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Events-at-a-Glance
Aerial photo of UB North Campus, December 2021. Lockwood LIbrary and Clemens Hall are centered. Photographer: Douglas Levere.
The Baldy Center sponsors and co-sponsors many events each year that enliven the dialogue about law and society in the University. Current events are planned in accordance with UB's developing COVID-19 related protocols.
Events that list the room location are held in-person. Advance registration is not required to attend in-person events on campus.
Events are also accessible online, concurrently, via Zoom. Please use the registration link for each event of interest. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the event online via Zoom.
Note: Upcoming events subject to change.
SPRING 2023
MAY 26 and 27, 2023 — THE BALDY CENTER CONFERENCE
Critical Encounters with Habermas' legal theory
509 O’Brian Hall, North Campus
Friday and Saturday (program forthcoming)
Organized by Matthew Dimick (UB School of Law), John Abromeit (Buffalo State College), and Paul Linden-Retek (UB School of Law).
Attend event in-person or via Zoom Registration.
UB COMMUNITY CAN ACCESS WORKING DRAFTS OF THE HABERMAS CONFERENCE PAPERS
To facilitate discussion at the event the conference organizers provide, in advance to the UB community, the working drafts of papers by participants. Use your UB ID and password to access the shared folder, here.
FALL 2023
SEPTEMBER 29, 30 and October 1, 2023
Buddhism and Law: Third International Conference
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
509 O’Brian Hall, UB North Campus
Organizers: Rebecca French and Josh Coene
Details forthcoming.
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PAST EVENTS
APRIL 5, 2023 — Co-Sponsored Speaker
Dr. Mary Frances Berry (University of Pennsylvania)
History Teaches Us to Resist:
Struggles and Progress in Challenging Times
Hybrid event.
Learn more about the event.
APRIL 6, 2023 — Co-Sponsored Speaker
Michael Levien (Johns Hopkins University)
A Green New Deal in Red States?
Towards a Sociology of Energy Transition
Hybrid event.
APRIL 20, 2023 — CO-SPONSORED EVENT
Interventions in Social Reproduction
Visit the Gender Institute website for details.
APRIL 21, 2023 — UB FACULTY SPEAKER
ACCESS PAPER
Veronica L. Horowitz (Sociology) Incarceration during the COVID-19 Pandemic:
Compounding the Pains of Imprisonment.
APRIL 24 to 27, 2023 — CO-SPONSORED SYMPOSIUM
Queer and Feminist Yugoslav Diaspora:
Art, Film, and Activism
Host: UB Dept. of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies
APRIL 26, 2023 — CO-SPONSORED SYMPOSIUM
"The Russo—Ukrainian War: Achievements and Limitations of Today’s International System."
Organizer: Alison Des Forges Memorial Committee
APRIL 28, 2023 — THE BALDY CENTER CONFERENCE
While Waiting for Rain: Community, Law and Economy
in a Time of Change by John Henry Schlegel
509 O’Brian Hall, North Campus
Friday, 9:30 am to 4:00 pm
Organized by Bert Westbrook and Amanda Benzin.
MAY 3, 2023 — CO-SPONSORED SPEAKER
Gender Institute presents Irus Braverman
509 O’Brian Hall, North Campus
Wednesday, 3:30 - 5:00pm (ET)
509 O'Brian Hall & via Zoom
May 5, 2023 — CO-SPONSORED SPEAKER
Presented by UB Gender Institute
Celene Reynolds, PhD (Baldy Center Postdoctoral Fellow)
Repurposing Title IX: How Sexual Harassment Became Sex Discrimination In American Higher Education
FALL 2023
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022 — GENDER INSTITUTE SPEAKER
Silvia Federici (Social Reproduction Theory)
Register via Gender Institute.
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022 — GUEST SPEAKER
Ewa Górska, (Jagiellonian University)
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022 — GENDER INSTITUTE SPEAKER
Katja Praznik (UB Arts Management)
Register via Gender Institute.
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022 — GENDER INSTITUTE SPEAKER
Silvia Federici (Social Reproduction Theory)
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022 — GUEST SPEAKER
Ewa Górska, (Jagiellonian University)
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022 — GENDER INSTITUTE SPEAKER
Katja Praznik (UB Arts Management)
Register via Gender Institute.
OCTOBER 7, 2022 — DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER
Paul W. Kahn (Yale Law School)
"To be Governed by a Text"
Hybrid event.
OCTOBER 13, 2022 — CO-SPONSORED SPEAKER
Matthew T. Huber (Syracuse University)
Hybrid event.
OCTOBER 27, 2022 — GENDER INSTITUTE SPEAKER
Premilla Nadasen (Columbia University)
Register via Gender Institute.
OCTOBER 28 & 29, 2022 — CONFERENCE
Visionaries and Troublemakers: Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at 50
Organizer: Gwynn Thomas, PhD
OCTOBER 28 & 29, 2022 — THE BALDY CENTER CONFERENCE
The State of Democracy and Rise of Autocracy in view of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Organizers: Barbara Wejnert and James Gardner
Hybrid event.
NOVEMBER 3, 2022 — GUEST SPEAKER
Pornpen Khongkachonkiet (Director, Cross Cultural Foundation, Bangkok) "A new law to prevent torture and enforced disappearances in Thailand"
DECEMBER 9, 2022 — SENIOR FELLOW
Nick Cheesman (Senior Fellow, The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy)
"A Political Concept of Torture."
