REGISTER NOW Registration deadline: Tuesday, August 30, 2022 On Friday September 2, the Humanities Institute will host our faculty grant writing workshop in support of applications to external humanities based grants and fellowships. HI's Grant Writing Workshop is specifically designed to help faculty improve grant and fellowship applications to organizations outside of UB by exchanging drafts and ideas […]
This talk will present the results of the summer 2022 archaeological excavations in south Tuscany, which resulted in the exciting discovery of the remains of a late Etruscan sanctuary, village, and necropolis, with significant artifacts. Working with a local museum and professional film maker, the excavation team is continuing its excavation and documenting its findings. The project is also committed to […]
Noah Breuer received his BFA in printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design, his MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University and a Graduate Research Certificate in traditional Japanese woodblock printmaking and papermaking from Kyoto Seika University. His creative work examines themes of family, identity, labor, and diaspora. Exploring the fusion of traditional printmaking techniques […]
Aviva Rahmani‘s longstanding interdisciplinary art practice focuses on ecological restoration as artmaking. Her projects have won numerous grants and fellowships and have been written about internationally. Her work has been featured at venues including the Thomas Erben Gallery, NYC; Various Small Fires, Los Angeles; KRICT Gallery, South Korea; Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado; the […]
This presentation will describe and explore strategies and tools for audio/video thematic timecode indexing. Like a book index, an a/v index provides a distilled, shorthand form of access for users. Key elements that evolved from indexing oral histories-- segmentation, annotation, and controlled vocabulary—can be used to create layers of representative meaning (literal and non-literal) for […]
The 2022 Buffalo Humanities Festival will investigate the many complex, often paradoxical, ways artificial intelligence now intervenes in our lives with the help of artists, scholars and community activists who will showcase the integration of algorithms, machine learning, and other forms of artificial intelligence in both common and other-wordly applications. AfroRithms from the Future […]
The 2022 Buffalo Humanities Festival will investigate the many complex, often paradoxical, ways artificial intelligence now intervenes in our lives with the help of artists, scholars and community activists who will showcase the integration of algorithms, machine learning, and other forms of artificial intelligence in both common and other-wordly applications. Please join us for […]
The 2022 Buffalo Humanities Festival will investigate the many complex, often paradoxical, ways artificial intelligence now intervenes in our lives with the help of artists, scholars and community activists who will showcase the integration of algorithms, machine learning, and other forms of artificial intelligence in both common and other-wordly applications. Please join us for an interdisciplinary […]
Dara Friedman uses everyday sights and sounds as the raw material for film and video artworks that reverberate with emotional energy. With a background in structural film and dance, Friedman’s cinema calls for a radical reduction of the medium to its most essential material properties. Friedman’s solo exhibitions include: The Tiger’s Tail, San Carlo Cremona, […]
Please join the Department of History on September 30th from 3:00-5:00 PM in Park 532 for their first speaker of the semester. Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Prof. Robin Mitchell. Prof. Mitchell will give a talk titled, "Methods and Madness: A Historian’s Search for the (In)Visible in the Archives." This is a hybrid event with options to […]
