Humanities Institute

PLASMA — Performances, Lectures, and Screenings in Media Art   Barbara Glowczewski: Professorial researcher at The French Scientific Research Center, CNRS, member of the Laboratory of Social Anthropology at the College de France. Glowczewski has spent the past 35 years dedicating her work to advocating for Australian Aboriginal creativity employing a variety of artistic, cinematic […]

“Fear, Anxiety, and Immigration: Barriers and Belonging in the United States and Western Europe” Jean Monnet Distinguished Lecture After more than fifty years of large-scale immigration, the U.S. and Western European countries have been dramatically transformed by the huge inflows that have altered the composition of their populations in profound ways and created remarkable --- […]

Film screening with Q&A to follow (Director Jeff Roy and Maya Jafer) Mohammed to Maya (aka Rites of Passage) is a feature-length documentary that examines issues of gender, religion, and tradition against the backdrop of a single person’s dramatic journey. M2M follows one year in the life of Maya Jafer (formerly Mohammed Jafer), a South Asian Muslim from Chennai, India, as she makes her gender […]

"Deng Xiaoping vs. Gorbachev: Could Russia Have Followed the Pattern of Chinese Reforms?" Sponsors: University at Buffalo Confucius Institute, with support from the Asian Studies Program, the History Department, and the Honors College Abstract: Pantsov will discuss why Gorbachev ended up presiding over the fall of the Soviet Union, while Deng Xiaoping was able to steer […]

An adaptation of the Norse tales that inspired Wagner’s Ring Cycle – by Sean Graney Directed by Sean Graney, Eileen Silvers WBFO Visiting Professor in the Arts and Humanities Presented in conjunction with UB’s Humanities Institute, the Department of English, with additional support from by the Robert G. and Carol L. Morris Visiting Artist Fund […]

Keynote Address: “Islam and Muslims in an age of ISIS and Islamophobia” Fifteen years after the horrific attacks of 9/11, the American Muslim community and the American democratic experiment both find themselves in a perilous state. Few American communities are viewed with more hostility, negativity and suspicion. On one hand, the American Muslim community has […]

"China and the World: 1950s Urban Culture and Planning" A workshop for SUNY faculty and students Sponsored by the SUNY Network of Excellence in Arts and Humanities, with support from the Confucius Institute, the Asian Studies Program, the History Department, and the Cities and Society Workshop of the Humanities Institute. For information: Contact Kristin Stapleton […]

HI's annual celebration of recently published books written by former Faculty Fellows

Tony Conrad was a SUNY Distinguished Professor and a faculty member in DMS for 40 years. He was a larger-than-life media pioneer key in the establishment of Media Study at Buffalo, internationally recognized as an experimental artist, a visionary pioneer in numerous media his entire life, and enthusiastically dedicated to the arts in Western New […]

Works in Progress "Bauhaus New Women" Organized by the Modernisms Research Workshop This Work in Progress session on May 5 will be followed at 3:30 by a general meeting of everyone interested in the MRW (with refreshments) to plan our 2016-17 schedule and events, assuming that the Humanities Institute renews our funding.  If you can't make it to […]