Claudio Saunt is the Richard B. Russell Professor in American History, Associate Director of the Institute of Native American Studies and Co-Director of the Center for Virtual History at the University of Georgia. He will discuss his work in digital public history, specifically in mapping, which has included the Invasion of America and Pox Americana projects. Co-Sponsored by […]
The Translation Zone Research Workshop is hosting an interactive session where we will be working together to translate a ghazal by the 13th-century Persian poet Jalaluddin Rumi. This event will be led by Shima Bagheri of Allameh Tabatabai University in Iran. Instruction on how to participate in this interactive workshop are available here: http://bit.ly/rumiworkshop2021 Shima […]
REGISTER NOW Join us for a virtual edition of our Faculty Fellows talks, our last session for 2020-21! This lecture series brings current UB humanities research out into the community. Eero will present his talk live on Zoom with a Q+A session following. Mascots and costumed characters often function as figures for communities to playfully […]
On behalf of the UB Center for Diversity Innovation, along with the UB departments of Music and Anthropology and the University of Southern Chile, you are cordially invited to participate in an open, roundtable diversity discussion based on the new album, "Excavated Shellac: An Alternate History of the World's Music. This astounding new digital album/archive project […]
The Department of Media Study's PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, Screenings of Media Artists) will feature a conversation with Gregg Bordowitz. The Zoom Meeting ID for the lecture series is 959 5554 2975. Email paigesar@buffalo with PLASMA2021 in the subject line for password. Since the late 1980s, writer, artist, and activist Gregg Bordowitz has made diverse works— […]
Speaker Series: Race, Health, and Science Speaker: Nicolae Morar, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy and Associate Member of the Institute for Ecology and Evolution at the University of Oregon Title: “Recording Injustices Genetically? The Case of the Human Microbiome” Time: 12:00 to 1:30pm on Wednesday, April 28 Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute Science […]
The Lorca Lectures will offer virtual presentations by four leading experts on the work, life, and legacy of Federico García Lorca and his contemporaries in the Hispanic avant-garde movements of the 20th century. Each event will consist of a talk of about 40 minutes will be followed by discussion. Aaron Shulman, journalist and author of 'The […]
The Community College Humanities Association presents the first forum in its newly-created Community Conversations series: Bridging the Divide: Creating Meaningful Scholarship at the Teaching-Intensive Institution April 29, 2021 3:30-4:45 pm (EST) Can community college humanities faculty engage in meaningful scholarship amid the workload demands of the teaching-intensive institution? How do they retain or reclaim their […]
COVID-19 first appeared in China and soon became a global pandemic, but the polities of East Asia have been relatively successful in containing it. Some African states adopted harsh measures to suppress the pathogen while others drew on experience with AIDS and Ebola to mount effective responses. Although a wealthy and technologically developed country, the […]
The Department of Media Study's PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, Screenings of Media Artists) will feature a screening of PLASMA Cinetracts. The Zoom Meeting ID for the lecture series is 959 5554 2975. Email paigesar@buffalo with PLASMA2021 in the subject line for password. In 1968, a group of French filmmakers crafted short, quickly made cinematic responses to the political and social […]
