Please join the UB Humanities Institute for public presentations by our 2017-18 Humanities New York Public Humanities Graduate Fellows.

Public Humanities Project Summaries:

In “Our City, Our Selves: Migrant Perspectives,” Tanja Aho, Department of Transnational Studies, will engage Buffalo’s refugee and migrant populations to gain their perspectives on the city’s future and their role in the economic revitalization of the area. By offering a writing seminar in partnership with an area refugee services organization, Tanja will facilitate the authoring of op-ed pieces for publication in local media.

Angela Veronica Wong from the Department of English will undertake the project “Recovering Black Newspapers to Build Cross-Racial Community in Buffalo”; examining how Buffalo’s black newspapers positioned U.S. civil rights in the context of cross-racial solidarity from 1930-1970.
Veronica will work with area youth to curate an exhibition of archived articles that will be the basis of a community conversation examining these legacies within the current social, economic, and racial dynamics of Buffalo.

The Graduate Student Public Humanities Fellowship program awards two University at Buffalo students with year-long fellowships that include training in the methods and approaches of public scholarship and explore the public dimensions of their own scholarship in partnership with community organizations serving public audiences.

The program was developed in partnership with Humanities New York and the Humanities Center Initiative (HCI) to bring humanities scholarship into the public realm.

Complimentary wine and cheese included in this free and open-to-the-public event.