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New Faculty Seminar: Eero Laine, “Unconventional Theatrics: Performance Labor and Professional Wrestling”

904 Clemens

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 […]

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Performance Research Workshop Book Club: Emily Sahakian, Staging Creolization: Women’s Theatre and Performance from the French Caribbean

To Be Announced

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 […]

2018 riverrun Global Film Series: Mexican Cinema and Culture

Burchfield Penney Art Center 1300 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, NY, United States

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 […]

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Performance Research Workshop, Emily Sahakian (University of Georgia), “Staging Creolization: Renewing the Theatrical Activism of Edouard Glissant”

Capen 107 (Inside the Silverman Library) University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States

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, […]

Global Gender Studies Symposium: “Radical Histories, Radical Futures: Buffalo on the Vanguard of Feminist and Queer Thought”

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Radical Histories, Radical Futures: Buffalo on the Vanguard of Feminist and Queer Thought Friday, October 12 | Hayes Hall 403, UB South Campus, 3435 Main Street (NFTA: University) 11:30 am | Coffee and registration 12 pm - 6:30 pm | Symposium 12:00 pm | "The Radical History of Buffalo and UB" Jennifer Wilson of The […]

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Scholars@Hallwalls: Chad Lavin, “The Politics of Value (and the Value of Politics)”

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

This paper uses Bourdieu’s concept of cultural capital to index the declining authority of the humanities to the rise in economic logic of neoliberalism.  Looking at the institutions and practices that elevate the discourse of economics over alternative modes of assigning value (namely, ethics and politics), Lavin argues that the esteem of the social sciences—and […]

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Science Studies Research Workshop: Monica Azzolini, “The Image, the Saint and the Earthquake: Francisco Borja and the Politics of God and Nature in the Spanish Empire”

280 Park Hall

Monica Azzolini (Associate Professor of the History of Science, University of Bologna), “The Image, the Saint and the Earthquake: Francisco Borja and the Politics of God and Nature in the Spanish Empire” This paper shall investigate how the cult of Francesco Borja, patron saint of earthquakes, emerged in the Kingdom of New Granada and how […]

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