Humanities Institute

A Commemoration of the 400th Anniversary of Their Deaths and a Comparative Study of Their Enduring Influence Locations: UB Center for the Arts and the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Central Branch (Lafayette Square) 2016 marks the 400th anniversary of the deaths of both William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, the pre-eminent authors […]

Join us for this special celebration! Free and Open to the Public Rare Shakespeare Folios from the collections of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library and the UB Libraries are together for the first time in one place. Master of Ceremonies:  Andrew McConnell Stott, Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education, University at Buffalo. […]

October 17, 18, and 19 Just Theory Capen Lecture Series on “Agency and Suffering:  Women Then and Now” All lectures begin at 4pm. Christia Mercer, Columbia University, presents three talks over three days. Monday, October 17 “Meditating on Truth:  How women changed the course of philosophy 1300-1600 and laid the groundwork for Descartes’ Meditations” Tuesday, […]

Directed by David Marshall, this 2009 documentary follows Buffalo lesbian activist Madeline Davis’ efforts to create and find a home for an LGBTQ historical archive. In the process, we delve into Davis’ own activist history, and explore some of the stories of Buffalo’s LGBTQ community that inspired the archive in the first place. Screening will […]

Workshop on Emerging Issues in Genetics and the Law — October 21 & 22, 2016 Ocrober 21 and 22, join us for a groundbreaking workshop that will bring together scholars from a diverse range of disciplines to contemplate the cultural, scientific, regulatory, and normative implications of gene editing technologies for the future of life. Workshop […]

Are you thinking about how to add a digital dimension to your existing research or even starting a new “born digital” project? Perhaps, you already have a clear idea of where you would like to go but aren’t sure how to get there. Or, you might just want to begin to explore what possibilities are […]

The promise and perils of new technologies in genetic engineering will be examined in a major forum on October 21, sponsored by the University at Buffalo School of Law. The forum, titled “Editing the Environment: Emerging Issues in Genetics and the Law,” will begin at 2 p.m. at the Center for the Arts, on UB’s […]

“Bodily Politics: Frank Speech and the Health of the Greek City” Dana Fields, Classics Photographer: Douglas Levere “Bodily Politics: Frank Speech and the Health of the Greek City,” the October 21st talk by Classics professor Dana Fields, examines how Greek writers of the Roman Imperial period use metaphors of medical practice to talk about frank […]