Humanities Institute

http://humanitiesinstitute.buffalo.edu/events/programming/digital-scholarship-week-2016/ "Building a Better Past: Digital History and the Virtual St. George’s (Bermuda) Project" This talk presents ongoing efforts to digitally reconstruct St. George’s, Bermuda’s first capital and the oldest town in English America. The project combines historical, visual, GIS, architectural, and archaeological data to create an interactive 3D model of the town in 1775 to explore […]

A Partial History of the Job Interview All job seekers and employers endure the job interview as a rite of passage. But how did its framework for a work-related interrogation emerge? This talk will chronicle the development of the job interview and changes in the basic conditions of employment. The talk will be illustrated with […]

"Whose Dionysos? Pursuit of the god in 4th Century BC Apulia" Tom Carpenter of Ohio University will be presenting his current research in a lecture organized by the Classics Graduate Student Association.

http://humanitiesinstitute.buffalo.edu/events/programming/digital-scholarship-week-2016/ Digital Scholarship “How To”: Two Hands-On Workshops Two distinct, four-hour, hands-on workshops will be offered on Saturday, March 5 and Sunday, March 6 to complement the talks of Michael Jarvis and Cristanne Miller. Participants will gain direct experience with the technologies that facilitated the research described in each talk. The workshops assume no previous […]

http://humanitiesinstitute.buffalo.edu/events/programming/digital-scholarship-week-2016/ Digital Scholarship “How To”: Two Hands-On Workshops Two distinct, four-hour, hands-on workshops will be offered on Saturday, March 5 and Sunday, March 6 to complement the talks of Michael Jarvis and Cristanne Miller. Participants will gain direct experience with the technologies that facilitated the research described in each talk. The workshops assume no previous […]

“Mediating the Method: Lee Strasberg, Marlon Brando, and the Sound of Authenticity” Method acting, the mid-twentieth-century performance style developed at the Actors Studio in New York City, was both renowned and reviled for its monomaniacal pursuit of emotional authenticity in performance, sacrificing textual integrity, and sometimes even intelligibility, to feeling; Marlon Brando’s infamous mumbling is […]

The 1998 film "Shakespeare in Love" will be screened at the North Park Theatre, with an introduction by Professor Barbara Bono.

"Settler Colonialism in the City: From Theory to Global History" Organized by the City and Society Research Workshop  

"Understanding the Aequiculi: Recent Archaeological Work in the Cicolano Region of Italy" Professor Colantoni will present a paper about her recent archaeological work in a talk sponsored by the Classics Graduate Student Association.

Leslie Lohman Queer Art Lecture Series in partnership with Hallwalls and the Queer Studies Research Workshop presents Amelia Jones: 9 March at 7pm at Hallwalls (341 Delaware at Tupper) and it's free and open to all. "Intimate Relations: What Makes Performance Queer? What Makes Queer Performative?" Jones traces the interrelated history of the terms “queer" […]