The Department of Art regularly invites artists, critics, historians and designers to participate in the Visiting Artist Speaker Series, classroom lectures and critiques. The Speaker Series happens every fall semester and is free to the public. Daisy Patton is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Los Angeles, CA to a white mother from the American South and […]
This roundtable will showcase issues and topics that an emerging network of scholars at UB studying data justice and equity are tackling. As our lives and activities are increasingly turned into data and government policies driven by data in a manner that reproduces social injustices, data justice has emerged as a pertinent field in activism […]
All are invited to attend the "Devonya Havis’ Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy” Roundtable. This roundtable discussion will be devoted to critical engagements of invited critical race and gender scholars with Dr. Devonya Havis’ recently published book, Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy (2023). The invited scholars include Falguni Sheth (Emory University), Anwar Uhuru (Wayne State […]
The UB English Department's Exhibit X Fiction series presents Grady Hendrix. Grady Hendrix is the New York Times-bestselling author of How To Sell a Haunted House, The Final Girl Support Group, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, My Best Friend's Exorcism, We Sold Our Souls, and Horrorstör. His history of the horror paperback boom of the '70s and '80s, Paperbacks from Hell, […]
Internationally renowned visual artist, book artist, and poet Jen Bervin will be delivering the fifth Robert Creeley Lecture in Poetry & Poetics, entitled “Measuring the Sun,” on Friday, November 3rd, in the Poetry Collection, at 3:30pm (with reception to follow). Measuring the Sun – A first glimpse from work in progress by Jen Bervin and conservator Debora […]
The directors of the Humanities Institute and the Gender Institute invite faculty to join us in the Humanities Institute’s new seminar space on select Friday afternoons (3pm-5pm) for group writing sessions. Coffee, tea, and quiet headspace will be available at these drop-in sessions. Click here to join via Zoom!
The Department of Art regularly invites artists, critics, historians and designers to participate in the Visiting Artist Speaker Series, classroom lectures and critiques. The Speaker Series happens every fall semester and is free to the public. Shelley Niro was born in Niagara Falls, New York. Shelley is a member of the Turtle Clan, Bay of Quinte Mohawk […]
The New Faculty Seminar brown bag lunch series returns! After a hiatus due to COVID, we are excited to bring back this popular lunch time series, now in our new seminar space! The Humanities Institute invites you to join us as we learn more about the work of new humanities faculty at UB. Coffee, tea, […]
Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, 2023-24 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, will give a talk hosted by the Department of Sociology entitled "Neither Deficit nor Joy: Formal Education and the Life Course for Travestis in Buenos Aires, Argentina." U.S. scholarship on transgender studies often moves between two extremes: a normative emphasis on violence (corporeal, symbolic, or systemic) as a social problem that merits […]
To commemorate 50 years of Hip Hop, there will be a panel discussion entitled “A Difficult Dialogue about Hip Hop with the Hosts of NPR’s “Louder than A Riot.” Hosted by the Department of Africana and American Studies and the Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program, the panel discussion will focus on difficult dialogues concerning hip hop and the […]
