A seminar presented by Professor Elissa Marder Elissa Marder is the Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Emory University, where she is currently serving as Chair of the Department of French and Italian and as Interim Director of the Psychoanalytic Studies program. In addition, she is also an international fellow at the London Graduate […]
Science Studies Research Workshop The pre-circulated essay for this event is part of a long-term book project, Mapping Embodiment in the Early Modern West: A Prehistory of Normality. Rather than develop a genealogy of normality through examples from expository prose, the book focuses on the visual syntax of anatomical illustration, natural histories, and the use […]
A Commemoration of the 400th Anniversary of Their Deaths and a Comparative Study of Their Enduring Influence Locations: UB Center for the Arts and the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Central Branch (Lafayette Square) 2016 marks the 400th anniversary of the deaths of both William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, the pre-eminent authors […]
Join us for this special celebration! Free and Open to the Public Rare Shakespeare Folios from the collections of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library and the UB Libraries are together for the first time in one place. Master of Ceremonies: Andrew McConnell Stott, Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education, University at Buffalo. […]
October 17, 18, and 19 Just Theory Capen Lecture Series on “Agency and Suffering: Women Then and Now” All lectures begin at 4pm. Christia Mercer, Columbia University, presents three talks over three days. Monday, October 17 “Meditating on Truth: How women changed the course of philosophy 1300-1600 and laid the groundwork for Descartes’ Meditations” Tuesday, […]
“Color Around the Globe”: Langston Hughes and Comparative Racialization Jang Wook Huh, English The Harlem Renaissance, or the New Negro Movement, was not limited to New York but linked to Paris, Kingston, and even Chongjin, a port city in present-day North Korea. Langston Hughes visited Korea in 1933 at the peak of Japanese imperialism. This […]
Directed by David Marshall, this 2009 documentary follows Buffalo lesbian activist Madeline Davis’ efforts to create and find a home for an LGBTQ historical archive. In the process, we delve into Davis’ own activist history, and explore some of the stories of Buffalo’s LGBTQ community that inspired the archive in the first place. Screening will […]
Lecture by Stephen Decatur Smith (Stonybrook, Music & Theory), “The Plaint of the Ideal: Music, Sound, and Hegel’s Modernity of Nature.” A lecture on music, critical theory, and the modernisms movement.
Workshop on Emerging Issues in Genetics and the Law — October 21 & 22, 2016 Ocrober 21 and 22, join us for a groundbreaking workshop that will bring together scholars from a diverse range of disciplines to contemplate the cultural, scientific, regulatory, and normative implications of gene editing technologies for the future of life. Workshop […]
Are you thinking about how to add a digital dimension to your existing research or even starting a new “born digital” project? Perhaps, you already have a clear idea of where you would like to go but aren’t sure how to get there. Or, you might just want to begin to explore what possibilities are […]
