History GSA ~ Milton Plesur Conference
2026-03-28 09:00 UTC | Natural Sciences Complex, Buffalo, NY, United States
The 2026 Milton Plesur Graduate Conference is a forum for graduate students to share their scholarship with their colleagues, faculty, and interested members of the public. This year’s conference is titled “Breaking the Silo: A Celebration of Interdisciplinary Scholarship and Cross-Departmental Conversations.” The process of knowledge production is often isolating and can relegate us to particular silos of thought. To that end, “Breaking the Silo” is the intentional effort to provide graduate students the opportunity to share their combined intellectual and methodological strengths as scholars in the humanities and social sciences and to celebrate the work of our fellow graduate students.
The Plesur Conference is a two-day event. Day 1 kicks off with a keynote speech from Dr. Susan Burch followed by a facilitated discussion. Dr. Burch is an award-winning historian and professor of American Studies at Middlebury College in Vermont. She will be discussing the importance of interdisciplinary scholarship and collaboration as it relates to her work. Refreshments will be provided.
Day 2 will consist of a series of moderated panels featuring UB graduate student speakers from several departments including history, English, gender studies, Africana and American studies and more! Panels will focus on a wide range of themes, including but not limited to theoretical interventions in current scholarship, sovereignty and statehood, writing as praxis, and much more! Breakfast and lunch will be provided.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Alyssa Martin at ajm223@buffalo.edu.
All participants must review the GSA’s Safety Acknowledgement and Participant Disclaimer before attending.

GISA ~ 5-Wits Event
2026-03-29 15:30 - 18:00 | 5 Wits, 1 Walden Galleria, Buffalo, NY, 14225
The Graduate Indian Student Association (GISA), in collaboration with the Computer Science and Engineering Graduate Student Association (CSE GSA) and Bangladeshi Graduate Student Association, is organizing a graduate student social and team-building event at 5-Wits Buffalo.
This event will provide an immersive and interactive team-based adventure experience where graduate students from across the University at Buffalo can participate in collaborative problem-solving games that promote teamwork, stress relief, and interdisciplinary networking. The goal of the event is to support graduate student well-being, encourage cross-departmental interaction, and foster a stronger sense of graduate community at UB.
The event will be open to all UB graduate and professional students and widely advertised across departments and student organizations. Approximately 100 graduate students are expected to attend. Food and refreshments will be provided to encourage networking and engagement.
This event benefits a broad and diverse graduate student population and aligns with the GSA mission of supporting inclusive programming that enhances graduate student life.
All participants must review the GSA’s Safety Acknowledgement and Participant Disclaimer before attending.

April Board of Directors Meeting
2026-04-02 18:30 - 21:00 | Online via Zoom
**By a vote of the GSA Board of Directors on March 4th, this meeting has been moved to Thursday, April 2nd for students to be able to observe Passover**
The April 2nd Board of Directors meeting will be held online via Zoom. GSA Board of Directors meetings are open to the public, but only designated representatives from Departmental and International clubs may vote. Sign-in begins at 6:00pm so that the meeting can begin promptly at 6:30pm. Once the meeting begins no one else will be admitted for attendance purposes.
PLEASE NOTE: Every club will need to email Stephanie at slfrank@buffalo.edu no later than 12:00pm on Thursday, April 2nd with who will be attending the meeting on the club’s behalf so that eligible representatives can be verified in advance. Once representatives are verified they will be sent the Zoom meeting link and password directly, along with some instructions on how the meeting will be managed, in order to be able to participate and vote. Only previously verified representatives will be admitted to participate in the Zoom meeting.
For attendance purposes each Special Interest Club may have one representative participate directly in the Zoom meeting, but they will not have voting privileges. Additional special requests for guests and/or speakers to be admitted may be sent to gsa-feedback@buffalo.edu.
The meeting will also be live streamed via GSA’s Facebook Page for anyone else that is interested in watching the meeting without voting privileges or an official attendance record, as meetings are open to the public.

North Campus Java Junction
2026-04-03 11:00 - 13:00 | Career Design Center, 259 Capen Hall, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States
Free Tim Horton’s coffee and doughnuts for graduate students in the Career Design Center (259 Capen Hall).
All participants must review the GSA’s Safety Acknowledgement and Participant Disclaimer before attending.

