in the field of performance studies. In this work-in-progress/workshop session, UB Associate Professor Barbara Bono of the Departments of English and of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, and UB Associate […]

Film Screening: “The Sun Island” with director Thomas Elsaesser

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

The Sun Island is an essay film about coincidences, shattered lives and posthumous fame. A found footage family film about love and passion, friendship and heartbreak set in Frankfurt and Berlin between the wars (1927-1935), during WWII and into the present. It includes the history of the Frankfurt Großmarkhalle (Central Market)– a landmark building of […]

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Science Studies Research Workshop: Barbara Heifferon, “Ministers vs. Doctors: Rhetoric of the First American Smallpox Inoculation”

545 Park Hall

Announcing a Lecture by Professor Emerita Barbara Heifferon  (English, Louisiana State University) “Ministers vs. Doctors: Rhetoric of the First American Smallpox Inoculation” My research is a rhetorical analysis of the controversy that followed these first inoculations in 1721-22 in which I examine the arguments for and against the practice. Previous research found one or two […]

Haudenosaunee/Native American Studies Research Workshop: Improving Indigenous Student Inclusion in Higher Education with Dr. Shelly Lowe and Dr. Stephanie Waterman

10 Capen Hall

Please join us for a public presentation and discussion on Improving Indigenous Student Inclusion in Higher Education. Internationally recognized Indigenous experts, Dr. Shelly Lowe and Dr. Stephanie Waterman will share their research and insights on ways we can advance much needed improvements in supporting Indigenous Inclusion at UB. When: Friday, February 22, 10am-11:30am Where: 10 […]

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