Partner Events

If you have an upcoming event involving women, gender, or sexuality, please send all information, including a relevant flyer or photograph, registration information, and contact information to UB-IREWG@Buffalo.edu. 

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UB Critical Ecologies Talk

March 27 at 3:15pm, 509 O'Brian Hall

Hosted by the UB Critical Ecologies Research Collaborative, Funded by UB Office of International Education, Co-sponsored by UB Department of Sociology and Geography, and The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy.

Crisis: Global Political Ecologies of Caste, Race, and Labor Migration

This talk argues that to bolster our understanding of the long climate crisis, we turn to the interplay of caste and racial hierarchies, labor migration, and ecological and economic extraction in India and the Indian Ocean World from the late 19th century. It draws on over 15 years of ethnographic and activist research on the contemporary climate, housing, and labor unfreedoms of marginalized castes and classes in Bengaluru, India and connects these with transoceanic archives on indentured labor migration to the colonial plantations of Malaya in the Indian Ocean World. In so doing, it rethinks global climate precarity as forged through configurations of caste, coloniality, and racial capitalism. Ultimately, it suggests that across anticaste, antiracist, and diasporic narratives lies a commitment to planetary humanism. It is this planetary humanism—an ethic that sutures the concerns of land, labor, and ecology with human freedom—that must reinvigorate scholarship and action on environmental justice.

Malini Ranganathan is Associate Professor in the Department of Environment, Development, and Health at the School of International Service and a faculty affiliate of the Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies at American University in Washington, DC. A critical geographer by training, her research on India and the U.S. studies land, labor, and environmental politics in cities, as well as intellectual histories of anticaste and abolitionist thought. She is the winner of the American Association of Geographers 2023 Harold M. Rose Award for Antiracist Research and Practice and an ACLS-Mellon Collaborative Humanities Grant. She is co-author of Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics and Publics of the Late Capitalist City (Cornell Press, 2023) and co-editor of Rethinking Difference in India as Racialization (Routledge, 2022), along with over 20 peer-reviewed articles. She is currently working on two books related to environmental justice.

 

STEM for Everyone

Are you an undergraduate or graduate student involved in technical research or hands-on projects? Would you like to share your work with a broad audience and sharpen your communication skills? Submit your proposal to participate in STEM for Everyone! 

STEM for Everyone, presented by the UB Women in STEM Cooperative (WISC) and UB Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE), invites students to present a short 5 minute talk on a STEM topic to hone their communication skills.  

This event provides a platform for students to communicate the significance of their work in non-technical language, an important skill for any STEM professional. Creativity is encouraged!

Participants will benefit from mentorship and constructive feedback as they are preparing their presentation and will be eligible to win prizes for strong submissions.

  • Proposals are due by March 15, 2024
  • Students will receive notification of acceptance by March 22, 2024
  • Presentation slides must be submitted by April 8, 2024

Submit your proposal here
More information and past winners here

Suicide Prevention Walk.

Team Up for Suicide Prevention

April 13, 2024

10:30am

Richmond Quad

April 10

Edison's Proof & Provisions, 5-7pm

Meet up with members of the LGBTQ FSA to socialize and celebrate UB Pride Week. Edison’s Proof and Provision is Buffalo’s newest LGBTQ+ bar. Friends and partners are welcome. Optional RSVP will help us plan.

Alison Des Forges Symposium on “Sexual and Reproductive Autonomy: Human Rights Perspectives”

War is being declared on the body and sexual autonomy is under assault for LGBTQ+ people and those seeking safe and legal access to abortion.  Focusing on human rights and an international perspective, our symposium brings together scholars, survivors and legal experts to discuss the politics of sexual and reproductive rights.

Date:  Tuesday, April 16
Time:  8:30-4:30 
Location:  Capen Hall 10 (Buffalo Room), North Campus

Registration Instructions:  Register for In-Person and Virtual Symposium.  Email dussourd@buffalo.edu

Sponsors: Alison Des Forges Memorial Committee; Jack Walsh in Honor of Connie and Kyle Walsh; University at Buffalo: Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy; Departments of Comparative Literature, Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, History, and Political Science; Gender Institute; Humanities Institute; James Agee Chair in American Culture; Office of the Vice Provost for International Education; School of Public Health and Health Professions

Website:  www.alisondesforges.org.

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Esther Newton Made Me Gay (2022)

April 19

Director: Jean Carlomusto
With Special Guests Esther Newton and Jean Carlomusto 
 
We welcome pioneering cultural anthropologist Esther Newton and filmmaker Jean Carlomusto to join us in person to screen Esther Newton Made Me Gay, 2022. The film tells the story of Newton's career, awakening to gay life in the 1950’s, the women’s liberation movement and lesbian-feminism, drag culture, and forging a butch identity, which for her is now in conversation with trans-masculinity. Keenly attuned to the cultural and societal forces that shaped her life, Esther guides us through an anthropology of herself that includes her love of dogs and the sport of competitive dog agility.