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Buffalo Poverty Research Workshop IX

Buffalo and Erie County Library Auditorium 1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo

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 […]

University Honors College Faculty Fellows Talk Series: Eduardo Mercado, “Why Whales Sing and Dolphins Don’t”

Honors College, 107 Capen Hall

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 […]

Queer Studies Research Workshop: Ladislav Zikmund-Lender, “Novel of a Career: Queer Artists collaborating with Nazism in the 1930s and 1940s”

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

The narrative of the queer history of the 20th century usually puts the gay men in the position of victims of political oppression who had to fight back for their civil rights. However, during authoritarian regimes during both WWII and the following Eastern part of the Cold War, there were gay men (and women) who […]

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UB Gender Institute: Amber Jamilla Musser, “Working Around the Incommensurate: Brown Jouissance and Kara Walker’s ‘A Subtlety'”

120 Clemens Hall

UB Gender Institute Spring Lecture 2018 Dr. Musser is an Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research is at the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality studies. Her monograph, Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (NYU Press, 2014) uses masochism as a lens to theorize different […]

Making Money Research Workshop: WIP with Yvette Granata, “The Sliming of Data-life: On Cyberfeminist Datum as 3D Illiquidity” and discussion of Jason W. Moore’s writings on the Anthropocene/Capitalocene

329 Hoyt Street 329 Hoyt St, Buffalo, NY, United States

Friday, April 20 @ 10:00am Making Money Workshop: WIP with Yvette Granata, “"The Sliming of Data-life: On Cyberfeminist Datum as 3D Illiquidity” followed by discussion of Jason W. Moore’s writings on the Anthropocene/Capitalocene Organized by: Making Money: Critical Research into Cultures of Exchange Workshop Location: 329 Hoyt. St For the first hour of our meeting, […]

Department of Architecture – Lecture: Bülent Batuman, ” Housing Subjects of New Islamism: Islamic Nation-building and the Built Environment”

217 Hayes Hall (South Campus)

Bülent Batuman, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey This presentation discusses the role of housing in the Islamization of everyday life in Turkish cities and the key role of urban renewal in the production of urban space. While large-scale housing projects are common enterprises, especially in the developing world, a crucial aspect of the Turkish case has […]

A Folger Institute “Transcribathon”

The Digital Composition Lab of the Center for Excellence in Writing (128 Capen in the Silverman Library)

Location: The Digital Composition Lab of the Center for Excellence in Writing, 128 Capen, inside The Silverman Library Training in digital transcription, with an emphasis on early modern texts, by paleographer Sarah Powell from the Folger Shakespeare Library Stay the day, stop by for an hour or two, or just look in on the Lab […]