“This Is Not a Threat: Performing Reality in Conspiracy For Good” In the 2010 alternate reality game Conspiracy For Good, players aligned against a fictional corporate villain bent on surveilling British citizens. The game scenario identified consumer surveillance technology as troublesome in the hands of the game’s overtly malevolent villain, but simultaneously as a powerful […]
PLASMA - Performances, Lectures, and Screenings in Media Art, Spring 2016 presents micha cárdenas on March 21, 2016 at 6:30 pm in CFA 112. Dr. micha cárdenas is an artist/theorist who creates and studies trans of color movement in digital media, where movement includes migration, performance and mobility. She is a member of the artist collective Electronic Disturbance […]
"Love Canal: A Toxic History" Sponsored by the History Department and co-sponsored by HI. Reception begins at 7pm and the talk at 7:30pm. In the summer of 1978, residents of Love Canal, a suburban development in Niagara Falls, NY, began protesting about the massive toxic waste dump that anchored their neighborhood. Initially seeking evacuation, area […]
"The Planet at the End of the Mind: Natural History in the Anthropocene" The era now known as the Anthropocene is often said to have been ushered in circa 1784, with the invention of the steam engine--the same moment in which natural historians were first advancing a comprehensive, planetary view of nature as profoundly historical. […]
Queer Studies Research Workshop Works in Progress talk
Seminar Discussion We shall discuss two short essays with Professor Walls: Dipesh Chakrabarty, "The Climate of History: Four Theses," Critical Inquiry 35.2 (Winter 2009), 197-222; AND Timothy Clark, "Nature, Post Nature," The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment, ed. Louise Westling (Cambridge UP, 2014): pdfs of these readings are available from Professor James J. […]
Organized by the Modernisms Research Workshop We will read one chapter of Jessica Pressman's Digital Modernisms (2014) together with the introductory chapters of James Purdon's Modernist Informatics (OUP, 2015) AND Paul Stephen's The Poetics of Information Overload (U Minn, 2015). I will circulate PDFs of all chapters to anyone who requests them. Lunch will be served (RSVP required to Cris Miller).
Object and Adaptation: The Worlds of Shakespeare and Cervantes: A Conference in Three Acts Act 1 Object: Emma Smith, author of The Making of the First Folio (Oxford and Chicago, 2015/2016) "From the Barbican to Buffalo: Why Shakespeare's First Folio Matters" The first Act of a 5-part conference as part of "Bvffalo Bard 2016: A Year of […]
She is an Author, professor, and chair of Media Studies and the deputy director of the School of History, Culture and Arts Studies, at the University of Turku, Susanna Paasonen’s research interests focus on media culture, Internet research, popular culture, sexuality, pornography and theories of affect. http://susannapaasonen.org/ PLASMA is sponsored by UB’s Media Study Dept. […]
"Ran" Showing at the Amherst Dipson Theater Diane Christian and Bruce Jackson will introduce the 1985 Akira Kurosawa film "Ran" as part of the Spring 2016 Buffalo Film Seminars. "Ran" reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan.
