Date & Time: Multiple dates and times, see more details below
Location: 430 Kimball Tower, South Campus (Zoom link available on request)
Intended Audience: Open Event
The goal of this group is to provide support, resources, and community to LGBTQ+ faculty, staff, and students and their allies at UB. This discussion group is located on the South Campus as it gives folks that are primarily on this campus a safe space here. This group is open to anyone who wishes to join from all programs and campuses. There will be five LGBTQ+ Discussion Group Meetings this semester at the following times.
For more information, please visit the UB Calendar link. For questions, please contact Ebehitale Imobhio at 716-829-3529 or via email at ebehital@buffalo.edu.
Sponsored by the Office of Inclusive Excellence and the School of Public Health and Health Professions.
Date & Time: Friday, April 19, 2024, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: 240 Student Union, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
Join the IDC for tasty treats inspired by AAPI culture! Stop by and learn about influential AAPI figures and historical events that shaped history. Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month is celebrated at UB from mid-April to mid-May to recognize the contributions and influence of Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans to the history, culture, and achievements in the US.
For more information, please visit the Event Registration Page or the UB Calendar Link. For questions, please contact the IDC at 716-645-2434.
Sponsored by the Intercultural and Diversity Center (IDC).
Date & Time: Wednesdays, 3:00pm - 4:30pm, through May 8, 2024
Location: 240 Student Union, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
This drop-in group is committed to providing an affirming space for BIPOC students to reflect on their experiences at a Predominately White Institution. In this group, we recognize the unique experiences of BIPOC students and aim to foster a community for students to give voice to their experiences, gain support, and develop healthy coping strategies. Topics explored in this group include but are not limited to navigating microaggressions, feelings of isolation, imposter syndrome, being first generation American, family/social relationships, and maintaining healthy self-care in the current socio-political climate. There will be 14 BIPOC Drop-In Groups this semester starting on Wednesday, February 7, 2024 and running through Wednesday, May 8, 2024.
For more information, please visit the UB Calendar link. For questions, please contact Counseling Services at 716-645-2720.
Sponsored by UB Counseling Services and the Intercultural and Diversity Center (IDC).
Date & Time: Multiple dates and times, see more details below
Location: Multiple locations, see more details below
Intended Audience: Open Event
You are invited to a series of discussions about Body-to-Mind Resilience with Matthew Sanford at Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Matthew Sanford, founder of the nonprofit Mind Body Solutions, has been exploring the intersection between body and mind since becoming paralyzed over 40 years ago. He will visit UB for a week of insightful discussions, sharing his expertise and adaptive yoga practices with students, faculty, staff and the UB community. All are welcome to join, but registration is limited for certain events. The following events will be taking place:
For more information and to register, please visit the Event Webpage.
Sponsored by the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the Office of Inclusion and Cultural Enhancement.
Date & Time: Monday, April 22, 2024, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Location: 240 Student Union, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
Join the Graduate School and the IDC for light refreshments, discover new resources, and enjoy the company of other LGBTQ+ students like you who are continuing or finishing up their UB graduate academic careers. Co-hosted by UBQ Grad Club.
For more information, please visit the Event Registration Page. For questions, please contact the IDC at 716-645-2434.
Sponsored by the Intercultural and Diversity Center (IDC), the Graduate School, and UBQ Grad Club.
Date & Time: Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: 240 Student Union, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
The ‘model minority myth’ enforces harmful stereotypes and expectations of Asian American individuals. Join the IDC to work to dismantle this concept and discuss other struggles of the Asian community that are seldom talked about. Join in 240 Student Union or on Zoom: bit.ly/IDCProgram
For more information, please visit the Event Registration Page or the UB Calendar Link. For questions, please contact the IDC at 716-645-2434.
Sponsored by the Intercultural and Diversity Center (IDC).
Date & Time: Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 12:30pm - 1:00pm
Location: Virtual
Intended Audience: Open Event
Please join the Professional Staff Senate Inclusion and Diversity Committee for a session on the “Black Hair Matters'' project. The purpose of this phenomenological narrative study was to explore societal expectations that affect Black undergraduate women with natural hair who attend a predominantly white institution (PWI) and their hair identity in academia. The research examined racial microaggressions directed specifically towards Black women like “Can I touch your hair?” and how Black women and their hair are intersectionally undermined to a point where people can degrade and bully their hair choices. The investigation led to uncovering how Black hair and identity are intertwined and how Black women, despite societal expectations, are embracing their natural hair.
