Humanities Institute

Associate Professor Marisol LeBrón Feminist Studies Department University of California, Santa Cruz Click here for details and registration info.

Gather with members of the LGBTQ FSA in the Intercultural and Diversity Center for an informal informational talk, Q&A and conversation with Dr. Cody Mejur, visiting assistant professor with the Department of Media Study. Video games are a powerful and growing entertainment medium and many queer and trans folks play, create, and share games related […]

While disinformation may be as old as humanity, spreading lies is exponentially easier in our media environment. At its core, the vulnerability of the “information market” stems from the blind trust that the market itself enjoys as the neutral guarantor of democratic freedoms, particularly at a time when “market values” have come to govern just […]

"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. […]