Humanities Institute

The UB Art Galleries invites you to celebrate the opening of I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality at the Center for the Arts (CFA) Gallery. This group exhibition brings together new and recent works by 17 international artists to explore the stealth work of hospitality on our conceptual, material, and political […]

Join the Department of History for a talk by Prof. Stephen Harp of the University of Akron, "The Riviera, Exposed: An Ecohistory of Postwar Tourism and North African Labor." This is a hybrid event with options to attend in person and via Zoom. Attendees are requested to register and indicate if they will be attending in person or online. […]

The UB Art Galleries invites you to celebrate the opening of I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality at the Anderson Gallery. This group exhibition brings together new and recent works by 17 international artists to explore the stealth work of hospitality on our conceptual, material, and political understanding of bodies. Experience […]

  Please join us for the Symposium on Reimagining International Education in/through the Global Pandemic, co-sponsored by the UB Vice Provost’s Office for International Education, Graduate School of Education, Asian Studies Program, and the Department of Indigenous Studies, on November 14th from 9-noon, at 107 Capen. Symposium theme: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted, upended, and transformed the […]

What is it like to work behind the scenes and in front of the camera as a female professional in the entertainment industry? What does animal wrangling for film and television entail? JoAnn Dawson has worn many hats in diverse types of productions, including acting and animal wrangling in the film adaptation of the Toni […]

Adham Faramawy is an artist based in London. Their work spans media including moving image, sculptural installation, and print, thinking through issues of materiality, touch, and toxic embodiment to question ideas of the natural in relation to marginalized communities. They lecture at both Goldsmiths University in London and Ruskin School of Art in Oxford. Faramawy’s […]

xtine burrough (x/x or she/her) is a media artist. Her projects center on bringing visibility to women’s experiences, invisible labor, and the dehumanizing effects of capitalism. x creates participatory works crafted for the web browser, the media wall, or person-to-person exchange. She also creates printed etchings, engravings, and hybrid digital transfer prints with alternative photographic […]

This talk draws upon Reed-Danahay’s longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork (since 2015) among French citizens who migrated to London in recent decades. She will focus on issues of emplacement and displacement among middle-class French women, and will explore their motivations, desires, and aspirations for moving to London through examples of life stories and personal narratives. This discussion draws upon a book manuscript […]