For more information and to register, please visit the Event Registration Page.
Sponsored by the Professional Staff Senate Inclusion and Diversity Committee.
Date & Time: Thursday, April 25, 2024, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: Virtual
Intended Audience: Open Event
Join the Feminist Research Alliance for Dr. Robin Mitchell’s research talk, “Suzanne Simon Baptiste Louverture: Microbiography and Black Women’s Lives.” Robin Mitchell is an award-winning Associate Professor in the Department of History, and the College of Arts and Sciences Endowed Professor, at the University at Buffalo. She is a 19th century French historian, specializing in discourses about race, gender, and sexuality. She received her doctorate in Late Modern European History from the University of California, Berkeley, with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality. In addition to several published journal articles, and her first book, Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France (University of Georgia Press, 2020), Dr. Mitchell is currently writing the first biography of Suzanne Simone Baptiste, also known as Madame Toussaint Louverture. It is currently under contract with Princeton University Press. Founded in 2010, the Feminist Research Alliance Workshop advances and energizes interdisciplinary conversation and collaboration among feminist scholars locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. At our convivial meetings, faculty, graduate students, and visiting scholars present and discuss research-in-progress. A fertile space for idea-incubation, the workshop also is community-building, enabling students and faculty to network with potential committee members, mentors, and colleagues beyond the boundaries of their home departments. All events are free and open to the public.
For more information or to register, please visit the Event Registration Page or the UB Calendar link. For questions, please contact Megan Vaughan at 716-645-5200 or via email at ub-irewg@buffalo.edu.
Sponsored by the UB Gender Institute.
Date & Time: Thursday, April 25, 2024, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: 145 Student Union, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
Join the IDC for an interactive workshop where we’ll address mental health disparities among Black college students. We aim to empower students to prioritize their wellbeing while navigating academic and familial pressures. The workshop will be led by Dr. Amani Johnson.
For more information, please visit the Event Registration Page. For questions, please contact the IDC at 716-645-2434.
Sponsored by the Intercultural and Diversity Center (IDC).
Date & Time: Thursday, April 25, 2024, 5:00pm - Saturday, April 27, 2024, 9:00pm
Location: Multiple locations, see Event Webpage
Intended Audience: Open Event
Join the Department of Art and Coalesce: Center for Biological Arts for a special convening in Buffalo of FEMeeting Sister Labs: Women in Art, Science and Technology. This 3-day event of local and international artists, scholars, faculty, students and community members features a day-long symposium, exhibition, BioArt workshop and performance at Torn Space Theater.
FEMeeting Sister Labs: Women in Art, Science and Technology is part of a larger network of women and women-identifying folks working at the intersection of art, science and technology. FEMeeting is driven by the desire to develop and promote more direct collaborations. The goal is to disseminate projects being undertaken by women worldwide and, as a result, to contribute to the development of art-science research methodologies and to the growth of cooperation strategies that can increase knowledge sharing and bring communities closer. See the Event Webpage for individual event locations and times.
For more information and to register, please visit the Event Webpage or the UB Calendar Link. For questions, please contact Stephanie Rothenberg via email at sjr6@buffalo.edu.
Sponsored by the UB Department of Art, the Humanities Institute, and Coalesce: Center for Biological Arts.
Date & Time: Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: 240 Student Union, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
Join the IDC to define and deconstruct the various Asian identities and cultures and how they are viewed in American Society. Join in 240 Student Union or on Zoom: bit.ly/IDCProgram
For more information, please visit the Event Registration Page or the UB Calendar Link. For questions, please contact the IDC at 716-645-2434.
Sponsored by the Intercultural and Diversity Center (IDC).
