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 […]
