Humanities Institute

"Peace of the City’s ‘Shakespeare Comes to 716’ and Reparative Theater" Barbara Bono Associate Professor Emerita, English and Global Gender and Sexuality Studies Barbara Bono is Associate Professor Emerita of English and Global Gender and Sexuality Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo.  She is a specialist in the literature of Shakespeare […]

Please join us for the Poetry Collection’s Seventh Victor E. Reichert Robert Frost Event. Featuring a virtual talk by Setsuko Yokoyama titled “Difference, #slowDH, and the Poetics of Robert Frost Tapes.” Tuesday, October 12, 2021 7:00 – 8:00 pm EDT Via Zoom For registration and more information: library.buffalo.edu/pl/reichertfrost This event is funded by the Jonathan […]

Prof. Christopher Rea, University of British Columbia, Department of Asian Studies    Lecture: “What Disney (and the Rest of Us) Can Learn from the Earliest Surviving Mulan Film”    Recommended films: Hua Mu Lan (Mulan Joins the Army, Mulan congjun, 木蘭從軍, 1939), directed by Richard Poh (Bu Wancang);  Mulan (2020), directed by Niki Caro To register please contact the Confucius Institute: […]

Juliet Hooker is Professor of Political Science at Brown University. She is a political theorist specializing in racial justice, multiculturalism, Latin American political thought, Black political thought, and Afro-descendant and indigenous politics in Latin America. She is the author of Race and the Politics of Solidarity (Oxford, 2009) and Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, […]

In her lecture "expand into what?," poet, scholar, and professor Simone White will take up the contemporary need for performance in poetry and for poetry as performative event, in the context of poetry becoming more vulnerable to certain kinds of institutional capture. It will explore possibilities for the expansion of poetic practice today: How can […]

Simone White is author of Dear Angel of Death (Ugly Duckling Presse 2018), Of Being Dispersed (Futurepoem 2016), and House  Envy  of  All  the World (Factory School 2010). Her writing has appeared in Artforum, BOMB, e-flux journal, Chicago Review, and The New York Times Book Review. In 2017, she received the Whiting Award for Poetry. […]

Please join Stephanie Vander Wel and Nadine “Dean” Hubbs in conversation about Vander Wel’s recent book Hillbilly Maidens, Okies, and Cowgirls: Women’s Country Music, 1930-1960 on October 27, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. (EST) via zoom. The event is part of the book series “New Books, New Feminist Directions,” sponsored by the Gender Institute of the […]

Prof. Jie Li, Harvard University, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations    Lecture: “Madame Mao and Cinema: Actress, Critic, Censor, and Producer”      Recommended films: The Red Detachment of Women (Hongse niangzijun, 红色娘子军, 1961), directed by Xie Jin OR The Red Detachment of Women (Hongse niangzijun, 红色娘子军, 1971), directed by Pan Wenzhan and Fu Jie;  In the Heat of the Sun (Yang […]