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UB to hold first Veterans Day celebration
UB will hold its inaugural Veterans Day celebration honoring the university’s veteran and military service members at 9 a.m. Nov. 11 at Coventry Circle outside the Center for the Arts and in the CFA atrium on the North Campus. The event is free and open to the public.
A flag ceremony on Coventry Circle will open the celebration, featuring the UB-Canisius Army ROTC Color Guard and UB Police Color Guard. An invocation will be given by Linda Nosbish of the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps.
The program will continue inside the Center for the Arts following the flag ceremony, with refreshments and remarks. Dennis R. Black, vice president for university life and services, will welcome attendees and introduce speakers representing UB Police, students and the military.
To RSVP, click here.
This event is sponsored by the Office of Student Affairs, the UB Student Wellness Team and the UB Military Members Association, a student group that offers a community for those leaving the military and entering UB.
Rose to speak ‘On Belief’
Jacqueline Rose, professor of English at the University of London, UK, will discuss “Total Belief: Delirium in the West” as part of the “On Belief” lecture series sponsored by the Humanities Institute.
Rose will speak at 4 p.m. Nov. 8 in 120 Clemens Hall, North Campus.
In her talk, she will return to Hannah Arendt’s analysis of totalitarianism as mental control and ask: What form of belief and passion does such subjection entail? What happens when a political belief becomes sacred? What categories of truth and falsehood, belief and disbelief, were engaged in the ideological order of the Third Reich?
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Rose’s research focuses on modern subjectivity at the interface of literature, psychoanalysis and politics, as well as on the history and culture of South Africa and of Israel-Palestine.
The “On Belief” series, which has featured such speakers as Amy Hollywood of Harvard Divinity School, Michael Warner of Yale University and Joan Wallach Scott of Princeton, aims to tackle “questions about what we believe and why we believe it—questions that can’t be answered from within any single academic department or discipline,” according to Tim Dean, director of the Humanities Institute, who notes series speakers address scientific beliefs, as well religious beliefs.”
For more information, contact the Humanities Institute at 645-2591.
Come to the Cabaret
The Department of Theatre and Dance will present the award-winning musical “Cabaret” Nov. 17-21 in the Drama Theatre in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
Performance times are 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
The musical, with music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb, will be presented in a full production with orchestra and newly designed and executed sets, lights and costumes.
“Cabaret” is loosely based on Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin stories. The musical won eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Composer and Lyricist. The subsequent film starring Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey won eight Oscars.
The production will be directed and choreographed by guest artist Gary John LaRosa, who has directed and choreographed nationwide, including the national tour of “Footloose.”
Nathan R. Matthews, UB director of music theatre, will music direct and conduct the production. Matthews is founding producing artistic director of the Riverside Opera Ensemble in New York and a former member of the music staff of the Santa Fe Opera.
Students in the Music Theatre BFA and other Theatre and Dance degree programs comprise the cast.
Tickets are $18 for general admission and $10 for students and seniors, and are available at the CFA box office and at all Ticketmaster locations, including Ticketmaster.com.
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Poet Gerstler to present Silverman reading
Award-winning American poet Amy Gerstler, whose witty, complex work around themes of redemption, suffering and survival led The Los Angeles Times to call her “one of the best poets in the nation,” will present UB’s 2010 Oscar Silverman Reading.
The reading will take place at 8 p.m. Nov. 19 in Baird Recital Hall, 250 Baird Hall, North Campus.
Gerstler’s books, widely and deeply reviewed by major critics, are often cited for their originality and dark humor. They include Ghost Girl (2004); Medicine (2000), a finalist for the Phi Beta Kappa Poetry Award; Crown of Weeds (1997); Nerve Storm (1995); Bitter Angel (1990), winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award; The True Bride (1986); and Dearest Creature (2009), a 2009 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Gerstler’s published work also includes reviews, fiction and journal articles.
Gerstler teaches at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif., the University of Southern California’s Master of Professional Writing Program and the Bennington College Writing Seminars program.
The Oscar Silverman Reading is presented annually in memory of the distinguished scholar and teacher who chaired the UB Department of English from 1955 to 1963. From 1960 to 1968, Silver also directed and greatly expanded the University Libraries, and was instrumental in acquiring materials in the university’s world-class collection of 20th-century poetry, in particular its Robert Graves Collection, the manuscripts of Wyndham Lewis and the James Joyce Collection, which has evolved into the finest Joyce collections in the world.
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