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
"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 […]
