Save the date! The Digital Dialogues series highlights ongoing digital scholarship across campus by faculty, staff, and students, bridging the disciplines to spark conversations on creating and using digital tools in higher education, both in and outside of the classroom. The series is hosted by the UB Libraries and organized by Heidi Dodson and Rachel […]
Employing four incendiary examples of onstage gun use from within the American musical canon, theatre historian Meredith Conti appraises how the popular performance genre variously reinforces and resists enduring tropes imbedded within the nation’s gun culture. In particular, Conti considers the centering and decentering of the country’s naturalized gun handler—the white, Christian, cisgender man—within the […]
Join the UB Humanities Institute as we gather for our annual celebration of new publications by former Faculty Fellows. Light fare and refreshments offered, free and open to the public. This year's celebration features: Andreas Daum (History), Alexander von Humboldt (Publishers C. H. Beck, 2019) and The Second Generation: Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians, […]
Dimitri Anastasopoulos, Associate Professor of English and HI Faculty Fellow Oia: Perils of American Tourist Children in Greece (a docufiction) incorporates political analysis of the Greek economic and political crises (2008-2018) together with nonfiction travel writing, cultural critique, and a recasting of Plato’s Cave. Fictional narrative in Oia also sits in with a range of […]
Featuring Jesse Miller Lisa Diedrich Martin Summers Lisa Johnson Susan Cahn Jessica Lowell Mason Kathleen Brian Michael Rembis Wendy Gonaver Schedule Welcome – 10:45 AM Panel 1 – 11 AM – 12:30 PM | Communities of Care Jesse Miller, Books as Technologies of Care In this talk, I will examine the role that librarians in […]
Click here to RSVP On August 30—the first Friday of the fall semester—the Humanities Institute will once again host a workshop to support faculty members’ applications for external grants and fellowships. The HI's External Grant Writing Workshop is specifically designed to help faculty improve their applications by learning strategies from an experienced grant writer and […]
Join us at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center for our ninth year of Faculty Fellows talks! This lecture series brings current UB humanities research out into the community – with complimentary wine and hors d’oeuvres. Free and open to the public. Michael Rembis, Associate Professor, History and Director, UB Center for Disability Studies, 2019-20 OVPRED/HI Public […]
Please join us for the inaugural meeting of the new Digital Humanities Research Workshop, sponsored by the UB Humanities Institute and affiliated with the Digital Scholarship Studio & Network. This event is open to all who are working on or interested in digital research topics, as well as those who may be curious about what […]
Visit the Buffalo Humanities Festival website for full details and ticket information. Around the world the (re)emergence of nationalism, authoritarianism, and fundamentalism has given rise to a crisis of democracy. Whose voices are being heard? Whose voices are you listening to? What guides your voice? The 2019 Buffalo Humanities Festival tackles the current crisis of […]
Urban Bush Women (UBW) will perform the evening-length work Walking With ‘Trane, inspired by legendary jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. Esteemed UB Department of Music instructor and jazz pianist, George Caldwell, is co-composer of the music, and will accompany UBW live on stage. Walking With "Trane offers two unique experiences, SIDE A and SIDE B, inspired […]
