Humanities Institute

The Digital Scholarship Studio and Network (DSSN) welcomes Derek Strykowski. Strykowski (Clinical Assistant Professor, Music) will present on his visual guide project and his experience learning R! First launched in 2020, A Visual Guide to Some Nineteenth-Century Composers and Their Publishers (https://dstrykowski.shinyapps.io/visualguide/) is an R-based data visualization project that illustrates the publishing activities of (at […]

The University of Buffalo is hosting a roundtable discussion on the topic of ChatGPT, the cutting-edge language model developed by OpenAI. The event will bring together experts from various fields to discuss the implications and applications of this technology. This promises to be a thought-provoking and enlightening conversation on the future of AI and its […]

Hypericin Yellow Movie: A Performance-Lecture  Hypericin is a phytochemical produced by the flowering plant St John’s wort. The plant has been used medicinally in different cultures for centuries, primarily as an antidepressant. In this performance-lecture Kerstin Schroedinger and Oliver Husain relate the flower to health, skin, light, and film by discussing their use of St […]

Nineteenth-century French art was eclectic, but you would never know it. This eclecticism was considered a problem in the nineteenth century itself—an impediment to creating a cohesive narrative for the art production of the time. Joris-Karl Huysmans and Émile Zola in particular railed against what they saw as the eclectic nature of the art of […]

Christina Corfield is a British-born multi-disciplinary artist and media scholar and is currently a Visiting Professor of Media Study at the University at Buffalo. Her scholarly and artistic work focuses on media history and the relationships between analog and digital media. Her work has shown at media festivals, in galleries, universities, and at international conferences. […]

"American life has been suddenly and dramatically upended, and, when things are turned upside down, the bottom is brought to the surface and exposed to the light." - Keeanga-Yamatta Taylor, The New Yorker (3/30/2020)   The “Social Reproduction and the Crisis of Housing in Buffalo” panel aims to bring social reproduction theory home to Buffalo […]

This talk examines correspondences between the innovations of the New York School composers (John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, Christian Wolff) and those of the painters and sculptors they associated with in the post-war downtown art world. While issues of structure, frame, representation, indeterminacy, surface, abstraction, action, and modularity interested both groups, differences between the […]