Humanities Institute

In association with the Creativity in the Time of Covid-19 exhibition at Buffalo Arts Studio, Amatryx Gaming and Lab Studio presents guest speaker Dr. Tina Rivers Ryan, Curator at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum and an internationally recognized expert in the history of media art, including video and digital art. Her exhibitions at the AKG include […]

Dr. Robert Caldwell is offering an Afro-Indigeneity Guest Speaker Series on select Mondays throughout the Fall 2023 semester. Scierra LeGarde is a member of the Bayou Lacombe Band of Choctaw located in St.Tammany Parish, Louisiana and is a resident of Bvlbancha, commonly known as New Orleans. In her spare time, she volunteers at schools, museums […]

The Department of Art regularly invites artists, critics, historians and designers to participate in the Visiting Artist Speaker Series, classroom lectures and critiques. The Speaker Series happens every fall semester and is free to the public. Kenny Schachter has been curating contemporary art shows in museums and galleries while teaching art history and economics for […]

Every year, Universities and communities across the country are eager to celebrate Hispanic Heritage month: often, they do so under a culturalist lens, sharing what is perceived as typical “Latinx” food, speaking Spanish, or wearing what might amount questionable Halloween costumes. Moving beyond oversimplified celebrations of “heritage” and cultural traits, this presentation argues that heritage […]

Dr. Sara María Acevedo is an Autistic Colombian-born scholar-activist and critical educator. Her research is committed to anti-colonial, anti-racist, and anti-ableist praxis, and is informed by transnational feminism, the study of subjugated knowledges, and posthumanism, among others. She is an Assistant Professor of disability studies at Miami University, where she advances Disability Justice in the […]

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, October 5, […]

Join the Department of Indigenous Studies and the RENEW Institute, in person or on Zoom, for a screening of Saging the World. This short documentary was produced by Rose Ramirez, Deborah Small, and the California Native Plant Society to foster awareness and inspire action for white sage. There will be a reception at 6:00pm and […]

The directors of the Humanities Institute and the Gender Institute invite faculty to join us in the Humanities Institute’s new seminar space on select Friday afternoons (3pm-5pm) for group writing sessions. Coffee, tea, and quiet headspace will be available at these drop-in sessions. Click here to join via Zoom!

Please join the University at Buffalo's Department of Media Study to celebrate our 50th anniversary with a FREE SCREENING of short experimental films made by legendary artists who taught at UB in the 1970s. A featured event in this year's Buffalo Int’l Film Festival, this screening will be the inaugural installment of DMS@50+ – a year-long […]