Humanities Institute

Emergent Masculinities: Gendered Power and Social Change in the African Atlantic He examines how changing gender identities between 1750 and 1920 in the West African Bight of Biafra defined the 1.6 million slaves exported to the Americas. Mbah draws on European colonial and missionary archives, oral interviews, participatory ethnography, and film documentation of material culture […]

Cristanne Miller Cris Miller is this year’s Featured Speaker at HI’s External Grant Writing Workshop Photograph: Douglas Levere In order to support and promote a culture of grant writing in the humanities, in 2013 HI began holding an annual External Grant Writing Workshop that takes place each September. The Workshop consists of a featured speaker who […]

2016-2017 WBFO/Silvers Symposium Participants 12:30 Introductory Remarks 12:45-1:45 María del Rosario Acosta, DePaul University "Narratives after Destruction: Grammars of Listening in the Aftermath of Violence" 1:45-2:45 Shaun Irlam, University at Buffalo "Territories, Terror Stories: Space, Violence and Signification.” 2:45-3:15 *****coffee***** 3:15-4:15 Amy Graves, University at Buffalo "Disaster Thinking" 4:15-6:00 Marc Crépon, École Normale Supérieure, 2016-2017 […]

The 2016-2017 WBFO/Silvers Visiting Professor Marc Crépon (Director of the Department of Philosophy at the École Normale Superieure in Paris) will be leading a workshop discussion on the subject of “Becoming a Public Intellectual” on Wednesday, September 14th. This special workshop will be held the week after the 2016-2017 WBFO/Silvers Symposium “Fear, Hatred, Terror: Paris […]

On September 16th, historian Susan Cahn opens our series with her talk titled “‘Girls Invade, Shrinks in Trauma’: Feminism and the Politics of Psychiatric Diagnosis, 1970-1990.” By examining the struggle between second-wave feminists and the psychiatric establishment, Cahn investigates the history and politics of medical diagnoses. She looks at the American Psychiatric Association’s revision of […]

Renaissance Remix Everyone seems to agree that Buffalo is enjoying a renaissance.  What is it about the concept of rebirth that gets people so excited?  Like the remix of a popular song, the Buffalo Humanities Festival takes the familiar idea of “renaissance” and gives it a new spin.  With three days of talks, performances, discussions, […]

Please join us for this reception and beginning of the year meeting and bring anyone who you think would enjoy joining the MRW. We’ll briefly share information about our current projects and major interests and talk about coming events for the year. PLEASE RSVP with Karen Serrianne <ks298@buffalo.edu> if you plan to attend so we […]

“Philosophy Unshackled”, Thomas D. Sullivan, University of St. Thomas and “Burying the Philosophical Past:  Reflections on the endlessly recurring philosophical impulse to start all over again”, Russell Pannier, Mitchell Hamline School of Law

"The Lanthanide Series" Screening with Filmmaker Erin Espelie (Assistant Professor, Film Studies / Critical Media Practices, University of Colorado, Boulder) A feature length film about rare earth elements (the lanthanides), black mirrors (from obsidian to iPads), and how technology is reshaping the way we record the present and replay the past. Sponsored by Techne Institute, […]

September 29-October 1, 2016 Burchfield Penney Art Center Two Sections: "Country in Focus 2016: Iran" "Film Future" Public Lecture: “Rising From the Ashes: Iranian Art House Cinema” by Dr. Hamid Naficy, Northwestern University. Friday, September 30, 7 PM. Special Guest: Noureddin Zarrinkelk, Iranian animator. Saturday, October 1, 2 PM. Series Curator: Dr. Tanya Shilina-Conte, UB English. Program: […]