"PAUL STRAND: GENIUS OF FORM, AND THE DISCOVERY OF CONTEXT" As part of a three-day program organized by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra that highlights the composer Aaron Copland and the photographer/ cinematographer Paul Strand, University at Buffalo SUNY Distinguished Professor & James Agee Professor of American Culture Bruce Jackson will give a talk about Strand’s […]
"Idol Hill and the Lives of Roman Idols" He presents preliminary results of excavations completed from 2010-13 with a team of UB Students on “Idol Hill,” a Celtic burial mound in southern Germany. Constructed in the second millennium B.C., its medieval name, Idol Hill, connects it with the ancient Roman practice of worshipping images of […]
"Clinical Aesthetics: Psychoanalysis, Schizoanalysis, and Art’s Work on a Body" The notion of a body and its health as a problem of desire is central to both modern art and psychoanalysis, two fields that emerge simultaneously in Western culture. Gilles Deleuze adopts Antonin Artaud’s term “body without organs” to articulate the potential in modern art […]
Digital Humanities: Emerging Possibilities for Scholarship and Pedagogy Information and computing technologies are rapidly changing the shape of traditional humanities teaching and research. Theoretical debates about these developments continue apace, yet there persists within the humanities a ‘digital divide.’ The Humanities and Technology Camp seeks to remedy this divide with hands-on workshops and interactive discussions […]
"Acting as Technology: A Conversation" Theatre, in some quarters, has the reputation of a Luddite institution. We are told it pits liveness against mediation, ephemerality against inscription, and the human body against machines and the mass media. Much recent scholarship, though, attests to the theater’s history as a proving ground for new media technologies. Performance […]
Work in Progress Discussion: “The Modernization of Air: Buenos Aires in the 1930’s” Organized by the Modernisms Research Workshop (please email ccmiller@buffalo.edu for a copy of the paper; lunch will be provided)
Organized by the City and Society Research Workshop A presentation by Brian Milbrand and Grace Andriette who will be discussing the role of documentary film as a bridge between academic urban studies and a local urban community. Milbrand is currently a fellow at UB’s Civic Engagement and Public Policy Research Initiative. He is a video […]
“Reclaiming Our Ancestors: Descendants of 19th-Century African American Activists Share Their Stories” The descendants of former slaves will gather at UB for a groundbreaking workshop to reconnect participants with their ancestors, further reveal their family histories and bring new voice to rich historical stories often silenced by the difficulties of tracing obscure and hard-to-follow genealogical […]
Learn to encode print or manuscript documents and create a simple annotated digital edition or other enhanced document collection for the web. Additional tools will be discussed for processing encoded texts and metadata for research purposes including mapping (GIS), text visualization, and generating a simple database. No previous technical skills or knowledge required. Led by […]
Join us on the afternoon of Monday, November 2nd for the “HI@10” symposium to reflect more on the state of the humanities at UB (2-4pm), and for a celebratory reception (4-5pm). Organized by the Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by UB's Cultures and Texts
