The UB Humanities Institute's annual conference

"How We Became Human: Genealogies of the Humanities"

October 27-28, 2006

UB Center for the Arts, North Campus

The Fall 2006 Humanities Institute Conference will explore the nature and consequences of the emergence of the humanities, while interrogating the many uses and implications of humanistic knowledge within the intersecting trajectories of the West and its global neighbors. 

Speakers include Hazel Carby - African American Studies and American Studies, Yale, "Racializing Subjects"; Pheng Cheah - Rhetoric, UC Berkeley, "Globalization and the Inhuman"; Suzanne Marchand - History, Louisiana State Univ., "Orientalism's Bid to Join the Humanities"; Mary Beard - Classics, Newnham College, Cambridge, " What is a 'Liberal Education' (for)?"; Harriet Rivo - History, MIT, "Humanities and Animalities"; Henry Sussman - Comparative Literature, Univ. at Buffalo, "Systems, Games, and the Player"; and a closing round table with David Hunter - Philosophy, Ryerson Univ. and Steven Miller - English, Univ. at Buffalo.