"After the End: Wagner and the Apocalyptic Imagination" Participants: David Castillo (RLL), Jonathan Golove (Music), Sean Graney (WBFO-Silvers Visiting Professor), Shane Thorn (Theatre & Dance) Moderator: Jacob Gallagher-Ross (Theatre & Dance) In Wagner's Ring cycle, the end of the world foretells a new beginning. The brief interval of human civilization is merely the prelude to […]
Panel Discussion: “Muslim Students’ Experiences in the U.S.” UB Muslim students will discuss their upbringing, their faith and their experiences as Muslims in the U.S. and other countries. Sponsors: UB Office of International Education, UB Muslim Student Association, UB Asian Studies Program, UB Intercultural & Diversity Center, Transcending Borders UB, Anonymous Donors (8)
10 a.m.-noon: Shakespeare Pedagogy: led by Barbara Bono, featuring Molly Barger, Amanda Coulter, Stephen Wisker, et. al. 2-4 p.m.: Restoration Shakespeare: led by Amanda Winkler, featuring Leslie Nickerson, David Alff
"On Materiality, and Epistemic Objects: Preparations, Models, Simulations" Sponsored by the HI Science Studies Research Workshop
PLASMA — Performances, Lectures, and Screenings in Media Art Barbara Glowczewski: Professorial researcher at The French Scientific Research Center, CNRS, member of the Laboratory of Social Anthropology at the College de France. Glowczewski has spent the past 35 years dedicating her work to advocating for Australian Aboriginal creativity employing a variety of artistic, cinematic […]
“Fear, Anxiety, and Immigration: Barriers and Belonging in the United States and Western Europe” Jean Monnet Distinguished Lecture After more than fifty years of large-scale immigration, the U.S. and Western European countries have been dramatically transformed by the huge inflows that have altered the composition of their populations in profound ways and created remarkable --- […]
Film screening with Q&A to follow (Director Jeff Roy and Maya Jafer) Mohammed to Maya (aka Rites of Passage) is a feature-length documentary that examines issues of gender, religion, and tradition against the backdrop of a single person’s dramatic journey. M2M follows one year in the life of Maya Jafer (formerly Mohammed Jafer), a South Asian Muslim from Chennai, India, as she makes her gender […]
"Deng Xiaoping vs. Gorbachev: Could Russia Have Followed the Pattern of Chinese Reforms?" Sponsors: University at Buffalo Confucius Institute, with support from the Asian Studies Program, the History Department, and the Honors College Abstract: Pantsov will discuss why Gorbachev ended up presiding over the fall of the Soviet Union, while Deng Xiaoping was able to steer […]
An adaptation of the Norse tales that inspired Wagner’s Ring Cycle – by Sean Graney Directed by Sean Graney, Eileen Silvers WBFO Visiting Professor in the Arts and Humanities Presented in conjunction with UB’s Humanities Institute, the Department of English, with additional support from by the Robert G. and Carol L. Morris Visiting Artist Fund […]
Keynote Address: “Islam and Muslims in an age of ISIS and Islamophobia” Fifteen years after the horrific attacks of 9/11, the American Muslim community and the American democratic experiment both find themselves in a perilous state. Few American communities are viewed with more hostility, negativity and suspicion. On one hand, the American Muslim community has […]
