Humanities Institute

Please join the UB Humanities Institute for presentations by our 2016-2017 Humanities New York Public Graduate Fellows: John Marsland and Laticia McNaughton. This FREE and open to the public event will be held in downtown Buffalo's historic Market Arcade building (617 Main Street) at the Partnership for the Public Good. Light fare and refreshments will […]

Discussion of Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, as well as her other work depending on what participants have read, in an intimate setting. On Wednesday, April 5th, 4:30 - 5:30 pm (Baird 250), meet Roxane Gay!  

This is a series of events held over the course of three days. 12:30 pm, Tuesday, April 4:  “The Ecstasy of Time” (in conversation with Heidegger) 3:30 pm, Wednesday, April 5:  “Time Absent/Time Present” (discussing with Maurice Blanchot) 3:30 pm, Thursday, April 6:  “Time Being” (reading with Clarice Lispector)

$8 general, $6 students/seniors, $5 Hallwalls members. The film will be introduced at Hallwalls by Professor David R. Castillo, Director of the UB Humanities Institute, professor of Spanish language and literature, and co-author (with William Egginton) of Medialogies: Reading Reality in the Age of Inflationary Media (Bloomsbury Academic, November 17, 2016). Screening licensed by arrangement […]

Homeland: Iraq Year Zero (2015), Abbas Fahdel Screening, Part I Organized by: Center for Global Media, Department of English Location: Student Union 330 Description: In February 2002—about a year before the U.S. declared war in 2003—Iraqi filmmaker Abbas Fahdel traveled home from France to capture everyday life as his country prepared for war. He zeroed […]

Homeland: Iraq Year Zero (2015), Abbas Fahdel (attending in person) Screening, Part II Organized by: Center for Global Media, Department of English Location: Center for the Arts 112 Followed by @6 pm Conversation with director Abbas Fahdel (Clip Talk) Introduced by Prof. of Film and Media Theory Tanya Shilina-Conte, Department of English This event is […]

“Messy Ground: Wind, Profits and Livelihoods” Jaume Franquesa’s April 7th talk, “Messy Ground: Wind, Profits and Livelihoods,” offers a historically informed and ethnographically grounded study of the unparalleled development of wind energy in Spain. Franquesa, a professor of Anthropology, analyzes the contradictions pervading this process (local opposition, boom-and-bust cycles, and modest environmental benefits) and reveals […]

Intersections: Collage of Urban Networks 6th Annual Graduate Student Conference for Romance Languages and Literatures Friday, April 7 4:00 PM | Keynote | Baldy 101 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Phillip Thomas Penix-Tadsen, University of Delaware Followed by a short play (Norton Hall 112) Saturday, April 8 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Breakfast | Clemens 904 […]

The Panel Michelle Benson (Political Science) Brexit: Implications for Conflict Intervention and Human Rights Policies Winston Chang (Economics) Brexit and Its Economic Consequences Patrick McDevitt (History) British and Sub-British Patriotism in the Age of Brexit Deborah Reed-Danahay (Anthropology) Living with Uncertainty post-Brexit: French Citizens in London Randy Schiff (English) Brexit, Ethnonationalism, and the Re-Fragmentation of […]