hiba ali is a producer of moving images, sounds, garments and words. they reside in many time zones: chicago, toronto and eugene. born in karachi, pakistan, they belong to east african, south asian and arab diasporas. they are a practitioner and (re)learner of swahili, urdu, arabic and spanish languages. they work on two long term […]
Where does the humanities intersect with computing, and how will it do so in the future? This roundtable consisting of faculty and students will explore the development of UB’s Digital Humanities program, currently offered as a minor available to undergraduates throughout the university. Focusing on the hands-on application of technologies such as artificial intelligence and […]
Please RSVP for this event here. Glitch is an error, a malfunction. Glitch is a broken system. Glitch is something gone awry. Glitch is also widely embracing these flaws. Glitch shows the beauty in imperfections. Glitch can provide opportunities to change, remix, and create something never seen before. Glitch is the cycle of destruction and […]
The Performance Research Workshop welcomes Rhaisa Williams. This is a story of Cleveland, Ohio in the 1970s—when it was affectionately known as “the mistake by the lake.” The city, once a booming manufacturing town, positioned between the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie, had begun a rapid decline in industry and population starting in the late […]
The Department of Africana and American Studies welcomes Professor Biko Mandela Gray. Aiyana Stanley-Jones. Tamir Rice. Alton Sterling. Sandra Bland. These four black lives mattered. They matter. They matter for those of us who care and cared for them; they also matter to those who killed them and those who justify their deaths by appeals to police. In […]
The Technoculture Research Workshop welcomes Alexander R. Galloway. What are the machines that determine thinking? We may approach the question in a number of ways. The typical approach is to consider (or perhaps even craft) a philosophy of media. This comes under the name of media studies or media theory, where media artifacts are taken […]
In this lecture, Professor Holleman will discuss the vital lessons we can learn from one of the first global environmental problems of modern capitalism, which reached its apogee in the “dust-bowlification” of agricultural lands in the 1920s and 1930s. Based on award-winning research, Prof. Holleman explains that the regional crises of soil erosion in this […]
Dr. Jaynelle (Jay) Nixon has an interdisciplinary background in literature, transnational studies, and global gender and sexuality studies. She currently teaches classes on Gothic fiction as well as gender, race, and media. Her primary research focus is the body—particularly the ways certain bodies are surveilled and monsterized based on appearance. As always, PLASMA lectures are […]
Attention Graduate Students! Join the Humanities Institute and special guest Adam Capitanio—Programming Director of Humanities New York (https://humanitiesny.org/)—on Tuesday April 4 from 4:00-5:00pm (zoom) for a new grant workshop designed for graduate students in the humanities. We will discuss where to target grants in your field, how to apply for them, and offer tips on improving […]
The UB Critical Ecologies Research Collaborative welcomes Michael Levien from John Hopkins University.
Attraction is not just another thing to be anxious about. It seems, especially now, in ever shorter supply, ever more unsustainable. The long term threat is that of the death of interest itself, the dark pit of bottomless boredom. This anxiety is thus an ur-anxiety, the fear that there may truly be nothing, not in […]
Akil Fletcher is an award-winning researcher and PhD candidate in the Anthropology department at the University of California Irvine. His work focuses on understanding how Black gamers experience and utilize games and online platforms to create community. Currently, his project funded by the National Science Foundation seeks to understand how online Black communities use these […]
The Asia Research Institute is hosting it's first annual Korean Studies Symposium, Genre, Gender and Language in Korean Film and Drama. Symposium events will take place April 11 (via Zoom), April 13 (at Squeaky Wheel), and April 14-15 (Capen Hall). Click here for a full schedule of symposium events, including keynotes, film screening, literary reading, panels, […]
Please join us for two days of campus conversations, centered on the Humanities Institute 2023 theme of COMMUNITIES: TRUST. Session 1 | 12:00-1:30 pm | 250 Baird Communities of Care A panel rethinking “care” through the multifaceted lenses of indigeneity, veteran identity, and disability. Mishuana Goeman Professor and Chair, Indigenous Studies Vasiliki Neofotistos Associate Professor, […]
