“Philosophy Unshackled”, Thomas D. Sullivan, University of St. Thomas and “Burying the Philosophical Past: Reflections on the endlessly recurring philosophical impulse to start all over again”, Russell Pannier, Mitchell Hamline School of Law
"The Lanthanide Series" Screening with Filmmaker Erin Espelie (Assistant Professor, Film Studies / Critical Media Practices, University of Colorado, Boulder) A feature length film about rare earth elements (the lanthanides), black mirrors (from obsidian to iPads), and how technology is reshaping the way we record the present and replay the past. Sponsored by Techne Institute, […]
September 29-October 1, 2016 Burchfield Penney Art Center Two Sections: "Country in Focus 2016: Iran" "Film Future" Public Lecture: “Rising From the Ashes: Iranian Art House Cinema” by Dr. Hamid Naficy, Northwestern University. Friday, September 30, 7 PM. Special Guest: Noureddin Zarrinkelk, Iranian animator. Saturday, October 1, 2 PM. Series Curator: Dr. Tanya Shilina-Conte, UB English. Program: […]
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 […]
