Sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and made possible by the Riverrun Global Film Series. Ignacio Sánchez-Prado (Washington University, St. Louis) “World Literature Theory From Below: The Perspective From Mexican Literature”
Radical Histories, Radical Futures: Buffalo on the Vanguard of Feminist and Queer Thought Friday, October 12 | Hayes Hall 403, UB South Campus, 3435 Main Street (NFTA: University) 11:30 am | Coffee and registration 12 pm - 6:30 pm | Symposium 12:00 pm | "The Radical History of Buffalo and UB" Jennifer Wilson of The […]
This paper uses Bourdieu’s concept of cultural capital to index the declining authority of the humanities to the rise in economic logic of neoliberalism. Looking at the institutions and practices that elevate the discourse of economics over alternative modes of assigning value (namely, ethics and politics), Lavin argues that the esteem of the social sciences—and […]
Monica Azzolini (Associate Professor of the History of Science, University of Bologna), “The Image, the Saint and the Earthquake: Francisco Borja and the Politics of God and Nature in the Spanish Empire” This paper shall investigate how the cult of Francesco Borja, patron saint of earthquakes, emerged in the Kingdom of New Granada and how […]
Marissa Rhodes, “‘Other women, nay brutes’: Wet-Nurse Inspections and Economies of Violence” Wed. Oct. 17, 3:00 - 4:30pm, Park Hall 545 Rhodes, an advanced PhD candidate in History, will precirculate her paper for this works-in-progress presentation. Abstract to follow soon.
Lecture: Kellie Robertson (University of Maryland, College Park, English): “Reading the Moon’s Spots: A Genealogy of Lunar Humanities” Biography: Kellie Robertson writes about medieval literature and culture; her research and teaching are premised on the idea that a return to this earlier intellectual history can help us to better understand our own modern desires and […]
REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS OCTOBER 10: CLICK HERE TO REGISTER VIEW THE CONFERENCE PROGRAM OVERVIEW 2018 Humanities Institute Conference co-organized by the Melodia E. Jones Chair in French In 2018, all over the world, French and Francophone scholars are celebrating the official 50th anniversary of the “May 68 Events,” a student and popular uprising that marked […]
Political Economy and Culture Research Workshop: Jonathan Beller, "The Message is Murder: Informatic Labor in the Age of Computational Capital," October 23 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm in 1032 Clemens Jonathan Beller (Pratt Institute) will join us to present on his most recent book The Message is Murder: Substrates of Computational Capital (Pluto Press […]
Dennis Schmidt, Western Sydney University, Australia. Free and open to the public.
Registration is requested: http://bit.ly/UBMisogynyLectures Kate Manne is an Assistant professor of the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University, where she has been teaching since 2013. Before that, she was a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows from 2011 to 2013. She did her graduate work in philosophy at MIT from 2006 to 2011, with […]