Date & Time: Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location: 146 Park Hall, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
Please join the Department of Indigenous Studies for a public lecture by post-doc Cj Jackson during UB's Pride Month. Their talk is entitled "Queer Indigenous Poetics: Diné 'tradition,' 'relationality,' and inhuman desire." The ongoing 2005 Diné Marriage Act established on and by the Navajo Nation continues to consider same-sex and same-gender marriages “void and prohibited” on the basis of cultural significance, often citing the Diné creation story to argue marriage as between one man and one woman despite the obvious queerness of that first union: rather than one ‘man’, Changing Woman marries Jóhonaaʼéí, the sun. This presentation addresses how gendered notions of ‘tradition’ impact tribal relations on the Navajo Nation through Jake Skeet’s poetry collection Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers (2019). Drawing Melissa K. Nelson’s term eco-eroticism and from what Dana Luciano and Mel Y. Chen refers to as the ‘transmaterial affections’ between nonhuman entities, this talk illustrates how Skeets invokes a reframing of the notion k’e (kinship) which insists that Diné histories are founded on a queer past and a queer longing that stresses the potentiality of another world outside the ‘here and now.’
Cj Jackson is a Diné writer and scholar from the Navajo Nation in Arizona. Their work primarily focuses on queer Indigenous poetics and the cultural and political formulation of relational ethics in the wake of historical dispossession and environmental catastrophe. Jackson is a current postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University at Buffalo.
For more information, please visit the UB Calendar link. For questions, please contact Jennifer Loft at 716-645-7923 or via email at jcloft@buffalo.edu.
Sponsored by the Department of Indigenous Studies.
Date & Time: Wednesday, May 1, 2024, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: 240 Student Union, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
Join the IDC for a mixer to celebrate AAPI Heritage Month. Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month is celebrated at UB from mid-April to mid-May to recognize the contributions and influence of Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans to the history, culture, and achievements in the US.
For more information, please visit the Event Registration Page or the UB Calendar Link. For questions, please contact the IDC at 716-645-2434.
Sponsored by the Intercultural and Diversity Center (IDC).
Date & Time: Thursday, May 2, 2024, 7:00pm - 9:15pm
Location: 240 Student Union, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
The AAPI movie night will feature Crazy Rich Asians. About Crazy Rich Asians: Rachel Chu is happy to accompany her longtime boyfriend, Nick, to his best friend's wedding in Singapore. But she is surprised to learn that Nick's family is extremely wealthy, and he's considered one of the country's most eligible bachelors. Thrust into the spotlight, Rachel must now contend with jealous socialites, quirky relatives, and something far, far worse -- Nick's disapproving mother.
For more information, please visit the Event Registration Page or the UB Calendar Link. For questions, please contact the IDC at 716-645-2434.
Sponsored by the Intercultural and Diversity Center (IDC).
Date & Time: Friday, May 10, 2024, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Landmark Room, 210 Student Union, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
The Lavender Ceremony and Reception welcomes all graduating members of the UB LGBTQ Community. These students are from all majors and levels of education in various programs and backgrounds. Recognizing the challenges many LGBTQ students face on their journey to graduation, it is essential to provide the opportunity for graduating students, family, friends, faculty, administrators, peers, allies, and supporters to embrace each student at the end of their time at UB.
For more information or to register, please visit the Event Registration Page or the UB Calendar Link. For questions, please contact the IDC at 716-645-2434.
Sponsored by the Intercultural and Diversity Center (IDC).
Date & Time: Thursday, May 16, 2024, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: Center for the Arts, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
The ALANA (African, Latinx, Asian, and Native American) Celebration will occur in person and is open to all University at Buffalo graduating students. This pre-commencement ceremony was conceived to honor the achievements of African, Latinx, Asian, and Native American students. This pre-commencement ceremony, conceived to honor the achievements of graduating UB ALANA students, is open to all graduating students. The Intercultural and Diversity Center and the Cora P. Maloney Center will honor you for your outstanding accomplishments, so please wear your graduation regalia.
For more information or to register, please visit the Event Registration Page or the UB Calendar Link. For questions, please contact the IDC at 716-645-2434.
Sponsored by the Intercultural and Diversity Center (IDC) and the Cora P. Maloney Center (CPMC).
The Intercultural and Diversity Center (IDC) is committed to supporting all students on campus. By focusing on personal identity, advocacy and other critical issues that are facing society today, the IDC helps students broaden their perspectives and gain a deeper understanding of our ever-changing world. To find out more about their upcoming events, visit the IDC Events Calendar.
Sponsored by the Intercultural and Diversity Center.
