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New Faculty Seminar: Tanya Shilina-Conte, ‘Abbas Kiarostami’s “Lessons of Darkness”: Affect, Non-Representation, and Becoming-Imperceptible’

830 Clemens Hall University at Buffalo, Buffalo

In July 2016, when the world awoke to the news of the passing of Abbas Kiarostami, many netizens, including the filmmaker Jafar Panahi, paid tribute to the late director by replacing their avatar on social media with a black screen. This “non-image” stood as a shroud of mourning, but it also contained within itself the […]

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Buffalo LASER Talk: Simon Penny, “Embodiment, Materiality and Cognition: Reflections on art, technology and culture.”

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

Announcing our premiere Buffalo LASER event: A lecture and discussion with: Simon Penny, "Embodiment, Materiality and Cognition: Reflections on art, technology and culture." With discussant: Dr. Paige Sarlin, Assistant Professor of Media Study, University at Buffalo. Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY. Tuesday, Novemember 27, 7:00 PM The practices of the arts – plastic and […]

Scholars@Hallwalls: Carole Emberton, “Not a Place But an Irrevocable Condition: Emancipation and the Meaning of Home Among Formerly Enslaved Americans”

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

Carole Emberton’s talk explores freedpeople’s struggles to find, establish, and maintain a sense of home in the decades after emancipation in the nineteenth century. In particular, she will explore the ways that the sites of enslavement—the plantation—continued to shape their understanding of self and family and provide them with a sense of rootedness and belonging […]

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Digital Dialogues Brown-Bag Lunch: Neil Coffee and Kevin Garstki

310 Silverman Library/Capen Hall

Please save the date for a brown-bag lunch in the new library series, "Digital Dialogues," on Monday, December 3 (12-1pm in 310 Silverman Library / Capen Hall). At this event, we will hear from Neil Coffee, Professor of Classics and Co-Director of the Tesserae Project, a web interface for exploring intertextual parallels, and from Kevin […]

Digital Dialogues featuring Michael Frisch (History) and Zoé Hamstead (Urban & Regional Planning)

130 Abbott Hall - South Campus

At this brown-bag lunch in the library series, "Digital Dialogues," we will hear from Michael Frisch, Senior Research Scholar and Professor Emeritus of History, who will speak about his work on new software approaches for indexing and annotating audio and video documentation, including the PixStori app. We will also hear from Zoé Hamstead, Assistant Professor of Environmental Planning and […]

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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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