Humanities Institute

In Part One of our Forum on Publishing in an Age of Upheaval, editor/critic/author John Freeman and novelist Heather O’Neill will engage in a wide-ranging discussion of literary magazine publishing and editing, including issues of design and marketing. Ms O’Neill will read from and sign copies of her just-released novel, The Lonely Hearts Hotel (Riverhead). Freeman […]

The Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture is pleased to welcome Dr. Dany Nobus to UB, where he will lead a seminar, "Psychoanalysis in the Boudoir (On Lacan's 'Kant with Sade'), on Thursday, March 2, 2017. Professor Nobus currently serves as the Chair of Psychoanalysis at Brunel University London, and as Chair of […]

In Part Two of our Forum on Publishing in an Age of Upheaval, esteemed editor Elisabeth Schmitz will introduce one of her newest authors, Emily Fridlund, whose novel History of Wolves has just been released to great acclaim. Joining them in conversation will be literary agent Nicole Aragi, who represents Ms Fridlund and many other authors in […]

Relative Values: On Ethics, Economics, and Politics New to the Department of English, Chad Lavin will explore philosophical liberalism as an ideological system comprising three distinct modes of valuation—ethics, economics, and politics. Lavin argues that much as the tools of industrial manufacture led to the specialization of human labor, the tools of liberal philosophy led […]

Play can be the glue that brings together aesthetic and social values making vibrant community spaces but also poignant social critiques. The symposium brings together speakers from different professional backgrounds to examine the role that play can have in the transformation of place, from the scale of the game, to the playground to that of […]

Hent de Vries, John Hopkins University, presents, “Savage Mysticism:  The Archive and the Present of Spiritual Exercise” This is a part of the Just Theory Lecture Series.