PLASMA Speaker Series MONDAYS 6:00- 8:30 pm EST Zoom Meeting ID: 983 4611 3436 Email eliavarg@buffalo.edu with PLASMA2024 in subject line for password. T. J. Demos teaches art history and visual culture at UC Santa Cruz, and directs its Center for Creative Ecologies. He writes about contemporary art, global politics, and ecology and is the author of […]
War is being declared on the body and sexual autonomy is under assault for LGBTQ+ people and those seeking safe and legal access to abortion. Focusing on human rights and an international perspective, our symposium brings together scholars, survivors and legal experts to discuss the politics of sexual and reproductive rights. The Alison L. Des […]
The Digital Humanities Research Workshop is pleased to host an afternoon symposium on the topic of "Transformational Change" with respect to the ethical obligations and possibilities presented by digital scholarly editing in a variety of fields. Three invited guest speakers will discuss their work leading innovative editorial projects in a variety of fields, whether […]
The Humanities Institute invites you to join us as we learn more about the work of new humanities faculty at UB. Coffee, tea, and cookies will be served. This event will be presented hybrid. To join remotely, please see Zoom meeting info at the bottom of this page. Marco Faini is Assistant Professor of Italian […]
For Earth Month (April), the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures is offering a film series loosely based on farming and food production. All films are free and open to the public. For more information, Prof. Colleen Culleton at culleton@buffalo.edu The third film in this month-long series will be Trás-os-Montes (Dir. António Reis and Margarida […]
The Interdisciplinary Marxisms Research Workshop (IMRW) is a new Research Workshops supported by the Humanities Institute to provide a space for graduate students, faculty, and community members to join together in study and discussion of the broadly-conceived Marxist or radical tradition. The group takes a specific interest in the Marxist and radical tradition outside of […]
Through the Baird Lecture Series, the UB Department of Music hosts regular lectures, talks, and master classes given by distinguished visiting scholars, performers, and composers throughout the academic year. All events take place in Baird Recital Hall at 3:30 p.m. The Baird Lecture Series is free and open to the public. On Thursday, April 18, […]
Presented by the UB Humanities Institute in collaboration with the UB Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program with the UB departments of Sociology and Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, in conjunction with Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. Please join us for a screening of Fly in Power with a post-screening conversation featuring Elena Shih (Brown University), UB Distinguished […]
The directors of the Humanities Institute and the Gender Institute invite faculty to join us for weekly virtual group writing sessions. Each Friday of the term, from 10:00 to noon, meet up (virtually, via zoom) and work independently on your own writing projects in company with Gender Institute Director Victoria Wolcott, HI Director Libby Otto, […]
Presented by the UB Humanities Institute in collaboration with the UB Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program with the UB departments of Sociology and Global Gender and Sexuality Studies. Elena Shih will give a talk on her book Manufacturing Freedom: Sex Work, Anti-Trafficking Rehab, and the Racial Wages of Rescue (University of California Press, 2023). Sex worker rescue […]
