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Directors’ Write In [NEW!]

Humanities Institute Seminar Room - 218 Clemens Hall

The directors of the Humanities Institute and the Gender Institute invite faculty to join us in the Humanities Institute’s new seminar space on select Friday afternoons (3pm-5pm) for group writing sessions. Coffee, tea, and quiet headspace will be available at these drop-in sessions. Click here to join via Zoom!

Dept. of Art Visiting Speaker Series: Shelley Niro

112 Center for the Arts (Screening Room)

The Department of Art regularly invites artists, critics, historians and designers to participate in the Visiting Artist Speaker Series, classroom lectures and critiques. The Speaker Series happens every fall semester and is free to the public. Shelley Niro was born in Niagara Falls, New York.  Shelley is a member of the Turtle Clan, Bay of Quinte Mohawk […]

Dept. of Sociology: Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, “Neither Deficit nor Joy: Formal Education and the Life Course for Travestis in Buenos Aires, Argentina”

474 Park Hall 211 Mary Talbert Way, Buffalo, NY, United States

Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, 2023-24 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, will give a talk hosted by the Department of Sociology entitled "Neither Deficit nor Joy: Formal Education and the Life Course for Travestis in Buenos Aires, Argentina." U.S. scholarship on transgender studies often moves between two extremes: a normative emphasis on violence (corporeal, symbolic, or systemic) as a social problem that merits […]

Africana and American Studies/DVS Panel Discussion: A Difficult Dialogue about Hip Hop with the Hosts of NPR’s “Louder than A Riot”

112 Center for the Arts (Screening Room)

To commemorate 50 years of Hip Hop, there will be a panel discussion entitled “A Difficult Dialogue about Hip Hop with the Hosts of NPR’s “Louder than A Riot.” Hosted by the Department of Africana and American Studies and the Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program, the panel discussion will focus on difficult dialogues concerning hip hop and the […]

Directors’ Write In [NEW!]

Humanities Institute Seminar Room - 218 Clemens Hall

The directors of the Humanities Institute and the Gender Institute invite faculty to join us in the Humanities Institute’s new seminar space on select Friday afternoons (3pm-5pm) for group writing sessions. Coffee, tea, and quiet headspace will be available at these drop-in sessions. Click here to join via Zoom!

Dept. of Art Visiting Speaker Series: Amy Cutler (virtual)

112 Center for the Arts (Screening Room)

The Department of Art regularly invites artists, critics, historians and designers to participate in the Visiting Artist Speaker Series, classroom lectures and critiques. The Speaker Series happens every fall semester and is free to the public. For nearly twenty-five years, Amy Cutler has made enigmatic, narrative works of art in which internalized emotions, societal observations, and […]

An Exchange of Hip Hop Journeys: Artist Eric Haze and Writer/Activist Bakari Kitwana

112 Center for the Arts (Screening Room)

To celebrate 50 years of Hip Hop, UB will host a conversation between visual artist Eric Haze and writer & activist Bakari Kitwana, a 2023-24 Distinguished Visiting Scholar. Both have been deeply immersed in hip hop culture throughout their lives, and this conversation will focus on when they first became immersed into the elements of […]

Technoculture Research Workshop: Rasa Smits and Raitis Smits, “Atmospheric Forest,” An Environmental Sensing Multimedia VR Project

Center for the Arts, 278 (Production Studio)

Latvian media artists Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits, founders of the historic RIXC media center in Riga, will be screening and discussing their environmental sensing multimedia VR project, "Atmospheric Forest" as well as other works on Friday, November 17th, 2023 from 12:00-2:00pm in the CFA 278 Production Studio (located in the Department of Media Study). In […]