Humanities Institute

Therese McGinn, Professor of Population and Family Health and Director, Reproductive Health Access, Information and Services in Emergencies (RAISE) Initiative, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Thursday, November 17 4:00 p.m. Diefendorf Hall 147, South Campus People escape their homes when war or natural disaster leaves them […]

Please join, OUTLaw and the WNY Anti-Violence Project for a roundtable discussion concerning trans legal rights and personal perspectives. Co-hosted by the UB School of Law. Featured Panelist Attorney Hope Jay Attorney Lindy Korn Ari Moore Brandon Banas Bryan Ball Dr. Caillean McMahon-Tronetti This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be […]

REMAINS TO BE SEEN: Performing the Archive a film by Professor Sarah Elder (2015), 25 min. In a public performance artist Charles Clough and archaeologist Peter Biehl unroll early remnants of a massive layered scroll created in Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center and stored for 40 years in a storage shed. The intriguing paper relic reveals […]

“One Night in Beirut: When Said met Genet” James Currie, Music Photographer: Douglas Levere The great Palestinian literary critic and political activist Edward Said met the famous French homosexual novelist Jean Genet in Beirut in 1972. In his December 2nd talk, “One Night in Beirut: When Said met Genet,” musicologist James Currie will discuss how […]

In support of the Humanities New York Public Humanities Fellowship Program. Pizza lunch and beverages will be provided (RSVP huminst@buffalo.edu by Jan. 31st so that we can have an appropriate amount of food.) Does your doctoral research in a humanities discipline have an application with a broader public? If it does or you would like […]

Erik Seeman, Professor of History, UB “Elegy in Puritan New England” A Work-in-Progress Workshop To receive a digital copy of the work-in-progress paper, please e-mail Barbara Bono at: bbono@buffalo.edu