Events

Photo of audience at Angie Thomas talk for the 2018 Buffalo Humanities Festival in the auditorium of the AKG Museum.

Throughout the year, HI hosts free and open-to-the-public events, on- and off-campus. Some programs are specifically programmed to be community-forward, with future expansions into additional programming and opportunities on the horizon. 

Signature Events

  • Scholars @ Hallwalls
    11/4/24
    A monthly lecture series featuring the UB Humanities Institute’s Faculty Fellows for the current academic year, hosted at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center.
  • Buffalo Humanities Festival
    9/23/24
    Held annually in mid- to late-September, the Buffalo Humanities Festival is a multiday event organized in collaboration with WNY university partners Canisius, Niagara, and SUNY Buffalo State; with the support of Humanities New York.
  • Annual Conference
    8/19/24
    In collaboration with colleagues conducting research in various disciplines at the University at Buffalo, HI hosts an annual gathering of notable national (and international) scholars in conversation with UB faculty and graduate students, framed through the lens of the humanities to address timely topics of concern.

Additional HI Events

  • Faculty Write In Sessions
    9/3/24
    The directors of the Humanities Institute and the Gender Institute invite faculty to join us for weekly virtual group writing sessions.
  • New Faculty Seminar Series
    11/4/24
    The New Faculty Seminar Series features the work of new colleagues in the Humanities at UB. Each session provides the new faculty member with the opportunity to share their current research in a casual, convivial space with discussion/Q+A following. 
  • Grant Writing Workshops
    9/9/24
    The HI Faculty Grant Writing Workshop is specifically designed to help faculty improve humanities-based grant and fellowship applications to organizations outside of UB by exchanging drafts and ideas with other grant seekers, in addition to learning grant writing strategies from a featured guest speaker.
  • Book Celebration
    8/15/24
    Each Spring, HI hosts the New Books Celebration to celebrate the recent publications by UB faculty whose work has been supported by the research funding programs offered by the Humanities Institute, a unit of the College of Arts and Sciences and additionally funded by the UB Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development (OVPRED).
  • Research Workshops
    8/30/24
    The Humanities Institute’s Research Workshops bring together UB faculty and graduate students from diverse disciplines to present research and to explore topics of common intellectual concern. HI provides funding for the workshops to sponsor guest lectures, works-in-progress seminars, and conferences. 

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