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!
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)
$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 […]
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 […]
Homeland: Iraq Year Zero (2015), Abbas Fahdel (attending in person) Screening, Part II Organized by: Center for Global Media, Department of English Location: Center for the Arts 112 Followed by @6 pm Conversation with director Abbas Fahdel (Clip Talk) Introduced by Prof. of Film and Media Theory Tanya Shilina-Conte, Department of English This event is […]
“Messy Ground: Wind, Profits and Livelihoods” Jaume Franquesa’s April 7th talk, “Messy Ground: Wind, Profits and Livelihoods,” offers a historically informed and ethnographically grounded study of the unparalleled development of wind energy in Spain. Franquesa, a professor of Anthropology, analyzes the contradictions pervading this process (local opposition, boom-and-bust cycles, and modest environmental benefits) and reveals […]
Intersections: Collage of Urban Networks 6th Annual Graduate Student Conference for Romance Languages and Literatures Friday, April 7 4:00 PM | Keynote | Baldy 101 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Phillip Thomas Penix-Tadsen, University of Delaware Followed by a short play (Norton Hall 112) Saturday, April 8 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Breakfast | Clemens 904 […]
The Panel Michelle Benson (Political Science) Brexit: Implications for Conflict Intervention and Human Rights Policies Winston Chang (Economics) Brexit and Its Economic Consequences Patrick McDevitt (History) British and Sub-British Patriotism in the Age of Brexit Deborah Reed-Danahay (Anthropology) Living with Uncertainty post-Brexit: French Citizens in London Randy Schiff (English) Brexit, Ethnonationalism, and the Re-Fragmentation of […]
François Laruelle and Anne-Françoise Schmid François Laruelle is a French philosopher known for developing a science of philosophy that he calls non-philosophy. He has been described as one of the most important and interesting contemporary philosophers in Europe today. He is the author of books such as “Photo-Fiction: A Non-Standard Aesthetics” (2012), “Philosophy and Non-Philosophy” […]
On Integrative Objects A Philo-Fiction workshop/symposium with Anne-Françoise Schmid. This event is connected to the annual PLASMA speaker series at the Department of Media Study and will host François Laruelle and Anne-Françoise Schmid, who will both give talks on April 10th, as a special edition of the PLASMA series. Anne-Francoise Schmid will lead a practice-based […]
