Humanities Institute

FREE; but, registration required. The festival begins on Thursday, Sept. 28, at 6 p.m. with a discussion organized by Humanities New York in the Burchfield Penney Art Center’s Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Auditorium, titled “Turning the Tide: Communicating Climate Science.” PARTICIPANTS: Jacqui Patterson, Director, NAACP’s Environmental and Climate Justice Program Jason Briner, Associate Professor […]

BUY TICKETS Join us at the Buffalo Humanities Festival for an evening with environmental writer and activist Bill McKibben, who will present on “The Desperate Climate Fight: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Moment,” with a book signing to follow. Co-founder of 350.org, author of The End of Nature, Eaarth, Deep Economy, and Oil and Honey: […]

BUY TICKETS The full festival day begins with a performance by Deke Weaver of “BEAR and the Unreliable Bestiary” and continues with talks, panels, and community conversations focusing on issues of environmental justice and economic sustainability, activism and planning, and the global climate change crisis. Lunch by West Side Bazaar is included with tickets purchased […]

Despina Stratigakos, Prof. of Architecture, will discuss the emergence of Architect Barbie in her book Where Are All the Women Architects? (Princeton UP, 2016)

An academic who transitioned successfully to the corporate and nonprofit workplaces, Anne Krook trains graduate students and postdocs to transition to non-academic jobs and workplaces. She began her career as an assistant professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she taught for seven years. After a stint in restaurant bartending, she joined Am- […]

Cuban Cinema and Culture Date: October 12-14, 2017 Venue: Burchfield Penney Art Center 1300 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, New York GREAT FILMS OVER 3 DAYS Free admission made possible this year by riverrun and the Burchfield Penney Art Center Cuban-inspired cuisine available at the Burchfield Café Series Curator: Tanya Shilina-Conte, UB English Assistant Directors: Jocelyn E. […]

This lecture in the Department of Music's Lecture series is being presented as part of the Department's and the Music Library's Celebration of Henri Pousseur's seminal score "Votre Faust," which was conceived when Pousseur was the Slee Professor here in 1967, in collaboration with the important French author Michel Butor, who at that time held […]