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 […]
Directed by David Marshall, this 2009 documentary follows Buffalo lesbian activist Madeline Davis’ efforts to create and find a home for an LGBTQ historical archive. In the process, we delve into Davis’ own activist history, and explore some of the stories of Buffalo’s LGBTQ community that inspired the archive in the first place. Screening will […]
Lecture by Stephen Decatur Smith (Stonybrook, Music & Theory), “The Plaint of the Ideal: Music, Sound, and Hegel’s Modernity of Nature.” A lecture on music, critical theory, and the modernisms movement.
Workshop on Emerging Issues in Genetics and the Law — October 21 & 22, 2016 Ocrober 21 and 22, join us for a groundbreaking workshop that will bring together scholars from a diverse range of disciplines to contemplate the cultural, scientific, regulatory, and normative implications of gene editing technologies for the future of life. Workshop […]
Are you thinking about how to add a digital dimension to your existing research or even starting a new “born digital” project? Perhaps, you already have a clear idea of where you would like to go but aren’t sure how to get there. Or, you might just want to begin to explore what possibilities are […]
The promise and perils of new technologies in genetic engineering will be examined in a major forum on October 21, sponsored by the University at Buffalo School of Law. The forum, titled “Editing the Environment: Emerging Issues in Genetics and the Law,” will begin at 2 p.m. at the Center for the Arts, on UB’s […]
“Bodily Politics: Frank Speech and the Health of the Greek City” Dana Fields, Classics Photographer: Douglas Levere “Bodily Politics: Frank Speech and the Health of the Greek City,” the October 21st talk by Classics professor Dana Fields, examines how Greek writers of the Roman Imperial period use metaphors of medical practice to talk about frank […]
The Music Department’s Lecture Series presents a talk by Assistant Professor of Musicology Colin Roust (University of Kansas) on Tuesday, October 25 at 4:00 in 250 Baird Hall. Professor Roust’s paper is entitled "An Ultramodernist Goes Pop: Georges Auric and Pop Culture from the 1950s to the 1970s.” An abstract of Professor Roust’s paper: Although Georges […]
