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 […]
Organized by the Performance Research Workshop, co-sponsored by the Melodia E. Jones Chair and the Canadian Studies Program
"'Love’s Poison Mystery': Food, Sex, and the New Journalist Sex Scandal in Ulysses’ Lestrygonians" Throughout Ulysses, but most pointedly in Lestrygonians, James Joyce employs images of food and consumption to figure the New Journalism’s occlusion of labor and workers through its fixation on the scandal as an extraordinary, reified product. In Lestrygonians in particular, Joyce repeatedly employs […]
Organized by the UB Haudenosaunee/Native American Studies Research Group Sponsored by the UB Humanities Institute, the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy and the UB Native Graduate Association Free and open to the public, please use Fronczack parking lot for more information: tm59@buffalo.edu
Asia@Noon series "Recovering China’s Agricultural and Water Landscapes: Reconfiguring Rural to Urban Built Typologies" Bassett will be discussing her design research and teaching, which engage the Recovering of China’s Agricultural and Water Landscape and the reconfiguring of rural to urban built typologies. Within the context of China’s new urbanization strategy, her work examines the possibilities […]
"From the Mountains to the Cities: Propagating Buddhism in Twentieth-Century Korea" He examines the modern transformation of Buddhism in Korea from a socially marginalized community of monastics under the Chosŏn dynasty (1392-1910) to a socially engaged and institutionally revitalized religion capable of attracting millions of urban lay followers today. Nathan will explore the concept, practice, […]
Learn to encode visual objects, including photographs and facsimiles, for use in digital editions, enriched web collections, or other scholarly publications and resources. In addition to fundamentals in encoding and data modelling, we will discuss how to create an annotated, interactive image collection using XML encoding and simple HTML publication. No previous technical skills or […]
"The Library Beyond the Vail: a Brief History of Post-Mortem and Channeled Texts" Mandi Shepp, Librarian at the Marion H. Skidmore Library in Historic Lily Dale, NY will be speaking about the history of post-mortem and channeled texts, and will be bringing a selection of material from the library to view. "Monster-Wives and Animal-Paramours: Occult […]
