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The University at Buffalo Humanities Institute (HI), founded in 2005, exists to support three fundamental functions: cultivating interdisciplinarity, fostering research, and promoting public engagement with the humanities. Through our programs and opportunities, HI develops pathways for humanities-based examinations of our world and our times. Among these pathways is a commitment to our community to create open forums for collaboration and conversation. 

Signature Events

Scholars @ Hallwalls

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Scholars @ Hallwalls

Buffalo Humanities Festival

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Buffalo Humanities Festival

Annual Conference

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Annual Conference

Workshops and Seminars

Research Workshops

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Research Workshops

Grant Writing Workshops

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Grant Writing Workshops

New Faculty Seminar Series

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New Faculty Seminar Series
Current Faculty Fellows
Photo of Hal Langfur.
“A historian of early Brazil and the Portuguese Atlantic world, Hal Langfur is the author of the prize-winning study Adrift on an Inland Sea: Misinformation and the Limits of Empire in the Brazilian Backlands (Stanford, 2023) and The Forbidden Lands: Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil’s Eastern Indians, 1750 – 1830 (Stanford, 2006).  ”
9/5/24

Hal Langfur, Professor, History

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“Yige Dong’s primary research interests lie at the intersection of political economy, social inequality and social change.”
9/5/24

Yige Dong, Assistant Professor, Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Sociology and Criminology

Photo of Rachel Ablow.
“Rachel Ablow works on the literary histories of affect, subjectivity, and the novel. She is the author of two monographs—The Marriage of Minds: Reading Sympathy in the Victorian Marriage Plot (Stanford, 2007), and Victorian Pain (Princeton, 2017)—and the editor of the most recent edition of The Norton Anthology: The Victorian Age (2024). ”
9/5/24

Rachel Ablow, Professor, English

Photo of Kellen Hoxworth.
“Kellen Hoxworth's academic interests focus on the intersections between performance, race, and coloniality, particularly in African and Black diasporic performance. ”
9/5/24

Kellen Hoxworth, Assistant Professor, Theatre and Dance

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“Pilcher's current project examines government films made in the mid-twentieth century American South, particularly how federal and local agencies depicted gender and race in the region in the final years of Jim Crow segregation and how these productions reappear in new media. ”
9/5/24

Loren Pilcher, Assistant Professor, Global Gender and Sexuality Studies

Photo of Óscar F. Gil-García.
“Gil-García’s current book project, tentatively titled, Legacies of Forced Migration and Photographic Testimonio of Indigenous Maya in the Americas, examines the overarching problem of state policies at the border and their corresponding effects on individuals and the bonds of families. ”
9/5/24

Óscar F. Gil-García, Assistant Professor, Anthropology

“ Carlos M. Amador works on Twentieth and Twenty-First Latin American Literature, Visual Arts, Film, and cultural production. He has published articles, a book, and other works on contemporary aesthetic practices in Latin America’s Pacific Coast Region and Southern Cone. ”
9/5/24

Carlos M. Amador, Associate Professor of Spanish, Romance Languages and Literatures

Photo of Elizabeth Mazzolini.
“'American Toxic' investigates ... how toxicity moves rhetorically through culture as well as physically through communities, circulating back and forth between discourse and bodies. ”
9/5/24

Elizabeth Mazzolini, Associate Professor, English

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