“Bodily Politics: Frank Speech and the Health of the Greek City” Dana Fields, Classics Photographer: Douglas Levere “Bodily Politics: Frank Speech and the Health of the Greek City,” the October 21st talk by Classics professor Dana Fields, examines how Greek writers of the Roman Imperial period use metaphors of medical practice to talk about frank […]
The Music Department’s Lecture Series presents a talk by Assistant Professor of Musicology Colin Roust (University of Kansas) on Tuesday, October 25 at 4:00 in 250 Baird Hall. Professor Roust’s paper is entitled "An Ultramodernist Goes Pop: Georges Auric and Pop Culture from the 1950s to the 1970s.” An abstract of Professor Roust’s paper: Although Georges […]
Maja Horn (Barnard College/Columbia University) https://barnard.edu/profiles/maja-horn The talk will include discussion of work by Dominican visual artists, Waddys Jáquez and Rita Indiana (please see images below). A question and answer session will follow. This event is also part of Gender Week 2016: https://www.buffalo.edu/genderin/programs/genderweek.html. We hope that you will be able to join us. And we […]
Catriona Sandilands (York University) will present "Plant Politics: Four Forays into Vegetation."
Nancy Kwak, Associate Professor of History, University of California, San Diego, presents “Selling American Homeownership in the Global South”
To honor “Lydia Okumura: Situations,” the career-spanning exhibit at the UB Art Galleries of Japanese-Brazilian artist Lydia Okumura, LELACS (the Lake Erie Latin American Cultural Studies consortium) will convene a day-long symposium of new scholarship in Latin American cultural studies. These talks question boundaries between abstraction and concrete reality, writing and visuality, thought and matter, […]
“Mexican Philosophy and the Trope of Authenticity” Carlos Alberto Sanchez
A Public Lecture by Nathan Vedal (Harvard University) Thursday November 3, 2016 at 3:00 pm 306 Clemens Hall, University at Buffalo - North Campus Advocates of Chinese writing reform since the early 20th century have often argued that China ought to adopt a phonetic writing system to replace its current character-based script. Intuitively, the simplicity […]
“The Ideal of Beauty at the Limits of Kant’s Ethics” Kristi Sweet, Texas A&M University
Justice and Diversity Ryan Muldoon, PhilosophyPhotographer: Douglas Levere We live in a world of increasing diversity. Historically, liberal political theory was developed to deal with diversity. However, Muldoon contends that contemporary liberal theory fails to fully appreciate how diversity changes the structure of political communities. There is an unfortunate tendency in liberal theory to assume […]
