Digital Humanities: Emerging Possibilities for Scholarship and Pedagogy Information and computing technologies are rapidly changing the shape of traditional humanities teaching and research. Theoretical debates about these developments continue apace, yet there persists within the humanities a ‘digital divide.’ The Humanities and Technology Camp seeks to remedy this divide with hands-on workshops and interactive discussions […]
"Acting as Technology: A Conversation" Theatre, in some quarters, has the reputation of a Luddite institution. We are told it pits liveness against mediation, ephemerality against inscription, and the human body against machines and the mass media. Much recent scholarship, though, attests to the theater’s history as a proving ground for new media technologies. Performance […]
Work in Progress Discussion: “The Modernization of Air: Buenos Aires in the 1930’s” Organized by the Modernisms Research Workshop (please email ccmiller@buffalo.edu for a copy of the paper; lunch will be provided)
Organized by the City and Society Research Workshop A presentation by Brian Milbrand and Grace Andriette who will be discussing the role of documentary film as a bridge between academic urban studies and a local urban community. Milbrand is currently a fellow at UB’s Civic Engagement and Public Policy Research Initiative. He is a video […]
“Reclaiming Our Ancestors: Descendants of 19th-Century African American Activists Share Their Stories” The descendants of former slaves will gather at UB for a groundbreaking workshop to reconnect participants with their ancestors, further reveal their family histories and bring new voice to rich historical stories often silenced by the difficulties of tracing obscure and hard-to-follow genealogical […]
Learn to encode print or manuscript documents and create a simple annotated digital edition or other enhanced document collection for the web. Additional tools will be discussed for processing encoded texts and metadata for research purposes including mapping (GIS), text visualization, and generating a simple database. No previous technical skills or knowledge required. Led by […]
Join us on the afternoon of Monday, November 2nd for the “HI@10” symposium to reflect more on the state of the humanities at UB (2-4pm), and for a celebratory reception (4-5pm). Organized by the Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by UB's Cultures and Texts
The Fall conference of the Western New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania (WNY/NWPA) Chapter of the Fulbright Association will be held at the University at Buffalo on November 6, 2015. The conference will feature a keynote address by Ms. Reha Mallory, coordinator of short-term and long-term Fulbright-Hays group programs for the national Fulbright office. Her address […]
Modernisms Research Workshop "The Visuality of Space and the Space of Vision: On Mies van der Rohe's Photomontages" This talk addresses photomontage as a quintessential modern means of representation, as well as Mies’s research on a new conception of space, and how photomontage serves as a tool of investigation in that respect. Martino Stierli is the […]
"Confession and the Rhetoric of the Passions in Late-Medieval Iberia" The turn of the fourteenth century in Castile saw the dramatic rebirth of courtly poetry among the aristocracy and other lettered classes. This genre had already flourished centuries earlier in Languedoc, Portugal, and Aragon, and scholars seeking to explain its Castilian resurgence have described an […]
