Modeling Across Disciplines: A conversation with an atmospheric scientist, a family sociologist, and a philosopher about how we can (and cannot) use models to better understand our world. The world is almost as messy as it is complex. This is a big problem for anyone attempting to understand…well… anything. How are we to tease apart […]
Premilla Nadasen is a Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University. Nadasen is the author of four books, most recently Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement, which is a new classic of history-from-below that reconstructs the work of mainly Black women domestic workers in the post-war period. […]
The UB Center for the Arts is the hub of a bustling arts community where dancers, actors, filmmakers, musicians, and artists of every imaginable stripe come to work and perform. Each Fall, the UBCFA opens our studios, rehearsal spaces, and doors to bring this wealth of creativity out into the open. The work of artists […]
Please join us in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! The smells of the human body are generally considered abject, unwanted and never polite. Much of western culture is designed to minimize these odors—deodorants, toothpastes, mouthwash, laundry detergents, soaps, room deodorizers, as well the modern toilet. Historically, odors and myths of their effects, […]
Marina Zurkow is a research-based media artist committed to systemic change in ecological justice. Her projects (sometimes with collaborators) offer emotional connections to multispecies and geologic phenomena that modern humans often take for granted or deprioritize in favor of “humans on top.” The materials / technologies Zurkow employs include software, animation, sound, food, mushroom mycelium, […]
The English Department welcomes translator and poet Christian Hawkey as part of the Poetics Plus Series. Author of the poetry collections The Book of Funnels (Wave 2004) and Citizen Of (Wave 2007), Christian Hawkey has published a bi-lingual erasure with Uljana Wolf, Sonne from Ort (kookbooks verlag 2013), a co-translation with Wolf of a selection of Ilse Aichinger’s short prose, Bad Words (Seagull Books […]
Please join Joining Forces-UB for the next Joining Forces Research Colloquium. Leslie Reagin, Ph.D., Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will present: Veterans and Agent Orange - An International Story Professor Reagan will discuss her current research on the history of Agent Orange, one of several herbicides used in then American War […]
Heather Dewey-Hagborg is an artist and biohacker who is interested in art as research and technological critique. Her controversial biopolitical art practice includes the project Stranger Visions in which she created portrait sculptures from analyses of genetic material collected in public places. Her work has been shown internationally at events and venues including the World Economic Forum; […]
Born in Seoul, South Korea, Don Mee Choi is the author of DMZ Colony, which won the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry. Her other publications include Hardly War, The Morning News Is Exciting, and several chapbooks and pamphlets of poems and essays. She has received numerous fellowships and prizes: 2011 Whiting Award, 2016 Lannan Literary Fellowship, 2012 & 2019 Lucien […]
The UB Art Galleries invites you to celebrate the opening of I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality at the Center for the Arts (CFA) Gallery. This group exhibition brings together new and recent works by 17 international artists to explore the stealth work of hospitality on our conceptual, material, and political […]
