“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”
“City of ‘Impudent If’: The Dream of Justice and the Endless Search for the City in the Poetry of Nathaniel Mackey” This talk discusses the intersection of politics, desire, and the city in the work of contemporary African-American poet Nathaniel Mackey. In Mackey, the city becomes a memory, ideal, delusion, and spur for a wandering […]
PLASMA Lecture Series Shelley Jackson is an electronic media artist and author. She teaches at Pratt Institute and the New School and holds a B.A. in art from Stanford University and an M.F.A in creative writing from Brown University. She published her first hypertext novel and re-working of the Frankenstein myth Patchwork Girl, in 1995 […]
Susan Weil's James Joyce: Shut Your Eyes and See - exhibit opens at Poetry Collection 5-7pm (it runs through 11 March). Remarks by the artist at 6. Presented by the Departments of Art, English, and Comparative Literature, the Modernisms Workshop, riverrun, and the Poetry Collection of the University Libraries
______ Mt. With ______ Mt. , which inhabits Percy Shelley’s iconic poem of British Romanticism, “Mont Blanc” (1816), Goldman explores the ecological, aesthetic, philosophical, and technological crossroads of the 21st century. Shelley’s ode expresses anxiety about glaciers, environmental extremity, and nature’s unmasterability. Making the poem a springboard for speculative poetic-critical practice, Goldman will perform work that addresses past […]
