"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 […]
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, […]
