Humanities Institute

Virtual Conference, May 24-26, 2021 The Marianne Moore Digital Archive has exclusive permission to publish online, in facing-page manuscript and transcription, all 122 notebooks by the important modernist poet, Marianne Moore (1887-1972). These notebooks contain extraordinary records of the daily, intellectual, and creative life of the poet from 1905 through around 1970—including her notes on reading, conversations she […]

Haudenosaunee Micro-Short Film Program Burchfield Penney Art Center - Buffalo, NY September 4, 2021 (1:00-2:30pm) TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE Tickets are FREE with a $10 or more suggested donation. 50% of your donation will be shared with participating filmmakers. Your donation will directly help support independent Indigenous filmmaking! Get your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/165421073885 There will be […]

Please register by Sept. 1, 2021. REGISTRATION HAS CLOSED FOR THIS EVENT. On Thursday September 9, the Humanities Institute will host our 2021 faculty grant writing workshop in support of applications to external grants and fellowships.  The HI's Grant Writing Workshop is specifically designed to help faculty improve grant and fellowship applications to organizations outside of UB by exchanging drafts […]

The UB Digitial Scholarship & Studio Network presents Maria Rodriguez, “Identifying organic bystander interventions in racist social media interactions: Preliminary results” Micro-blogging social media platforms, such as Twitter, afford social and health science researchers the opportunity to investigate the real-time reflections of individuals on their social and political environment—for example, whether witnesses of racist interactions […]

The University at Buffalo (UB) in collaboration with the Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, the Buffalo and Erie County Libraries, and the Veterans One-stop Center of Western New York will collaborate on a project, titled “Developing a Sense of Meaningful Belonging Among Veterans.” The project will take place in Buffalo, NY  from May 2021 until October 2022. […]

The Buffalo Humanities Festival returns to in-person programming with two afternoons of conversations and exchanges of ideas addressing Utopia. Join us at Silo City as we gather scholars, creators, activists, and our local communities to explore progressive visions from the past in order to illuminate our own utopian horizons. Let’s imagine better, more equitable, life-affirming […]

The Buffalo Humanities Festival returns to in-person programming with two afternoons of conversations and exchanges of ideas addressing Utopia. Join us at Silo City as we gather scholars, creators, activists, and our local communities to explore progressive visions from the past in order to illuminate our own utopian horizons. Let’s imagine better, more equitable, life-affirming […]

“Latinx Heritage at the Intersections of Culture and Crisis,”  is a series of Zoom conversations in honor of Latinx Heritage Month (September 15-October 15). The website can be opened here: https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/romance-languages-literatures/news-events/recent-news/LatinxHeritageattheIntersectionsofCultureandCrisis.html The first session is Wednesday, September 22, 2021 at 4:00pm. Prof. Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba (University of Texas, Austin) will speak on “HipHop, Violence, and Queer […]

September 23, 1:00-3:00: Sarah Handley-Cousins: "DH 101 for Graduate Students (& other beginners!)" - online only So you've heard the term and seen the hype, but what actually is digital humanities? In this virtual workshop designed for graduate students (and other beginners!) we'll provide an accessible introduction to the digital humanities from its origins and definitions to the potential it […]