English GSA Symposium
2026-04-03 14:00 - 17:00 | UB Special Collections, 433 Capen Hall, Buffalo, NY, 14260
Exploring the contact between English and its others, many anglophone writers have sought to extend the limits of literary form and defamiliarize entrenched linguistic and expressive practices through translation. Recognizing the fraught relationship between languages and cultures, translation scholarship is energized by questions of (in)fidelity, authority, and form. While these questions are not new, recent approaches render the effort of translation even more explicit. From Wong May’s 2022 re-formatting of T’ang era poems to Ugly Duckling Presse’s experimental book formats, new methods for presenting translation challenge an author’s authority, an audience’s fluency, and the stability of a text as origin from which translators proceed—all while emphasizing the translator’s visible, creative role.
This symposium will synthesize these recent developments and consider the new generative modes of literary production that are evolving through methodologies such as adaptation, pseudo-translation, and multi-media translations. These methods highlight problems of translatability and untranslatability. How do we discuss works that explicitly deviate from their source and foreground translation as a practice? What are we talking about when we say “fidelity” or even “original”? How might we do justice to the fraught sense of authority in a translation? And what would it mean to move out of a familiar terminology of translation toward a broader definition? This symposium proposes to approach these questions by examining current methods while speculating possible future directions for translation. Alongside presentations on recent translation developments, this symposium will also serve as an opportunity to hear recent translation work from a diverse range of languages, particularly Asian and Western European languages.
All participants must review the GSA’s Safety Acknowledgement and Participant Disclaimer before attending.

Discount AMC Movie Tickets Available
2026-04-06 | NY
GSA will have discount AMC Movie Tickets available for sale on April 6th at the UB Ticket Office (online or in 221 Student Union) for $5 each. 1 per UB ID. Tickets can be used for all movies at AMC theatre locations. Limited quantity available. First come, first served.
*PLEASE MAKE SURE TO PICK UP YOUR PHYSICAL TICKET(S) FROM THE UB TICKET OFFICE IN 221 STUDENT UNION. THE EMAILED TICKET IS ONLY A VOUCHER AND WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED FOR ADMISSION BY THE VENDOR.
All GSA sales are non-refundable.

Mindfulness Monday ~ Yoga
2026-04-06 11:00 - 12:30 | 210 Student Union, 210 Student Union, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States
Reserve your space for free on the UB Ticket Office website. Limited spaces available.
All participants must review the GSA’s Safety Acknowledgement and Participant Disclaimer before attending.

NSF Funding Workshop
2026-04-09 13:30 - 15:30 | 330 Student Union, 330 Student Union, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States
Guest speaker Dr. Jorge Valdes Kroff talks about the various funding opportunities available through the National Science Foundation and tips for structuring applications for funding.
Free tickets will be available for the event starting March 9th through the UB Ticket Office. Limited quantity available. First come, first served.
All participants must review the GSA’s Safety Acknowledgement and Participant Disclaimer before attending.

South Campus Java Junction
2026-04-10 11:00 - 13:00 | 105 Harriman Hall, 105 Harriman Hall, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States
Free Tim Horton’s coffee and doughnuts for graduate students at South Campus in 105 Harriman Hall.
All participants must review the GSA’s Safety Acknowledgement and Participant Disclaimer before attending.

Buffalo Bandits Lacrosse Game vs. Rochester Knighthawks
2026-04-11 19:00 - 22:00 | Key Bank Center, 1 Seymour H Knox III Plaza , Buffalo, NY, 14203, United States
Tickets on sale March 2nd at the UB Ticket Office (online or at 221 Student Union) for $10 each. 2 per UB ID. Limited quantity available. First come, first served.
**DIGITAL ADMISSION TICKETS WILL BE EMAILED OUT 24 HOURS PRIOR TO THE GAME. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE EMAILED TICKET FROM THE UB TICKET OFFICE IS ONLY A VOUCHER, AND WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED FOR ADMISSION BY THE VENDOR.**
**For ticketing/seating questions or requests, please contact the GSA Programming Coordinator (gsa-programming@buffalo.edu) prior to the ticket distribution. All requests will be reviewed on a first come, first served basis.**
**All sales are non-refundable**

Bangladeshi GSA ~ Pohela Boishakh
2026-04-12 10:00 - 19:00 | 105 Harriman Hall, 105 Harriman Hall, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States
Pohela Boishakh is the Bengali New Year. GBSA will arrange a get together oppurtunity for all students with mouthwatering food and fun. Tickets will be on sale through the UB Ticket Office.
All participants must review the GSA’s Safety Acknowledgement and Participant Disclaimer before attending.

