Vote and celebrate Election Day! Join Professor Kari J. Winter (Global Gender & Sexuality Studies) for a discussion with Alex Escaja, who was recently recognized by GLAAD (Teen Vogue, June 2020) as one of the "20 under 20: Young LGBTQ People Shaping the Future of Media and Activism." He will be discussing his award-winning documentary […]
In this talk, Averill and Sarah will discuss their podcast project, Dig: A History Podcast, a collaborative project that strives to bring the best and most important conversations happening among history scholars to the broadest possible audience. They will also discuss strategies for using podcasting in the classroom. To register, please visit: https://booking.lib.buffalo.edu/event/7215957
REGISTER HERE Please register by November 1. {zoom link will be sent after registration} Please join us Nov. 12 for Dr. Samuel K. Roberts’ inaugural keynote address for UB’s new series Race, Health, and Science. Dr. Samuel K. Roberts is Associate Professor of History and African-American Studies (Columbia University School of Arts & Sciences) and […]
Please join us for the next Joining Forces Research Colloquium co-sponsored by the UB Center for Disability Studies and the Humanities Institute Disability Studies Research Workshop on Friday, November 13th. The vision of Joining Forces-UB is to promote understanding of the experiences and needs of service members, veterans, and military family members through research, education, […]
Drawing on two decades of work in archives and special collections, as a student and researcher, faculty instructor, and program director, Mt. Pleasant will discuss opportunities and challenges for a range of approaches to capacity building in support of Indigenous sovereignty that engage rare book and manuscript collections held by a range of institutions. Date: […]
REGISTER TO ATTEND Join us for a virtual edition of our Faculty Fellows talks! This lecture series brings current UB humanities research out into the community. Exploring general systems theory, Randy argues that Canterbury Tales criticism both benefits from, and enriches, environmental studies. Showing that Chaucer thinks systematically in fashioning his tale-telling contest, Randy compares […]
Averill Earls, assistant professor of History and Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Mercyhurst University will lead an interactive discussion on tools and methods for teaching digital storytelling in undergraduate classes. To register, visit: https://booking.lib.buffalo.edu/event/7215976
Please join us on Wednesday November 18th at 4pm for a presentation by Dr Brianna Theobald on Native women’s reproductive histories and their activism from her new, multi award-winning book Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 2019). Register in advance for this webinar: […]
CLICK HERE to RSVP It is commonly held that recent advances in “artificial intelligence” have largely been possible due to recent increases in computing power. Moreover, it has long been an engineering assumption, emblematized by Gordon E. Moore's “law,” that this power will continue to improve over time. This talk interrogates the first assumption by […]
REGISTER NOW There is a powerful tradition of utopian practice and thought in African American communities. From black towns like Mound Bayou, Mississippi to the lyrical imaginings of Afrofuturism Black utopias have been a potent response to racial inequality and suffering. At this moment of rupture, with the related crises of the pandemic, racial uprisings, […]
