Humanities Institute

$8 general, $6 students/seniors, $5 Hallwalls members. The film will be introduced at Hallwalls by Professor David R. Castillo, Director of the UB Humanities Institute, professor of Spanish language and literature, and co-author (with William Egginton) of Medialogies: Reading Reality in the Age of Inflationary Media (Bloomsbury Academic, November 17, 2016). Screening licensed by arrangement […]

Homeland: Iraq Year Zero (2015), Abbas Fahdel Screening, Part I Organized by: Center for Global Media, Department of English Location: Student Union 330 Description: In February 2002—about a year before the U.S. declared war in 2003—Iraqi filmmaker Abbas Fahdel traveled home from France to capture everyday life as his country prepared for war. He zeroed […]

Homeland: Iraq Year Zero (2015), Abbas Fahdel (attending in person) Screening, Part II Organized by: Center for Global Media, Department of English Location: Center for the Arts 112 Followed by @6 pm Conversation with director Abbas Fahdel (Clip Talk) Introduced by Prof. of Film and Media Theory Tanya Shilina-Conte, Department of English This event is […]

“Messy Ground: Wind, Profits and Livelihoods” Jaume Franquesa’s April 7th talk, “Messy Ground: Wind, Profits and Livelihoods,” offers a historically informed and ethnographically grounded study of the unparalleled development of wind energy in Spain. Franquesa, a professor of Anthropology, analyzes the contradictions pervading this process (local opposition, boom-and-bust cycles, and modest environmental benefits) and reveals […]

Intersections: Collage of Urban Networks 6th Annual Graduate Student Conference for Romance Languages and Literatures Friday, April 7 4:00 PM | Keynote | Baldy 101 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Phillip Thomas Penix-Tadsen, University of Delaware Followed by a short play (Norton Hall 112) Saturday, April 8 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Breakfast | Clemens 904 […]

The Panel Michelle Benson (Political Science) Brexit: Implications for Conflict Intervention and Human Rights Policies Winston Chang (Economics) Brexit and Its Economic Consequences Patrick McDevitt (History) British and Sub-British Patriotism in the Age of Brexit Deborah Reed-Danahay (Anthropology) Living with Uncertainty post-Brexit: French Citizens in London Randy Schiff (English) Brexit, Ethnonationalism, and the Re-Fragmentation of […]

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.  […]