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Screening: “Homeland: Iraq Year Zero” (2015), Abbas Fahdel – Part II

Center for the Arts, Screening Room (112) University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States

Homeland: Iraq Year Zero (2015), Abbas Fahdel (attending in person) Screening, Part II Organized by: Center for Global Media, Department of English Location: Center for the Arts 112 Followed by @6 pm Conversation with director Abbas Fahdel (Clip Talk) Introduced by Prof. of Film and Media Theory Tanya Shilina-Conte, Department of English This event is […]

Scholars @ Hallwalls: Jaume Franquesa

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

“Messy Ground: Wind, Profits and Livelihoods” Jaume Franquesa’s April 7th talk, “Messy Ground: Wind, Profits and Livelihoods,” offers a historically informed and ethnographically grounded study of the unparalleled development of wind energy in Spain. Franquesa, a professor of Anthropology, analyzes the contradictions pervading this process (local opposition, boom-and-bust cycles, and modest environmental benefits) and reveals […]

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6th Annual Graduate Student Conference for Romance Languages and Literatures

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Intersections: Collage of Urban Networks 6th Annual Graduate Student Conference for Romance Languages and Literatures Friday, April 7 4:00 PM | Keynote | Baldy 101 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Phillip Thomas Penix-Tadsen, University of Delaware Followed by a short play (Norton Hall 112) Saturday, April 8 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Breakfast | Clemens 904 […]

Brexit: A Brown-Bag Panel Discussion

509 O'Brian Hall North Campus

The Panel Michelle Benson (Political Science) Brexit: Implications for Conflict Intervention and Human Rights Policies Winston Chang (Economics) Brexit and Its Economic Consequences Patrick McDevitt (History) British and Sub-British Patriotism in the Age of Brexit Deborah Reed-Danahay (Anthropology) Living with Uncertainty post-Brexit: French Citizens in London Randy Schiff (English) Brexit, Ethnonationalism, and the Re-Fragmentation of […]

PLASMA Lecture Series: François Laruelle & Anne-Françoise Schmid

112 Center for the Arts (Screening Room)

François Laruelle and Anne-Françoise Schmid François Laruelle is a French philosopher known for developing a science of philosophy that he calls non-philosophy. He has been described as one of the most important and interesting contemporary philosophers in Europe today. He is the author of books such as “Photo-Fiction: A Non-Standard Aesthetics” (2012), “Philosophy and Non-Philosophy” […]

Embodied Research Workshop/Symposium: Anne-Françoise Schmid, “On Integrative Objects”

Center for the Arts, 278 (Production Studio)

On Integrative Objects A Philo-Fiction workshop/symposium with Anne-Françoise Schmid. This event is connected to the annual PLASMA speaker series at the Department of Media Study and will host François Laruelle and Anne-Françoise Schmid, who will both give talks on April 10th, as a special edition of the PLASMA series. Anne-Francoise Schmid will lead a practice-based […]

Panel Discussion: “Reporting ‘From Burma to Buffalo’ and the Future of Refugees in the Trump Era”

403 Hayes Hall - South Campus

Click here to RSVP Buffalo News reporter Jerry Zremski and photographer Derek Gee will discuss their experiences reporting on the lives of refugees from Burma during “From Burma to Buffalo,” a presentation sponsored by the School of Social Work’s Immigrant and Refugee Research Institute. Zremski and Gee, who spent 20 months reporting the series of […]

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