Humanities Institute

Cabo Verdean Women Writing Remembrance, Resistance, and Revolution: Kriolas Poderozas documents the work and stories told by Cabo Verdean women to refocus the narratives about Cabo Verde on Cabo Verdean women and their experiences. The contributors examine their own experiences, the history of Cabo Verde, and Cabo Verdean diaspora to highlight the commonalities that exist among […]

Join the Exhibit X Fiction Series to meet poet and translator Laura Marris to discuss her recent updated translation of Albert Camus's The Plague. CLICK HERE to register via Zoom BIO Laura Marris' work has appeared in The New York Times, The Yale Review, The Believer, The Point, and elsewhere. Her recent translations include Albert […]

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 […]