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. Matt Peterson - Spaces of Exception film PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, and Screenings in Media Art) brings to Buffalo celebrated theorists and artists who are exhibiting in some of the world’s most renowned museums […]
The Center for Information Integrity (CII) is hosting a film series on the ethical implication's of AI. Please join us on Monday Feb. 26, 6-8:30 PM for S1m0ne. A producer's film is endangered when his star walks off, so he decides to digitally create an actress to substitute for the star, becoming an overnight sensation […]
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, February 29, […]
Please join the UB Office of Inclusive Excellence, the Cora P. Maloney Center, and the UB Gender Institute for the inaugural Women’s History Month Symposium. The symposium will consist of a dynamic plenary panel focused on activism; a keynote address by Patrice Funderburg, executive director of the Center for Community Transitions, focusing on social justice; […]
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, […]
About the Seminar The Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs is partnering with the Office of the Vice Provost for International Education to enhance awareness of the opportunity for Fulbright US Scholar Awards at UB and to help facilitate participation in the program by interested faculty. Please register before March 1. Once registration is complete, […]
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. 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. Karolina Żyniewicz (DE/PL) is an artist&researcher&educator, a liminal being, existing and performing between various contexts and disciplines. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Visual Arts of the […]
CLICK HERE TO ATTEND IN-PERSON Please join the UB Humanities Institute and the Department of Indigenous Studies for a special multi-day convening of scholars and community members. This event is free and open to the public, in-person at the University at Buffalo - North Campus (The Buffalo Room | 10 Capen Hall) and as a […]
The Translation Zone Research Workshop is pleased to host a Zoom talk titled "Decoding the ‘Local’ in Translations of Amrita Pritam’s Poetry" by Dr. Kanupriya Dhingra. Dr. Kanupriya Dhingra is an Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean at the Jindal School of Languages and Literature, Jindal Global University. She is a Board of Directors member at […]
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, March 7, […]
Scholars@Hallwalls is a monthly series featuring talks by Humanities Institute Faculty Fellows. Please join us in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! Complimentary wine and light fare will be served for a brief, pre-talk mingling session at this free and open-to-the-public event. “Iconic American Indian Tipi in Spain’s Second Age of Discovery” In the […]
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, […]
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. Tomonari Nishikawa's films explore the idea of documenting a scene in the public space through a chosen medium and techniques, while his performances focus on the process of producing a visual and sound phenomenon […]
Please join the Amatryx Gaming Lab and Studio for a game night on Tuesday, March 12 at 6 PM in CFA 286, featuring in-progress work by Madison Ford. After the presentation and discussion, we’ll be playing Mario Party and Mario Kart games on the Nintendo Switch together.
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, […]
Buffalo State University's Department of Economics and Finance, The Dead Economists Society, and the School of Arts and Sciences Dean's Office welcome Dr. Michael Zweig for a public talk at Burning Books on Tuesday, March 19. Michael Zweig is a Professor Emeritus of economics and founding director of the Center for Study of Working Class […]
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. Ceci Moss is a curator, writer and educator with twenty years of professional practice organizing solo, group, touring, and online exhibitions, as well as public programs, performances and screenings, in museums, galleries and artist-run […]
The Humanities Institute invites you to join us as we learn more about the work of new humanities faculty at UB. Coffee, tea, and cookies will be served. Please feel free to bring your own lunch for this noon session. Rinaldo Walcott is Professor and Chair in the Department of Africana and American Studies at […]
Juxtapositions Lecture Series welcomes Prof. Mbaye Lo of Duke University The Impossible Archives: The Writings of Omar ibn Said, an Enslaved African in America Archives usually consist of historical documents or records that provide insights into a specific place, institution, or community. But what happens when these documents are seemingly unreadable? Such is the case […]
Presented by the UB Humanities Institute in collaboration with the UB Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program, in conjunction with Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. Please join us for a screening of THE WARRIOR PRINCESS (dir. Vianca Fuster, 2021, 10 mins.), AMPE: LEAP INTO THE SKY, BLACK GIRL! (dirs. Claudia Owusu and Ife Oluwamuyide, 2022, 18 mins.), and […]
Trans Longevity: A Poetry & Poetics Symposium MARCH 28-29 with TRISH SALAH, CACONRAD, KAY GABRIEL, TAYLOR JOHNSON The concept of "trans longevity" engages with all that enables more-than-survival for transpeople today, for a long time to come. While attending to the precariousness of trans lives, trans longevity resists the specter of death organizing (cis) narratives and institutional configurations of transness - and is […]
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, […]
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 […]
The HI Science Studies Research Workshop will host a talk by Scott Frickel of Brown University. This talk introduces new research that aims to reconstruct a history of soil contamination science and policy and its relationship to broader socio-ecological processes of environmental inequality and urbanization. Set mainly in Providence, Rhode Island the study is anchored […]
Dancing Together: Building Community to the Beat of Werewere Liking & the Village Ki-Yi A Workshop with Guillaume Semon Yoboué, PhD Dr. Yoboué encourages you to wear traditional African attire, or attire of similar color palettes, in the spirit of the image above! Reservation required: email cflaugh@buffalo.edu Please consult the following links to learn more […]
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, […]
The Interdisciplinary Marxisms Research Workshop (IMRW) is a new Research Workshops supported by the Humanities Institute to provide a space for graduate students, faculty, and community members to join together in study and discussion of the broadly-conceived Marxist or radical tradition. The group takes a specific interest in the Marxist and radical tradition outside of […]
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 […]
