Susan Weil's James Joyce: Shut Your Eyes and See - exhibit opens at Poetry Collection 5-7pm (it runs through 11 March). Remarks by the artist at 6. Presented by the Departments of Art, English, and Comparative Literature, the Modernisms Workshop, riverrun, and the Poetry Collection of the University Libraries
______ Mt. With ______ Mt. , which inhabits Percy Shelley’s iconic poem of British Romanticism, “Mont Blanc” (1816), Goldman explores the ecological, aesthetic, philosophical, and technological crossroads of the 21st century. Shelley’s ode expresses anxiety about glaciers, environmental extremity, and nature’s unmasterability. Making the poem a springboard for speculative poetic-critical practice, Goldman will perform work that addresses past […]
“Violet Blossoms and Violent Letters: On Virginia Woolf and Lyric Reading” David Ben-Merre is an associate professor in the Department of English at Buffalo State. He has published on Lord Byron, W.B. Yeats, Pound, James Joyce and Albert Einstein, World War I poetry, Charles Dickens, Carly Simon, Giorgio Agam-ben, James Merrill, Martin Amis, and the […]
(Seminar) "From ontological desire to ethical desire: Lacan's Hamlet vs. Lacan's Antigone" Jean-Michel Rabaté is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a co-founder and senior curator of Slought Philadelphia and an editor at the Journal of Modern Literature. Professor Rabaté is the author or editor of 35 books, […]
(Lecture) "Psychoanalysis, literature and film: Freud's andere Schauplatz" Jean-Michel Rabaté is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a co-founder and senior curator of Slought Philadelphia and an editor at the Journal of Modern Literature. Professor Rabaté is the author or editor of 35 books, including "Lacan and the […]
"Imagining Consciousness" Organized by the Performance Research Workshop
Jason Livingston, an Upstate New York film and video maker, lectures in the Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa. He holds an M.F.A. in Film & Video Production and an M.A. in Communication Studies (Theories of the Avant-Garde) from the University of Iowa, and a B.A. in Philosophy from Cornell […]
Joyce scholar and Professor Emeritus Cooper Union, presents "Susan Weil: James Joyce and the Uncommon Reader" at the Poetry Collection 3:30pm. Presented by the Departments of Art, English, and Comparative Literature, the Modernisms Workshop, riverrun, and the Poetry Collection of the University Libraries
"The Cult of Elizabeth and the Production of Elizabethan Literature" A Feminist Research Alliance Workshop presented by the UB Gender Institute.
"Made to Hear: Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children" This talk will present research based on accounts of and interviews with families who adopt the cochlear implant for their deaf children. It will go over the experiences of mothers as they navigate the health care system, their interactions with the professionals who work with them, […]
