City and Society Research Workshop: Work-in-Progress with Fred Klaits
532 Park HallWorks in Progress seminar, Fred Klaits, “‘Catch the Word’: Prophecy and Mentoring in African American Pentecostalism”
Works in Progress seminar, Fred Klaits, “‘Catch the Word’: Prophecy and Mentoring in African American Pentecostalism”
Anne Burnidge, work-in-progress, "Dancing with the Human Microbiome: Embodying the Research, Researching the Body."
Silk Road Songbook brown bag workshop with Millie Chen, Department of Art Light lunch - please e-mail cflaugh@buffalo.edu to sign up by 3/15/17.
“Meaning of Life” and “Moral of the Story”: Lukacs, Benjamin, and Theories of the Novel Hiroki Yoshikuni, University of Tokyo Part of the Just Theory Lecture Series.
“Origins of a Legitimation Crisis: Medical Science, Private Profit, and the Challenge of Big Pharma” Joseph M. Gabriel, Ph.D. Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of The Lancet, has recently suggested that as much as half of all published medical literature may be false. Horton is not alone in making such a claim: over the past two decades […]
Jerome McGann On March 30, 5:00 pm, Jerome McGann, John Stewart Bryan Professor at the U of Virginia and author or editor of over 24 books, will be lecturing on “Reading Poetry”—a reflection tracking key stylistic innovations in poetry that were developed in England and America after 1790 and arguing that these innovations were directed […]
UB School of Social Work Presents: SECOND ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM Indigenous Women: Human Rights Protections and Activism Thursday, March 30, 2017 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Buffalo & Erie County Central Public Library 1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY 14203 Free and Open to the Public CLICK TO REGISTER Keynote Beverly Jacobs, LL.B., LL.M., "The Resiliency of […]
The connection between Jews and melancholia is a long-standing one in Western thought and culture, and is grounded in religious, medical, astrological, artistic, literary, and philosophical traditions that extend all the way to antiquity. The association begins in late Roman antiquity, when the Jewish Sabbath was identified with the worship of Saturn, the planet of […]
42nd Annual Conference of the New York African Studies Association Hosted by the University at Buffalo. Full schedule and location information forthcoming. Roundtable Discussion: Immigration, Diversity, and America’s Shifting Priorities March 31 @ 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm | Student Union Theater This roundtable will discuss the impact of Trump administration policies on refugees, immigrants, […]
A lecture by James Maynard, Curator UB Poetry Collection Graduate Student Symposium Open Poetry Reading: all are invited to read their favorite poem—whether of their own composition or by someone else.