Free and open to the public. The ninth Buffalo Poverty Research Workshop offers everyone concerned with Buffalo's poverty the chance to hear about new and ongoing research, promising strategies, and opportunities for collaboration and advocacy. The workshop is designed for local scholars, social service agencies, advocates, government leaders and staff, among others. Register for the […]
Eduardo Mercado, Professor, Department of Psychology University Honors College Fellow Whales are the only mammals that sing continuously for ten hours or more, and they do so loudly even when no listeners are nearby. They also change the songs they sing each year, and may have been doing so for millions of years. Why? Fifty […]
Amy Graves Monroe This talk argues for a deep connection between the rise of Pascalian probability, the interest in automata, the use of theater machines, and Aristotelian ideas of dramatic verisimilitude (i.e., likelihood) and catastrophe. As an interpretation of Aristotle, the Classical unities of time, place and action seek to formalize the circumstances of a […]
The narrative of the queer history of the 20th century usually puts the gay men in the position of victims of political oppression who had to fight back for their civil rights. However, during authoritarian regimes during both WWII and the following Eastern part of the Cold War, there were gay men (and women) who […]
UB Gender Institute Spring Lecture 2018 Dr. Musser is an Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research is at the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality studies. Her monograph, Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (NYU Press, 2014) uses masochism as a lens to theorize different […]
Friday, April 20 @ 10:00am Making Money Workshop: WIP with Yvette Granata, “"The Sliming of Data-life: On Cyberfeminist Datum as 3D Illiquidity” followed by discussion of Jason W. Moore’s writings on the Anthropocene/Capitalocene Organized by: Making Money: Critical Research into Cultures of Exchange Workshop Location: 329 Hoyt. St For the first hour of our meeting, […]
Bülent Batuman, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey This presentation discusses the role of housing in the Islamization of everyday life in Turkish cities and the key role of urban renewal in the production of urban space. While large-scale housing projects are common enterprises, especially in the developing world, a crucial aspect of the Turkish case has […]
Shelly Streeby (UCSD, Literature / Ethnic Studies) will present a lecture, “Doing Justice to the Archive: Climate Change in the Octavia E. Butler Papers." We look very much forward to seeing many of you there.
Location: The Digital Composition Lab of the Center for Excellence in Writing, 128 Capen, inside The Silverman Library Training in digital transcription, with an emphasis on early modern texts, by paleographer Sarah Powell from the Folger Shakespeare Library Stay the day, stop by for an hour or two, or just look in on the Lab […]
You are cordially invited to join the UB Humanities Institute for a celebration of recent publications by HI Faculty Fellows. David Alff (Department of English, 2014-15 HI Fellow), Wreckage of Intentions: Projects in British Culture, 1660-1730 Jaume Franquesa (Department of Anthropology, 2016-17 HI Fellow), Power Struggles: Dignity, Value, and the Renewable Energy Frontier in Spain […]
