Humanities Institute

“61% of the entire planet is laboring informally. And what characterizes informal employment is a blurred divide between the productive and the reproductive.” Alessandra Mezzadri, GLUNetwork Interview (8/10/2022) Contemporary social reproduction debates are primarily focused upon the “crisis of care” in high income countries. Less attention has been paid to social reproduction in post-colonial and post-socialist contexts […]

Free and open to the public. Register here.  While manipulative actors deliberately introduce false and misleading information into the media stream, much of the corrupt information circulating in the public sphere is spread inadvertently by otherwise responsible actors. Well-meaning individuals forward and re-tweet inaccurate, even downright harmful misinformation. Media platforms that would seem to have an […]

Full schedule available here. Zoom registration link available here. Please join us for a 4-day hybrid symposium (partially on zoom, partially in-person) from Monday April 24 through Thursday, April 27, “Queer and Feminist Yugoslav Diaspora: Art, Film, and Activism,” which will feature multiple panels and film screenings, a keynote lecture, masterclass and book launch, as […]

Lindsay Caplan is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Her writing has appeared in Grey Room, ARTMargins, e-flux, The Scholar and Feminist Online, Piano b, and Art in America, as well as edited collections and exhibition catalogues. Her book Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in […]

This symposium will examine the Russo-Ukrainian war and what it tells us about the strengths and weaknesses of the contemporary international system. It will explore war crimes, crimes against humanity and alleged genocide arising from the conflict. It will also revisit the enduring dichotomy between Russian authoritarian imperialism and Ukrainian democratic nationalism. To register for […]

The Department of Music welcomes Jacqueline Avila from the University of Texas at Austin. This presentation examines the soundscapes and compositional techniques utilized by the EDM group the Mexican Institute of Sound (MIS) and its founder Camilo Lara in the 2021 album DF and in Netflix’s Latinx-focused dramady Gentefied (2020-21). The music created for both the album and the […]

For more information, including a complete schedule and list of participants, please visit the workshop website at  https://shakespearegildbuffalo.wordpress.com/events/ or contact me at bbono@buffalo.edu or 716-207-0690.   Gilding the Guilt: The Gilded Age, Craft Production, and the Construction of Cultural Capital  Organized by Barbara Bono, Carrie Tirado Bramen, Maria Horne, and Stacy Carson Hubbard Co-Sponsored with the Departments of English and Theatre and […]