Humanities Institute

Dr. Jaynelle (Jay) Nixon has an interdisciplinary background in literature, transnational studies, and global gender and sexuality studies. She currently teaches classes on Gothic fiction as well as gender, race, and media. Her primary research focus is the body—particularly the ways certain bodies are surveilled and monsterized based on appearance. As always, PLASMA lectures are […]

Attention Graduate Students! Join the Humanities Institute and special guest Adam Capitanio—Programming Director of Humanities New York (https://humanitiesny.org/)—on Tuesday April 4 from 4:00-5:00pm (zoom) for a new grant workshop designed for graduate students in the humanities. We will discuss where to target grants in your field, how to apply for them, and offer tips on improving […]

The UB Critical Ecologies Research Collaborative welcomes Michael Levien from John Hopkins University.  

Attraction is not just another thing to be anxious about. It seems, especially now, in ever shorter supply, ever more unsustainable. The long term threat is that of the death of interest itself, the dark pit of bottomless boredom. This anxiety is thus an ur-anxiety, the fear that there may truly be nothing, not in […]

Akil Fletcher is an award-winning researcher and PhD candidate in the Anthropology department at the University of California Irvine. His work focuses on understanding how Black gamers experience and utilize games and online platforms to create community. Currently, his project funded by the National Science Foundation seeks to understand how online Black communities use these […]

The Asia Research Institute is hosting it's first annual Korean Studies Symposium, Genre, Gender and Language in Korean Film and Drama. Symposium events will take place April 11 (via Zoom), April 13 (at Squeaky Wheel), and April 14-15 (Capen Hall). Click here for a full schedule of symposium events, including keynotes, film screening, literary reading, panels, […]

The Center for Disability Studies welcomes Yoshiko "Yoyo" Okuyama, PhD. This presentation draws from Yoshiko Okuyama's book, Tōjisha Manga: Japan’s Graphic Memoirs of Brain and Mental Health (2022). Okuyama will begin with a brief statement on how she became involved in disability studies, personally and professionally. Then, to provide some background, she will touch upon […]