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UB professors to be featured on History Channel
SHERIDAN
“The Next Pompeii?” the latest installment in the History Channel’s ongoing “Mega Disasters” series that was inspired largely by UB research about Vesuvius, will air at 4 p.m. on Saturday.
The research, conducted by Michael Sheridan, professor emeritus of geology and director of the Center for Geohazards, and colleagues in Italy has received wide attention, not only from media around the world, but also from civil authorities in Naples, where it continues to stimulate vigorous public debate about the potential for another devastating disaster.
The show prominently features both Sheridan and Chris Renschler, associate professor of geography, as well as Maurizio Trevisan, former dean of the School of Public Health and Health Professions. Both Sheridan and Renschler are affiliated with the UB 2020 strategic strength Extreme Events: Mitigation and Response.
The show will air on the History Channel, channel 41 for Time Warner Cable customers. Subscribers with other cable companies should check their local listings.
Kurtz film to air on Sundance Channel
“Strange Culture,” Lynn Hershman Leeson's critically acclaimed documentary about the prosecution of UB faculty member and artist Steven Kurtz, will be broadcast four times next week on the Sundance Channel.
The film will air at 9:35 p.m. Tuesday, 12:35 a.m. Dec. 13, 10:35 a.m. Dec. 14 and 3:35 p.m. Dec. 16.
The documentary premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
Kurtz is a professor in the UB Department of Art and a founding member of the internationally known art-and-theater collective Critical Art Ensemble, which focuses its work on the intersections between art, technology, radical politics and critical theory. He was accused of bioterrorism in May 2004 when police, responding to the death of Kurtz's wife, Hope, found his art to be suspicious. Today, Kurtz and his longtime collaborator Robert Ferrell, a geneticist at the University of Pittsburgh, face charges of mail fraud and wire fraud, punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
"Strange Culture," starring Tilda Swinton, Thomas Jay Ryan, Peter Coyote and Wallace Shawn, chronicles the Kurtz case.