Humanities Institute

REGISTER NOW Please join fellow scholars and faculty for the first annual Rustgi Undergraduate Conference on South Asia at the University at Buffalo. The conference will feature a keynote lecture by Sujatha Gidla, acclaimed author of Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017). We will […]

Be inspired by history. Participants will embark on a walking tour focusing on Buffalo’s Underground Railroad stories, listening to dramatic accounts based on history as inspiration to write their own personal & family stories. Annette Daniels Taylor is an award-winning playwright, poet, and artist filmmaker. Her debut YA novel, Dreams on Fire, a Junior Library […]

45 Plays for 45 Presidents is an irreverent comical insight into the lives of every POTUS, produced through forty-five vignettes featuring each President and his wives, mistresses, political opponents, and others. In 2002 the Neo-Futurists released 43 Plays for 43 Presidents. Since then in order to stay current the play has undergone many rewrites and […]

Sharonah Fredrick, Clinical Assistant Professor, Romance Languages & Literatures The sexual image of Lilith, (Adam’s spurned and vampirical first wife) in the Judeo-Spanish Kabalah, and the tales of her exile from Eden, became a metaphor for the Jews and Muslims expelled from Spanish soil after 1492. Gender-wise, the Lilith legends were transformed in the New […]

Department of English University at Buffalo Juxtapositions Lecture Series and Center for Global Film and Media present: 4:00-5:30pm | Center for the Arts, Screening Room 112 Lecture: “Videographic Criticism as Theory and Practice” Prof. Tracy Cox-Stanton, Savannah College of Art and Design 5:45-6:45pm (following Tracy Cox-Stanton’s lecture) | Center for the Arts, Screening Room 112 […]