Humanities Institute

In the United States, the term “socialism” has been widely misunderstood and used to discredit even modest reforms.  This symposium will explore achievements and missteps in implementing socialism in China, India, Scandinavia, and Latin America.  It will weigh socialism’s value in addressing global challenges of climate change, economic inequality, and human rights abuses. Registration Instructions:  Register […]

Thursday, April 7 at Fitz Books, join Humanities Institute director David Castillo and former director/founder Ewa Plonowska Ziarek for a Fitz Book Talk about the first Humanities to the Rescue book series title, Continental Theory Buffalo: Transatlantic Crossroads of a Critical Insurrection (SUNY Press). Castillo and Ziarek will speak to the transatlantic dialogue that spawned […]

Recent Pulitzer Prize Finalist (Telephone), Percival Everett is the author of more than thirty novels and story collections, including The Trees, Telephone, So Much Blue, Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, I Am Not Sidney Poitier and Erasure. Everett has won the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle, the Dos Passos […]

The Department of Media Study's PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, And Screenings in Media Art)​ will feature a remote lecture by new media artist EMILY MARTINEZ. The Zoom Meeting ID for the lecture series is 939 5189 1859. Email paigesar@buffalo with PLASMA2022 in the subject line for the password.​   Emily Martinez (they/she) is a new media artist working with machine […]

The Department of Media Study's PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, And Screenings in Media Art)​ will feature a screening and discussion with animator, film director, photographer, and writer NG'ENDO MUKII. The Zoom Meeting ID for the lecture series is 939 5189 1859. Email paigesar@buffalo with PLASMA2022 in the subject line for the password.​ An independent filmmaker working in Nairobi, NG'ENDO MUKII […]

4/19/22, 2:00-3:00: Yingjie Hu: “Exploring Geo-Text Data with Machine Learning Models for Knowledge Discovery” – online only Recent years have witnessed an exponential growth of data that link geographic locations and textual descriptions (geo-text data for short). Examples include geotagged tweets, news articles containing place names, online neighborhood reviews, and many others. Meanwhile, the fast advancements of […]

Professor Adam Nocek will present, “Beyond the Automated Left: On the Autonomy of Algorithmic Communalisms ” Thursday, April 21 at 5:00pm via ZOOM. Click here to register. Adam Nocek, Associate Professor in the Philosophy of Technology and Science and Technology Studies in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering at Arizona State University. He is […]

Featuring special guest introductory speaker, Dr. Jens Hauser, bio-media scholar and curator based in Paris, France. Discussion and performances with BioArtists: Rae Yuping Hsu • Roland van Dierendonck & Julian Standon • Tosca Terán aka nanotopia Microbes ranging from the bacteria of the human gut to the fungal networks of forests, immersive, mixed-reality environments, post-colonial […]