Humanities Institute

"Imagining Consciousness" Organized by the Performance Research Workshop

Jason Livingston, an Upstate New York film and video maker, lectures in the Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.   He holds an M.F.A. in Film & Video Production and an M.A. in Communication Studies (Theories of the Avant-Garde) from the University of Iowa, and a B.A. in Philosophy from Cornell […]

Joyce scholar and Professor Emeritus Cooper Union, presents "Susan Weil: James Joyce and the Uncommon Reader" at the Poetry Collection 3:30pm.   Presented by the Departments of Art, English, and Comparative Literature, the Modernisms Workshop, riverrun, and the Poetry Collection of the University Libraries

"The Cult of Elizabeth and the Production of Elizabethan Literature" A Feminist Research Alliance Workshop presented by the UB Gender Institute.

"Made to Hear: Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children" This talk will present research based on accounts of and interviews with families who adopt the cochlear implant for their deaf children. It will go over the experiences of mothers as they navigate the health care system, their interactions with the professionals who work with them, […]

This event is important for anyone who wants the people of Buffalo to take the lead in creating the city’s future. Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs) can make the difference between projects that benefit only a few and projects that can create racial and economic justice in our region. The speakers on the panel will present the […]

"Native Informants, Backcountry Criminality, and the Subversion of Territorial Control in Colonial Brazil" Pre-circulated paper available through Professor Barbara at bbono@buffalo.edu A Work-in-Progress session of the Early Modern Research Workshop

7:00 -- talk by Lindsay Brandon Hunter, UB Dept of T&D 7:30 -- performance -- The Shipment by Young Jean Lee Tickets $15

Featuring: Melanie Aceto (Theater & Dance), Peter Biehl (Anthropology), Neil Coffee (Classics), Jordan Geiger (Architecture), Jeff Good (Linguistics), Walt Hakala (English), Molly Poremski (UB Libraries), and Rohini Srihari (Computer Science & Engineering) In five-minute lightning talks, UB faculty from the humanities, social sciences, arts, and engineering will present their digital work to a diverse audience […]

http://humanitiesinstitute.buffalo.edu/events/programming/digital-scholarship-week-2016/ "The Marianne Moore Digital Archive, With Reflections on the Future of Digital Scholarship and Funding" Introduced by Venu Govindaraju, Vice President for Research and Economic Development at UB One of UB’s most prominent digital humanists will discuss the Marianne Moore Digital Archive (http://moorearchive.org/), which will make digital images of American modernist poet Marianne Moore’s […]