CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Each September, in anticipation of fall grant application deadlines, the Humanities Institute hosts a Faculty External Grant Writing Workshop. The workshop focuses on best practices and common pitfalls in the grant application process. All UB arts and humanities faculty are invited to attend, from new arrivals to seasoned applicants. The workshop […]
Advance screening of Lucy Winer's “Kings Park: Stories from an American Mental Institution”, prior to her Sept. 21st talk, "Lessons from the Asylum." When filmmaker Lucy Winer set out to make a film about her commitment to Kings Park State Hospital as a teenager in the late 1960’s, she had little idea of the life-changing […]
Please join for a new year of the Modernisms Research Workshop! The group's coordinators Laura Chiesa, Damien Keane, and Justin Read have started a very exciting schedule of events around the theme for this year of "World Modernisms." MRW hopes to engage many of the current debates in related fields regarding world literature and world […]
A second advance screening of Lucy Winer's “Kings Park: Stories from an American Mental Institution”, prior to her Sept. 21st talk, "Lessons from the Asylum." When filmmaker Lucy Winer set out to make a film about her commitment to Kings Park State Hospital as a teenager in the late 1960’s, she had little idea of […]
Free and open to the public. Join the UB Humanities Institute for the first Scholars@Hallwalls talk of the 2017-18 year. All talks begin at 4pm with complimentary wine and hors d'oeuvres. The last two decades of Yugoslav socialism produced some of the most politicized and radical artistic experimentation in the Balkan region, which situated questions […]
University of Buffalo scholars and featured College of Arts and Sciences Professor Dr. Amma Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin join Torn Space for a Round Table Discussion about Contemporary Performance and Community Engagement in between Saturday performances of "The Fever" by 600 Highwaymen, co-sponsored by the University at Buffalo Humanities Institute’s Performance Research Workshop. See the 4:00pm show […]
Lucy Winer, award-winning documentary filmmaker of “Kings Park: Stories from an American Mental Institution”, presents "Lessons from the Asylum." When filmmaker Lucy Winer set out to make a film about her commitment to Kings Park State Hospital as a teenager in the late 1960’s, she had little idea of the life-changing odyssey on which she […]
Free and open to the public "Collaboration/Rasanbleman: Working in and through Kreyòl Modes of Performance” Dasha Chapman, Hampshire College, Five College Consortium “Our Love on Fire: Gay Men’s Stories of Violence and Hope in Haiti” Mario LaMothe, University of Illinois at Chicago Co-sponsored by the HI Queer Studies Research Workshop, the Department of Romance Languages […]
The UB Humanities Institute Science Studies Research Workshop and the Center for Disability Studies present a talk by Nancy Tomes, Ph.D., SUNY Distinguished Professor, Department of History, Stony Brook University, former President of the American Association for the History of Medicine, author of Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients […]
As part of their 20th anniversary programming, the UB Gender Institute will host an all-day symposium at the Greatbatch Pavilion at the Darwin Martin House on Tuesday, September 26th from 11am to 3pm. The Symposium will honor the accomplishments of major women in Buffalo’s past and then turn to prominent women in the Buffalo community […]
