This talk will be based on Prof. Oberg's recent book, Professional Indian: Eleazer Williams's American Odyssey (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015). For more information about this remarkable individual, please see: http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15377.html. Michael Oberg is Distinguished Professor of History at the State University of New York at Geneseo.
“Rewriting the Mediterranean with Artaud” Megan MacDonald, Koç University
Reading for Desire: What Counts as “Queer” in Renaissance Drama? Christine Varnado, Global Gender Studies, Department of Transnational Studies Erotic desire saturates early modern English drama, but it has been a challenge to theorize precisely how it is constituted, how we are able to perceive it, and, specifically, how and why some configurations of it […]
A lecture presented by Professor Elissa Marder Elissa Marder is the Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Emory University, where she is currently serving as Chair of the Department of French and Italian and as Interim Director of the Psychoanalytic Studies program. In addition, she is also an international fellow at the London Graduate […]
A seminar presented by Professor Elissa Marder Elissa Marder is the Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Emory University, where she is currently serving as Chair of the Department of French and Italian and as Interim Director of the Psychoanalytic Studies program. In addition, she is also an international fellow at the London Graduate […]
Science Studies Research Workshop The pre-circulated essay for this event is part of a long-term book project, Mapping Embodiment in the Early Modern West: A Prehistory of Normality. Rather than develop a genealogy of normality through examples from expository prose, the book focuses on the visual syntax of anatomical illustration, natural histories, and the use […]
A Commemoration of the 400th Anniversary of Their Deaths and a Comparative Study of Their Enduring Influence Locations: UB Center for the Arts and the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Central Branch (Lafayette Square) 2016 marks the 400th anniversary of the deaths of both William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, the pre-eminent authors […]
Join us for this special celebration! Free and Open to the Public Rare Shakespeare Folios from the collections of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library and the UB Libraries are together for the first time in one place. Master of Ceremonies: Andrew McConnell Stott, Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education, University at Buffalo. […]
October 17, 18, and 19 Just Theory Capen Lecture Series on “Agency and Suffering: Women Then and Now” All lectures begin at 4pm. Christia Mercer, Columbia University, presents three talks over three days. Monday, October 17 “Meditating on Truth: How women changed the course of philosophy 1300-1600 and laid the groundwork for Descartes’ Meditations” Tuesday, […]
“Color Around the Globe”: Langston Hughes and Comparative Racialization Jang Wook Huh, English The Harlem Renaissance, or the New Negro Movement, was not limited to New York but linked to Paris, Kingston, and even Chongjin, a port city in present-day North Korea. Langston Hughes visited Korea in 1933 at the peak of Japanese imperialism. This […]
