Yan Liu, Assistant Professor of History, UB "From Text to Practice: The Transformation of Medical Knowledge in Medieval China"
Participants Laura Chiesa, University at Buffalo Marc Crépon, École Normale Supérieure Aïcha Liviana Messina, Universidad Diego Portales Ginette Michaud, Université de Montréal Laura Odello, Collège International de la Philosophie
Fernanda Negrete (Romance Languages & Literatures), “Louise Bourgeois’ Aesthetic Clinic of Hysteria: A Kind of Intimacy in the Visual.”
Please join the UB Humanities Institute for a celebration of recent publications by HI Faculty Fellows. This year's celebration includes titles by: Rachel Ablow (English), Victorian Pain (Princeton University Press, 2017) Ana Mariella Bacigalupo (Anthropology), Thunder Shaman: Making History with Mapuche Spirits in Chile and Patagonia (University of Texas Press, 2016) David Castillo (Romance Languages […]
A Reading from Room in Hotel America On May 5th, English professor Christina Milletti will read a selection from her novel-in-progress, Room in Hotel America, which investigates the lost history of a wealthy Cuban family who immigrated to the USA in 1924, then withdrew into the posh, opportunely named Hotel America. Presented as a series […]
Max Page, University of Massachusetts, Amherst “Why Preservation Matters: Building a Progressive Preservation Movement.”
The first general meeting of the Haudenosaunee Research Group which will be held on Friday, Sept 8 in room 1030 Clemens Hall from 1-3pm. Refreshments will be provided! Join the meeting to provide input on upcoming events and activities, as well as on strategies to increase the visibility and support of Native people and programming […]
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Each September, in anticipation of fall grant application deadlines, the Humanities Institute hosts a Faculty External Grant Writing Workshop. The workshop focuses on best practices and common pitfalls in the grant application process. All UB arts and humanities faculty are invited to attend, from new arrivals to seasoned applicants. The workshop […]
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 the life-changing […]
Please join for a new year of the Modernisms Research Workshop! The group's coordinators Laura Chiesa, Damien Keane, and Justin Read have started a very exciting schedule of events around the theme for this year of "World Modernisms." MRW hopes to engage many of the current debates in related fields regarding world literature and world […]
