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Science Studies Research Workshop | Talk by Scott Frickel (Brown University), “Ground Truth: Toward a Sociology of Late Industrial Soils”

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

The HI Science Studies Research Workshop will host a talk by Scott Frickel of Brown University. This talk introduces new research that aims to reconstruct a history of soil contamination science and policy and its relationship to broader socio-ecological processes of environmental inequality and urbanization. Set mainly in Providence, Rhode Island the study is anchored […]

Dancing Together: Building Community to the Beat of Werewere Liking & the Village Ki-Yi

145 Student Union

Dancing Together: Building Community to the Beat of Werewere Liking & the Village Ki-Yi A Workshop with Guillaume Semon Yoboué, PhD Dr. Yoboué encourages you to wear traditional African attire, or attire of similar color palettes, in the spirit of the image above! Reservation required: email cflaugh@buffalo.edu   Please consult the following links to learn more […]

Baird Lecture Series: Michael Cherlin, “Music’s Making: The Music of Poetry, the Poetry of Music”

Baird Recital Hall, Second Floor

Through the Baird Lecture Series, the UB Department of Music hosts regular lectures, talks, and master classes given by distinguished visiting scholars, performers, and composers throughout the academic year. All events take place in Baird Recital Hall at 3:30 p.m. The Baird Lecture Series is free and open to the public. On Thursday, April 4, […]

Directors’ Write In

Zoom

The directors of the Humanities Institute and the Gender Institute invite faculty to join us for weekly virtual group writing sessions. Each Friday of the term, from 10:00 to noon, meet up  (virtually, via zoom) and work independently on your own writing projects in company with Gender Institute Director Victoria Wolcott, HI Director Libby Otto, […]

Interdisciplinary Marxisms Research Workshop: “Tracking Capital” Reading Group Session

904 Clemens

The Interdisciplinary Marxisms Research Workshop (IMRW) is a new Research Workshops supported by the Humanities Institute to provide a space for graduate students, faculty, and community members to join together in study and discussion of the broadly-conceived Marxist or radical tradition. The group takes a specific interest in the Marxist and radical tradition outside of […]

South Asia in Story: 6th Annual Rustgi Undergraduate Conference on South Asia featuring Javaid Tariq

102 O'Brian Hall 211 Mary Talbert Way, Buffalo, United States

Please join the UB Asia Research Institute for the 6th Annual Rustgi Undergraduate Conference of South Asia, featuring a keynote, "Driver Power, Union Power: The Struggles and Triumphs of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance," by Javaid Tariq. Tariq is co-founder of New York Taxi Workers Alliance, a grassroots predominantly immigrant and people-of-color-led labor organization […]

Interdisciplinary Marxisms Research Workshop: “Tracking Capital” with Sharae Deckard, Michael Niblett, and Stephen Shapiro

Zoom

The Interdisciplinary Marxisms Research Workshop (IMRW) is a new Research Workshops supported by the Humanities Institute to provide a space for graduate students, faculty, and community members to join together in study and discussion of the broadly-conceived Marxist or radical tradition. The group takes a specific interest in the Marxist and radical tradition outside of […]

PLASMA Speaker Series: Anne Pasek

112 Center for the Arts (Screening Room)

PLASMA Speaker Series MONDAYS 6:00- 8:30 pm EST Zoom Meeting ID:  983 4611 3436 Email eliavarg@buffalo.edu with PLASMA2024 in subject line for password. Anne Pasek is an Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Media, Culture, and the Environment at Trent University, cross-appointed between Cultural Studies and the School of the Environment. Her research explores the cultural […]

Digital Humanities: Photovoltaic Futures and Aesthetics, A Heliotechnics/Heliotechniques Workshop

Lockwood 109

The Heliotechnics/Heliotechniques Institute for the Study of Solar Practices is a speculative media art project and website that explores new ways of thinking about energetic entities, such as petroleum, whale oil, electricity, and the sun to decenter anthropocentric representations of nature, culture, and technology. The project is a website for the science of solar practices—the […]

Dept. of Comparative Literature: Azad Ashim Sharma, “Boiled Owls”

Fitz Books 433 Ellicott St, Buffalo, NY, United States

Dr. Devonya Havis and the Department of Comparative Literature will welcome poet, writer, and publisher, Azad Ashim Sharma to give a reading followed by a Q&A on his recently released book, Boiled Owls. Boiled Owls a collection of poems that demystify drug addiction, alcoholism, depression, and anxiety whilst thinking through their relation to capitalism and […]