Attention Graduate Students! REGISTER TO ATTEND Join Libby Otto, Director of the Humanities Institute (HI), on Friday October 20th from 12:00-1:30pm in 1032 Clemens the Humanities Institute’s seminar room (Clemens 218) or via Zoom (see meeting ID below) for a new fellowship and grant workshop designed for graduate students seeking humanities-based opportunities. She will discuss […]
The Department of Anthropology in collaboration with the Department of Africana and American Studies presents an artist talk by Dr. Fileve Tlaloc Palmer. Dr. Fileve Tlaloc Palmer (she, her, hers) journeys into the plasticity of human identity which constantly evolves through time and space. As a binational and multiracial person, issues of the malleability and […]
Scholars@Hallwalls is a monthly series featuring talks by Humanities Institute Faculty Fellows. Please join us in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! Complimentary wine and light fare will be served for a brief, pre-talk mingling session at this free and open-to-the-public event. “Modernizing Nature/Naturalizing Modernization: Structuring Public Leisure Space in the Late Ottoman […]
The Department of Art regularly invites artists, critics, historians and designers to participate in the Visiting Artist Speaker Series, classroom lectures and critiques. The Speaker Series happens every fall semester and is free to the public. Tania Duvergne is the Director of Public Art for Public Schools at the NYC School Construction Authority. Public Art […]
The Department of Anthropology Lecture Series begins this semester with a talk by Dr. Candace Lukasik, Mississippi State University and visiting Research Assistant Professor at UB. This is a public talk and all are invited to attend. "Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Transnational Politics of Persecution" Shuttling back and forth across sites of […]
Please join us for the first Amatryx game night of this year! We have special guest Josh Flaccavento running a one shot session of Bleak Horizons Press’ tabletop roleplaying game ALL MUST BOW, including a short feedback and Q&A session. Snacks, soda, and water will be provided. The event will be streamed to the Amatryx […]
The UB English Departments Exhibit X Fiction series presents Jenny Offill. Jenny Offill is the author of the novels Last Things (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award); Dept. of Speculation, which was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Pen-Faulkner Award, and the International Dublin Literary Award; and Weather, a New York […]
Get your interdisciplinarity on with our Mid-Semester Mixer at the University Club! Click here to RSVP The UB Humanities Institute invites colleagues from across the University to join for a celebration of the "semester solstice." This is an opportunity to get un-siloed and connect with faculty across disciplines in a congenial setting. We kindly ask […]
The directors of the Humanities Institute and the Gender Institute invite faculty to join us in the Humanities Institute’s new seminar space on select Friday afternoons (3pm-5pm) for group writing sessions. Coffee, tea, and quiet headspace will be available at these drop-in sessions. Click here to join via Zoom!
The Department of Africana and American Studies invites you to a screening of the documentary Zurbano, Racial Consciousness. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Robert Zurbano, Janaina Oliveira, and Donte McFadden. Light refreshments will be served. ROBERTO ZURBANO is a prominent cultural critic and literary scholar who has been an activist and a […]
