Humanities Institute

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 […]

FREE; but, registration required. The festival begins on Thursday, Sept. 28, at 6 p.m. with a discussion organized by Humanities New York in the Burchfield Penney Art Center’s Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Auditorium, titled “Turning the Tide: Communicating Climate Science.” PARTICIPANTS: Jacqui Patterson, Director, NAACP’s Environmental and Climate Justice Program Jason Briner, Associate Professor […]

BUY TICKETS Join us at the Buffalo Humanities Festival for an evening with environmental writer and activist Bill McKibben, who will present on “The Desperate Climate Fight: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Moment,” with a book signing to follow. Co-founder of 350.org, author of The End of Nature, Eaarth, Deep Economy, and Oil and Honey: […]

BUY TICKETS The full festival day begins with a performance by Deke Weaver of “BEAR and the Unreliable Bestiary” and continues with talks, panels, and community conversations focusing on issues of environmental justice and economic sustainability, activism and planning, and the global climate change crisis. Lunch by West Side Bazaar is included with tickets purchased […]

Despina Stratigakos, Prof. of Architecture, will discuss the emergence of Architect Barbie in her book Where Are All the Women Architects? (Princeton UP, 2016)

An academic who transitioned successfully to the corporate and nonprofit workplaces, Anne Krook trains graduate students and postdocs to transition to non-academic jobs and workplaces. She began her career as an assistant professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she taught for seven years. After a stint in restaurant bartending, she joined Am- […]