Sge:no Everyone!! The first general meeting of the Haudenosaunee-Native American Research Group will be held on Thursday, Oct 4, in room 1004 Clemens Hall from 11:30 am -12:50pm. The meeting will begin promptly at 11:30 am! Light lunch from Rachel’s Mediterranean will be provided - salad, hummus, assorted wraps (chicken,gyro,falafel) Hope you can join us […]
Dr. Chloe Johnston is Associate Professor of Theatre at Lake Forest College, and a long-time member of the Chicago Neo-Futurists, an award-winning performance ensemble. Dr. Johnston is also a prolific solo performer, writer, teacher, and scholar whose work has been seen on stages in Chicago and Los Angeles and in the journals TDR, Liminalities, Theatre […]
Jeffrey Masten, Professor of English and Gender & Sexuality Studies, Northwestern University “Christopher Marlowe’s Queer Futures: Edward and Richard, the Second” Reception to follow the talk.
Sara Brill, Fairfield University. Free and open to the public.
Get to know new humanities faculty at UB at the Humanities Institute’s brown-bag lunch sessions. FREE and open to the public. Coffee and cookies provided. Professional wrestling has a history that reaches back into the nineteenth century and spans the globe, with Mexico, Japan, and the US, in particular, exchanging wrestlers, performance styles, and verbal […]
Book Club: Emily Sahakian, Staging Creolization: Women’s Theatre and Performance from the French Caribbean (available through UB Libraries E-Books) in advance Sahakian's October 12th talk. Emily Sahakian (Ph.D., Northwestern University and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales) is Associate Professor of Theatre and French at the University of Georgia. Her first book, Staging […]
PROGRAM Series Curator: Tanya Shilina-Conte, UB English riverrunbuffalo.org: Director Patrick Martin Directors: Jake Sanders, Jocelyn E. Marshall, and Brent Cox Wednesday, October 10 4:00-5:50pm | Border Experimentations. El Mar la Mar. Joshua Bonnetta & J.P. Sniadecki, 2017 (1 hr 35 mins). Introduced by Ekrem Serdar, Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center. 6:00-7:50pm | Restored […]
Peter Fenves, Northwestern University Free and open to the public.
In 1971, the Martinican writer Édouard Glissant created the avant-garde, educational play Histoire de nègre (Tale of Black Histories) with a group of Caribbean schoolteachers, and it toured throughout Martinique, reaching over 2,000 working-class spectators. In the following decades, however, the play and Glissant’s grass-roots theatrical activism would remain virtually untouched by critics and artists, […]
Sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and made possible by the Riverrun Global Film Series. Ignacio Sánchez-Prado (Washington University, St. Louis) “World Literature Theory From Below: The Perspective From Mexican Literature”