Buffalo Bisons Baseball Flex Passes On Sale
2026-04-13 | Sahlen Field, 275 Washington St., Buffalo, NY, 14203, United States
GSA will have flex passes for Buffalo Bisons Baseball Games on sale for $10 each starting on April 13th at the UB Ticket Office (online or in 221 Student Union). 1 per UB ID. Limited quantity available. First come, first served.
Passes include admission to any home game of the 2026 season and $10 in Fastball Cash Cards that can be used for concession purchases.
**PLEASE MAKE SURE TO PICK UP YOUR PHYSICAL TICKETS FROM THE UB TICKET OFFICE IN 221 STUDENT UNION. THE EMAIL CONFIRMATION FROM THE TICKET OFFICE WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED BY THE VENDOR FOR ADMISSION**
**All sales are non-refundable**

Deadline for May Conference Funding Applications
2026-04-15 | NY
All applications for Conference Funding for conferences during the month of May are due by the close of business at 4:30pm.
The GSA Conference Funding Application is available as an online form on GSA’s UBLinked page. Please note that you must be signed in to UBLinked and “Join” as a member of GSA in order to be able to access the form on the Homepage.

Venu Govindaraju Book Launch and Reading
2026-04-17 14:00 - 15:00 | 420 Capen Hall

Know Your Rights Workshop
2026-04-17 14:00 - 15:30 | Online via Zoom
Anna Porter, Senior Manager of Community Engagement for Western New York from the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), will be giving a Know Your Rights workshop. Topics covered will include:

Types of immigration and law enforcement agents
Your rights in different spaces and situations
Interactions with ICE, Border Patrol, and local police
How to be prepared

https://buffalo.zoom.us/j/92136179832?pwd=[REDACTED]

(Tentative) Additional April Board of Directors Meeting
2026-04-22 18:30 - 21:00 | Online via Zoom
The tentatively scheduled April 22nd Board of Directors meeting will only be held if the proposed budget does not pass at the April 1st Board of Directors meeting.
If necessary, the meeting will be held online via Zoom. GSA Board of Directors meetings are open to the public, but only designated representatives from Departmental and International clubs may vote. Sign-in begins at 6:00pm so that the meeting can begin promptly at 6:30pm. Once the meeting begins no one else will be admitted for attendance purposes.
PLEASE NOTE: Every club will need to email Stephanie at slfrank@buffalo.edu no later than 12:00pm on Wednesday, April 22nd with who will be attending the meeting on the club’s behalf so that eligible representatives can be verified in advance. Once representatives are verified they will be sent the Zoom meeting link and password directly, along with some instructions on how the meeting will be managed, in order to be able to participate and vote. Only previously verified representatives will be admitted to participate in the Zoom meeting.
For attendance purposes each Special Interest Club may have one representative participate directly in the Zoom meeting, but they will not have voting privileges. Additional special requests for guests and/or speakers to be admitted may be sent to gsa-feedback@buffalo.edu.
The meeting will also be live streamed via GSA’s Facebook Page for anyone else that is interested in watching the meeting without voting privileges or an official attendance record, as meetings are open to the public.

Know Your Rights Workshop
2026-04-24 14:00 - 15:30 | Online via Zoom
Amanda Opperman, Staff Attorney for Journey’s End Refugee Services will be giving a Know Your Rights workshop. Topics covered will include:

Types of immigration and law enforcement agents
Your rights in different spaces and situations
Interactions with ICE, Border Patrol, and local police
How to be prepared

Join here!

Know Your Rights Workshop
2026-04-24 14:00 - 15:30 | Online via Zoom
Amanda Opperman, Staff Attorney for Journey’s End Refugee Services, will be giving a Know Your Rights workshop. Topics covered will include:

Types of immigration and law enforcement agents
Your rights in different spaces and situations
Interactions with ICE, Border Patrol, and local police
How to be prepared

Join here!

Romance Languages & Literatures Graduate Conference
2026-04-26 - 2026-04-27 | NY
This is a RLL graduate student-run conference that facilitates interdisciplinary research in the Humanities and beyond in a welcoming atmosphere. This year’s theme is “Life and Language in the Anthropocene”, which aims to examine how language and literature are involved in the complexities of the present moment. This event will include graduate student presenters and two keynote faculty speakers.

North Campus Java Junction
2026-05-01 11:00 - 13:00 | 145 Student Union
Free Tim Horton’s coffee and doughnuts for graduate students in 145C&D Student Union.
All participants must review the GSA’s Safety Acknowledgement and Participant Disclaimer before attending.