Date & Time: Multiple offerings and dates, see more details below
Location: Virtual
Intended Audience: Open Event
These one-hour sessions are part of the “Strengthening Our Resilience” (SOR) Program of Native American Community Services and are designed for those already trained in trauma-informed care. They will provide brief overviews of Native cultures, health challenges facing many communities, historical traumas, and suggestions for how to engage with Native American peoples more respectfully. There will be 3 sessions at the following days and times, please register at the respective links below:
For any questions or concerns please contact Pete Hill, Special Initiatives Director (NACS) at phill@nacswny.org.
Sponsored by the Native American Community Services of Erie and Niagara Counties, Inc. (NACS) and the New York State Office of Addiction Services & Supports (OASAS).
Date & Time: Sunday, April 28, 2024, 12:30pm - 6:00pm
Location: Kleinhans Music Hall, 3 Symphony Circle, Buffalo, NY
Intended Audience: Open Event
Please join Native American Community Services for their Racial Healing Circle. The Racial Healing Circles is open to all and focuses on creating brave, compassionate spaces for discussions that help us carry our shared humanity into what we say and our actions. By engaging in the Racial Healing Circle, we hope to contribute to a greater sense of peace, pride, love, and respect for all and to all. Space is limited, so please consider registering early. The Racial Healing Circle will be followed by a Multicultural Dance Celebration featuring five groups sharing traditional dances representing various Native American, African, Asian, European, and other cultures. Light lunch will be provided for those pre-register and attend the Racial Healing Circle.
For more information and to register, please visit the Event Registration Page or contact Pete Hill (Special Initiatives Director, NACS) at 716-574-8981 or via email at phill@nacswny.org.
Sponsored by the Native American Community Services of Erie and Niagara Counties, Inc. (NACS), the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, and the Buffalo Resilience Organization, and Kleinhans Music Hall.
Date & Time: Multiple offerings and dates, see more details below
Location: Virtual
Intended Audience: Open Event
These one-hour sessions are part of the “Strengthening Our Resilience” (SOR) Program of Native American Community Services and are designed for those who are new to trauma-informed care. They will provide brief overviews of Native cultures, health challenges facing many communities, historical traumas, and suggestions for how to engage with Native American peoples more respectfully. There will be 3 sessions at the following days and times, please register at the respective links below:
For any questions or concerns please contact Pete Hill, Special Initiatives Director (NACS) at phill@nacswny.org.
Sponsored by the Native American Community Services of Erie and Niagara Counties, Inc. (NACS) and the New York State Office of Addiction Services & Supports (OASAS).
Date & Time: Submit anytime
Intended Audience: UB Students, Faculty and Staff
The University Archives is launching a project to encourage students, faculty and staff to document their personal experiences during the COVID-19 outbreak and contribute them to the University Archives. Students have been impacted by great change to their learning environments, living situations, employment, and social connections. Faculty have adapted the ways in which they deliver course materials and interact with students. Staff have adjusted to changes in their work environments, both at home and on campus, all while coping with momentous change in daily routines, family life, and personal health and safety. By collecting and preserving these perspectives the University Archives supports the research mission of the university, allowing future students, researchers, and scholars to study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, an undoubtedly transformative event in the history of student life and the academic experience at UB. Visit University Archives webpage for more information.
Sponsored by University Libraries
These workshops were led by Dr. Anne Etgen, Professor Emerita in the Department of Neuroscience at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and nationally recognized expert in recruiting and retaining diverse faculty. We encourage this resource for all Department Chairs and faculty who plan to serve on search committees. Below are descriptions of the three workshops. Click here to view them on UB Edge.
Sponsored by the Office of Inclusive Excellence
Presents evidence that workforce diversity is a driving force for excellence and innovation, and discusses factors that contribute to limiting diversity, including implicit or unconscious bias. Finally, describes evidence-based strategies that can overcome the bias in the faculty search process. Click here to view on UB Edge.
Outlines strategies that facilitate the academic success, promotion and retention of faculty. Topics discussed include strong mentoring programs, faculty cluster hiring (cohort model), activities and resources to reduce isolation, increase community building and networking, and to foster career, research, and professional advancement. Click here to view on UB Edge.
Discusses the role of departmental and institutional climate as a barrier to achieving faculty diversity. Climate comprises people’s shared perception of the quality, fairness and inclusivity of the environment in which they work. Improving departmental and institutional climate, with clear signals from leadership that diversity, equity and inclusion are core values, can enhance the work environment for all members of the academic community. Click here to view on UB Edge.
