Buffalo Humanities Festival Collaborative

The annual festival of ideas is organized in collaboration with multiple Buffalo/WNY universities and organizations, drawing together scholars from each school with the communities in which we live.

2018 Humanities Festival "Revolutions", organized by the UB Humanities Institute, at Buffalo State College. Photographer: Douglas Levere.

Sharing Ideas

The Buffalo Humanities Festival was started in 2014 and is currently presented by the University at Buffalo’s Humanities Institute in cooperation with Canisius University, Niagara University, and Buffalo State University as well as the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library and Humanities New York.

Learn more about the BHF

Visit the Buffalo Humanities Festival website for full details on this year's festival: Hauntings (Sept. 20-21, 2024).