Humanities Institute

Full schedule available here. Zoom registration link available here. Please join us for a 4-day hybrid symposium (partially on zoom, partially in-person) from Monday April 24 through Thursday, April 27, “Queer and Feminist Yugoslav Diaspora: Art, Film, and Activism,” which will feature multiple panels and film screenings, a keynote lecture, masterclass and book launch, as […]

Lindsay Caplan is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Her writing has appeared in Grey Room, ARTMargins, e-flux, The Scholar and Feminist Online, Piano b, and Art in America, as well as edited collections and exhibition catalogues. Her book Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in […]

This symposium will examine the Russo-Ukrainian war and what it tells us about the strengths and weaknesses of the contemporary international system. It will explore war crimes, crimes against humanity and alleged genocide arising from the conflict. It will also revisit the enduring dichotomy between Russian authoritarian imperialism and Ukrainian democratic nationalism. To register for […]

The Department of Music welcomes Jacqueline Avila from the University of Texas at Austin. This presentation examines the soundscapes and compositional techniques utilized by the EDM group the Mexican Institute of Sound (MIS) and its founder Camilo Lara in the 2021 album DF and in Netflix’s Latinx-focused dramady Gentefied (2020-21). The music created for both the album and the […]

For more information, including a complete schedule and list of participants, please visit the workshop website at  https://shakespearegildbuffalo.wordpress.com/events/ or contact me at bbono@buffalo.edu or 716-207-0690.   Gilding the Guilt: The Gilded Age, Craft Production, and the Construction of Cultural Capital  Organized by Barbara Bono, Carrie Tirado Bramen, Maria Horne, and Stacy Carson Hubbard Co-Sponsored with the Departments of English and Theatre and […]

Pedro Neves Marques (b. 1986, Lison, Portugal) is an artist and writer whose films explore ecology, the earth's natural resources, and the politics and practices that govern humans' interactions with them.   As always, PLASMA lectures are free and open to the UB community and the public.​ PLASMA is sponsored by the University at Buffalo’s […]

  Joshua M. Myers is an associate professor of Africana studies in the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University. His research interests include Africana intellectual histories and traditions, Africana philosophy, music, foodways, critical university studies and disciplinarity. Myers is the author of several books.   To learn more about Joshua Myers and this event, click here.  

Exhibit X Fiction presents poet and essayist Christine Hume with fiction writer Christina Milletti for book launches of Everything I Never Wanted to Know and The Girling Season. CHRISTINE HUME’S fifth book is a collection of essays on two despised topics in America, sex offenders and women’s bodies, Everything I Never Wanted to Know (Ohio State University Press, […]