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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Jonathan Davies, University of Warwick (UK), “Dissertation Lightning Round: The State of Early Modern Studies.”
Jonathan Davies, University of Warwick (UK), "Violence in Early Modern Europe: Questions and Debates"
Spring 2018: DifCon (Difficult Conversations About Current Issues) Considering the phenomenal success of Black Panther, and the hope and inspiration it has fostered among many people, we ask: Is art on the side of the oppressed, as South African Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer claimed? Or is it on the side of the oppressor, as Hollywood’s […]
Margarita Vargas (RLL): “Hermeneutics and Poetics of Violence in the Plays of Bárbara Colio”
Judith Peraino will be giving a talk entitled “I’ll Be Your Mixtape: Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, and the Queer Intimacies of Cassettes.” This paper discusses a tape found in the Andy Warhol Museum Archives of uniquely compiled and never-released songs by Lou Reed, and the circumstances of its making that illuminate the affective affordances of […]
