Research Workshops

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. 

  • Performance
    8/23/24
    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.
  • Southeast Asian Translation Zone
    11/18/24
    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 South Asian languages into English.
  • Digital Humanities
    8/23/24
    The Digital Humanities Research Workshop connects a diverse group of faculty and students to discuss innovative, interdisciplinary research.
  • Disability Studies
    8/23/24
    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.
  • Interdisciplinary Marxisms
    8/23/24
    The Interdisciplinary Marxisms Research Workshop (IMRW) exists to provide a space for graduate students, faculty, and community members to join together in study and discussion of the broadly-conceived Marxist or radical tradition.
  • Queer Studies
    8/26/24
    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.
  • Technoculture
    8/23/24
    The Technoculture Research Workshop considers how the Enlightenment relationship between the scientific method and the natural world is problematized by contemporary issues in technology, media, academia, art, and the environment.
  • Haudenosaunee-Native American Studies
    8/23/24
    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.
  • Science in Society
    8/30/24
    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.
  • Early Modern
    11/18/24
    The Early Modern Research Workshop unites scholars and graduate students with research and teaching interests in the period between 1450 and 1800.
  • Sovereignty Lab
    8/23/24
    The core constituency of this group is UB faculty and students working on themes such as political legitimacy, empire, indigenous sovereignties, natural law, social contracts and their rupture, mixed-sovereignty models, tyranny, resistance, transfers of power, disenfranchisement, confidence in institutions, and so forth.
  • Digital Humanities
    8/23/24
    The Digital Humanities Research Workshop connects a diverse group of faculty and students to discuss innovative, interdisciplinary research.
  • Disability Studies
    8/23/24
    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.
  • Early Modern
    11/18/24
    The Early Modern Research Workshop unites scholars and graduate students with research and teaching interests in the period between 1450 and 1800.
  • Haudenosaunee-Native American Studies
    8/23/24
    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.
  • Interdisciplinary Marxisms
    8/23/24
    The Interdisciplinary Marxisms Research Workshop (IMRW) exists to provide a space for graduate students, faculty, and community members to join together in study and discussion of the broadly-conceived Marxist or radical tradition.
  • Performance
    8/23/24
    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.
  • Queer Studies
    8/26/24
    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.
  • Science in Society
    8/30/24
    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.
  • Southeast Asian Translation Zone
    11/18/24
    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 South Asian languages into English.
  • Sovereignty Lab
    8/23/24
    The core constituency of this group is UB faculty and students working on themes such as political legitimacy, empire, indigenous sovereignties, natural law, social contracts and their rupture, mixed-sovereignty models, tyranny, resistance, transfers of power, disenfranchisement, confidence in institutions, and so forth.
  • Technoculture
    8/23/24
    The Technoculture Research Workshop considers how the Enlightenment relationship between the scientific method and the natural world is problematized by contemporary issues in technology, media, academia, art, and the environment.

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