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Embodied Research Research Workshop: Performance with Elizabeth Mozer, The Asylum Project

Katharine Cornell Theatre - Ellicott Complex - North Campus

Elizabeth's creative research interests include the embodied art of acting and somatic approaches to actor training, devising original theatre with a focus on collaborative ensemble works and adaptations, pedagogy, the Meisner technique, on-camera acting, and cross-disciplinary exchange. She teaches in the Physical Theatre Intensive at The Stella Adler Studio of Acting (NYC), and has taught […]

NEH Regional Application-Writing Workshop

112 Center for the Arts (Screening Room)

      The UB Humanities Institute is pleased to host a Regional Application-Writing Workshop conducted by Dr. Daniel Sack, Senior Program Officer, from the National Endowment for the Humanities. We are honored to have Congressman Brian Higgins of the U.S. House of Representatives joining us for the 4:30 PM post-workshop reception, with an introduction […]

Free

Humanities Night at Torn Space Theater: Harold Pinter’s The Collection

The Adam Mickiewicz Dramatic Circle 612 Fillmore Avenue, Buffalo, NY, United States

Please join the Humanities Institute for an evening at Torn Space Theater for a performance of Harold Pinter's The Collection. 6:45 PM – Bar opens 7:00 PM – Lecture by Penelope Prentice, author of The Pinter Ethic: The Erotic Aesthetic 7:30 PM – Performance of Harold Pinter’s The Collection The Adam Mickiewicz Dramatic Circle 612 […]

$15

New Faculty Seminar: Ariel Nereson

904 Clemens

Democracy Moving: Models of Civic Life in Bill T. Jones’s Lincoln Dances 100 Migrations, a 2008 site-specific performance at the University of Virginia about Abraham Lincoln’s legacy in the Obama-era United States, is a study in what choreographer Bill T. Jones terms “democracy moving.” New Theater and Dance faculty member Ariel Nereson examines the cultural […]

Free

“On the Poetic Wisdom of Psychoanalysis: On the Trail of Lacan’s New Signifier”

306 Clemens Hall

The Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture is pleased to welcome Dr. Dany Nobus to UB, where he will deliver a lecture,"On the Poetic Wisdom of Psychoanalysis: On the Trail of Lacan's New Signifier," on Wednesday, March 1, 2017. Professor Nobus currently serves as the Chair of Psychoanalysis at Brunel University London, and […]

Forum on Publishing in an Age of Upheaval: Part I

Western New York Book Arts Center 468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY, United States

In Part One of our Forum on Publishing in an Age of Upheaval, editor/critic/author John Freeman and novelist Heather O’Neill will engage in a wide-ranging discussion of literary magazine publishing and editing, including issues of design and marketing. Ms O’Neill will read from and sign copies of her just-released novel, The Lonely Hearts Hotel (Riverhead). Freeman […]

Psychoanalysis in the Boudoir: On Lacan’s ‘Kant with Sade’ (Seminar)

1032 Clemens Hall

The Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture is pleased to welcome Dr. Dany Nobus to UB, where he will lead a seminar, "Psychoanalysis in the Boudoir (On Lacan's 'Kant with Sade'), on Thursday, March 2, 2017. Professor Nobus currently serves as the Chair of Psychoanalysis at Brunel University London, and as Chair of […]