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. Shelley Niro was born in Niagara Falls, New York. Shelley is a member of the Turtle Clan, Bay of Quinte Mohawk […]
The New Faculty Seminar brown bag lunch series returns! After a hiatus due to COVID, we are excited to bring back this popular lunch time series, now in our new seminar space! The Humanities Institute invites you to join us as we learn more about the work of new humanities faculty at UB. Coffee, tea, […]
Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, 2023-24 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, will give a talk hosted by the Department of Sociology entitled "Neither Deficit nor Joy: Formal Education and the Life Course for Travestis in Buenos Aires, Argentina." U.S. scholarship on transgender studies often moves between two extremes: a normative emphasis on violence (corporeal, symbolic, or systemic) as a social problem that merits […]
To commemorate 50 years of Hip Hop, there will be a panel discussion entitled “A Difficult Dialogue about Hip Hop with the Hosts of NPR’s “Louder than A Riot.” Hosted by the Department of Africana and American Studies and the Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program, the panel discussion will focus on difficult dialogues concerning hip hop and the […]
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 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. For nearly twenty-five years, Amy Cutler has made enigmatic, narrative works of art in which internalized emotions, societal observations, and […]
To celebrate 50 years of Hip Hop, UB will host a conversation between visual artist Eric Haze and writer & activist Bakari Kitwana, a 2023-24 Distinguished Visiting Scholar. Both have been deeply immersed in hip hop culture throughout their lives, and this conversation will focus on when they first became immersed into the elements of […]
Still image from Unseen. Presented by the UB Humanities Institute in collaboration with the UB Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program. Please join us for a screening of unseen, directed by Set Hernandez. FREE and open to the public. 6:00 pm | Reception | complimentary food with cash beer & wine bar benefiting Hallwalls 7:00 pm | […]
Latvian media artists Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits, founders of the historic RIXC media center in Riga, will be screening and discussing their environmental sensing multimedia VR project, "Atmospheric Forest" as well as other works on Friday, November 17th, 2023 from 12:00-2:00pm in the CFA 278 Production Studio (located in the Department of Media Study). In […]
Scholars@Hallwalls is a monthly series featuring talks by Humanities Institute Faculty Fellows. Please join us in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! Complimentary wine and light fare will be served for a brief, pre-talk mingling session at this free and open-to-the-public event. "Boots Made For Walking: Embodied Storytelling By/With/For Trans People in Video […]
