Humanities Institute

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 […]

Heather Dewey-Hagborg is an artist and biohacker who is interested in art as research and technological critique. Her controversial biopolitical art practice includes the project Stranger Visions in which she created portrait sculptures from analyses of genetic material collected in public places. Her work has been shown internationally at events and venues including the World Economic Forum; […]

Born in Seoul, South Korea, Don Mee Choi is the author of DMZ Colony, which won the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry. Her other publications include Hardly War, The Morning News Is Exciting, and several chapbooks and pamphlets of poems and essays. She has received numerous fellowships and prizes: 2011 Whiting Award, 2016 Lannan Literary Fellowship, 2012 & 2019 Lucien […]

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 […]