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Gender Institute | Feminist Research Alliance: Deborah Reed-Danahay, “Finding One’s ‘Place’: Life Stories of Middle-Class French Women in 21st century London”

Zoom

This talk draws upon Reed-Danahay’s longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork (since 2015) among French citizens who migrated to London in recent decades. She will focus on issues of emplacement and displacement among middle-class French women, and will explore their motivations, desires, and aspirations for moving to London through examples of life stories and personal narratives. This discussion draws upon a book manuscript […]

Scholars@Hallwalls: Miguel Guitart, “Flattened American Landscapes: Documenting the Loss of Material Memory”

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

Please join us in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! Materials embody the capacity to carry, preserve, and reveal the memory of places and users. When original materials are modified or eliminated, the identity of places is partially lost. This presentation examines the loss of material memory in the American landscape through processes of ground occupation and material modification […]

Science Studies Research Workshop: Workshop with Dr. Wangui Muigai, “The Widening Gap: The 1980s Crisis of Black Infant Survival.” [HYBRID]

545 Park Hall

Workshop on a pre-circulated chapter-in-revision, “The Widening Gap: The 1980s Crisis of Black Infant Survival.” WANGUI MUIGAI, PHD, ASSISTANT PROF., BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY 545 Park Hall, 10:45am to 12:15pm, and can also be attended by Zoom at https://buffalo.zoom.us/j/97306125070?pwd=VDlQMFR1Y0paemhFZEJTM0hKSFpTdz09 The chapter traces the historical origins of the Black infant mortality crisis, and how new medical theories and […]

Science Studies Research Workshop: Dr. Wangui Muigai, “To Protect the Mother and Baby: Black Infant Death in Historical Perspective.” [HYBRID]

532 Park Hall

Formal talk, “To Protect the Mother and Baby: Black Infant Death in Historical Perspective.” WANGUI MUIGAI, PHD, ASSISTANT PROF., BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY 532 Park Hall, 3-5pm, and can also be attended by Zoom at https://buffalo.zoom.us/j/91630026180?pwd=djdDM2ZDN3NlNFF0bTVSUVVmY3FwZz09 Dr. Muigai will trace the long history of efforts to reduce Black infant mortality. Through exploring how politicians, physicians, midwives, and […]

Department of Art Visiting Speaker Series: Ilona Gaynor

112 Center for the Arts (Screening Room)

Ilona Gaynor works across photography, narrative texts, schemata, objects and film. Her work is drawn from the methods and histories of a wide range of research and disciplines: from design, architecture, literature, theatre and cinema, to the histories of labour, forensic science, risk management and insurance. Using the language and methods from non-visual enterprises such […]

Scholars@Hallwalls: Dalia Antonia Caraballo Muller, “Impossible Futures: Tragic Time and Freedom Dreaming in Post Emancipation Cuba”  

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

This event was rescheduled from November 18.   Please join us in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! In this presentation, Dalia Antonia Caraballo Muller uses the concept of the impossible to explore the political and intellectual ideas of African-born and African-identified persons in post-emancipation Cuba who dared to imagine a future for […]

PLASMA screening of 90 MILES with filmmaker and Visiting Professor Juan Carlos Zaldívar

112 Center for the Arts (Screening Room)

The Department of Media Study's PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, And Screenings in Media Art) ​series kicks off their season with a screening of Visiting Professor Juan Carlos Zaldívar's award-winning documentary film 90 MILES (2001). Zaldívar will join us for Q and A after the screening. In 90 MILES (2001), Cuban-American filmmaker Juan Carlos Zaldívar, recounts the strange twist […]

Humanities Institute/Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program Film Series: THE SUN RISES IN THE EAST

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

Presented by the UB Humanities Institute in collaboration with the UB Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program. Please join us as we honor Black History Month with a screening (free and open to the public) of The Sun Rises in the East, a documentary film by Tayo Giwa and Cynthia Gordy Giwa. 6:00 pm | Reception | […]

Scholars@Hallwalls: Lewis Powell, “Style vs. Substance in Early Modern Philosophy”

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

Please join us in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! John Locke called figurative language and the art of rhetoric an abuse of language used "for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment".  Meanwhile, the 17th and 18th centuries were a flourishing time for a […]

Poetics Plus Series: Tyrone Williams

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

The Poetics Program and the English Department warmly welcome Professor Tyrone Williams, the David Gray Chair of Poetry and Letters. All are welcome to attend a poetry reading by Professor Williams on Friday, February 10 at 7:30 at the Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington Street). Reception to follow.

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