Buffalo Humanities Festival: http://buffalohumanities.org/ Jill Lepore at the Buffalo Humanities Festival Book signing/VIP event at 7pm at the Albright-Knox Gallery, followed by a reading and on-stage discussion of The Secret History of Wonder Woman at 8pm at the Albright-Knox Gallery. Read more about Jill Lepore and her book here. Preceded by a VIP event with Jill Lepore in person!
"REMEMBER THE REMOVAL" in honor of Governor Blacksnake Walk will begin at 10am (Bus rides will start 9:30am at Steamburg Community Building) From Steamburg barricades to Blacksnake Cemetery Luncheon at 12pm Featured Speaker Thomas Abler at 1pm-2pm Historic Background of Governor Blacksnake Governor Blacksnake or Tëwönya's (Chainbreaker) was an influential war chief who fought for […]
Buffalo Humanities Festival: http://buffalohumanities.org/ The full-day festival includes talks, conversations, and roundtables led by local faculty and experts. Also featured: a curated program of independent short films, live music, a drag break, kids tent, and, for all who buy tickets by Wed., Sept. 23rd, a free boxed lunch from the West Side Bazaar! Daypasses to the Buffalo […]
Organized by the Confucius Institute "World War II with the Flying Tigers" It is in commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of the end of World War II. The event will include an exhibition and a reception. It is sponsored by the Confucius Institute and the College of Arts and Sciences of UB, and is free […]
Presented by the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art Queer Art Lecture Series The Leslie Lohman Queer Art Lecture Series is dedicated to queer art and artists. The series showcases the most significant contemporary queer artists with an emphasis on exploring the relationship between their sexuality and their art. Lukacs will feature new […]
Presented by the Dept. of Art and the Center for Psychoanalysis Maureen Shanahan, Associate Professor of Art History at James Madison University; 2015 fellow at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute "The Orientalist and the Asylum: Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault’s Veiled Photography" Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault (1872-1934) was a photographer, ethnographer, art historian and, from […]
Although pain has always constituted a central human experience, recently the stakes involved in discussions of pain have become particularly high. This is especially evident in recent debates about torture, war, and the death penalty; the politics of representing, historicizing, and describing pain; changes in medical and alternative approaches to chronic and acute pain; and […]
Organized by the Queer Studies Research Workshop Ted Triandos, Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Art, "About October": Notes on the Limits of a Discourse.
“Culture and the City: Austrian Cultural Policy in Vienna and Linz” Why Manage the Arts Speaker Series It is common sense in international cultural policy discourse that the importance of cities is increasing. In the case of Europe, this is not only due to the growing urban population but also due to the changing power […]
“Frederick Douglass, Thomas Auld, and the Reunion Narrative: 1877, 1881, 1892” Juxtapositions Series