GSA Family Fun Night
2026-05-01 18:00 - 22:00 | Buffalo Riverworks, 359 Ganson St., Buffalo, NY, 14203, United States
Tickets on sale March 23rd for $20 each at the UB Ticket Office (online or in 221 Student Union). 3 max per UB ID. Tickets are $20 for graduate students over 21 (including a drink ticket) or $10 without a drink ticket.
Tickets include food, games, axe throwing and one drink ticket.
**All sales are non-refundable**

Discount AMC Movie Tickets Available
2026-05-04 | NY
GSA will have discount AMC Movie Tickets available for sale on May 4th at the UB Ticket Office (online or in 221 Student Union) for $5 each. 1 per UB ID. Tickets can be used for all movies at AMC theatre locations. Limited quantity available. First come, first served.
*PLEASE MAKE SURE TO PICK UP YOUR PHYSICAL TICKET(S) FROM THE UB TICKET OFFICE IN 221 STUDENT UNION. THE EMAILED TICKET IS ONLY A VOUCHER AND WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED FOR ADMISSION BY THE VENDOR.
All GSA sales are non-refundable.

Discount Buffalo Zoo Tickets Available
2026-05-04 | Buffalo Zoo, 300 Parkside Ave., Buffalo, NY, 14214, United States
GSA will be selling discount Buffalo Zoo tickets! Tickets can be used anytime before December 31, 2026. Tickets will be on sale at the UB Ticket Office (online or in 221 Student Union) for $10 each ($30 value – $22.50 admission plus additional for food/drink). 2 per UB ID. Limited quantity available. First come, first served.
*Please make sure to pick up your physical ticket(s) from the UB Ticket Office in 221 Student Union. The emailed receipt from the UB Ticket Office is only a voucher and will not be accepted for admission by the vendor!*
**All sales are non-refundable.**

Last Day of Spring Classes
2026-05-05 | NY

Global Gender and Sexuality Studies Symposium
2026-05-08 08:00 - 18:00 | 640 Clemens Hall
The Global Gender and Sexuality Studies (GGSS) Department GSA is hosting a symposium at the end of the Spring 2026 semester for graduate students working on topics related to gender and sexuality studies to share their work and engage in conversation with each other. Graduate students from all departments and programs across UB are invited to submit their abstracts for consideration. Drafts of final papers, dissertation chapters, etc. are welcomed and encouraged! Submitted abstracts will be organized into panels, and each panel session will have both student presentations and Q&A/discussion with the audience.
Registration Link for audience members: https://forms.gle/YhN6fvTCEZfjKLqUA

South Campus Java Junction
2026-05-08 11:00 - 13:00 | 105 Harriman Hall, 105 Harriman Hall, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260, United States
Free Tim Horton’s coffee and doughnuts for graduate students at South Campus outside 105 Harriman Hall.
All participants must review the GSA’s Safety Acknowledgement and Participant Disclaimer before attending.

End-of-Semester Celebration and Graduate Student Social
2026-05-08 17:00 - 20:00 | Inchin’s Bamboo Garden, 5415 Sheridan Dr., Williamsville, NY, 14221, United States
End-of-Semester Celebration and Graduate Student Social
The Electrical Engineering Graduate Student Association (EE GSA) will host its annual End-of-Semester Celebration on May 8, 2026, from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM at Inchin’s Bamboo Garden. This event is organized as a fun and welcoming gathering for graduate students to relax, unwind, and celebrate the completion of the semester after exams, project deadlines, research milestones, and other academic pressures.
This event has traditionally been an EE department gathering, but this year we are intentionally expanding it to welcome a broader graduate student audience across departments. By opening the event to all graduate students, we hope to create a larger community-building opportunity that encourages social connection, interdisciplinary interaction, and a stronger sense of belonging on campus. The event will provide a casual and inclusive environment where students can meet peers outside their own programs, strengthen friendships, and enjoy a positive end-of-semester experience together.
The program will include food, beverages, and a relaxed social atmosphere designed to help students de-stress and recharge before the summer period. Because graduate students often face intense workloads and limited opportunities for informal social engagement, this event serves as an important chance to support student well-being, community engagement, and cross-departmental networking. Its broad appeal comes from offering a shared opportunity for celebration, connection, and stress relief that is relevant to graduate students from many academic disciplines, not only Electrical Engineering.
Tickets on sale now! Limited quantity available. First come, first served.
https://buffalo.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx?id=5658

Dive into the Dissertation
2026-05-12 15:00 - 17:00 | 17 Norton Hall, Buffalo, NY, 14260

Commencement Weekend
2026-05-15 - 2026-05-17 | NY

Deadline for June Conference Funding Applications
2026-05-15 | NY
All applications for Conference Funding for conferences during the month of June are due by the close of business at 4:00pm.
The GSA Conference Funding Application is available as an online form on GSA’s UBLinked page. Please note that you must be signed in to UBLinked and “Join” as a member of GSA in order to be able to access the form on the Homepage.
