Humanities Institute

SEX AND THE SOCIAL LIFE OF OBJECTS develops three interwoven dialogues across eight current projects from renowned and emerging voices engaging psychoanalytic theory: 1) A dialogue between French and American approaches to the question of the object, interrogating the relationship between negation and objects, desire and sociality by way of objects, and subtraction and reality. […]

PLASMA Speaker Series MONDAYS 6:00- 8:30 pm EST Zoom Meeting ID:  983 4611 3436 Email eliavarg@buffalo.edu with PLASMA2024 in subject line for password. Jenson Leonard (b. 1990, Detroit, Michigan) is an artist whose work takes form out of the collapsed context of the internet, often critiquing its slippage of meaning and techno-capital excess while pointing out its attraction at […]

For Earth Month (April), the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures is offering a film series loosely based on farming and food production. All films are free and open to the public. For more information, Prof. Colleen Culleton at culleton@buffalo.edu The first film will be Alcarrás (Dir. Carla Simón, 2022). Catalan with English subtitles. Writer/director […]

Through the Baird Lecture Series, the UB Department of Music hosts regular lectures, talks, and master classes given by distinguished visiting scholars, performers, and composers throughout the academic year. All events take place in Baird Recital Hall at 3:30 p.m. The Baird Lecture Series is free and open to the public. On Thursday, April 4, […]

The directors of the Humanities Institute and the Gender Institute invite faculty to join us for weekly virtual group writing sessions. Each Friday of the term, from 10:00 to noon, meet up  (virtually, via zoom) and work independently on your own writing projects in company with Gender Institute Director Victoria Wolcott, HI Director Libby Otto, […]

Please join the UB Asia Research Institute for the 6th Annual Rustgi Undergraduate Conference of South Asia, featuring a keynote, "Driver Power, Union Power: The Struggles and Triumphs of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance," by Javaid Tariq. Tariq is co-founder of New York Taxi Workers Alliance, a grassroots predominantly immigrant and people-of-color-led labor organization […]

Dr. Devonya Havis and the Department of Comparative Literature will welcome poet, writer, and publisher, Azad Ashim Sharma to give a reading followed by a Q&A on his recently released book, Boiled Owls. Boiled Owls a collection of poems that demystify drug addiction, alcoholism, depression, and anxiety whilst thinking through their relation to capitalism and […]

Please join the UB Department of English on Friday, April 12 for a day of events to celebrate the remarkable career of Cristanne Miller, SUNY Distinguished Professor and current holder of the Edward H. Butler Professorship in English Literature. These events are free and open to the public. Click here to RSVP Poetry Collection, 420 […]

The directors of the Humanities Institute and the Gender Institute invite faculty to join us for weekly virtual group writing sessions. Each Friday of the term, from 10:00 to noon, meet up  (virtually, via zoom) and work independently on your own writing projects in company with Gender Institute Director Victoria Wolcott, HI Director Libby Otto, […]

For Earth Month (April), the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures is offering a film series loosely based on farming and food production. All films are free and open to the public. For more information, Prof. Colleen Culleton at culleton@buffalo.edu The second film in this series will be Les glaneurs et la glaneuse (The Gleaners […]

PLASMA Speaker Series MONDAYS 6:00- 8:30 pm EST Zoom Meeting ID:  983 4611 3436 Email eliavarg@buffalo.edu with PLASMA2024 in subject line for password. T. J. Demos teaches art history and visual culture at UC Santa Cruz, and directs its Center for Creative Ecologies. He writes about contemporary art, global politics, and ecology and is the author of […]

War is being declared on the body and sexual autonomy is under assault for LGBTQ+ people and those seeking safe and legal access to abortion. Focusing on human rights and an international perspective, our symposium brings together scholars, survivors and legal experts to discuss the politics of sexual and reproductive rights. The Alison L. Des […]