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 […]
The Performance Research Workshop's last WIP (works-in-progress) of the term will be a presentation from Hershini Bhana Young (English), “Crossing the Mediterranean: Haptic Encounters with Berni Searle.” Please join us Thursday April 12, 2-3:30 in Clemens 904.
Free and open to the public. The ninth Buffalo Poverty Research Workshop offers everyone concerned with Buffalo's poverty the chance to hear about new and ongoing research, promising strategies, and opportunities for collaboration and advocacy. The workshop is designed for local scholars, social service agencies, advocates, government leaders and staff, among others. Register for the […]
Eduardo Mercado, Professor, Department of Psychology University Honors College Fellow Whales are the only mammals that sing continuously for ten hours or more, and they do so loudly even when no listeners are nearby. They also change the songs they sing each year, and may have been doing so for millions of years. Why? Fifty […]
Amy Graves Monroe This talk argues for a deep connection between the rise of Pascalian probability, the interest in automata, the use of theater machines, and Aristotelian ideas of dramatic verisimilitude (i.e., likelihood) and catastrophe. As an interpretation of Aristotle, the Classical unities of time, place and action seek to formalize the circumstances of a […]
