Annual Conference

The UB Humanities Institute's annual conference will take place October 27-28, 2006.

The topic is "How We Became Human: Genealogies of the Humanities"

Location: UB Center for the Arts, North Campus

The conference is free and open to the public. Advanced registration is not required.

Visitor Parking
Parking for visitors is limited to certain lots and metered areas on each campus. Visitors to the North Campus can park in the Center for Tomorrow Lot off Flint Road, without a charge and utilize our shuttle service. Additionally, on the North Campus, Visitor Paid Parking is available in the Fronczak Lot. There is an entry charge of $4.00 ($2.00 after 1:00 p.m.).

Persons invited to UB by a specific department or organization of the University are considered guests and are eligible for Guest Permits (no charge). Guest Permits must be dated, and are valid in faculty/staff and student lots. One-day Guest Permits are also valid in Visitor Paid Parking areas. Permits should be obtained through the inviting department and in advance of arriving on campus. The Visitor Information Centers may issue Guest Permits, but only when the inviting department is reached to confirm the invitation.

Please contact Joseph Syracuse at 716.645.2711, ext., 1167 to obtain a guest parking permit.

Printable campus maps and north campus buildings

Detailed conference information

Hotel information

Conference speakers:

Racializing Subjects
Hazel Carby
Departments of African American Studies and American Studies, Yale University

Globalization and the Inhuman
Pheng Cheah
Department of Rhetoric, University of California at Berkeley

Orientalism's Bid to Join the Humanities: A Mostly German, Mostly Nineteenth-Century Story
Suzanne Marchand
Department of History, Louisiana State University

What is a "Liberal Education" (for)? Some nineteenth-century answers.
Mary Beard
Department of Classics, Newnham College, Cambridge

Humanities and Animalities
Harriet Ritvo
Department of History, MIT

Systems, Games, and the Player: Did We Manage to Become Human?
Henry Sussman
Department of Comparative Literature, University at Buffalo and Visiting Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Yale University

Closing Roundtable Discussion
Conference Speakers and Moderators
Co-moderators: David Hunter, Department of Philosophy, Ryerson University and Steven Miller, Department of English, University at Buffalo

If you have further questions about the annual conference, please contact:

Joseph C. Syracuse
Program Administrator, UB Humanities Institute
810 Clemens Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260

phone: 716.645.2711 ext., 1167
email: jcs32@buffalo.edu