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Symposium: Indigenous Women: Human Rights Protections and Activism

Buffalo & Erie County Public Library - Downtown Central Branch 1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY, United States

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 […]

Free

Symposium: “Jews and Melancholia”

708 Clemens Hall

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 […]

Conference: Emerging Africas: Versions and Visions

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, […]

UB Poetics: Graduate Student Symposium and Poetry Reading

Poetry Collection, 420 Capen Hall

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.

Roundtable Discussion: Immigration, Diversity, and America’s Shifting Priorities

Student Union Theater

This roundtable will discuss the impact of Trump administration policies on refugees, immigrants, and international students in Buffalo. Participants will include: Myron Glick, Director, Jericho Road Community Health Center Anna Ireland, Jericho Road Community Health Center​ Fidele Nlemvo Menavanza, Staff Paralegal, Center for Elder Law & Justice Ellen Dussourd, Assistant Vice Provost and Director, International […]

Humanities NY Public Graduate Fellows @ Partnership for the Public Good

Partnership for the Public Good 617 Main St, Suite 300, Buffalo, NY, United States

Please join the UB Humanities Institute for presentations by our 2016-2017 Humanities New York Public Graduate Fellows: John Marsland and Laticia McNaughton. This FREE and open to the public event will be held in downtown Buffalo's historic Market Arcade building (617 Main Street) at the Partnership for the Public Good. Light fare and refreshments will […]

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Graduate Student Association Book Club: Roxane Gay

1030 Clemens

Discussion of Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, as well as her other work depending on what participants have read, in an intimate setting. On Wednesday, April 5th, 4:30 - 5:30 pm (Baird 250), meet Roxane Gay!  

Just Theory-Eugenio Donato Seminar: Marcia Cavalcante, Södertörn University

640 Clemens Hall

This is a series of events held over the course of three days. 12:30 pm, Tuesday, April 4:  “The Ecstasy of Time” (in conversation with Heidegger) 3:30 pm, Wednesday, April 5:  “Time Absent/Time Present” (discussing with Maurice Blanchot) 3:30 pm, Thursday, April 6:  “Time Being” (reading with Clarice Lispector)

Film Screening: 1984 (Michael Radford, 1984, 105 min.)

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

$8 general, $6 students/seniors, $5 Hallwalls members. The film will be introduced at Hallwalls by Professor David R. Castillo, Director of the UB Humanities Institute, professor of Spanish language and literature, and co-author (with William Egginton) of Medialogies: Reading Reality in the Age of Inflationary Media (Bloomsbury Academic, November 17, 2016). Screening licensed by arrangement […]

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

330 Student Union (UB North Campus)

Homeland: Iraq Year Zero (2015), Abbas Fahdel Screening, Part I Organized by: Center for Global Media, Department of English Location: Student Union 330 Description: In February 2002—about a year before the U.S. declared war in 2003—Iraqi filmmaker Abbas Fahdel traveled home from France to capture everyday life as his country prepared for war. He zeroed […]