Click here to register.. Join Humanities New York at the Cheektowaga Senior Center for this free grants workshop featuring an information session, activity, and ample time for networking and Q&A. Learn about Humanities New York's opportunities and get tips about how to prepare a competitive application. The second half of the workshop will feature a […]
Professor Mary E. Fissell (Department of the History of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University; Co-editor, Bulletin of the History of Medicine). Professor Fissell will offer the following two events: · Graduate Student Workshop on “Publishing Journal Articles” (Faculty welcome!) Wednesday, April 11, 2018 12:00-1:00 pm 532 Park Hall (Department of History seminar room) · “Before […]
The Performance Research Workshop's last WIP (works-in-progress) of the term will be a presentation from Hershini Bhana Young (English), “Crossing the Mediterranean: Haptic Encounters with Berni Searle.” Please join us Thursday April 12, 2-3:30 in Clemens 904.
Free and open to the public. The ninth Buffalo Poverty Research Workshop offers everyone concerned with Buffalo's poverty the chance to hear about new and ongoing research, promising strategies, and opportunities for collaboration and advocacy. The workshop is designed for local scholars, social service agencies, advocates, government leaders and staff, among others. Register for the […]
Eduardo Mercado, Professor, Department of Psychology University Honors College Fellow Whales are the only mammals that sing continuously for ten hours or more, and they do so loudly even when no listeners are nearby. They also change the songs they sing each year, and may have been doing so for millions of years. Why? Fifty […]
Amy Graves Monroe This talk argues for a deep connection between the rise of Pascalian probability, the interest in automata, the use of theater machines, and Aristotelian ideas of dramatic verisimilitude (i.e., likelihood) and catastrophe. As an interpretation of Aristotle, the Classical unities of time, place and action seek to formalize the circumstances of a […]
The narrative of the queer history of the 20th century usually puts the gay men in the position of victims of political oppression who had to fight back for their civil rights. However, during authoritarian regimes during both WWII and the following Eastern part of the Cold War, there were gay men (and women) who […]
UB Gender Institute Spring Lecture 2018 Dr. Musser is an Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research is at the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality studies. Her monograph, Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (NYU Press, 2014) uses masochism as a lens to theorize different […]
Friday, April 20 @ 10:00am Making Money Workshop: WIP with Yvette Granata, “"The Sliming of Data-life: On Cyberfeminist Datum as 3D Illiquidity” followed by discussion of Jason W. Moore’s writings on the Anthropocene/Capitalocene Organized by: Making Money: Critical Research into Cultures of Exchange Workshop Location: 329 Hoyt. St For the first hour of our meeting, […]
Bülent Batuman, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey This presentation discusses the role of housing in the Islamization of everyday life in Turkish cities and the key role of urban renewal in the production of urban space. While large-scale housing projects are common enterprises, especially in the developing world, a crucial aspect of the Turkish case has […]
