Arts and Culture

The Studio Company of the American Ballet Theatre, one of a handful of great classical ballet companies in the world, will be in residency at the University at Buffalo Center for the Arts from Oct. 1-21.

UB will host a performance lecture on traditional Korean music by virtuoso performer and composer Kim Jin Hi at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 28 in the Screening Room, Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

Pork may be today's "other white meat," but when it comes to hog heaven, we can't hold a candle to the ancient Greeks, according to Susan Cole, associate professor and chair in the Department of Classics at the University at Buffalo, who has spent years researching the role pigs played in Greek social and religious life.

Wearing the patina burnished by repeated major national recognition, the "Wednesdays at 4 PLUS" series presented by the Poetics Program in the University at Buffalo Department of English will, with its typical panache, present a star-studded program of readings and literary performances this fall.

A year-long multidisciplinary research and construction project by the University at Buffalo will produce a new form of public art that was designed specifically for the City of Buffalo, but which can serve as a model for cities seeking to reclaim their histories. It is a massive, 24-page, sculptural book comprised of two-dimensional historical and conceptual maps, buildings, icons and other visual historical data -- all cast in bronze -- that will articulate significant events and benchmarks in the history of Buffalo.

At the height of a career distinguished by stunning literary achievement, UB poet and literary theorist Susan Howe has been elected by some of the most lionized figures in American literature to the Academy of American Poets' Board of Chancellors, the academy's advisory body of eminent poets.

Deidre Shauna Lynch, an award-winning associate professor of English at the University at Buffalo who is widely regarded as an innovative literary scholar, has been named a fellow of the National Humanities Center (NHC), one of the greatest distinctions in the humanities field.

Charlene Gilbert, assistant professor of media study at the University at Buffalo, has been named a 2000 Film/Video/Multimedia Fellow by the Rockefeller and MacArthur foundations.

Deborah K. W. Walters, Ph.D., and Joseph A. Gardella, Jr., Ph.D., of the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) have been awarded a $150,000 grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to develop a community-linked interdisciplinary research (CLIR) program for undergraduate students at UB.

A new book of old work by Charles Bernstein, David Gray Chair of Poetry at the University at Buffalo and one of the great irony producers of our age, is getting rave reviews from the national literary community.