Madwomen in the Attic (MITA), a grassroots feminist mental health literacy and advocacy organization, would like to invite members of the WNY community to a screening of George Cukor's 1944 film GASLIGHT, based on the 1938 play GAS LIGHT by Patrick Hamilton and starring Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, and Angela Lansbury. The screening, held at […]
A concert for ensemble and interactive computer music systems presented by The UB Department of Music and the Hiller Computer Music Studios. Featuring the E-MEX Ensemble, from Essen, Germany Performing music by Carter Williams, Hans Tutschku, Hilda Paredes, Christoph Maria Wagner, Cort Lippe The E-MEX Ensemble was founded in 1999 by six musicians from western […]
MARIANO SISKIND is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He teaches nineteenth and twentieth century Latin American Literature with emphasis on its world literary relations, as well as the production of cosmopolitan discourses and processes of aesthetic globalization. He is the author of over two dozen academic essays and […]
The Department of Music’s Lecture Series presents Professor Lydia Hamessley (Hamilton College), “‘Shattered Image’: Appalachian White-Trash Femininities in the Songs of Dolly Parton.” Lydia Hamessley has published numerous articles and is the coeditor of Audible Traces: Gender, Identity, and Music. She is working on a project about Dolly Parton and preparing an article on the music […]
Scott Tong’s first book, A Village with My Name: A Family History of China’s Opening to the World, offers a long view of China’s opening to the West told through the lives of people across five generations in his own family. Tong, former Shanghai bureau chief for Marketplace, offers a unique perspective on the transitions […]
Emilia Angelova, Associate Professor of Philosophia, Concordia University Emilia Angelova holds a BA and MA in Philosophy from Sofia University (Bulgaria), and MA and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Toronto. Her research is in 20th Century Continental Philosophy, focusing especially on Heidegger, Derrida, Nancy, and French Feminist theory, in relation to 19th Century […]
Ecocritical Theory Reading Group T. S. McMillin, The Meaning of Rivers: Flow and Reflection in American Literature. Des Moines: University of Iowa Press, 2011.
Professor Mary E. Fissell (Department of the History of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University; Co-editor, Bulletin of the History of Medicine). Professor Fissell will offer the following two events: · Graduate Student Workshop on “Publishing Journal Articles” (Faculty welcome!) Wednesday, April 11, 2018 12:00-1:00 pm 532 Park Hall (Department of History seminar room) · “Before […]
Click here to register.. Join Humanities New York at the Cheektowaga Senior Center for this free grants workshop featuring an information session, activity, and ample time for networking and Q&A. Learn about Humanities New York's opportunities and get tips about how to prepare a competitive application. The second half of the workshop will feature a […]
Professor Mary E. Fissell (Department of the History of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University; Co-editor, Bulletin of the History of Medicine). Professor Fissell will offer the following two events: · Graduate Student Workshop on “Publishing Journal Articles” (Faculty welcome!) Wednesday, April 11, 2018 12:00-1:00 pm 532 Park Hall (Department of History seminar room) · “Before […]
