University at Buffalo Humanities Institute

New Books in Dialogue: Early Modern Queer Studies

This Friday! Click through for details and to register for this virtual session of Scholars@Hallwalls. "John is a filmmaker and photographer whose work explores our relationships with one another and the environment. His award-winning films have played at SXSW, MoMA, Hot Docs, Cannes, and many other festivals and venues around the world, receiving distribution on Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, Sundance Now, and other platforms."

Join us next Friday as John Fiege (UB Media Study) presents his talk live on Zoom with a Q+A session following. Fiege is developing a podcast, called Ecosphere, that explores key questions at the heart of our ecological predicament: what is our physical and spiritual relationship to the rest of nature, and how can we live with one another in a way that protects the diversity of life on Earth?

Tomorrow at 8pm, Humanities New York presents the first in a two-part series addressing the question, What does democracy demand? Sign-up today for this free event!

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This Friday, our final virtual Scholars@Hallwalls session of the fall semester features Ewa Plonowska Ziarek (Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature).

This evening at 7pm (EST). Free and open to the public, RSVP to receive the webinar link. "There is a powerful tradition of utopian practice and thought in African American communities. From black towns like Mound Bayou, Mississippi to the lyrical imaginings of Afrofuturism Black utopias have been a potent response to racial inequality and suffering. At this moment of rupture, with the related crises of the pandemic, racial uprisings, climate change and economic decline, Black Utopian thought and practice offer alternative paths to the future. On Thursday, November 19 leading scholars and artists in the field of Afrofuturism and Black Utopia will engage in a conversation about the role Black Utopian thinking can play at this crucial moment." Victoria W. Wolcott, Convener and Moderator.