Click here to RSVP Buffalo News reporter Jerry Zremski and photographer Derek Gee will discuss their experiences reporting on the lives of refugees from Burma during “From Burma to Buffalo,” a presentation sponsored by the School of Social Work’s Immigrant and Refugee Research Institute. Zremski and Gee, who spent 20 months reporting the series of […]
History Facts is a series of discussions with UB History professors illuminating the background of contemporary issues.
A story of historical truth, spirituality, and resistance, told on behalf of the original nations and peoples of Great Turtle Island, and elsewhere on Mother Earth. We are still here, and still rightfully free. Directed by Sheldon P. Wolfchild, co-produced by Steven T. Newcomb, and narrated by Buffy Sainte-Marie. Following the film, there will be […]
The Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture is pleased to welcome Aaron Schuster to UB. Dr. Schuster is a former Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies, Rijeka, Croatia and at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry, ICI Berlin. He is currently the Head of the Theory Program at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. […]
Theodore Cateforis (Syracuse University) From the twelve bar blues and AABA to the strophic and verse/chorus, the history of popular music has featured various song forms that have proven to be durable generic types. In the 1990s, alternative rock ushered in a novel variation on the verse/chorus, a form often referred to as the “soft/loud.” […]
The Distinguished Speakers Series event with Roxane Gay, originally scheduled for 8 pm on April 5 has been postponed and rescheduled for Thursday, April 13, after her travel plans were disrupted due to unforeseen flight complications and delays. The Informal Session has also been rescheduled for the 13th, at the same time: 4:30-5:30pm. The location […]
The Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture is pleased to welcome Aaron Schuster to UB. Dr. Schuster is a former Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies, Rijeka, Croatia and at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry, ICI Berlin. He is currently the Head of the Theory Program at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. […]
Open to the public. Performance of win.place.show. win. place. show. investigates a set of interrelated themes: the pressures of accomplishment and achievement, the demands of perpetual productivity, and the many ways of “being” in the daily race. Lecture, "Walking in the Academy." The performance is followed by a talk given by dance dramaturg Jeanmarie Higgins, […]
Presented by the Queer Studies Research Workshop Ames Hawkins, Columbia College “Art Activism in the Classroom: Context, Principles and Collaboration as Trans/Feminist Practice.” In this presentation-workshop, Ames Hawkins (whose work is in the exhibit Ill at Ease: Dis-ease and Art, now on display) discusses how development of courses in art activism and her work in […]
The Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture is pleased to welcome Dr. Tom Eyers (Duquesne University) to UB for a lecture, "Psychoanalyzing Form," (introduced by Professor Bill Solomon, UB English). Professor Eyers is the author of Lacan and the Concept of the Real (Palgrave, 2012) and Post-Rationalism: Psychoanalysis, Epistemology, and Marxism in Post-War […]
