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Making Money Research Workshop: Presentation by Professor Chris Lee and discussion of Peter North’s “Money and Liberation”

77 Ashland Avenue 77 Ashland Avenue, Buffalo, NY, United States

Making Money Research Workshop: Presentation by Professor Chris Lee followed by discussion of Peter North’s “Money and Liberation” Location: 77 Ashland Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222 Chris Lee (Dept of Art) will facilitate a conversation prompted by the readings from Peter North’s “Money and Liberation” in relation to a brief survey of various models of alternative […]

Humanities Night at Torn Space Theater: Far Away by Caryl Churchill

The Adam Mickiewicz Dramatic Circle 612 Fillmore Avenue, Buffalo, NY, United States

: Pre-registration for this event has closed. A limited number of discounted tickets at the price of $15 will be available at the door. Please RSVP Maki Tanigaki (huminst@buffalo.edu) if you plan on attending. Ticket payments will be cash or credit - at the door. The UB Humanities Institute invites you to join for a […]

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Modernisms Research Workshop: Adalberto Müller Lunch & Poetry Reading

318 Clemens Hall

Adalberto Müller (Universidade Federal Fluminense) is currently visiting scholar at UB, translating Emily Dickinson into Portuguese. Please stop by for light snacks and Portuguese-English poetry readings of both Dickinson and the Brazilian poet João Cabral de Melo Neto. Sponsored by the HI Modernisms Research Workshop.

Modernisms Research Workshop: Adalberto Müller, “Brasília, Bossa Nova, and João Cabral: Postwar Modernisms in Brazil”

904 Clemens

A talk on Brazilian modernism of the 1950s and 60s: the construction of Brasília, the emergence of Bossa Nova, and the poetic experimentation of João Cabral de Melo Neto. Adalberto Müller is a professor of literary theory and film studies at the Universidade Federal Fluminense in Rio de Janeiro, and a visiting scholar at UB. […]

Queer Studies Research Workshop: Ewa Ziarek, “Critique, Reparation, and Play in Feminist Queer Theory”

1032 Clemens Hall

Critique has been central to feminist and queer engagements with politics and culture. Nonetheless, in the wake of post-critical turn, proposed by Felski, Sedgwick, and others, the very notion of critique has become associated with "a hermeneutics of suspicion,” which has "run out of steam.” This paper questions, however, whether hermeneutics of suspicion or a […]

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Humanities to the Rescue: An Evening with Margaret Atwood

Center for the Arts Mainstage

BUY TICKETS The Humanities Institute is pleased to announce renowned author Margaret Atwood, as the 2017-18 Eileen Silvers Visiting Professor in the Humanities. Recipient of the Booker Prize, Arthur C. Clarke Award, Governor General’s Award, the PEN Pinter Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle […]

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Humanities to the Rescue: Environmental Film Festival

To Be Announced

This festival showcases work by five documentary filmmakers who have tried in very different ways to spark environmental activism. What works and what doesn’t? Curated by UB Professor Adam Rome, Department of History Free and open to the public. Complimentary snacks and beverages will be provided between screenings. Saturday, March 10 | Center for the […]

Humanities New York Public Humanities Fellows Presentations: Tanja Aho and Veronica Wong

Partnership for the Public Good 617 Main St, Suite 300, Buffalo, NY, United States

Please join the UB Humanities Institute for public presentations by our 2017-18 Humanities New York Public Humanities Graduate Fellows. Public Humanities Project Summaries: In “Our City, Our Selves: Migrant Perspectives,” Tanja Aho, Department of Transnational Studies, will engage Buffalo’s refugee and migrant populations to gain their perspectives on the city’s future and their role in […]

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