Presented by the Queer Studies Research Workshop Ames Hawkins, Columbia College Ames Hawkins’s will perform three readings from her installation Paper Violets, Vellum Prose followed by a Q&A. In this work, she creates a multi-layered environment into which the viewers are invited to enter, stay for a while, and engage. The pew, the needlepoint cushion, […]
The Hiller Computer Music Studios of the UB Department of Music presents its annual spring Black Box concert of computer music, featuring the works of French composer and electronic music visionary Jean-Claude Risset, who passed away November 21, 2016. Risset studied composition with Andre Jolivet at the Paris Conservatory, and in 1964 moved the USA […]
The Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture is pleased to welcome Dr. Tom Eyers (Duquesne University) to UB for a seminar, "Language Poetry, History, Formalization" (introduced by Professor Judith Goldman, UB English.) Professor Eyers is the author of Lacan and the Concept of the Real (Palgrave, 2012) and Post-Rationalism: Psychoanalysis, Epistemology, and Marxism […]
History Facts is a series of discussions with UB History professors illuminating the background of contemporary issues.
A Celebration of the 25th Anniversary of UB's Membership in the Folger Institute Symposium Schedule 11:00-11:30: Introduction and welcome Barbara Bono, UB Folger representative Jim Swan, UB Folger Institute initiator Robin Schulze, UB Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences 11:30-12:30: "'Purchased by the weight': The Color of Suits in The Merchant of Venice" Olga […]
González de Eslava’s Christian Allegory of the Gran Chichimeca: Reimagining the Ancestral North in New Spain The Fifth Spiritual and Sacramental Colloquy of Fernán González de Eslava is a Christian allegorical drama set in New Spain of the 1570s. This play about Spanish attempts to fortify the northern frontier incorporates striking elements of indigenous lore. […]
DAVE EGGERS is the author of ten books, including most recently Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?, The Circle, and A Hologram For The King, which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. He is the founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco […]
“The Sensation of Time: Reading Water with Roni Horn and Clarice Lispector” SCHEDULE CHANGE: This event was originally scheduled for March 10, 2017. In her March 10th talk, “The Sensation of Time: Reading Water with Roni Horn and Clarice Lispector,” French professor Fernanda Negrete will show how Horn’s installation “Library of Water” (2007 – present) […]
Please join for the 3rd Emily Dickinson Community Marathon Reading. Readers of all ages are invited to join in this community reading. Copies of the poems will be provided. The marathon reading will end with a reception. Westminster Presbyterian Church 724 Delaware Avenue Buffalo, NY 14209
Students, faculty, and members of the public are invited to a symposium on career opportunities for Humanities scholars. The event will feature presentations by UB alumni who have built rewarding and diverse careers outside the academy, as well as a career fair with representatives from regional organizations that employ Humanities graduates both as interns and […]
