Humanities Institute

“Reclaiming Our Ancestors: Descendants of 19th-Century African American Activists Share Their Stories” The descendants of former slaves will gather at UB for a groundbreaking workshop to reconnect participants with their ancestors, further reveal their family histories and bring new voice to rich historical stories often silenced by the difficulties of tracing obscure and hard-to-follow genealogical […]

Learn to encode print or manuscript documents and create a simple annotated digital edition or other enhanced document collection for the web. Additional tools will be discussed for processing encoded texts and metadata for research purposes including mapping (GIS), text visualization, and generating a simple database. No previous technical skills or knowledge required. Led by […]

Join us on the afternoon of Monday, November 2nd for the “HI@10” symposium to reflect more on the state of the humanities at UB (2-4pm), and for a celebratory reception (4-5pm). Organized by the Humanities Institute and co-sponsored by UB's Cultures and Texts

The Fall conference of the Western New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania (WNY/NWPA) Chapter of the Fulbright Association will be held at the University at Buffalo on November 6, 2015. The conference will feature a keynote address by Ms. Reha Mallory, coordinator of short-term and long-term Fulbright-Hays group programs for the national Fulbright office. Her address […]

Modernisms Research Workshop "The Visuality of Space and the Space of Vision: On Mies van der Rohe's Photomontages" This talk addresses photomontage as a quintessential modern means of representation, as well as Mies’s research on a new conception of space, and how photomontage serves as a tool of investigation in that respect. Martino Stierli is the […]

"Confession and the Rhetoric of the Passions in Late-Medieval Iberia" The turn of the fourteenth century in Castile saw the dramatic rebirth of courtly poetry among the aristocracy and other lettered classes. This genre had already flourished centuries earlier in Languedoc, Portugal, and Aragon, and scholars seeking to explain its Castilian resurgence have described an […]

Organized by the Performance Research Workshop, co-sponsored by the Melodia E. Jones Chair and the Canadian Studies Program  

"'Love’s Poison Mystery': Food, Sex, and the New Journalist Sex Scandal in Ulysses’ Lestrygonians" Throughout Ulysses, but most pointedly in Lestrygonians, James Joyce employs images of food and consumption to figure the New Journalism’s occlusion of labor and workers through its fixation on the scandal as an extraordinary, reified product.  In Lestrygonians in particular, Joyce repeatedly employs […]

Organized by the UB Haudenosaunee/Native American Studies Research Group Sponsored by the UB Humanities Institute, the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy and the UB Native Graduate Association Free and open to the public, please use Fronczack parking lot for more information: tm59@buffalo.edu  

Asia@Noon series "Recovering China’s Agricultural and Water Landscapes: Reconfiguring Rural to Urban Built Typologies" Bassett will be discussing her design research and teaching, which engage the Recovering of China’s Agricultural and Water Landscape and the reconfiguring of rural to urban built typologies. Within the context of China’s new urbanization strategy, her work examines the possibilities […]