Buffalo Humanities Festival

Throughout its brief history, the Buffalo Humanities Festival has explored big ideas. This year's festival, which runs Thursday through Saturday, takes on…

As is the case each year, the Buffalo Humanities Festival is organized around a specific theme. This weekend's event, which begins tonight, is called…

It's been a half century but the effects of 1968 are still being felt. The debate, says Professor Victoria Wolcott, Chair of UB's History Department, is…

For some, it would seem that a scholar in Romance Languages or a PhD in Literature would have little to add to the climate change conversation. The…

Author Dava Sobel has earned critical and commercial success with her recent books, Galileo's Daughter and Longitude. With both books touching about on…

A crowded audience in the Downtown Library last night heard about how segregation continues to restrict spreading economic prosperity to all parts of…

Now in its third year, the Buffalo Humanities Festival---an event that is as ambitious as it is eclectic--- will again gather some of the region's top…

Don't Americans love a story of the little guy talking truth to power? How about lots of little guys - knee high kids hawking newspapers on the street -…

Best-selling author Jill Lepore will appear Friday at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery as the keynote speaker of the Buffalo Humanities Festival. The…

The first Buffalo Humanities Festival runs this Friday and Saturday with an impressive, long list of events at the Albright-Knox, Buffalo State College…