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The University at Buffalo Humanities Institute sponsors and co-sponsors a variety of events throughout the year. In addition to events organized directly by the Institute, we are proud co-sponsors of many humanities and arts-related events taking place on the UB campus and in the local community. 

 

 

Events in gray listed above are directly affiliated with the Humanities Institute.

Click here to view a Listing of Past Events

 

Calendar of Upcoming Events

 

Fall 2009

Tues. 3 November

1:00 PM

420 Clemens Hall

"Small Pressing Finnegans Wake - Histories of the Text in Multiple Versions"

Nick Morris

Graduate student at UB

Small Press in the Archive Lecture Series


Tues. 3 November

7:00 PM

640 Clemens Hall

"From Words to Images: A Jewish View on Borges"

Mirta Kupferminc

Artist from Buenos Aires

"Just Theory" Guest Lecture Events


Wed. 4 November

10:00 AM

9 Norton Hall

Atlantic Studies Workshop

10:00AM to 12:00PM: Pan-American Discourses
Papers: Dalia Muller (HIS), Justin Read (RLL)
Comment: Carl Nightingale (AMS)

12:00PM to 1:00PM: Lunch

1:00PM to 3:00PM: Body Images
Papers: Hershini Bhana Young (ENG), Hal Langfur (HIS)
Comment: Carine Mardorossian (ENG)

Papers will be precirculated

Sponsored by Cultures and Texts Faculty Advisory Committee and the Provost's Office of Strategic Initiatives

Thurs. 5 November

3:30 PM

640 Clemens Hall

"The Face as a Liminal Image: after Deleuze, after Levinas"

Hagi Kenaan

Tel Aviv University

"Just Theory" Guest Lecture Events

Thurs. 5 November

5:00 PM

640 Clemens Hall

"Carlos Estévez’s Images of Thought"

Jorge J. E. Gracia

University at Buffalo

Opening Reception to Art Exposition,

UB Art Gallery, CFA

"Just Theory" Guest Lecture Events


Mon. 9 November

3:30 PM

640 Clemens Hall

"Incomplete Multilingualism: European Encounters"

Mireille Rosello

University of Amsterdam

Joint "Just Theory" Guest Lecture and Juxtaposition Series


Mon. 9 November

7:00 PM

Nichols School,

Albright 104,

1250 Amherst Street

"Pain, Truth and Victorian Literature"

Rachel Ablow

English

Humanities Institute Fellow

 

Scholars in the Schools Series

Fri. 13 November

4:00 PM

Muse Restaurant

"Ireland and the Problem of Information"

Damien Keane

English

Scholars at Muse Series

Mon. 16 November

3:30 PM

420 Clemens Hall

"Evolution of the Modern Female Literary Patroness"

Diane Ward

Principal Poetry Cataloger for the Poetry/Rare Books Collections at UB

Small Press in the Archive Lecture Series


Wed. 7 October

3:30 PM

830 Clemens Hall

 

“Jewish Translation: Philosophy, History, and the Space In-Between”

Aaron Hughes

History

New Faculty Seminar Series

Thurs. 19 November

5:00 PM

640 Clemens Hall

"Immanence and the Quest for Politics: The Badiou-Deleuze Debate"

Kathrin Thiele

U of Potsdam, Germany

"Just Theory" Guest Lecture Events


Fri. 20 November

8:00 PM

Kleinhans Music Hall

Waiting

Ha Jin

China

Babel 2009/2010 Season


 

Spring 2010

Fri. 29 January

4:00 PM

Muse Restaurant

 

"The Scale of the Event: Art/Science/Image, 1945-1970"

Nancy Anderson

Visual Studies

Scholars at Muse Series

Fri. February 5

TBA PM

TBA

"[TBA]"

Frances Ferguson

Johns Hopkins University

Juxtapositions Lecture Series

Fri. 12 February

4:00 PM

Muse Restaurant

 

"Conjoining the Republic: The Siamese Twins in American Literature and Culture"

Cynthia Wu

American Studies

Scholars at Muse Series

Fri. 5 March

8:00 PM

Kleinhans Music Hall

Reading Lolita in Tehran

Azar Nafisi

Iran

Babel 2009/2010 Season


Fri. 16 April

4:00 PM

Muse Restaurant

 

"Averting War in the Balkans"

Vasiliki Neofotistos

Anthropology

Scholars at Muse Series

Fri. 16 April

8:00 PM

Kleinhans Music Hall

Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie

India

Babel 2009/2010 Season