Arts and Culture

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The zombie outbreak that has infected American popular culture will spread to the University at Buffalo this fall.

BUFFALO, N.Y. – University at Buffalo archaeologists have been digging to find the remains of the oldest grist mill in Erie County and they say that it may not be where everyone thought it was.

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Plato’s Academy, North Tonawanda Campus (PANTC) Reading Group and the UB Department of Philosophy will present the conference “Bioethics and the Philosophy of Medicine” Aug. 2-3 on the University at Buffalo North Campus.

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Among several archaeological excavations undertaken this summer by the Archaeological Survey in the Department of Anthropology is the ongoing search for and excavation of outbuildings at Lancaster’s Hull Family Home and Farmstead, one of Western New York’s most significant historic sites that is anchored by the oldest substantial stone dwelling in Erie County.

BUFFALO, N.Y. – A University at Buffalo historian who credits the American culture of guns and violence to the Civil War era, says the racial attitudes born of this period are so powerful that the South may never redeem itself from its violent, invidious history.

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The University at Buffalo will host the 18th International Conference of the Society for Chinese Philosophy (ISCP) July 21-24 in the Center for the Arts, North Campus, and in the Ramada Hotel and Conference Center adjacent to the North Campus in Getzville.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The seventh season of UB on the Green, the University at Buffalo’s free outdoor performance series, will feature a bit of a twist: In addition to a major musical or arts performance, each night’s events will focus on a specific theme designed to welcome UB’s South Campus neighbors to the university and introduce them to different aspects of UB.

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Indian dancing! A mezzo soprano Hong Zhang! Martial arts! The University at Buffalo Cricket Club! Dragon dance training, award-winning Zhongbei (Daisy) Wu on the Chinese plucked zither (the guzheng) and maybe a little sandbag throwing!

BUFFALO, N.Y. – A pioneering academic and gay activist at the University at Buffalo has praised today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage as “the biggest advance in queer rights since the Lawrence v. Texas decision in 2003, which overturned anti-sodomy laws.”