PAST EVENTS
SUMMER 2022
JUNE 9 & 10, 2022 — HYBRID WORKSHOP
Exploring The Law and Political Economy Difference
Organizer: Martha T. McCluskey, in collaboration with the Association for the Promotion of Political Economy and Law (APPEAL)
Contact: law-baldy-lpe@buffalo.edu
SPRING 2022
FEBRUARY 18, 2022 — DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER
12:00pm ET; 509 O’Brian Hall and via Zoom.
Nicole Fox (California State University Sacramento)
After Genocide: Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda
Co-sponsored with Department of Sociology
MARCH 10, 2022 — CO-SPONSORED SPEAKER
4:00pm ET; 509 O’Brian Hall and via Zoom.
HUMANITIES INSTITUTE
Mical Raz, PhD, “Fixing Parents or Fixing Poverty? Lessons from Child Welfare Policy History”
MARCH 11, 2022 — DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER
12:30pm ET; 509 O’Brian Hall and via Zoom.
Anna Lvovsky (Harvard Law School)
The Double Lives of Police Professionalism
APRIL 1, 2022 — DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER
12:30pm ET; 509 O’Brian Hall and via Zoom.
Michael J. Nelson (Pennsylvania State University)
The Elevator Effect: Contact and Collegiality in the American Judiciary
Co-sponsored by UB Department of Political Science
APRIL 7, 2022 — CO-SPONSORED EVENT
Alison Des Forges Annual Symposium
9:00am to 4:00pm ET; 10 Capen Hall and via Zoom.
Today's Socialism and Human Rights
Contact: dussourd@buffalo.edu
APRIL 15, 2022 — DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER
12:30pm ET; Virtual (only) via Zoom.
Nate Holdren (Drake University)
Workplace injury, social murder, and law
APRIL 22 and 23, 2022 — CONFERENCE WEBINAR
Looking Back, Moving Forward:
Law, Policy and Environmental Justice
Co-organizer: Christopher Mele; co-sponsored by Swarthmore College. Contact: BaldyCenter@buffalo.edu
APRIL 22, 2022 — CO-SPONSORED SPEAKER
280 Park Hal, 11:00am to 12:30pm
Lenni Bensen (New York Law School)
Understanding Children Who Migrate Alone: U.S. Law and Policy
APRIL 26, 2022 — CO-SPONSORED SPEAKER
7 Capen Hall, 3:00pm to 4:30pm and via Zoom
David Hernández (Mount Holyoke College)
Whiplashed: Refugees, Detention and the "Trump Era"
APRIL 29 and 30, 2022 — CO-SPONSORED EVENT
Rustgi Undergraduate Conference on South Asia
MAY 10, 2022 — CO-SPONSORED EVENT
1:00 to 4:00pm ET; 509 O’Brian Hall and via Zoom
DSSN Symposium: Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Digital Archives
FALL 2021
OCTOBER 25, 2021 — CO-SPONSORED SPEAKER
Ehlimana Memisevic (Fulbright Scholar, Vanderbilt University)
Co-sponsored by the Institute for Sustainable Global Engagement (ISGE), School of Social Work.
NOVEMBER 3, 2021 — CO-SPONSORED SPEAKER
WANG FENG (UC Irvine)
Wednesday, 12:00 p.m.
509 O’Brian Hall Conference Center, UB North Campus
The event is co-sponsored UB Confucius Institute, The Baldy Center, and CAS Department of Sociology
NOVEMBER 11 & 12, 2021 — WORKSHOP
Global Glyphosate: New Challenges in Regulating Pervasive Chemicals in the Anthropocene
Organized by Marion Werner, UB Associate Professor of Geography.
DECEMBER 3, 2021, 12:00 p.m. (noon)
BOOK MANUSCRIPT WORKSHOP (VIRTUAL)
Moral Debt in Modern America, Daniel Platt, Assistant Professor of Legal Studies at the University of Illinois Springfield, Baldy Center Postdoctoral Fellow in Interdisciplinary Legal Studies 2019-2021.
SUMMER 2021
JUNE 25, 2021 — ONLINE WORKSHOP
Marx, Law, and the Administrative State
Thursday, Friday, Saturday (time tba)
Organized by Matthew Dimick, Professor, UB School of Law
SPRING 2021
APRIL 14, 15, 16, 2021 — VIRTUAL WORKSHOP
Medical Posthumanities: Governing Health Beyond the Human
Related podcast is here.
APRIL 30, 2021 — VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM
Alison Des Forges International Virtual Symposium
COVID-19: Human Rights and International Cooperation
Event details are here.
Related podcast is here.
SERIOUS FUN: A CONFERENCE WITH SCHLEGEL AND ON HIS WORKS
Organizer: David A. Westbrook, dwestbro@buffalo.edu
Related content: Buffalo Law Review, Vol. 60, Issue 1 — Serious Fun: A conference with & around Schlegel!
MARCH 5, 2021 — ONLINE BOOK TALK
Yesterday's Monsters, The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole by Hadar Aviram
Event co-sponsored by UB Department of Sociology.
MARCH 11, 2021 — ONLINE BOOK TALK
From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the 21st Century book talk by co-authors William Darity and A. Kirsten Mullen
Sponsored by UB Center for Diversity Innovation.
Co-sponsored by The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, and UB Office of Inclusive Excellence.