Humanities Institute

The UB English Departments Exhibit X Fiction series presents Jenny Offill. Jenny Offill is the author of the novels Last Things (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award); Dept. of Speculation, which was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Pen-Faulkner Award, and the International Dublin Literary Award; and Weather, a New York […]

Get your interdisciplinarity on with our Mid-Semester Mixer at the University Club! Click here to RSVP The UB Humanities Institute invites colleagues from across the University to join for a celebration of the "semester solstice." This is an opportunity to get un-siloed and connect with faculty across disciplines in a congenial setting. We kindly ask […]

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!

The Department of Africana and American Studies invites you to a screening of the documentary Zurbano, Racial Consciousness. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Robert Zurbano, Janaina Oliveira, and Donte McFadden. Light refreshments will be served. ROBERTO ZURBANO is a prominent cultural critic and literary scholar who has been an activist and a […]

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. Daisy Patton is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Los Angeles, CA to a white mother from the American South and […]

This roundtable will showcase issues and topics that an emerging network of scholars at UB studying data justice and equity are tackling. As our lives and activities are increasingly turned into data and government policies driven by data in a manner that reproduces social injustices, data justice has emerged as a pertinent field in activism […]

All are invited to attend the "Devonya Havis’ Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy” Roundtable. This roundtable discussion will be devoted to critical engagements of invited critical race and gender scholars with Dr. Devonya Havis’ recently published book, Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy (2023). The invited scholars include Falguni Sheth (Emory University), Anwar Uhuru (Wayne State […]

The UB English Department's Exhibit X Fiction series presents Grady Hendrix. Grady Hendrix is the New York Times-bestselling author of How To Sell a Haunted House, The Final Girl Support Group, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, My Best Friend's Exorcism, We Sold Our Souls, and Horrorstör. His history of the horror paperback boom of the '70s and '80s, Paperbacks from Hell, […]

Internationally renowned visual artist, book artist, and poet Jen Bervin will be delivering the fifth Robert Creeley Lecture in Poetry & Poetics, entitled “Measuring the Sun,” on Friday, November 3rd, in the Poetry Collection, at 3:30pm (with reception to follow). Measuring the Sun – A first glimpse from work in progress by Jen Bervin and conservator Debora […]

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!