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 […]
We'll ask for your feedback on the year's events, what you're interested in PRW doing for 18-19, and decide on PRW's Book Club selection for fall 2018. Who knows, there may even be treats...please join us!
Elaine P. Miller, Professor of Philosophy, Miami University
Ecocritical Theory Reading Group Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate. 2015. Trans. Jane Billinghurst. Vancouver: Greystone, 2016.
Join the UB Humanities Institute for a brown bag lunch session with Yan Liu (History). Coffee and cookies will be served. A salient feature of classical Chinese pharmacy is its abundant use of toxic substances (aconite, arsenic, etc.). How could poisons become medicines? Professor Liu’s talk addresses this question by exploring the rich repertory of […]
