Science, Philosophy, Ethics and Art Meet the Microbes Join practitioners from across the arts, humanities and sciences for a two-day symposium to propose and discuss methods and aesthetics of engagement with microbial life from multidisciplinary perspectives to afford new vantages for inquiry. RSVP to coe-gem@buffalo.edu Free and open to the public THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2017 […]
Please join us! Wei Yu Wayne Tan, Assistant Professor of History at Hope College "Japan’s Hidden Nineteenth Century: Disability Perspectives on the Ordinary (and Extraordinary) Lives of Blind Women" Friday November 17 12:00-1:00 PM Park 280 (UB North) Japan’s nineteenth century was marked by events that wrought tremendous and violent changes to Japanese society, from […]
The staged readings will test the latest script revisions that the AT BUFFALO creative team will make during their 10-day development process. A second reading will take place on Saturday, Nov. 18th. All details on times, specifics of the location, as well as how to acquire required invitations (by Thursday, November 16) can be found […]
The staged readings will test the latest script revisions that the AT BUFFALO creative team will make during their 10-day development process. All details on times, specifics of the location, as well as how to acquire required invitations (by Thursday, November 16) can be found at this link: https://events.blackbirdrsvp.com/at-buffalo-staged-reading NB: these readings are not open […]
Murray is an interdisciplinary theorist specializing in the history, theory, and criticism of modern and contemporary art. Murray is Associate Editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, and is the author of Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights. Graduate seminar 21 Nov, 12:00-2:00 pm, 1032 Clemens
Katja Praznik, Arts Management Professor Praznik will discuss the variegated forms of the paradox of unpaid artistic labor, which she defines as the contradiction between the prestige and perceived exceptionality of artistic work and the injustice of the precarious, often unpaid labor that sustains it. She examines specific historical regulation of artistic work in the […]
Visual AIDS commissioned seven artists— Mykki Blanco, Cheryl Dunye, Reina Gosset, Thomas Allen Harris, Kia Labeija, Tiona McClodden and Brontez Purnell – to create short videos emphasizing Black narratives within the ongoing AIDS epidemic. Time to be announced.
Jonathan Kramnick is Maynard Mack Professor of English at Yale University, where his research and teaching focus on the literature, philosophy, and culture of eighteenth-century Britain, philosophical approaches to literature, and cognitive science and the arts. He is the author of three books: Making the English Cannon: Print Capitalism and the Cultural Past, 1700-1770 (Cambridge […]
Marla Segol, Associate Prof. of Jewish Studies, will present “Sacred Sexuality in North America: Roots and Shoots,” a chapter in progress from her book project.
Richard Cohen Capitalism is not merely an economic system but represents also a devaluation of all values, with money, a means, serving as the only "value." As such capitalism destroys all alternative value, undermining the dignity and solidarity of persons. In view of such capitalist nihilism, fascism promises to restore lost values, but in fact […]
