Humanities Institute

A New Documentary Film by Susanne Radelhof & Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics A New Book Presented by Author Elizabeth Otto (MIT Press, 2019) Books to be provided for sale and signing by Talking Leaves. One more event to wrap up the Bauhaus Centennial: a book signing for former […]

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO ILLNESS. A new date will be announced soon. The lecture and seminar form part of a larger project called Deadlines, on the strange temporality of the deadline — political, theological, psychoanalytic, literary, legal, biological, environmental and other sorts. The lecture discusses the question of time in Freud’s famous […]

This talk explores the ways that established discourse frames are implicated in the racialization of particular groups of speakers. Specifically it explores the ways in which the goals presented in foreign language mission statements compare with the experiences of latinx and hispanic bilinguals who have attended spanish language learning programs. In her study, Clemons argues […]

Amy Trabert, LMSW Child & Family Services, Haven House High Risk Team Coordinator Topic: the high risk team and the domestic violence homicide issue in Erie County *Donation drive for Haven House: Please consider donating food and other items from the wish list below. *Donation drive for Haven House, ending March 10, 2020 The Dept. of […]

Have you ever wondered what it would look like if a sculptor were on Shark Tank? Or a contemporary dancer were on America’s Got Talent? Work In Real Time is a monthly arts salon-meets-project incubator that will take place in the atrium of UB Center for the Arts. Every month artists across disciplines will present […]

Professor Heidi M. Ravven, of Hamilton College, is a specialist on the philosophy of the seventeenth century Jewish philosopher, Baruch Spinoza. She was the first philosopher to propose that Spinoza anticipated central discoveries in the neuroscience of the emotions. Ravven has published widely on Spinoza's philosophic thought, on the twelfth century philosopher Moses Maimonidea, on […]

Professor Heidi M. Ravven, of Hamilton College, is a specialist on the philosophy of the seventeenth century Jewish philosopher, Baruch Spinoza. She was the first philosopher to propose that Spinoza anticipated central discoveries in the neuroscience of the emotions. Ravven has published widely on Spinoza's philosophic thought, on the twelfth century philosopher Moses Maimonidea, on […]