The University at Buffalo Humanities Institute sponsors and co-sponsors a variety of events throughout the year. In addition to events organized directly 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. 

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> Calendar of Upcoming Events

 

May

 

Series: NY Council for the Humanities Reading Between the Lines Series

Time: 10:30 A.M.-12 P.M.

Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Title: WASTING AWAY: CONTEMPORARY WRITERS ON ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES

Speaker(s): Mary C. Foltz, UB Graduate Student, UB English Dept., New York State Council for the Humanities Fellow

Location: Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens, 2655 South Park Avenue

Description: Programs meets the second Wednesday of every month up to June. Click here for more program information.

Special Instructions: Click Here for Recommended Reading List

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June

Series: NY Council for the Humanities Reading Between the Lines Series

Time: 10:30 A.M.-12 P.M.

Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Title: WASTING AWAY: CONTEMPORARY WRITERS ON ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES

Speaker(s): Mary C. Foltz, UB Graduate Student, UB English Dept., New York State Council for the Humanities Fellow

Location: Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens, 2655 South Park Avenue

Description: Programs meets the second Wednesday of every month up to June. Click here for more program information.

Special Instructions: Click Here for Recommended Reading List

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Series: Lecture or Other Event 

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Date: Monday June 16, 2008

Title: BLOOMSDAY BUFFALO

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Location: Andrews Theater , 625 Main Street Buffalo

Description: Special Instructions: http://www.bloomsdaybuffalo.com/

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September

Series: UB Gender Week

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Date: September 22-26, 2008

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Description: Organized by the Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender

Series: Lecture or Other Event

Time:. 8:00 P.M.

Date: Thursday, September 25, 2008

Title: BABEL

Speaker(s): Chinua Achebe of Nigeria, author of Things Fall Apart

Location: Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

Description: Babel ...a series of readings and conversations with the world's best writers at the Church, downtown Buffalo’s most exciting address for the arts. Babel is now in its second year and features four acclaimed international authors annually. Babel supports the Buffalo Niagara region's ongoing efforts to define and promote itself as a vibrant center for the exploration of global cultures. Event co-sponsored by the UB Humanities Institute.

Special Instructions: http://www.justbuffalo.org/babel/index.php

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Series: UB Gender Week Conference

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Date: September 25-27, 2008

Title: OUT OF THE CUBE: AESTHETIC, POLITICAL, MEDICAL, AND DISCURSIVE APPROACHES TO GENDERED IDENTITIES

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Description: This interdisciplinary project intends to bring together artists and scholars to ponder the question of identity formation from various disciplinary points of view.  The event includes the participation of the following humanities departments:  Comparative Literature, English, Geography, Media Study, Music, Philosophy, Romance Languages and Literatures, Theater and Dance, Visual Studies, as well as the Schools of Medicine and Architecture.Organized by the Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender

October

Series: Lecture or Other Event

Time:. 8:00 P.M.

Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Title: BABEL

Speaker(s): Michael Ondaatje of Canada, author of The English Patient

Location: Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

Description: Babel ...a series of readings and conversations with the world's best writers at the Church, downtown Buffalo’s most exciting address for the arts. Babel is now in its second year and features four acclaimed international authors annually. Babel supports the Buffalo Niagara region's ongoing efforts to define and promote itself as a vibrant center for the exploration of global cultures. Event co-sponsored by the UB Humanities Institute.

Special Instructions: http://www.justbuffalo.org/babel/index.php

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Series: Humanities Institute Annual Conference 

Time: 9:00 A.M.

Date: Thursday, October 30-November 1, 2008

Title: THE OTHER SIDE OF REASON: THE HISTORY OF MADNESS TODAY

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Location: Screening Room, UB Center for the Arts, North Campus

Description: Taking its inspiration from the recent publication of the complete English translation of Michel Foucault’s History of Madness, this conference aims to examine various histories of madness and what “madness” means today.  Foucault reinvented history as a discourse capable of articulating the intimate yet hostile relationship between madness and reason, especially on the far side of the most ambitious attempts to uphold rationality as the basis of human institutions.  The questions raised by History of Madness seem especially timely in an era that increasingly invokes “reason” to adjudicate unforeseen ethical and political crises.  Yet the urgency of contemporary predicaments all too easily rationalizes the speedy elimination of “madness,” thereby prompting a return to forms of violent confinement—such as “indefinite detention”—that were the object of Foucault’s original critique.  Mindful of this critique, our conference seeks to think through manifestations of madness that remain inseparable from its “others,” whether understood as reason, civilization, philosophy, normalcy, law, the university, and so on.

Special Instructions: http://humanitiesinstitute.buffalo.edu/about/annualconference.shtml

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November

Series: Just Theory Lecture Series

Time: 5:30 P.M.

Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008

Title: WHO IS POLITICAL?

Speaker(s): Scott Michaelsen, Professor of English, Michigan State University

Location: 640 Clemens Hall, North Campus

Description: Presented by the Department of Comparative Literature

Series: Lecture or Other Event 

Time: 8:00 P.M.

Date: Friday, November 14, 2008

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Speaker(s): Alastair Reid

Location: 250 Baird Hall

Description: Annual Oscar Silverman Reading

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2009

 

March

Series: Conference

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Date: Thursday, March 19- Saturday, March 21, 2009

Title: IDIOMS OF THE POST-GLOBAL

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April

Series: Lecture or Other Event

Time:. 8:00 P.M.

Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Title: BABEL

Speaker(s): Marjane Satrapi of Iran, author of Persepolis

Location: Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

Description: Babel ...a series of readings and conversations with the world's best writers at the Church, downtown Buffalo’s most exciting address for the arts. Babel is now in its second year and features four acclaimed international authors annually. Babel supports the Buffalo Niagara region's ongoing efforts to define and promote itself as a vibrant center for the exploration of global cultures. Event co-sponsored by the UB Humanities Institute.

Special Instructions: http://www.justbuffalo.org/babel/index.php

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Series: Lecture or Other Event 

Time: 4:00 PM

Date: Friday, April 3, 2009

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Speaker(s): Victoria Kahn, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Berkeley

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Description: Victoria Kahn works on seventeenth-century English literature, the literature of the European Renaissance, and early modern political theory. She is the author, most recently, of Wayward Contracts: The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674 (Princeton, 2004). This book explores the emergence of contract theory in the literature and political thought of mid seventeenth-century England. It argues that contract theory should be seen as part of the linguistic turn of early modern thought, when government was imagined in terms of the poetic power to bring new artifacts into existence. Contract theory should thus be seen not simply as the forerunner of liberalism but as anticipating the eighteenth-century discipline of aesthetics. Sponsored by the English Department.

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Series: Lecture or Other Event

Time:. 8:00 P.M.

Date: Friday, April 17, 2009

Title: BABEL

Speaker(s): Isabel Allende of Chile, author of House of Spirits

Location: Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

Description: Babel ...a series of readings and conversations with the world's best writers at the Church, downtown Buffalo’s most exciting address for the arts. Babel is now in its second year and features four acclaimed international authors annually. Babel supports the Buffalo Niagara region's ongoing efforts to define and promote itself as a vibrant center for the exploration of global cultures. Event co-sponsored by the UB Humanities Institute.

Special Instructions: http://www.justbuffalo.org/babel/index.php

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June

Series: Conference

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Date: Saturday, June 12-16, 2009

Title: EIRE ON THE ERIE - NORTH AMERICAN JAMES JOYCE CONFERENCE

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Description: Eire on the Erie will combine scholarly presentations and civic events centered in the City of Buffalo.

Special Instructions: http://www.english.buffalo.edu/jamesjoyce/

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