Humanities Institute

Catriona Sandilands (York University) will present "Plant Politics: Four Forays into Vegetation."

To honor “Lydia Okumura: Situations,” the career-spanning exhibit at the UB Art Galleries of Japanese-Brazilian artist Lydia Okumura, LELACS (the Lake Erie Latin American Cultural Studies consortium) will convene a day-long symposium of new scholarship in Latin American cultural studies. These talks question boundaries between abstraction and concrete reality, writing and visuality, thought and matter, […]

“Mexican Philosophy and the Trope of Authenticity” Carlos Alberto Sanchez

A Public Lecture by Nathan Vedal (Harvard University) Thursday November 3, 2016 at 3:00 pm 306 Clemens Hall, University at Buffalo - North Campus Advocates of Chinese writing reform since the early 20th century have often argued that China ought to adopt a phonetic writing system to replace its current character-based script. Intuitively, the simplicity […]

“The Ideal of Beauty at the Limits of Kant’s Ethics” Kristi Sweet, Texas A&M University

The Haudenosaunee-Native American Studies Research Group cordially invites you to join us on Friday, November 11th for our Fifth Annual UB Haudenosaunee Research Symposium. Time: 9am-4pm Location: Center for the Arts, Lower Gallery B45, UB North Campus This informal symposium highlights UB faculty, alumni, and student's current research projects in Haudenosaunee and Indigenous studies. The […]