International Education Week 2015 Keynote Lecture “The Media Revolution: What It Means for You” Geneva Overholser, Senior Fellow in the Informed Participation Program, Democracy Fund Description of Talk A free press may be the cornerstone of democracy, but America’s legacy media institutions are largely dying businesses today. The traditional economic model of advertising no longer […]
"Bunkered Landscapes and the Search for Peace in Post-World War II Berlin" World War II was an urban war. Increasingly targeting civilians, this war inflicted tremendous physical destruction and human suffering on cities worldwide. This talk focuses on the history of air-raid bunkers in Berlin to illustrate the linkages between war, ideology, and the urban […]
Event Speakers: Moshe Halbertal, Lawrence Kaplan, Kenneth Green and James Diamond One of the most revolutionary figures in the Jewish tradition is the philosopher and legal scholar, Moses Maimonides (1138-1204). The last two years have witnessed many new books published on Maimonides’ thought by leading academic scholars in the United States, Canada and Israel. This […]
Queer Studies Research Workshop Work in Progress “Finally, She’s Accepted Herself!”: Coming Out Narratives in Neoliberal Times. In contemporary, transnational liberal contexts, the public expression of homophobia is increasingly viewed as “unenlightened,” but heteronormativity has certainly not disappeared. Drawing on a broad archive including TV shows, psychological studies, online blogs, and Broadway hits, this paper […]
Presented by Hallwalls, Buffalo Museum of Science, Techne Institute, and UB College of Arts & Sciences BRIAN MURCHISON with KYLE BUTER Dialogue and Shared Experience COMEDYSPORTZ IMPROV Intro to Principles & Applications of Improv Comedy EVA ZUREK Chemical Imagination TOMAS HENRIQUES On Instrument Design STEVE BACZKOWSKI On Improvised Music The Science & Art Cabaret is supported by […]
"Making Romans: Citizens, subjects and subjectivity in republican empire"
"Ray Johnson's Anti-Archive: Blackface, Sadomasochism, and the Racial and Sexual Imagination of Pop Art" My essay reconsiders the racial and sexual politics of Pop Art through the work of Ray Johnson. The first part of my essay revisits José Esteban Muñoz claim that “next to no people of color populate the world of Pop Art, […]
“Toward an Etiological History of Modernist Sexuality” This presentation theorizes an etiological rather than an epistemological approach to the history of sexuality. Kahan revisits two of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s axioms in Epistemology of the Closet: 1. her eschewal of etiological approaches to the history of sexuality and 2. her avoidance of the dating of the […]
Queer Studies Research Workshop, Disabilities Studies Workshop, Department of Visual Studies, Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, Visual AIDS, UB Center for Disabilities Studies, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, WNY Pride Center, Gay and Lesbian Youth Services (GLYS), and UB Student Health Services : World AIDS Day/Day With(out) Art Radiant Presence: 2015’s event marks […]
"Fictional Worlds/Possible Futures: Philo-Fiction as Method" This event explores fictional worlds and possible futures with François Laruelle’s philo-fiction as a method. Philosophy has always flirted with fictional terrains, possible worlds, utopias, metaphysical entities, and the like, but it has always raised itself above the fabric of the fictional in the last instance. In addressing the […]
