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  • UB's IREWG to Present Women's Film Festival
    1/22/04
    Appearances by a prominent director and an emerging director -- each of whom will introduce her film -- will be among the highlights of the eighth annual University at Buffalo Women's Film Festival, which will run on Thursdays from Feb. 5 through March 11 in the Market Arcade Film & Arts Centre, 639 Main St.
  • Ziarek to Deliver IREWG Lecture at UB
    1/22/04
    Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, newly appointed Julian Park Chair in the Humanities in the Department of Comparative Literature in the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences, will discuss feminist theory and the militant suffrage movement at the annual UB Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender (IREWG) Distinguished Faculty Lecture.
  • UB Studies Feasibility of New Professional Master's Degree Programs in International Business and Trade
    1/22/04
    The University at Buffalo is pursuing the development of three new professional programs in social sciences and the humanities that will join a new group of interdisciplinary professional graduate programs and certificate programs in the natural sciences, informatics, education and other fields.
  • Pianist Greenberg to present first UB faculty recital
    1/14/04
    Jacob Greenberg will perform his first solo recital as a UB faculty member, focusing on works by contemporary British composers, at 8 p.m. Jan. 24 in Slee Concert Hall on the North Campus.
  • Center for the Arts to present TOPS Family Adventure Series Franklin's Class Concert
    1/9/04
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present "Franklin's Class Concert" at 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. on Feb. 15 in the Mainstage theater located at the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The Center for the Arts TOPS Family Adventure series is sponsored by TOPS Markets, WGRZ-TV, and Star 102.5.
  • Delightful, Delicious, Disgusting -- the Difficult Pleasures of "Terrible Eating"
    1/9/04
    The next time you're about to pop a chunk of moldy Gorgonzola, lamb's lung, aged beef or urine-scented kidney into your mouth, consider its meaning. "Part of the experience of this sort of meal," says Carolyn Korsmeyer, professor of philosophy at the University at Buffalo, "involves an awareness, however underground, of the presence of death amid the continuance of one's own life."
  • Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer to Present Special Duo Performance in Center for the Arts
    1/8/04
    The Center for the Arts will present Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer at 8 p.m. on Feb. 11 in the Mainstage theater located in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Center for the Arts to Present Garth Fagan Dance as Part of KeyBank Dance Series
    1/7/04
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Garth Fagan Dance at 8 p.m. on Feb 6 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The performance is sponsored by KeyBank. Media sponsors are WGRZ-TV and WJYE-FM.
  • Mikhail Baryshnikov, One of World's Most Celebrated Dancers, Brings Two Evenings of Solo, Contemporary Dance to UB
    12/16/03
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present "Solos with Piano or Not...An Evening of Music and Dance with Mikhail Baryshnikov and Pianist Pedja Muzijevic" at 8 p.m. on Jan. 30 and Jan. 31 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • Works of Contemporary Chinese Artists Featured in "Chinese Maximalism" Exhibit in UB Art Gallery
    11/26/03
    The University at Buffalo Art Gallery is the only U.S. venue for "Chinese Maximalism," a groundbreaking exhibition of more than 65 works by 15 contemporary Chinese artists that is the result of an unprecedented collaboration between the UB Art Gallery and the Millennium Museum in Beijing, China.