September 24-25 at Silo City

The Buffalo Humanities Festival is an annual interdisciplinary event that began almost a decade ago and is presented in cooperation with scholars, artists, and activists throughout Buffalo with representatives from Buffalo State College, Canisius College, Niagara University, Dameon College, and a variety of community organizations in order to create conversations between campus and community audience around significant issues that have socio-political implications. For instance, recent festivals have had themes of “Democracy,” “Gender,” “Environments” and “Migration.” Our presenters, in short, tend to “showcase” faculty work rather than offer granular in-depth research, in order to introduce our wide-ranging audience to significant issues in varied fields.

A Panel Discussion on Sunday at 12:45, "The Algorithmic Present-Future: Cautionary Tales," features several CII Members:

• Bruce Pitman, Professor, Materials Design and Innovation, UB
• Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, Julian Park Professor, Comparative Literature, UB
• Moderated by David Castillo, Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures and Co-Director, UB Center for Information Integrity

A coalition of community leaders and researchers in Buffalo, NY invites you to the 8th Annual WNY Refugee Health Summit. To thrive as individuals and members of society, youth need to be viewed as whole beings by their families, communities, and institutions. To promote a whole-person approach for optimal youth development in Western New York, the 8th Annual WNY Refugee Health Summit highlights the spirit and adaptability of youth who arrived as refugees. The event will address challenges and responses to a variety of issues that youth face, including mental health challenges, cultural barriers between older and younger generations, difficulty navigating higher education, and accessing culturally appropriate care.

CII members Siwei Lyu, David Castillo, Rohini Srihari, Cynthia Stewart and colleagues from Clemson, Cornell, and the University of Illinois will Showcase DART, their NSF-Funded Societally Focused Solution at NSF Convergence Accelerator Expo 2022, scheduled virtually for July 27–28,2022.

DART: Deception Awareness and Resiliance Training, is designed to improve the awareness and resilience of older adult users to online deception, such as spear-phishing and catfishing scams, personal information hunting schemes, fake content, impersonation, and mis/disinformation. Learn more about DART at www.buffalo.edu/DART-project and join us in Booth F11 at Expo 2022.

The University at Buffalo, SUNY, is proud to hold its fourth annual Rustgi Undergraduate Conference on South Asia. We invite papers on the theme of “(Mis)information,” which may be interpreted broadly in its social or political sense. The echoes of misinformation ring in all our ears today as we interact with information endlessly. Regardless of whether it is inadvertent or purposeful, the spread of misinformation has affected how we communicate and process “truths” in our world. The 2021 Rustgi conference will feature a keynote lecture from novelist, essayist, and journalist Dr. Michael Muhammad Knight, Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Central Florida. As a scholar, Knight has explored misinformation by contending with prominent descriptions of Islam in media, dissecting concepts of religious othering both within and outside the Muslim community. His works include The Taqwacores, Why I Am a Five Percenter, and Magic in Islam.

The fourth annual Rustgi South Asian Undergraduate Research Conference is made possible by a generous gift from the families of Dr. Vinod Rustgi and Dr. Anil Rustgi as well as funding from the University at Buffalo Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, UB Communityfor GlobalHealthEquity, UB HumanitiesInstitute, and UB Office of International Education.