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Disability Studies Research Workshop: Wei Yu Wayne Tan, “Japan’s Hidden Nineteenth Century: Disability Perspectives on the Ordinary (and Extraordinary) Lives of Blind Women”

280 Park Hall

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 […]

Staged Reading of AT BUFFALO: A New Musical

Katharine Cornell Theatre - Ellicott Complex - North Campus

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 […]

Staged Reading of AT BUFFALO: A New Musical (2nd reading)

Katharine Cornell Theatre - Ellicott Complex - North Campus

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 […]

Queer Studies Research Workshop: Derek Conrad Murray

112 Center for the Arts (Screening Room)

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

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Scholars@Hallwalls: Katja Praznik, “”The Paradox of Unpaid Labor in the US: Radical Creativity vs. Social Security”

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center 341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY, United States

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 […]

Free

Juxtapositions Lecture: Jonathan Kramnick, “On Handsomeness, Considered as a Category of Aesthetics”

1032 Clemens Hall

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 […]

Feminist Research Alliance Workshop: Marla Segol

UB Gender Institute 207 UB Commons - University at Buffalo - North Campus, Buffalo, NY

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.

Free

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Scholars@Hallwalls: Richard Cohen, “Capitalism, Globalization and Fascism”

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center 341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY, United States

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 […]

Performance Research Workshop: Annual Membership Meeting

904 Clemens

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!

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