Humanities Institute

This roundtable will showcase issues and topics that an emerging network of scholars at UB studying data justice and equity are tackling. As our lives and activities are increasingly turned into data and government policies driven by data in a manner that reproduces social injustices, data justice has emerged as a pertinent field in activism […]

All are invited to attend the "Devonya Havis’ Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy” Roundtable. This roundtable discussion will be devoted to critical engagements of invited critical race and gender scholars with Dr. Devonya Havis’ recently published book, Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy (2023). The invited scholars include Falguni Sheth (Emory University), Anwar Uhuru (Wayne State […]

The UB English Department's Exhibit X Fiction series presents Grady Hendrix. Grady Hendrix is the New York Times-bestselling author of How To Sell a Haunted House, The Final Girl Support Group, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, My Best Friend's Exorcism, We Sold Our Souls, and Horrorstör. His history of the horror paperback boom of the '70s and '80s, Paperbacks from Hell, […]

Internationally renowned visual artist, book artist, and poet Jen Bervin will be delivering the fifth Robert Creeley Lecture in Poetry & Poetics, entitled “Measuring the Sun,” on Friday, November 3rd, in the Poetry Collection, at 3:30pm (with reception to follow). Measuring the Sun – A first glimpse from work in progress by Jen Bervin and conservator Debora […]

The directors of the Humanities Institute and the Gender Institute invite faculty to join us in the Humanities Institute’s new seminar space on select Friday afternoons (3pm-5pm) for group writing sessions. Coffee, tea, and quiet headspace will be available at these drop-in sessions. Click here to join via Zoom!

The Department of Art regularly invites artists, critics, historians and designers to participate in the Visiting Artist Speaker Series, classroom lectures and critiques. The Speaker Series happens every fall semester and is free to the public. Shelley Niro was born in Niagara Falls, New York.  Shelley is a member of the Turtle Clan, Bay of Quinte Mohawk […]

Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, 2023-24 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, will give a talk hosted by the Department of Sociology entitled "Neither Deficit nor Joy: Formal Education and the Life Course for Travestis in Buenos Aires, Argentina." U.S. scholarship on transgender studies often moves between two extremes: a normative emphasis on violence (corporeal, symbolic, or systemic) as a social problem that merits […]

To commemorate 50 years of Hip Hop, there will be a panel discussion entitled “A Difficult Dialogue about Hip Hop with the Hosts of NPR’s “Louder than A Riot.” Hosted by the Department of Africana and American Studies and the Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program, the panel discussion will focus on difficult dialogues concerning hip hop and the […]

The directors of the Humanities Institute and the Gender Institute invite faculty to join us in the Humanities Institute’s new seminar space on select Friday afternoons (3pm-5pm) for group writing sessions. Coffee, tea, and quiet headspace will be available at these drop-in sessions. Click here to join via Zoom!

The Department of Art regularly invites artists, critics, historians and designers to participate in the Visiting Artist Speaker Series, classroom lectures and critiques. The Speaker Series happens every fall semester and is free to the public. For nearly twenty-five years, Amy Cutler has made enigmatic, narrative works of art in which internalized emotions, societal observations, and […]

To celebrate 50 years of Hip Hop, UB will host a conversation between visual artist Eric Haze and writer & activist Bakari Kitwana, a 2023-24 Distinguished Visiting Scholar. Both have been deeply immersed in hip hop culture throughout their lives, and this conversation will focus on when they first became immersed into the elements of […]

The Department of Art regularly invites artists, critics, historians and designers to participate in the Visiting Artist Speaker Series, classroom lectures and critiques. The Speaker Series happens every fall semester and is free to the public. Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits are artists and researchers working in intersection of art, science and emerging technologies since the […]

The Department of Art regularly invites artists, critics, historians and designers to participate in the Visiting Artist Speaker Series, classroom lectures and critiques. The Speaker Series happens every fall semester and is free to the public. Julian Montague  (b. 1973) is a Buffalo-based artist, graphic designer, and photographer. Since the late 1990s, Montague has been making art with […]

"Digital Transformation and Cultural Policies : A European Perspective" The lecture will focus on the main question - what happens when cultural policy turns digital, that is, what happens when cultural policy gets changed and challenged by digital culture? The presentation will outline key findings of the multi-disciplinary comparative analysis of different digital cultural policies from seven European countries (UK, Germany, […]