UAlbany will host a weeklong celebration-- "Celebrate & Advance," featuring a variety of arts, sports and cultural events, and culminating in the inauguration of new University President Robert J. Jones.
More info and a full schedule of events here: http://www.albany.edu/inauguration/
In conjunction with these events, the Writers Institute will sponsor appearances by Pulitzer Prize winning author Gilbert King on September 26: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/programpages/vws.html
Inauguration Week is an opportunity to celebrate the University at Albany’s honored past while advancing our future. In the week leading up to the Installation Ceremony, departments from across campus will host special events that will highlight and demonstrate our notable strengths in research and scholarship, vibrant academic and campus life, diversity that enriches learning, and community engagement.
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
"Celebrate & Advance" at UAlbany
Friday, April 26, 2013
On Madness and Visual Imagery, Monday
Leading cultural theorist
W.J.T. Mitchell, known for his brilliant analysis of the "language of images" and visual culture, presents a talk, “Seeing Madness: Insanity, Media and Visual
Culture,” at RPI, Monday, April 29, 4-6PM, in the Darrin Communications Center, Rm.
330., free and open to the public.
W. J. T. Mitchell, Gaylord
Donnelly Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History at the
University of Chicago, is a scholar and theorist of media, visual art, and
literature. Editor of the journal Critical
Inquiry, Mitchell
has been a key figure in developing the field of visual culture and in
exploring the relationship of visual and verbal representations of social and
political issues. He has written on the politics of space in the Occupy
Movement and the Arab Spring, as well as the question of landscape in Israel
and Palestine. His books include Seeing Through Race, Cloning
Terror: The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present, What do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images, The Last Dinosaur
Book: The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon, Picture Theory, and Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology. Mitchell has been the recipient of
numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Morey Prize in art history
given by the College Art Association, and the James Russell Lowell Prize from
the Modern Language Association.
For more information: esroce@rpi.edu.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
The Aching Banality of Our Times-- George Saunders
"In fiction and his essays, Saunders examines the ways in which the forces of corporate capitalism — and our own material urges — numb us, dumb us and humiliate us. He commands us to take a hard look at the absurd logic-language of Group Think or Management Speak. Then, in the spirit of communal recognition, he invites us to laugh out loud at it."
Read more by Brad Buchholz in the Austin American-Statesman: http://www.statesman.com/news/entertainment/books-literature/humor-and-hurting/nTs4c/
Saunders visits UAlbany today: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/saunders_george13.html
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Junk DNA as Cultural Metaphor
French cultural theorist and genetic engineer (specializing in the DNA of beans) Thierry Bardini will be the keynote speaker of the 10th Annual English Graduate Student Conference, 5:30 PM, Friday 3/30.
The conference, entitled "WASTE," at the University at Albany downtown campus, all day, Friday 3/30.
Thierry's new book is Junkware (2010): "Examining cybernetic structures from genetic codes to communication networks, Thierry Bardini explores the idea that most of culture and nature, including humans, is composed of useless, but always potentially recyclable, material otherwise known as ‘junk.’ Junkware examines the cultural history that led to the encoding and decoding of life itself and the contemporary turning of these codes into a commodity."