MRW Opening Reception Thursday 6 September, 4:00–6:00 pm 904 Clemens Hall Food will be provided. We will discuss upcoming events for the year and also request your input regarding works-in-progress workshops and discussion sessions on current research.
Stefano Rosignoli (Trinity College Dublin), this year’s Humanities Institute James Joyce Fellow. He has been in Buffalo since May working at the Poetry Collection, and his talk will focus on the early James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. More particulars: Stefano Rosignoli (TCD) Friday 7 September, 2:00–3:30 Poetry Collection Seminar Room (Capen 420).
Architect and urbanist Erkin Özay’s work explores the role of institutions in addressing the needs of disadvantaged urban communities. Bridging facets of urban development, education policy, and design, Özay’s talk will focus on the recent history of school-led redevelopment in East Baltimore, reflecting on it as an illustrative case to examine the persistent paradigms of community-building in […]
TICKETS ON-SALE NOW Festival Overview Thursday, Sept. 20, 6 PM | Buffalo & Erie County Public Library – Downtown Central Branch Humanities New York presents “Anti-Social Media: Digital Space and the Destabilization of Democracy” This portion of the festival is FREE, but registration is required. PARTICIPANTS: Safiya Umoja Noble, Assistant Professor at the University of […]
This meeting will focus on a discussion of an article by Naomi Klein concerning Puerto Rico that served as the early draft of her most recent book The Battle for Paradise. Stephanie Rothenberg will also present her current project “Trading Systems: Bio-Economic Fairy Tales in the Anthropocene.” This project explores the notion of the anthropocene […]
The first 2018-19 reading group meeting for the Environmental Humanities Research Workshop. Kellie Robertson, Nature Speaks: Medieval Literature and Aristotelian Philosophy (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017). .
Ivorian Koffi Kwahulé has authored some 25 plays that are among the most performed francophone works in Europe. Writing often with jazz music in the background, he seeks to build the kind of “monument to absence” that he believes jazz is: recognizing both its origins and its haunting presence. His play Jaz (1998), reveals a […]
Howard Marchitello, Rutgers University Invited speaker for the Department of Comparative Literature's Just Theory lecture series. All events are free and open to the public.
Please join us THIS THURSDAY, September 27, at 7:00 pm at Taste of India restaurant on Sheridan Dr., for the annual Fall Welcome Dinner of the Queer Studies Research Workshop. This is an opportunity to meet other faculty and graduate students interested in sexuality studies across all the disciplines, and to hear about the exciting […]
Torment and Apotheosis of Cuauhtémoc by David Alfaro Siqueiros, Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Organized by the Early Modern Research Workshop Henry Berlin (RLL) and Erik Seeman (HIS), Coordinators This symposium examines what was distinct about early modern violence. The growth of state power, dramatic religious changes, and the […]
