News and Announcements

Here's where you'll find announcements about calls for applications, shout outs to colleagues, and other bits of information we hope you'll find interesting.

Now Available: Truth-Seeking in an Age of (Mis)Information Overload, HI's first open access publication!
10/7/24
The fourth volume in the UB Humanities Institute's book series Humanities to the Rescue was released in September. Edited by David R. Castillo, Siwei Lyu, Christina Milletti, and Cynthia Stewart, Truth-Seeking in an Age of (Mis)Information Overload is the first open access publication in the series published by SUNY Press.
John Fiege--former HI Faculty Fellow and OVPRED/HI Research Funding recipient--awarded NEH Media Projects Grant
9/9/24
On Aug. 27, 2024, the National Endowment for the Humanities announced the grantees for their final round of funding of 2024. John Fiege, assistant professor in the department of Media Study, was awarded an NEH Media Projects development grant in the amount of $75,000 for his film, The Valley of Ashes.
Seeking Candidates: 2024-25 HI Graduate Student Assistant Position
8/26/24
Currently unfunded graduate students with an interest in supporting the Humanities Institute in its mission both on- and off-campus are encouraged to apply.
Registration open for Buffalo Humanities Festival: Hauntings featuring Percival Everett
8/21/24
History, literature, and art are full of figures and stories that, for a variety of reasons, have not made it into mainstream conversations. Haunting is a term scholars use to illuminate historical material that is repressed, unresolved, or simply forgotten, but which is still lurking at the margins, waiting to be acknowledged and made present. What happens when we make the margins the center and open the door to new stories and histories?
David Castillo on Humanities to the Rescue book series in Modernism/Modernity
8/6/24
Contributing to Modernism/modernity, the journal of the Modernist Studies Association, former Humanities Institute Director (2016-2021) David Castillo writes, "The deterioration of the information environment in our age of inflationary media has precipitated a crisis of reality: any sort of baseline for what we take to be “facts” no longer exists."
Recent News
9/9/24

UB art history professor awarded renowned fellowships
6/18/25
The Guggenheim, Harvard Radcliffe and Dedalus Foundation fellowships will support Libby Otto's groundbreaking work on the Bauhaus movement.
UB Humanities Conference to focus on Black studies
2/28/25
The conference will examine how Black studies contributes novel, practical approaches for thinking about and managing global problems.
Dr. Ariel Nereson Receives Research Fellowship and Publication Prize
11/21/24
Congratulations to Associate Professor Ariel Nereson, PhD, on being awarded a Research Fellowship from the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) to help underwrite research expenses of scholars undertaking projects significant to the field of theatre and/or performance studies.
NEH funds UB professor's film
10/17/24
John Fiege's “The Valley of Ashes” focuses on the disposal of solid waste in New York City and aligns with his portfolio of films about environmental justice and sustainability.
Otto co-curates exhibition on Bauhaus, Nazis
9/17/24
The UB art history professor reflects on the exhibition in Germany that attracted over 80,000 visitors and plenty of news coverage across Europe.

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