Intellectual Foundations Events
Spring, 2010
Rooftop Poetry Club
Theater
History, Psychology and Social Movements Lecture Series
Women's Studies Colloquia
Ethnographic Dreamworlds
Sponsors:Dean of Natural and Social Sciences;Intellectual Foundations; Auxiliary Services Grant Award; Associate VP for Campus Life; Burchfield Penney Art Center
Thursday, April 22 at 4: 00, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Collection Room.
"Mob Justice, Pirate Trials and the ICC: Forms of Accountability in Kenya."
Mateo Taussig-Rubbo.
Mateo Taussig-Rubbo earned his J.D. at Yale Law School; practiced in the area of cross-border transactions at a New York City firm; and clerked for a U.S. District Court judge in the Southern District of New York. He is also an anthropologist, and completed the dissertation for his doctoral degree at the University of Chicago, where he also did his undergraduate work. Taussig-Rubbo focuses on such anthropological concepts as gift, sacrifice and consecration, as they apply to modern political and legal situations. He is a law professor at UB where he teaches contracts and classes on sovereignty, law and culture, and piracy.
Friday, April 23 at 4: 00, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Collection Room.
"Praying and Playing to the Beat of a Child’s Metronome"
Patricia Ticineto Clough.
Patricia Ticineto Clough is Professor of Sociology, Women’s Studies, and Intercultural Studies at Queens College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Her books include Autoaffection (2000), Feminist Thought (1995) and The End(s) of Ethnography (1992, revised 1998).
In this performance piece about religiosity, the body, the affective and the technological, I take up a number of objects that are better understood as framings of experimentation and regulation in the memories, or memorials, of a child’s life. The rhythm of music and the beat of the metronome, the fingers hitting a father’s adding machine and the flicking of a bit of metal against the leather bands of a whip, the repetition of prayerful ejaculations and the turning pendulum of a clock close to the parents’ bed—all are found in the performance, entangled one with another, intensifying the sound and the feel of a childhood. As the boundary between memory and knowledge, object and process, become impossible in a story of childhood, a space is opened to reconsider technologies, objects, the spiritual and the sublime.
“Appalachian Radio Prayers: The Prosthesis of the Holy Ghost and the Drive to Tactility."
Anderson Blanton.
A doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University, Andy’s research explores charismatic healing prayer and its often disavowed or unacknowledged material conduits such as prayer cloths, bodily techniques, and radios. He has recently returned from fieldwork with charismatic Christian communities in both southern West Virginia and northwestern Virginia. Andy is currently a Mellon Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy.
Employing charismatic testimonies and ethnographic observations, this presentation explores the unanticipated centrality of tactile experience within what is usually understood as an exclusively auditory phenomenon, namely listening to prayer over the radio. This ethnography approaches the question: “Why must the faithful listener out in ‘radioland’ put their hand upon the radio apparatus in order to receive the healing power (par) of the Holy Ghost?
Saturday, April 24 at 3:00, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Collection Room.
“The Plague Years: A PSYCHOpolitics of Bioterrors."
Jackie Orr.
Jackie Orr is currently an associate professor of sociology at Syracuse University. She teaches and writes in the fields of cultural politics, contemporary theory, and the critical study of technoscience. Her book, Panic Diaries: A Genealogy of Panic Disorder (Duke University Press, 2006) looks at the entanglements of bodies, pills, power, computers, and (social) scientific discourses in the social construction of psychic dis-ease and its cure. Her work has been published in Social Problems and Critical Sociology and a number of edited anthologies. For the past two decades, she has experimented with forms of 'performance sociology' and multi-media collage as an alternative site for the production of public memory, insurgent knowledge, and political and social transformation.
This performance piece engages the current landscape--geopolitical, biopolitical, and psychotic--of Department of Homeland Security-sponsored bioterrorist simulations. Taking simulation as both a symptom of pre-emptive logics of securitization and an aesthetic strategy for conjuring the social illogics of contemporary power, the piece offers a sustained meditation on the possibilities and limits of critical knowledge production today. In the face of the public secret of ongoing U.S. bioweapons research and in the wake of the anthrax attacks (conducted within the belly of the U.S. biosecurity apparatus), what more do we really need to 'know' before dreaming elsewhere, otherwise, toward radically different futures?
Sunday, April 25 at 3:00, in the auditorium of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
http://www.tleavesbooks.com/penworld.htm
The Sky is Falling
April 8 4:00-5:00 {in the Collections Room Burchfield Penney Art Center}
Karen Engle is Assistant Professor, Social Theory at the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Windsor, Canada. She teaches classical and contemporary theory, visual cultures, and feminist theories. Research interests include mourning, memory & history in relation to visual cultures, and the psychoanalysis of everyday life. Seeing Ghosts: 9/11 and the Visual Imagination was published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 2009.
