Humanities Institute

She is an Author, professor, and chair of Media Studies and the deputy director of the School of History, Culture and Arts Studies, at the University of Turku, Susanna Paasonen’s research interests focus on media culture, Internet research, popular culture, sexuality, pornography and theories of affect. http://susannapaasonen.org/ PLASMA is sponsored by UB’s Media Study Dept. […]

"Ran" Showing at the Amherst Dipson Theater Diane Christian and Bruce Jackson will introduce the 1985 Akira Kurosawa film "Ran" as part of the Spring 2016 Buffalo Film Seminars. "Ran" reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan.

“The Shelf Life of a Socio-Technical Disaster: Post-Fukushima Disaster Science and Policy Change in the United States, France, and Germany” Organized by the Science Studies Research Workshop

Gender Drug War brochure Organized by the Baldy Center Both as participants and as cultural symbols, women have played a central role in drug commerce, drug cultures, drug policing, and drug treatment—especially if licit pharmaceuticals are included. From 19th century battles over Demon Rum to 21st century reckonings with “crack,” “meth,” and “Oxy,” women have […]

"At Buffalo" "Embodying History: Race 'On Display' in the Americas" Roundtable with Dr. Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin and UB faculty members

"At Buffalo: Performing the Archive: Buffalo and the Pan-American Exposition of 1901" Dr. Amma Y. Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin (U Georgia-Athens) and members of the "At Buffalo" team (http://www.atbuffalomusical.com/) The events are also free and open to the public thanks to the generosity of: the Humanities Institute, Techne, the Undergraduate Academies, the Gender Institute, the Julian Park Chair, the HI Performance […]

Presented by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Keynote: Friday, April 1st, 4PM, Norton Hall 112 Charles Batson, Union College "The Dissolving Self: Early Twentieth-Century French Dance Theatre"

Co-Sponsors Center for Disability Studies, Cultures and Texts, the Humanities Institute, and the Departments of Art, Comparative Literature, English, and Transnational Studies. Speakers Artists from the Community Kylie Boazman Elif Ege Natalie Fleming Ann Fox Alec Frazier Denise Nepveux Susan Schweik Hershini Bhana Young   (Schedule) 10:00 Doors open; coffee served 10:15-10:30 Introduction by Michael […]

From Medicine to Mysticism: The Storied Life of the Hebrew Microcosm She will trace the transformation of the late antique medical microcosm to the kabbalistic Primordial Man, or the kabbalistic tree of life iconic to Jewish mysticism. While the model of the microcosm initially served to organize the principles of anatomy, late antique and medieval […]

On Feb. 8, 1882, after his seventh lecture in America in just over a week, Oscar Wilde traveled north from Buffalo, N.Y., crossing the border by train to Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, to play the role of tourist. In typical Wilde fashion, his response to seeing the falls was paradoxical, proclaiming it “one of the […]