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DifCon: Wakanda Forever: Can Art Save Us?

Student Union, 210

Spring 2018: DifCon (Difficult Conversations About Current Issues) Considering the phenomenal success of Black Panther, and the hope and inspiration it has fostered among many people, we ask: Is art on the side of the oppressed, as South African Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer claimed? Or is it on the side of the oppressor, as Hollywood’s […]

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Dept of Music: Judith Peraino, “I’ll Be Your Mixtape: Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, and the Queer Intimacies of Cassettes”

Music Library, Baird Hall, First/Ground Floor

Judith Peraino will be giving a talk entitled “I’ll Be Your Mixtape: Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, and the Queer Intimacies of Cassettes.” This paper discusses a tape found in the Andy Warhol Museum Archives of uniquely compiled and never-released songs by Lou Reed, and the circumstances of its making that illuminate the affective affordances of […]

Making Money Research Workshop: reading group, “The Nature of Money” by Geoffrey Ingham

171 Linwood Ave 171 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY, United States

This is a reminder that this Friday will be our next Making Money meeting. Like last time, we’ll meet at 1pm–3pm at Chris Lee’s apartment at 171 Linwood Ave, Apt. 5G (please call or text 716.559.5405 upon arrival, I have to come down and get you!). For this meeting Jim Swan (UB English Professor Emeritus) […]