Humanities Institute

  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 […]

  Aja Couchois Duncan is a poet and translator who works in hybrid genres within Native American studies, ecopoetics, and LGBTQIA studies. During this Zoom event, she will be reading from her new book Vestigial, which tracks a poetic narrative across multiple chronologies and scales--from the personal to the geologic. Duncan is a social justice […]

Roberley Bell is inspired by nature and time. Her practice draws on the world around her, in particular the scrutiny of nature and the built environment. Alongside her sculpture practice, Bell has developed a practice of walking moving outside the studio to investigate place in real time. Bell is the recipient of numerous fellowships including awards […]

Michele Washington is a NYC-based designer. She applies Design Thinking and User-Centered Interaction Design solutions to address complex issues which deliver meaningful solutions and solve problems that are culturally relevant. Recent projects include mobile publishing platforms and web-based integration, content strategy and curating popups. She has worked with Coforma, A Long Walk Home, City as Living Lab, the […]

Please join the Department of Music for a guest lecture by Jonathan De Souza. De Souza, Associate Professor of Music at the University of Western Ontario, will present a talk titled "Embodiment in Musical Ensembles" as part of the new Baird Lecture Series. De Souza's most recent book Music at Hand explored questions of musical […]