The City of Buffalo exemplifies the polarized conditions and threats from the legacies of slavery and oppression that characterize the United States as a whole, but many people here strive daily to create justice, beauty, and equality. Buffalo people are bringing about a just transition towards a beautiful future for our city, and we invite […]
Professor Stephanie Rothenberg (Department of Art), “Trading Systems: Bi-Economic Fairy Tales in the Anthropocene”
Stephanie will present recent work exploring robotic gardens and a new project in progress called “Trading Systems: Bio-Economic Fairy Tales in the Anthropocene.” The new project explores the overlapping trajectories between economics and the sciences, specifically biology. It questions how these intersections between social systems and non-human ecologies are situated within our current anthropogenic, socio-political […]
Julilly Kohler-Hausmann Assistant Professor of History, Cornell University Professor Kohler-Hausmann is the author of the book “Getting Tough: Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970s America”. Her talk will be on the intersections between welfare and criminal justice policies, in particular how intensifications of punitive practices in the carceral system were rhetorically and operationally coordinated with the […]
This spring PRW is presenting a Works-in-Progress Series featuring three UB faculty. First up is Dr. Lindsay Brandon Hunter of Theatre & Dance, who will share her work in a talk titled, “Transient Witness: Livestreaming the Real.” Lindsay Brandon Hunter is Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University at Buffalo. Her research investigates the confluence […]
New date to be determined. Eunjung Kim, Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Disability Studies Program, Syracuse University Presenting from her recently published book, Kim will examine a direct link between cure and violence that appears in the representations of disability and Cold War imperialism in South Korea. She also explores […]
Making Money Research Workshop: Presentation by Professor Chris Lee followed by discussion of Peter North’s “Money and Liberation” Location: 77 Ashland Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222 Chris Lee (Dept of Art) will facilitate a conversation prompted by the readings from Peter North’s “Money and Liberation” in relation to a brief survey of various models of alternative […]
: Pre-registration for this event has closed. A limited number of discounted tickets at the price of $15 will be available at the door. Please RSVP Maki Tanigaki (huminst@buffalo.edu) if you plan on attending. Ticket payments will be cash or credit - at the door. The UB Humanities Institute invites you to join for a […]
A work-in-progress session with Professor Stephanie Schmidt, UB Romance Languages & Literatures, “Neophytes Write the ‘Spiritual Conquest’ of Mexico: Native Perspectives in the Libro de los colloquios"
Adalberto Müller (Universidade Federal Fluminense) is currently visiting scholar at UB, translating Emily Dickinson into Portuguese. Please stop by for light snacks and Portuguese-English poetry readings of both Dickinson and the Brazilian poet João Cabral de Melo Neto. Sponsored by the HI Modernisms Research Workshop.
