Humanities Institute

The Geography Department will welcome Dr. Julie Silva, University of Maryland, College Park, on Wednesday, October 19, 2022, at 10:00 am in 170 Academic Center (formerly 170 Fillmore).   Research Projects Past, Present and Future In the first section of the talk, Dr. Silva will introduce her work on economic globalization, trade, and development. She has worked on these issues for over 15 […]

In our current historically precarious moment, what is the role of cultural organizations and art? How might they adapt and change to the demands of these times? Is it enough? Writer and curator, Laura Raicovich, will discuss her recent book, Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest (Verso 2021) providing her personal […]

The Department of Indigenous Studies welcomes Santee Smith and the Kaha:wi Dance Theatre for a presentation of The Mush Hole. This heart-breaking performance moves through North America's residential school history with hope and empathy. This event is free but tickets are required. Tickets are available at: https://forms.gle/CisfGbGCzM29pPYQ6

Helina Metaferia is an interdisciplinary artist working across collage, assemblage, video, performance, and social engagement. Her work integrates archives, somatic studies, and dialogical practices, creating overlooked narratives that amplify BIPOC/femme bodies. Recent solo exhibitions include Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (2022); New York University's The Gallatin Galleries, New York, NY (2021); Michigan State University's […]

Premilla Nadasen is a Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University. Nadasen is the author of four books, most recently Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement, which is a new classic of history-from-below that reconstructs the work of mainly Black women domestic workers in the post-war period. […]

The UB Center for the Arts is the hub of a bustling arts community where dancers, actors, filmmakers, musicians, and artists of every imaginable stripe come to work and perform. Each Fall, the UBCFA opens our studios, rehearsal spaces, and doors to bring this wealth of creativity out into the open. The work of artists […]

Marina Zurkow is a research-based media artist committed to systemic change in ecological justice. Her projects (sometimes with collaborators) offer emotional connections to multispecies and geologic phenomena that modern humans often take for granted or deprioritize in favor of “humans on top.”  The materials / technologies Zurkow employs include software, animation, sound, food, mushroom mycelium, […]

  The English Department welcomes translator and poet Christian Hawkey as part of the Poetics Plus Series. Author of the poetry collections The Book of Funnels (Wave 2004) and Citizen Of (Wave 2007), Christian Hawkey has published a bi-lingual erasure with Uljana Wolf, Sonne from Ort (kookbooks verlag 2013), a co-translation with Wolf of a selection of Ilse Aichinger’s short prose, Bad Words (Seagull Books […]