The
University at Buffalo Humanities Institute sponsors and co-sponsors a variety
of events throughout the year. In addition to events organized directly by the
Institute, we are proud co-sponsors of many humanities and arts-related events
taking place on the UB campus and in the local community.
Events in gray listed above are directly affiliated with the Humanities Institute.
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here to view a Listing
of Past Events
Calendar of Upcoming Events
Fall 2009
Tues. 3 November
1:00 PM
420 Clemens Hall |
"Small Pressing Finnegans Wake - Histories of the Text in Multiple Versions"
Nick Morris
Graduate student at UB
Small Press in the Archive Lecture Series
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Tues. 3 November
7:00 PM
640 Clemens Hall |
"From Words to Images: A Jewish View on Borges"
Mirta Kupferminc
Artist from Buenos Aires
"Just Theory" Guest Lecture Events
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Wed. 4 November
10:00 AM
9 Norton Hall |
Atlantic Studies Workshop
10:00AM to 12:00PM: Pan-American Discourses
Papers: Dalia Muller (HIS), Justin Read (RLL)
Comment: Carl Nightingale (AMS)
12:00PM to 1:00PM: Lunch
1:00PM to 3:00PM: Body Images
Papers: Hershini Bhana Young (ENG), Hal Langfur (HIS)
Comment: Carine Mardorossian (ENG)
Papers will be precirculated
Sponsored by Cultures and Texts Faculty Advisory Committee
and the Provost's Office of Strategic Initiatives
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Thurs. 5 November
3:30 PM
640 Clemens Hall |
"The Face as a Liminal Image: after Deleuze, after Levinas"
Hagi Kenaan
Tel Aviv University
"Just Theory" Guest Lecture Events
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Thurs. 5 November
5:00 PM
640 Clemens Hall |
"Carlos Estévez’s Images of Thought"
Jorge J. E. Gracia
University at Buffalo
Opening Reception to Art Exposition,
UB Art Gallery, CFA
"Just Theory" Guest Lecture Events
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Mon. 9 November
3:30 PM
640 Clemens Hall |
"Incomplete Multilingualism: European Encounters"
Mireille Rosello
University of Amsterdam
Joint "Just Theory" Guest Lecture and Juxtaposition Series
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Mon. 9 November
7:00 PM
Nichols School,
Albright 104,
1250 Amherst Street

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"Pain, Truth and Victorian Literature"
Rachel Ablow
English
Humanities Institute Fellow
Scholars in the Schools Series
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Fri. 13 November
4:00 PM
Muse Restaurant

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"Ireland and the Problem of Information"
Damien Keane
English
Scholars at Muse Series
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Mon. 16 November
3:30 PM
420 Clemens Hall |
"Evolution of the Modern Female Literary Patroness"
Diane Ward
Principal Poetry Cataloger for the Poetry/Rare Books Collections at UB
Small Press in the Archive Lecture Series
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Wed. 7 October
3:30 PM
830 Clemens Hall

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“Jewish Translation: Philosophy, History, and the Space In-Between”
Aaron Hughes
History
New Faculty Seminar Series
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Thurs. 19 November
5:00 PM
640 Clemens Hall |
"Immanence and the Quest for Politics: The Badiou-Deleuze Debate"
Kathrin Thiele
U of Potsdam, Germany
"Just Theory" Guest Lecture Events
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Fri. 20 November
8:00 PM
Kleinhans Music Hall |
Waiting
Ha Jin
China
Babel 2009/2010 Season
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Spring 2010
Fri. 29 January
4:00 PM
Muse Restaurant

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"The Scale of the Event: Art/Science/Image, 1945-1970"
Nancy Anderson
Visual Studies
Scholars at Muse Series
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Fri. February 5
TBA PM
TBA |
"[TBA]"
Frances Ferguson
Johns Hopkins University
Juxtapositions Lecture Series
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Fri. 12 February
4:00 PM
Muse Restaurant

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"Conjoining the Republic: The Siamese Twins in American Literature and Culture"
Cynthia Wu
American Studies
Scholars at Muse Series
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Fri. 5 March
8:00 PM
Kleinhans Music Hall |
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Azar Nafisi
Iran
Babel 2009/2010 Season
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Fri. 16 April
4:00 PM
Muse Restaurant

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"Averting War in the Balkans"
Vasiliki Neofotistos
Anthropology
Scholars at Muse Series
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Fri. 16 April
8:00 PM
Kleinhans Music Hall |
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
India
Babel 2009/2010 Season
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