Convened by Dr. Patricia A. Matthew, dialogues are scheduled for March 10th, March 24th, April 14th, and April 21st. Peter Brathwaite and Paterson Joseph will bring Black British culture to the series on March 24th. Paterson is a successful stage and screen actor and Peter is a baritone who has performed across the UK. Their […]
SECOND FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA LECTURE OF SPRING 2021: Carmen Moreno-Nuño es autora de Las huellas de la Guerra Civil: mito y trauma en la narrativa de la España democrática (2006) y Haciendo memoria: confluencias entre la historia, la cultura y la memoria de la Guerra Civil en la España del siglo XXI (2019), y coeditora de Armed Resistance: Cultural Representations of […]
The UB Humanities Institute invites you to join us for an evening of play as part of our Humanities to the Rescue: Utopia programming. This event is free and open to the public. Registration required to attend and participation encouraged, but not a requirement! REGISTER NOW Come play with us as we envision and create […]
REGISTER NOW Solidarity Party 2.0: A Celebration of Vice President Kamala Harris, Civil Rights Activism, and the 19th Amendment, 1920-2020 Join for a virtual event to celebrate the election of Vice President Kamala Harris and reflect upon Civil Rights Activism and the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. Featuring the following: Karen King, Erie County Commissioner […]
JOIN NOW Join us for a virtual edition of our Faculty Fellows talks! This lecture series brings current UB humanities research out into the community. Karin will present her talk live on Zoom with a Q+A session following. In this talk, Karin Michelson confronts an issue faced by anyone contemplating writing a comprehensive reference grammar […]
Society and Computing is hosting a discussion about the Coded Bias documentary and its implications on society as a whole. Join SoCo on Friday, March 26 at 7:30 PM. Watch the film before the discussion session and come prepared to talk about some of the topics listed below. This is open to all UB students, […]
TONIGHT, Monday March 29th at 6:00pm, the Department of Media Study's PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, Screenings of Media Artists) will feature a lecture by Girish Shambu. The Zoom Meeting ID for the lecture series is 959 5554 2975. Email paigesar@buffalo with PLASMA2021 in the subject line for password. Girish Shambu is Professor of Management at Canisius College, where he teaches in the area of sustainability. […]
An ontology is a category system developed to classify and reason about entities of different sorts. In former times such systems were developed manually, sometimes by philosophers. Nowadays ontologies are created inside the computer and UB is a world center of this new digital ontology research. UB faculty and students are involved in efforts to develop ontologies […]
Ianna Hawkins Owen, Asst. Professor English and African American Studies Boston University Tuesday, March 30 4:00-5:00 pm (on Zoom) “‘No New Watchword:’ Asexuality, Incarceration, and Freedom” a discussion of asexuality, prison abolition, and former Black Panther Party leader Ericka Huggins Sponsor: UB Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies To register, email Prof. Kari Winter at […]
Black French studies are at an embryonic stage compared to that of Great Britain and the United States. The field has increasingly attracted interest since the 2000s, and the publication of Pap Ndiaye’s La Condition Noire. As an area of scholarly inquiry, Black French studies focus on the emergence of Black identity politics within the universalist […]
