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Gender symposium to be held on North Campus
“Out of the Cube: Aesthetic, Political, Medical and Discursive Approaches to Gendered Identities,” a multimedia symposium presented by the Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender, will be held from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sept. 26 in 120 Clemens Hall, North Campus.
The symposium, which will be free and open to the public, is part of Gender Week activities.
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Kozol to speak during two-day visit to UB
Educator and social activist Jonathan Kozol, whose iconic books on urban schools have shaped the sensibilities of generations of teachers, will participate in two events next week at UB.
Kozol will present the lecture “Letters to a Young Teacher” at 4 p.m. Oct. 2, in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus. The lecture is the 2008-09 Charlotte C. Acer Colloquium on Urban Education, and part of the Graduate School of Education’s Dean’s Lecture Series. Tickets are sold out.
On Oct. 3, he will deliver the keynote address, “Art and the Aesthetics in the Age of Tests and Terror in Our Nation’s Public Schools,” as part of the daylong conference “21st Century Arts in Learning: Innovation, Imagination and Creativity in the Age of Testing.” The conference will be held in the Student Union, North Campus.
Kozol, whose “Death at an Early Age” tells of his first year as a teacher in a poor African-American neighborhood in Boston, has been synonymous with educational reform and equality since that book was released in 1967 and won the National Book Award a year later.
Anyone interested in registering for the conference or buying tickets for either session should visit the Jonathan Kozol @ UB website, or call 834-5777.
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Humanities faculty to speak at salon series
Erik Seeman, associate professor of history, will discuss “Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492-1800” during the second lecture in the “Scholars at the Muse” lecture and discussion series sponsored by the UB Humanities Institute and Riverrun.
Seeman’s lecture on Oct. 10, and all remaining lectures in the series, will be held at 4 p.m. in the Muse Restaurant in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
The series features talks by unusual and award-winning speakers in the humanities, along with food, drink and discussion with new and old acquaintances. The talks will be free of charge and open to the public, but because of the venue, seating is limited.
The remaining talks this semester will be given on Nov. 7 by Theresa Runstedtler, assistant professor of American studies, who will discuss “Journeymen: Race, Boxing and the Transnational World of Jack Johnson,” and on Dec. 5 by Carole Emberton, associate professor of history, whose presentation is entitled “Between the Law and the Lash: Race, Violence and American Citizenship in the Age of Slave Emancipation.”
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Wendt Foundation gives WBFO largest gift ever
WBFO-FM 88.7, UB’s National Public Radio affiliate, has received its largest single grant in the station’s 50-year history: $300,000 from the Margaret L. Wendt Foundation to support installation of the station’s new tower and antenna from which it already has begun broadcasting.
The gift—to be matched up to $275,000 in additional funds, including gifts and grants from individual donors and other foundations—will be used toward the cost of the tower, designed to improve the quality of WBFO’s signal in Western New York, the Southern Tier and Southern Ontario; to strengthen its signal in downtown Buffalo; and to extend the station’s reach to an additional 50,000 people to the northeast, east and southeast of the station's current broadcast area.
“We are excited to support such a worthy initiative,” the foundation trustees said in a statement. “WBFO’s outstanding news and music programming enriches our daily lives, elevates the civic life of the region and connects people across a broad geographic area in the western parts of New York State.”
At 443 feet high, the new tower stands 45 percent higher than WBFO's former tower and allows the station to deliver a significantly stronger signal to more than 1.2 million people now within its broadcast area, according to Carole Smith Petro, associate vice president and WBFO general manager.
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Music to present free events
Budget-conscious music lovers at UB can find much to keep them busy in October.
The free monthly Brown Bag Concert will take place at noon Oct. 7 in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus. Now in their 10th season, the Brown Bag Concerts offer patrons a glimpse of the kind of programming offered on a regular basis by the Department of Music. Patrons are encouraged to bring their lunch and enjoy a complimentary cup of Starbucks coffee.
The music department also will present a free performance of Arnold Schönberg’s “Pierrot Lunaire” at 3 p.m. Oct. 12 in Lippes Concert Hall.
This important work of 20th century music, which has been performed infrequently in Buffalo, will feature soprano Shinobu Takagi, UB faculty cellist Jonathan Golove and faculty members from the School of Music at Fredonia State College. James Currie, assistant professor of music, will deliver a short lecture before the performance.
Two free student concerts also will be on tap during October. The Voice Studio Recital will take place at noon Oct. 16 in Baird Recital Hall, 250 Baird Hall, North Campus; guitarist Marcyn Dylla will conduct a master Ccass at 1 p.m. Oct. 26, also in Baird Recital Hall.
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