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Students from Rage Against the Machine (HIS419/550) and Machine Learning and Society (CSE 440/441/540) team up to end white supremacy drawing on strengths and insights from both disciplines. Using our innovative Impossible Project course link model, student teams apply a historical lens to their understanding of the way computing exacerbates the problem of white supremacy […]

MONDAY MAY 8th, the Department of Media Study's PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, And Screenings in Media Art)​ presents an IN-PERSON lecture by artists and UB PhD alumni JENNIFER GRADECKI & DEREK CURRY at 6:15 pm EST in the Center for the Arts, Room 112. Jennifer Gradecki (US) is an artist-theorist who investigates secretive and specialized socio-technical systems. Her artistic research has […]

 Report from the Artist-researchers in Residence #5 BioArt in the Public Sphere @ Coalesce WED, MAY 10, 2023 @ 7:00 PM • HALLWALLS CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER • 341 DELAWARE AVE, BUFFALO, NY Alvaro Azcárraga, Brianna Leatherbury, & Tatiana Istomina  Alvaro Azcárraga is a Mexican artist and researcher that works with plant-like organisms with a focus […]

RSVP to attend Please join us at FITZ BOOKS as we celebrate recent publications by Humanities Institute Faculty Fellows and HI/OVPRED Research Funding in the Arts and Humanities Awardees. Catered by The Dapper Goose with cash bar. Free and open to the public. Books available for purchase. Celebrating new works by: Henry Berlin, Alone Together: […]

An exhibition of pandemic artwork and creative expression. The exhibition is the outcome of a three year project examining how people ranging from professional artists to first-time creatives used creativity during the Covid-19 pandemic. The project defined creative expression broadly, including traditional and experimental art forms as well as creative hobbies such gaming, baking, crocheting, […]

Location: Humanities Institute Seminar Room - 218 Clemens Hall Lunch provided for those that register by Tuesday, Aug. 29. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER On Friday September 1, the Humanities Institute will host our faculty grant writing workshop in support of applications to humanities based grants and fellowships.  HI's Grant Writing Workshop is specifically designed to help […]

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. Frederick Wright Jones was born in Boyertown, Pennsylvania. He received his MFA in Sculpture and Emerging Practices at the […]