A second advance screening of Lucy Winer's “Kings Park: Stories from an American Mental Institution”, prior to her Sept. 21st talk, "Lessons from the Asylum." When filmmaker Lucy Winer set out to make a film about her commitment to Kings Park State Hospital as a teenager in the late 1960’s, she had little idea of […]
Free and open to the public. Join the UB Humanities Institute for the first Scholars@Hallwalls talk of the 2017-18 year. All talks begin at 4pm with complimentary wine and hors d'oeuvres. The last two decades of Yugoslav socialism produced some of the most politicized and radical artistic experimentation in the Balkan region, which situated questions […]
University of Buffalo scholars and featured College of Arts and Sciences Professor Dr. Amma Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin join Torn Space for a Round Table Discussion about Contemporary Performance and Community Engagement in between Saturday performances of "The Fever" by 600 Highwaymen, co-sponsored by the University at Buffalo Humanities Institute’s Performance Research Workshop. See the 4:00pm show […]
Lucy Winer, award-winning documentary filmmaker of “Kings Park: Stories from an American Mental Institution”, presents "Lessons from the Asylum." When filmmaker Lucy Winer set out to make a film about her commitment to Kings Park State Hospital as a teenager in the late 1960’s, she had little idea of the life-changing odyssey on which she […]
Free and open to the public "Collaboration/Rasanbleman: Working in and through Kreyòl Modes of Performance” Dasha Chapman, Hampshire College, Five College Consortium “Our Love on Fire: Gay Men’s Stories of Violence and Hope in Haiti” Mario LaMothe, University of Illinois at Chicago Co-sponsored by the HI Queer Studies Research Workshop, the Department of Romance Languages […]
The UB Humanities Institute Science Studies Research Workshop and the Center for Disability Studies present a talk by Nancy Tomes, Ph.D., SUNY Distinguished Professor, Department of History, Stony Brook University, former President of the American Association for the History of Medicine, author of Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients […]
As part of their 20th anniversary programming, the UB Gender Institute will host an all-day symposium at the Greatbatch Pavilion at the Darwin Martin House on Tuesday, September 26th from 11am to 3pm. The Symposium will honor the accomplishments of major women in Buffalo’s past and then turn to prominent women in the Buffalo community […]
Queer Studies Research Workshop Welcome event, 27 September 5:30pm, back room of Taste of India on Sheridan at North Bailey. No cost delicious meal and an opportunity to meet fellow faculty and grads working in queer studies. Currently our membership spans 23 different departments offering fabulous opportunities to meet new collaborators. Bring a friend! Vegetarian […]
FREE; but, registration required. The festival begins on Thursday, Sept. 28, at 6 p.m. with a discussion organized by Humanities New York in the Burchfield Penney Art Center’s Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Auditorium, titled “Turning the Tide: Communicating Climate Science.” PARTICIPANTS: Jacqui Patterson, Director, NAACP’s Environmental and Climate Justice Program Jason Briner, Associate Professor […]
BUY TICKETS Join us at the Buffalo Humanities Festival for an evening with environmental writer and activist Bill McKibben, who will present on “The Desperate Climate Fight: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Moment,” with a book signing to follow. Co-founder of 350.org, author of The End of Nature, Eaarth, Deep Economy, and Oil and Honey: […]
