Humanities Institute

REMAINS TO BE SEEN: Performing the Archive a film by Professor Sarah Elder (2015), 25 min. In a public performance artist Charles Clough and archaeologist Peter Biehl unroll early remnants of a massive layered scroll created in Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center and stored for 40 years in a storage shed. The intriguing paper relic reveals […]

“One Night in Beirut: When Said met Genet” James Currie, Music Photographer: Douglas Levere The great Palestinian literary critic and political activist Edward Said met the famous French homosexual novelist Jean Genet in Beirut in 1972. In his December 2nd talk, “One Night in Beirut: When Said met Genet,” musicologist James Currie will discuss how […]

In support of the Humanities New York Public Humanities Fellowship Program. Pizza lunch and beverages will be provided (RSVP huminst@buffalo.edu by Jan. 31st so that we can have an appropriate amount of food.) Does your doctoral research in a humanities discipline have an application with a broader public? If it does or you would like […]

Erik Seeman, Professor of History, UB “Elegy in Puritan New England” A Work-in-Progress Workshop To receive a digital copy of the work-in-progress paper, please e-mail Barbara Bono at: bbono@buffalo.edu  

"Where the Drugs Are" We kick off the spring semester with English professor Elizabeth Mazzolini’s February 10th talk, “Where the Drugs Are,” an ecocritical look at representations of three different drug epidemics—those of crack, meth, and opioids. Mazzolini links drug production, sale, and use to the allowances of various locations and to ideological investment in […]

Program Welcomes and sharing of stories Acknowledgements of those who are not here Music, Food, Art Sponsor UB Institute for Research & Education on Women & Gender Cosponsors Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts Burmese Community Services Coalition for Economic Justice Coalition for the Advancement of Moslem Women El Museo Francisco Oller y Diego […]