Professor Kenneth J. Knoespel (School of History and Sociology; School of Literature, Media, and Communication; and McEver Professor of Engineering and the Liberal Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology), “Censorship and […]

FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Professor Knoespel will present a talk (“Working a Family Archive: Post-Cards from the WWI Trenches”) at the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library in […]

Monica Azzolini (Associate Professor of the History of Science, University of Bologna), “The Image, the Saint and the Earthquake: Francisco Borja and the Politics of God and Nature in the […]

Jonathan Reichert (Professor Emeritus of Physics, UB), “The Detection of Gravitational Waves, Revolutionizing our View of The Universe” Wednesday, November 7, 2018 4:00-5:30 pm, 280 Park Hall Throughout all of […]

Announcing a Lecture by Professor Emerita Barbara Heifferon  (English, Louisiana State University) “Ministers vs. Doctors: Rhetoric of the First American Smallpox Inoculation” My research is a rhetorical analysis of the […]

Message from the organizers: Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, Professor Cary Wolfe will be unable to travel to Buffalo to give his much anticipated talk, “(Auto)Immunities,” (see original announcement, below). […]

The panels feature three leading U.S./Canadian historians of LSD and other hallucinogens. Speakers: Erika Dyck, University of Saskatchewan, author Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD from Clinic to Campus; editor, A Culture’s Catalyst: […]

The Rise, Fall, and Rise of LSD 2:30pm-4:00pm | 330 Student Union Erika Dyck, Hitting highs at rock bottom In the 1950s, psychedelic research attracted attention for its dramatic breakthroughs […]

Jordan Fox Besek (Assistant Professor of Sociology, UB), "Flying Fish, Environmental DNA, and the Politics of Limited Science" Political actors often want to know as much as possible about the […]