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Date & Time: Monday, February 2, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 PM
Location: O'Brian Hall - Cellino & Barnes Conference Room 509
Intended Audience: Open Event
The PAIR: Prison and Incarceration Research Interdisciplinary Work-In-Progress Speaker Series is designed to strengthen campus research on one of the most pressing legal and social challenges of our time, mass incarceration. Each speaker offers unique perspectives on prisons, mass incarceration, and broader implications for legal institutions, society, and social policy.
On February 2, 2026 Carole Emberton discusses that over the last thirty years, the number of people incarcerated for federal firearms convictions has increased exponentially and that between 1992 and 1999, the highpoint of these convictions, nearly 7000 people a year were imprisoned for violating federal statutes as part of DOJ initiatives such as “Project Triggerlock.” The vast majority of these convictions - as much as 70% — were Black and Latino. Emberton argues that modern gun control legislation has it roots in the effort to extend norms of public safety to newly freed African Americans after the Civil War, and that unequal applications of gun restrictions on Black individuals arose out of particular historical contexts that do not necessarily implicate the wider movement to curtail gun violence. Please click here for more information on the event "Never Intended to Be Applied to the White Population? The Tangled History of Gun Regulations, Race, and Mass Incarceration in the United States” taking place on February 2, 2026.
Sponsored by: The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy and School of Law
Date & Time: Tuesday, February 3, 2026, 1:00 - 3:00 PM
Location: O'Brian Hall - Room 25
Intended Audience: Open Event (registration required)
All are welcome to join the History Department Tuesday February 3rd 1pm-3pm in 25 O'Brian Hall as they welcome John V. Elmore to discuss "African American History and My Career in Law and Law Enforcement." Due to limited seating, RSVP is required by Friday January 30, please click here to register.
Attorney John V. Elmore has over 40 years of experience advocating for justice, civil rights, and injured individuals. A former New York State Trooper and prosecutor with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and the New York State Attorney General’s Office, he now leads a family practice with his daughter, Kristen Elmore-Garcia. Attorney Elmore is a recognized author, speaker, and community leader he has served on numerous state judicial and educational boards by appointment of Governors Andrew Cuomo and Kathy Hochul.
Sponsored by: Department of History
Date & Time: Wednesday, February 4, 2026, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Location: Hayes Hall - Room 403
Intended Audience: Open Event
The forum will bring together scholars in urban planning, sociology, social welfare, and health to examine the dangers posed by racist authoritarianism, discuss strategies for resistance, and reimagine a Black future in which people of African descent live in a nation grounded in radical democracy, anti-racism, and socioeconomic justice. Please click here for information on the speakers and more on the Reimagine Black Futures during the Age of Authoritarianism Forum.
Sponsored by: Office of Inclusive Excellence, School of Architecture and Planning, School of Social Work
Date & Time: Thursday, February 5, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 PM
Location: Online
Intended Audience: Open Event (registration required)
Curated across disciplinary, generational, and professional backgrounds, panelists will engage in a dialogue about the necessity of feminist political, policy, and research futures beyond now—a horizon of possibility that resists the constraints of the present and insists on future-making grounded in abolitionist, decolonial, and feminist commitments. Mindful of our current regressive political moment, this dialogue is fueled by the kind of renewal, repair, and remedy that feminist and other critical praxes offer educative spaces and the commons. Please click here for more information or to register for the Feminist Politics, Policy, and Research event.
Sponsored by: Gender Institute
Date & Time: Thursday, February 5, 2026, 5:00 - 8:00 PM
Location: Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, 955 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203
Intended Audience: Open Event (registration required)
Keynote Speaker, Andrea Hayes-Dixon, MD, FACS, FAAP, Dean of the Howard University College of Medicine, will present "How do we Balance the Scales of Health Equity? The Impact of the Providers.” Reception begins at 5:00 pm, followed by lecture at 5:45 pm. The program will conclude at 7:15 pm and will be followed by discussion, desserts, and coffee in the atrium until 8:00 pm. Please click here for more information or to register for the Beyond the Knife Lecture in Social Justice and Health Equity.
Sponsored by: The University at Buffalo Department of Surgery
Date & Time: Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 12:00 - 1:15 PM
Location: Student Union 235
Intended Audience: Open Event (registration required)
The Gender Institute invites early-career faculty, PhD students, and post-doctoral scholars to a mentoring event focused on supporting junior faculty of color in navigating and succeeding in the academy. While open to all faculty, this event centers the experiences of scholars of color. Participants will gain insights from senior faculty on mentoring and sponsorship, building scholarly identity, navigating institutional cultures, achieving tenure and promotion, balancing service and research expectations, and sustaining well-being in academic spaces that are not always designed with faculty of color in mind. Through a combination of brief reflections from experienced faculty and interactive discussion, participants will have opportunities to ask questions, share challenges, and gain practical strategies for thriving in academia. Attendees of all backgrounds are encouraged to participate, as the lessons shared are broadly relevant and contribute to building more equitable, inclusive, and supportive academic environments for everyone. Please RSVP by February 9 at 5:00pm. Please click here for more information on the speakers or to register for A Mentoring Conversation for Junior Faculty and Future Faculty event.
Sponsored by: Gender Institute
Date & Time: Friday, February 13, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 PM
Location: 474 Park Hall
Intended Audience: Open Event
Despite claims that we live in a "post-welfare society," welfare offices remain vital not only for those who depend on them for benefits but also for those who depend on them for a paycheck. This book, a theory-driven case study of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services, examines how welfare work has transformed to allow a department of just 14,000 to serve more than a third of the county.
Josh Seim argues that frontline workers at this agency—who are mostly Black and Brown women—have become increasingly proletarianized. Their work is defined less by their discretion and more by a lack of control over the productive process. This is enabled by a "welfare assembly line," where a high division of labor and heavy use of machinery resemble production regimes in factories and fast-food restaurants. With implications beyond the welfare office, The Welfare Assembly Line is a crucial addition to the broader national conversation about work, social policy, and poverty governance. Please click here for more information on the Colloquium Series: Josh Seim presents The Welfare Assembly Line event.
Sponsored by: Humanities Institute and Gender Institute
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