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Scholars@Hallwalls – James Currie

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

“One Night in Beirut: When Said met Genet” James Currie, Music Photographer: Douglas Levere The great Palestinian literary critic and political activist Edward Said met the famous French homosexual novelist Jean Genet in Beirut in 1972. In his December 2nd talk, “One Night in Beirut: When Said met Genet,” musicologist James Currie will discuss how […]

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Modernisms Research Workshop: Graduate Student Workshop

318 Clemens Hall

Originally scheduled for Tuesday, November 15th, rescheduled to Wednesday, December 7th. Stacy Hubbard and Nick Wasmoen will lead a workshop on writing paper abstracts, panel proposals and other submissions for academic conferences, with particular focus on the variety of formats available for participation at the Modernist Studies Association Conference.  All humanities grad students are welcome […]

Public Humanities Graduate Student Workshop

Capen 107 (Inside the Silverman Library) University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States

In support of the Humanities New York Public Humanities Fellowship Program. Pizza lunch and beverages will be provided (RSVP huminst@buffalo.edu by Jan. 31st so that we can have an appropriate amount of food.) Does your doctoral research in a humanities discipline have an application with a broader public? If it does or you would like […]

Embodied Research Research Workshop: Artist Lecture with Brendan Fernandes

Center for the Arts, B83

Brendan Fernandes is a multidisciplinary artist who works at the intersection of dance and visual arts. His unique cultural background as a Kenyan-Indian Canadian who has lived in New York City for the past 12 years and who now resides in Chicago, confronts the hybrid and transitional nature of identity. This compels aspects of his […]

Scholars @ Hallwalls: Elizabeth Mazzolini

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

"Where the Drugs Are" We kick off the spring semester with English professor Elizabeth Mazzolini’s February 10th talk, “Where the Drugs Are,” an ecocritical look at representations of three different drug epidemics—those of crack, meth, and opioids. Mazzolini links drug production, sale, and use to the allowances of various locations and to ideological investment in […]

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Solidarity Party: To Honor and Celebrate International Scholars, Students, Immigrants, and Refugees

Asbury Hall 341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY, United States

Program Welcomes and sharing of stories Acknowledgements of those who are not here Music, Food, Art Sponsor UB Institute for Research & Education on Women & Gender Cosponsors Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts Burmese Community Services Coalition for Economic Justice Coalition for the Advancement of Moslem Women El Museo Francisco Oller y Diego […]

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Lecture (Dept of Music): Dr Roger Moseley, “Digitizing Chopin: Grids, Filters, Networks, and Aliases.”

250 Baird Hall

Musical images of Chopin at the keyboard mediate Romantic fantasies that at once reveal and disavow the mechanisms that bring them to spiritual life. In particular, the digital transmission of Chopinian signals via the keyboard’s grid has been liable to introduce technical artifacts that can be elucidated via phenomena associated with contemporary attempts to mitigate […]