DAVE EGGERS is the author of ten books, including most recently Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?, The Circle, and A Hologram For The King, which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. He is the founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco […]
“The Sensation of Time: Reading Water with Roni Horn and Clarice Lispector” SCHEDULE CHANGE: This event was originally scheduled for March 10, 2017. In her March 10th talk, “The Sensation of Time: Reading Water with Roni Horn and Clarice Lispector,” French professor Fernanda Negrete will show how Horn’s installation “Library of Water” (2007 – present) […]
Please join for the 3rd Emily Dickinson Community Marathon Reading. Readers of all ages are invited to join in this community reading. Copies of the poems will be provided. The marathon reading will end with a reception. Westminster Presbyterian Church 724 Delaware Avenue Buffalo, NY 14209
Students, faculty, and members of the public are invited to a symposium on career opportunities for Humanities scholars. The event will feature presentations by UB alumni who have built rewarding and diverse careers outside the academy, as well as a career fair with representatives from regional organizations that employ Humanities graduates both as interns and […]
Presented by the Queer Studies Research Workshop Vin Nardizzi, University of British Columbia “Had” the speaker of Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” “but world enough, and time,” he would write a poem. Its subject and addressee would be his beloved, and its form would be the blazon. He would “praise” her “eyes,” “forehead,” “breast,” her […]
The Alison Des Forges Memorial Committee invites you to an International Symposium on “Counterterrorism, Electoral Politics, and Human Rights” We like to view counterterrorism as an essential policy to keep innocent people safe, and electoral politics as a way to protect human rights. Yet, counterterrorism measures can result in immigration policies and military tactics that […]
Yan Liu, Assistant Professor of History, UB "From Text to Practice: The Transformation of Medical Knowledge in Medieval China"
Participants Laura Chiesa, University at Buffalo Marc Crépon, École Normale Supérieure Aïcha Liviana Messina, Universidad Diego Portales Ginette Michaud, Université de Montréal Laura Odello, Collège International de la Philosophie
Fernanda Negrete (Romance Languages & Literatures), “Louise Bourgeois’ Aesthetic Clinic of Hysteria: A Kind of Intimacy in the Visual.”
Please join the UB Humanities Institute for a celebration of recent publications by HI Faculty Fellows. This year's celebration includes titles by: Rachel Ablow (English), Victorian Pain (Princeton University Press, 2017) Ana Mariella Bacigalupo (Anthropology), Thunder Shaman: Making History with Mapuche Spirits in Chile and Patagonia (University of Texas Press, 2016) David Castillo (Romance Languages […]
