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James H. McNulty Chair Reading and Reception for Myung Mi Kim

Poetry Collection, 420 Capen Hall

The College of Arts and Sciences invites you to a reading and reception to celebrate Myung Mi Kim’s appointment as the James H. McNulty Chair in English. An award-winning poet with six major poetry collections, Kim—a professor of English and recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in 2009—makes deliberate use of fragments and […]

Plasma Lecture Series: Teresa Dillon, Listening to the “smart” city: A story about the inaudible

112 Center for the Arts (Screening Room)

FREE and open to the public Bio:  Teresa Dillon is an artist, researcher and Professor of City Futures at the School of Art and Design, UWE, Bristol. Her performative, research and sound based work symbolically and critical examines the techno-civic systems, which affect and shape everyday life. The intention behind her work is to expose […]

Oral History OF Science, Oral History IN Science

Innovation Center at Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus 640 Ellicott St, Buffalo, NY, United States

Two hemispheres, two presentations, light lunch, and discussion Speakers Venkat Srinivasan , National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India Douglas Lambert , PhD Candidate, UB Department of Environmental Engineering Moderator: Michael Frisch , PhD, Principal, The Randforce Associates/ Talking Pictures LLC Sponsors: UB Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering; UB Humanities Institute Science Studies […]

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Science Studies Research Workshop: Joseph M. Gabriel, “Origins of a Legitimation Crisis: Medical Science, Private Profit, and the Challenge of Big Pharma”

545 Park Hall

“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 […]

2nd Annual Robert Creeley Lecture and Celebration of Poetry

Baird Recital Hall, Second Floor

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 […]