| Description: | The Buffalo Humanities Festival is an annual fall celebration of ideas put on for the broad public of our city. UB’s Humanities Institute is the lead institution on this collaboration with SUNY Buffalo State, SUNY Fredonia, Niagara University, Canisius College, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Burchfield Penney Arts Center and Buffalo History Museum. We feature a nationally known speaker in the humanities and then develop a theme to bring together academics from UB and our partners to share cutting-edge and engaging research on this topic. Themes have included gender (2014) and migration (2015). |
| Project/Activity Leader(s): | Elizabeth Otto, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, and Humanities Institute Executive Director; Erik Seeman, Professor of History |
| Unit: | College of Arts and Sciences |
| Department: | Humanities Institute |
| City: | Buffalo |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | United States |
| External Funding: | Yes |
| Funding Source: | Funders change from year to year but have included: John R. Oishei Foundation; partner institutions; corporate sponsors |
| Start Date: | 2014 |
| End Date: | active |
| Internal Partners: | College of Arts and Sciences: Art, History, Global Gender Studies, Transnational Studies; Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender (Gender Institute), Faculty Affairs; Office of the Vice President for Research |
| External Partners: | SUNY Buffalo State; SUNY Fredonia; Canisius College; Niagara University; Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Burchfield Penney Art Center; Buffalo History Museum; Gay and Lesbian Youth Services of Western New York; New York State Council for the Humanities; Pride Center of Western New York; Arts Services Initiative of Western New York |
| Are UB students involved? | Yes |