Robert Hirsch is a renowned photographer, educator, historian and writer. His book credits include Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age, Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Ideas, Materials and Processes; Exploring Color Photography: From the Darkroom to the Digital Studio; and Seizing the Light: A History of Photography, and he has written articles for numerous publications. He has had many one-person shows and curated scores of exhibitions. Hirsch has also conducted workshops and interviewed eminent photographers of our time. The former executive director of CEPA Gallery, he is now the director of Light Research in Buffalo, New York. www.lightresearch.net
Space, the Final Frontier
April 9 3:00-5:00 {in the Collections Room Burchfield Penney Art Center}
"Mexican Punk Metal in the Blue Ridge, and other aspects of the Latino Soundscape in the Contemporary South."
Daniel Margolies is the Batten Associate Professor of History at Virginia Wesleyan College and the author of Henry Watterson and the New South: The Politics of Empire, Free Trade, and Globalization, published by the University Press of Kentucky in 2006. Current research project revolves around the Latinization of the South, particularly in terms of migrant music and food. http://facultystaff.vwc.edu/~dmargolies/h
Everywhere is Nowhere . a film by Justin Armstrong
Justin Armstrong is a graduate student in cultural anthropology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada where he is currently preparing to defend his dissertation, entitled Lives Once Lived: ethnography and sense of place in the abandoned and isolated spaces of North America. His research interests include the anthropology of memory, Situationist ethnography, experimental ethnographic methodologies and audio-visual ethnography. His most recent article, Everyday Afterlives: Walter Benjamin and the politics of abandonment in Saskatchewan, Canada, will soon be published in Cultural Studies. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
"The Disorder of Things: American Hoarding Narratives"
Susan Lepselter is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Culture and the Program in American Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. Before coming to Indiana in 2007 she was a Mellon Fellow at the Penn Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania, an adjunct professor at many New York City universities, and a freelance writer. She received her PhD in Folklore and Social Anthropology from the University of Texas, Austin. Her book in progress is called The Flight of the Ordinary: Narrative, Poetics, Power and UFOs in the American Uncanny.
Buffalo State College Theater Department
MILES & MYTHOLOGY
Faculty Choreographed Dance Concert
April 28-May 1 @ 8PM
May 1 @ 2PM
Warren Enters Theater (Upton Hall)
For More Information:
716-878-3005 or www.buffalostate.edu/theater
Women's Studies Colloquium
Lynn Peril,
Day, time and place to be announced
Lynn Peril is an author of Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons (W.W. Norton, 2002) and College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens and Coeds, (Norton, 2006). A Pushcart-Prize-nominated writer, Ms. Peril's column, "The Museum of Femoribilia," appears in Bust magazine. Her essays and reviews have appeared in London's Guardian newspaper, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and Hermenaut among other publications. Lynn Peril received her M.A. in History, with a concentration in Gender, from San Francisco State University, 1995.
History, Psychology and Social Movements Lecture Series
The Inner Lives of Student Activists in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1960s.
Dr. Belinda Davis
Rutgers University
Wednesday April 14th, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Burchfield Penny Art Center Auditorium
A Shifting Emotional Habitus: Bowers vs. Hardwick and the Emergence of the Direct Action AIDS Movement
Dr. Deborah Gould
University of California, Santa Cruz
Friday April 30th, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Burchfield Penny Art Center Auditorium
Rooftop Poetry Club
For more, and updated information see http://library.buffalostate.edu/rooftop/
February 10th
Writing to Music with Caity Brady
Music can inspire emotions and creativity of all kind. In this hour long workshop, Caity Brady will guide participants through writing exercises to rhythmic music.
March 8th
Charles Burchfield's Heat Waves in a Swamp: Transformation and Revelation
Presented by teaching artist, Karen Lee Lewis
NOTE: The location for this workshop is the Burchfield Penney Art Center, and it takes place from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. Please RSVP to Lisa Forrest by March 5th.
This workshop will explore Charles Burchfield’s process of transformation. We will expand our approach to original literary composition, and learn how we can reframe, reinvent, and reinvigorate our creative process as a result.
March 10th
Reading featuring George Hole and Lorna Perez
March 21st
Reading for Charles Burchfield. Featuring poets who participated in the March 8th Heat Waves in a Swamp workshop
NOTE: The location for this workshop is the Burchfield Penney Art Center, 3:30 p.m.
March 24th
Student Reading
More TBA
April 7th
What Poem Is in Your Pocket?
Celebrate National Poetry Month by participating in the Academy of American Poets' Poem in Your Pocket Day. Bring a favorite poem to share with the group. We'll create "pocket poems" to distribute across the community on April 29th, 2010.
April 21st
Reading featuring Karen Lewis and Theresa Wyatt
Weather permitting, we will meet in the Rooftop Garden, E.H. Butler Library, 2nd floor courtyard.
