Research Workshops

A combination of creative and theoretical work in translation, members work on short and long translation projects for poetry, short and long fiction, and non-fiction prose from Asian languages into English.

Our mission is to continue, defend, build on, and publicize UB’s historic strength as an institution that generates cutting-edge queer scholarship, activist engagement, and cultural production.

This group aims to offer broad exposure to innovative methodological and theoretical approaches to studying disability primarily in the humanities, with extensive collaboration in the social sciences, education, law, and the health sciences.

Climate Futures is an interdisciplinary working group committed to humanistic approaches to imagining and organizing for climate futures.

The Interdisciplinary Critical Thought Workshop (ICTW) exists to provide a space for graduate students, faculty, and community members to join together in study and discussion of works and authors who engage in a broadly conceptualized tradition of critique and critical theory.

The Early Modern Research Workshop unites scholars and graduate students with research and teaching interests in the period between 1450 and 1800.

The Digital Humanities Research Workshop connects a diverse group of faculty and students to discuss innovative, interdisciplinary research.

This group supports transdisciplinary inquiries, collaborations, and projects centered around the concept of “performance” across areas and cultures to connect and extend our notions of performance practices both historically and in contemporary contexts.

The Science in Society Research Workshop seeks to critically explore the political, cultural, and material dynamics of science, medicine, and technology from both a world-historical view as well as within specific times and places.

The Haudenosaunee/Native American Studies Research Workshop provides a forum for discussion of recent academic work in the ever-emerging interdisciplinary field of Indigenous studies.

While fossil fuels have dramatically changed the world, crude oil narratives have largely ignored Indigenous presence, practices, and respectful relations with petroleum. Our focus is to interrogate the Western techno-cultural assumption that because oil exists it should be put to work as fuel laboring for humans. What other kinds of oil relations can there be?

This workshop brings together faculty and graduate students from across the humanities and arts to consider the role of AI in higher education and in society.