Presented by the UB Humanities Institute in collaboration with the UB Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program. Please join us as we honor Pride Month (observed early for the academic schedule) with screenings of Inner Wound Real, an animated short by Carrie Hawks, and Work, a short film by April Maxey. This event is free and open […]
Please join us for two days of campus conversations, centered on the Humanities Institute 2023 theme of COMMUNITIES: TRUST. Session 1 | 12:30-1:45 pm | 250 Baird Getting the Word Out: Writing Humanities for Popular Audiences A presentation and Q+A framed for humanities faculty who would like to make their work available to public audiences […]
The Center for Disability Studies welcomes Yoshiko "Yoyo" Okuyama, PhD. This presentation draws from Yoshiko Okuyama's book, Tōjisha Manga: Japan’s Graphic Memoirs of Brain and Mental Health (2022). Okuyama will begin with a brief statement on how she became involved in disability studies, personally and professionally. Then, to provide some background, she will touch upon […]
Join the Department of History for a celebration and discussion in honor of Prof. Hal Langfur and the publication of his book, Adrift on an Inland Sea: Misinformation and the Limits of Empire in the Brazilian Backlands. Prof. Langfur will be joined in conversation by Dr. Cynthia Radding, Gussenhoven Distinguished Professor of History, University of […]
The UB Poetics Program is hosting a Tribute to Bernadette Mayer with two events that are free and open to the public on Friday, April 14. 3:30-5:30pm - Artist & Scholar Panel on Bernadette Mayer Exhibition of Mayer’s Works in the Poetry Collection UB Poetry Collection, 420 Capen Hall, UB North Campus 7:30-9pm […]
This talk will examine the capacity of chemical manufacturers to influence the scope of U.S. regulatory decision-making through mobilizing the scientific field surrounding PFAS (per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances). Drawing on participant observation at two offices within Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in-depth interviews, and analyses of industry documents, Richter will share a portion of her research investigating […]
“61% of the entire planet is laboring informally. And what characterizes informal employment is a blurred divide between the productive and the reproductive.” Alessandra Mezzadri, GLUNetwork Interview (8/10/2022) Contemporary social reproduction debates are primarily focused upon the “crisis of care” in high income countries. Less attention has been paid to social reproduction in post-colonial and post-socialist contexts […]
Free and open to the public. Register here. While manipulative actors deliberately introduce false and misleading information into the media stream, much of the corrupt information circulating in the public sphere is spread inadvertently by otherwise responsible actors. Well-meaning individuals forward and re-tweet inaccurate, even downright harmful misinformation. Media platforms that would seem to have an […]
The Performance Research Workshop welcomes Trevor Boffone (University of Houston) and Danielle Rosvally (UB). How do you articulate your research for a broad public via social media? In this workshop, Dr. Boffone and Dr. Rosvally will discuss how TikTok has shaped and informed their work on Yassified Shakespeare, a multimedia project that seeks to better […]
This 2-day, hands-on workshop led by international artist Marta de Menezes (Portugal) and interdisciplinary artist and educator Amy Pilling (US) will provide an overview of the most talked about biotechnology in the world today — CRISPR. What exactly is CRISPR, how does it work and what is its impact on the future? CRISPR is a revolutionary […]
This 2-day, hands-on workshop led by international artist Marta de Menezes (Portugal) and interdisciplinary artist and educator Amy Pilling (US) will provide an overview of the most talked about biotechnology in the world today — CRISPR. What exactly is CRISPR, how does it work and what is its impact on the future? CRISPR is a revolutionary […]
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 […]
Please join us in the cinema space at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center! In this talk, The Oakland Museum of California serves as a prism to explore the concept of engagement in museum theory and practice. Often invoked by museum marketers, engagement’s deeper socio-cultural dimensions and the evolution of this term and concept are under-explored. The Oakland Museum, founded in 1969 as an interdisciplinary museum for its urban community, has […]
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, […]
Presented by the UB Humanities Institute in collaboration with the UB Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program. Please join us as we honor Asian, Pacific Islander, and Desi American (APIDA) Heritage Month with a screening of Free Chol Soo Lee, a documentary film by Julie Ha and Eugene Yi. This event is free and open to the […]
