Please RSVP for this event here. Glitch is an error, a malfunction. Glitch is a broken system. Glitch is something gone awry. Glitch is also widely embracing these flaws. Glitch shows the beauty in imperfections. Glitch can provide opportunities to change, remix, and create something never seen before. Glitch is the cycle of destruction and […]
The Performance Research Workshop welcomes Rhaisa Williams. This is a story of Cleveland, Ohio in the 1970s—when it was affectionately known as “the mistake by the lake.” The city, once a booming manufacturing town, positioned between the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie, had begun a rapid decline in industry and population starting in the late […]
The Department of Africana and American Studies welcomes Professor Biko Mandela Gray. Aiyana Stanley-Jones. Tamir Rice. Alton Sterling. Sandra Bland. These four black lives mattered. They matter. They matter for those of us who care and cared for them; they also matter to those who killed them and those who justify their deaths by appeals to police. In […]
The Technoculture Research Workshop welcomes Alexander R. Galloway. What are the machines that determine thinking? We may approach the question in a number of ways. The typical approach is to consider (or perhaps even craft) a philosophy of media. This comes under the name of media studies or media theory, where media artifacts are taken […]
In this lecture, Professor Holleman will discuss the vital lessons we can learn from one of the first global environmental problems of modern capitalism, which reached its apogee in the “dust-bowlification” of agricultural lands in the 1920s and 1930s. Based on award-winning research, Prof. Holleman explains that the regional crises of soil erosion in this […]
Please join us in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! Goldfarb will present his project ‘Remote Viewing’. Beginning as a publication of observational writing, this object-based inquiry is derived from the margins of found photographic source material; documents of tools, equipment, and devices that mediate our interactions with our environments. As a sculptural project, Remote Viewing explores the relationship […]
Dr. Jaynelle (Jay) Nixon has an interdisciplinary background in literature, transnational studies, and global gender and sexuality studies. She currently teaches classes on Gothic fiction as well as gender, race, and media. Her primary research focus is the body—particularly the ways certain bodies are surveilled and monsterized based on appearance. As always, PLASMA lectures are […]
Attention Graduate Students! Join the Humanities Institute and special guest Adam Capitanio—Programming Director of Humanities New York (https://humanitiesny.org/)—on Tuesday April 4 from 4:00-5:00pm (zoom) for a new grant workshop designed for graduate students in the humanities. We will discuss where to target grants in your field, how to apply for them, and offer tips on improving […]
The UB Critical Ecologies Research Collaborative welcomes Michael Levien from John Hopkins University.
Attraction is not just another thing to be anxious about. It seems, especially now, in ever shorter supply, ever more unsustainable. The long term threat is that of the death of interest itself, the dark pit of bottomless boredom. This anxiety is thus an ur-anxiety, the fear that there may truly be nothing, not in […]
