Queer Studies Research Workshop Work in Progress “Finally, She’s Accepted Herself!”: Coming Out Narratives in Neoliberal Times. In contemporary, transnational liberal contexts, the public expression of homophobia is increasingly viewed as “unenlightened,” but heteronormativity has certainly not disappeared. Drawing on a broad archive including TV shows, psychological studies, online blogs, and Broadway hits, this paper […]
Presented by Hallwalls, Buffalo Museum of Science, Techne Institute, and UB College of Arts & Sciences BRIAN MURCHISON with KYLE BUTER Dialogue and Shared Experience COMEDYSPORTZ IMPROV Intro to Principles & Applications of Improv Comedy EVA ZUREK Chemical Imagination TOMAS HENRIQUES On Instrument Design STEVE BACZKOWSKI On Improvised Music The Science & Art Cabaret is supported by […]
"Making Romans: Citizens, subjects and subjectivity in republican empire"
"Ray Johnson's Anti-Archive: Blackface, Sadomasochism, and the Racial and Sexual Imagination of Pop Art" My essay reconsiders the racial and sexual politics of Pop Art through the work of Ray Johnson. The first part of my essay revisits José Esteban Muñoz claim that “next to no people of color populate the world of Pop Art, […]
“Toward an Etiological History of Modernist Sexuality” This presentation theorizes an etiological rather than an epistemological approach to the history of sexuality. Kahan revisits two of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s axioms in Epistemology of the Closet: 1. her eschewal of etiological approaches to the history of sexuality and 2. her avoidance of the dating of the […]
Queer Studies Research Workshop, Disabilities Studies Workshop, Department of Visual Studies, Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, Visual AIDS, UB Center for Disabilities Studies, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, WNY Pride Center, Gay and Lesbian Youth Services (GLYS), and UB Student Health Services : World AIDS Day/Day With(out) Art Radiant Presence: 2015’s event marks […]
"Fictional Worlds/Possible Futures: Philo-Fiction as Method" This event explores fictional worlds and possible futures with François Laruelle’s philo-fiction as a method. Philosophy has always flirted with fictional terrains, possible worlds, utopias, metaphysical entities, and the like, but it has always raised itself above the fabric of the fictional in the last instance. In addressing the […]
Organized by the City and Society Research Workshop Works in Progress Brownbag with Adam Wolkoff who will discuss his paper, “Every Man His Own Avenger: The Politics of Property Seizure from Urban Tenements to Tenant Farms in the Nineteenth Century United States.”
"The Ground Beneath her Feet: Towards a Black Poetics and Politics of Movement" She explores a black poetics and politics of movement that questions verticality as the desired norm. Instead of seeing every fall as an opportunity to get up again, is there another way to relate to a living, moving and remembering landscape? For […]
Organized by the Science Studies Research Workshop “A ‘Fraternity of Scientists’ and ‘The Intractable Female Patient’: The Gendering of Borderline Personality Disorder”
