The Technoculture Research Workshop welcomes Alexander R. Galloway. What are the machines that determine thinking? We may approach the question in a number of ways. The typical approach is to consider (or perhaps even craft) a philosophy of media. This comes under the name of media studies or media theory, where media artifacts are taken […]
In this lecture, Professor Holleman will discuss the vital lessons we can learn from one of the first global environmental problems of modern capitalism, which reached its apogee in the “dust-bowlification” of agricultural lands in the 1920s and 1930s. Based on award-winning research, Prof. Holleman explains that the regional crises of soil erosion in this […]
Please join us in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! Goldfarb will present his project ‘Remote Viewing’. Beginning as a publication of observational writing, this object-based inquiry is derived from the margins of found photographic source material; documents of tools, equipment, and devices that mediate our interactions with our environments. As a sculptural project, Remote Viewing explores the relationship […]
Dr. Jaynelle (Jay) Nixon has an interdisciplinary background in literature, transnational studies, and global gender and sexuality studies. She currently teaches classes on Gothic fiction as well as gender, race, and media. Her primary research focus is the body—particularly the ways certain bodies are surveilled and monsterized based on appearance. As always, PLASMA lectures are […]
Attention Graduate Students! Join the Humanities Institute and special guest Adam Capitanio—Programming Director of Humanities New York (https://humanitiesny.org/)—on Tuesday April 4 from 4:00-5:00pm (zoom) for a new grant workshop designed for graduate students in the humanities. We will discuss where to target grants in your field, how to apply for them, and offer tips on improving […]
The UB Critical Ecologies Research Collaborative welcomes Michael Levien from John Hopkins University.
Attraction is not just another thing to be anxious about. It seems, especially now, in ever shorter supply, ever more unsustainable. The long term threat is that of the death of interest itself, the dark pit of bottomless boredom. This anxiety is thus an ur-anxiety, the fear that there may truly be nothing, not in […]
Akil Fletcher is an award-winning researcher and PhD candidate in the Anthropology department at the University of California Irvine. His work focuses on understanding how Black gamers experience and utilize games and online platforms to create community. Currently, his project funded by the National Science Foundation seeks to understand how online Black communities use these […]
The Asia Research Institute is hosting it's first annual Korean Studies Symposium, Genre, Gender and Language in Korean Film and Drama. Symposium events will take place April 11 (via Zoom), April 13 (at Squeaky Wheel), and April 14-15 (Capen Hall). Click here for a full schedule of symposium events, including keynotes, film screening, literary reading, panels, […]
Please join us for two days of campus conversations, centered on the Humanities Institute 2023 theme of COMMUNITIES: TRUST. Session 1 | 12:00-1:30 pm | 250 Baird Communities of Care A panel rethinking “care” through the multifaceted lenses of indigeneity, veteran identity, and disability. Mishuana Goeman Professor and Chair, Indigenous Studies Vasiliki Neofotistos Associate Professor, […]
