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Date & Time: Wednesdays, 3:30pm - 4:30pm, through November 20, 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 8 BIPOC Drop-In Groups this semester starting on Wednesday, September 18, 2024 and running through Wednesday, November 20, 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.
Date & Time: Multiple dates and times, see more details below
Location: 240 Student Union, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
Join Counseling Services and the IDC on the third Thursday of the month to meet other members of UB's LGBTQ+ community, have some conversation, and enjoy fun activities. This is a drop-in meeting. No registration is required. There will be three Rainbow Hours this semester at the following times.
For more information, please visit the UB Calendar link. For questions, 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: 235 Student Union, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
Join Counseling Services to play games, have great conversations, and lots of fun, while making friends from around the world. Come to relax and play non-competitive, get-to-know you games that allow you to form cross cultural friendships. Event is open to all UB international and domestic students from all cultures and backgrounds. There will be four Friends Without Borders this semester at the following times.
For more information, please visit the UB Calendar link. For questions, contact Counseling Services at 716-645-2720.
Sponsored by UB Counseling Services and the Intercultural and Diversity Center.
Date & Time: Every Friday, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Location: 320 Baldy Hall, North Campus and via Zoom
Intended Audience: Open Event
Indigenous Writes is a weekly writing group open to all UB community members. It provides an opportunity to build consistency in academic writing habits that enhance productivity and success. This event will be hosted by Theresa McCarthy, Associate Professor, Department of Indigenous Studies. The following Zoom link can be used to join virtually:https://buffalo.zoom.us/j/94063421497.
For more information, visit arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/indigenous-studies.
Sponsored by Indigenous@UB Hub, Humanities Institute Haudenosaunee – Native American Research Group.
Date & Time: Tuesday, November 19, 2024, 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: Screening Room, Center for the Arts 112
Intended Audience: Open Event
Please join us for a public screening of 2023 film Fancy Dance, written and directed by Erica Tremblay of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation and starring Peigan Blackfeet /Nez Perce academy award nominee Lily Gladstone. Hosted By: Theresa McCarthy, Associate Professor, Department of Indigenous Studies and Aaron VanEvery, Community Outreach and Cultural Programming Coordinator.
Sponsored by the Indigenous@UB Hub.
Date & Time: Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location: The Screening Room, Center for the Arts and Zoom Webinar
Intended Audience: Open Event, Please RSVP here!
School food programs are about more than just feeding kids. They are a form of community care and a policy tool for advancing education, health, justice, food sovereignty, and sustainability. Transforming School Food Politics around the World illustrates how everyday people from a diverse range of global contexts have successfully challenged and changed programs that fall short of these ideals. Editors Jennifer Gaddis and Sarah A. Robert highlight the importance of global and local struggles to argue that the transformative potential of school food hinges on valuing the gendered labor that goes into caring for, feeding, and educating children.Through accessible and inspiring essays, Transforming School Food Politics around the World shows politics in action. Chapter contributors include youths, mothers, teachers, farmers, school nutrition workers, academics, lobbyists, policymakers, state employees, nonprofit staff, and social movement activists. Drawing from historical and contemporary research, personal experiences, and collaborations with community partners, they provide readers with innovative strategies that can be used in their own efforts to change school food policy and systems. Ultimately, this volume sets the stage to reimagine school food as part of the infrastructure of daily life, arguing that it can and should be at the vanguard of building a new economy rooted in care for people and the environment.
Jennifer Gaddis is an associate professor of Civil Society and Community Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools(University of California Press, 2019), which won book awards from the National Women’s Studies Association and the International Association of Culinary Professionals. She is the co-editor with Sarah A. Robert of Transforming School Food Politics Around the World. Dr. Gaddis’ scholarship on the intersection of care and school food has been published in multiple journals including Feminist Economics, Agriculture and Human Values, and Radical Teacher. Gaddis is an advisory board member of the National Farm to School Network and has written op-eds on school food politics for popular media outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, The Guardian, and Teen Vogue. She and her students regularly partner with school districts, labor unions, and social movement organizations on community-based research and advocacy projects related to food justice in K-12 schools.
Sarah A. Robert is an international education policy expert. She critiques how policy and politics shape and are shaped by the intersectional qualities of gender in global, South American, and US urban contexts. Her ethnographies and qualitative, social science-informed studies are concentrated on three areas: teachers’ work, school food, and curriculum/textbooks. As a first-gen, feminist, interdisciplinary public intellectual, she strives to demystify policy, to cultivate and support policy protagonists through teaching and long-term community collaborations, and to transform educational decision making into an inclusive process focused on realizing human rights and just transitions in educational institutions and for societies.
This event is co-sponsored by the UB Communities of Care grant and the Community of Excellence in Global Health Equity.
Date & Time: Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 3:00pm
Location: Clemens 510, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
Please join Indigenous Student Collective (UBISC) and UB’s Chapter of American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) in promote indigenous identify on campus for Native American Heritage Month. Please wear your Ribbon Skirts & Ribbon Shirts and meet in Clemens 510 at 3:00pm for a group photo.
Sponsored by the Indigenous Student Collective and AISES UB Chapter.
Date & Time: Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Location: Student Union, Room 240, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is an annual observance on November 20 that honors the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence. The Intercultural and Diversity will recognize this day with an outreach table, movie night and specialty programming.
For 2024 Transgender Day of Remembrance, we are streaming Tangerine!
The comedic story follows a trans sex worker who embarks on a mission to find her man's mistress after she is recently released from jail. Snacks and lite refreshments will be provided!
For more information, please visit the UB Calendar Link.
Sponsored by the Intercultural and Diversity Center.
Date & Time: Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 4:30pm - 6:30 pm
Location: Student Union 240, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
Join us for a lively evening of chisme! Inspired by the iconic "El Gordo y La Flaca," our event promises all the classic, entertaining gossip that gets our tías talking. Think “Wendy Williams meets late-night tea”—a fun and interactive talk show experience where nada se queda escondido! Dive into a night of juicy discussions from celebrity gossip to cultural hot takes. Get ready for laughs, insights, and maybe even a few surprises. For more information please visit, https://buffalo.campuslabs.com/engage/event/10701128.
Sponsored by the Intercultural and Diversity Center.
Date & Time: Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 6:30pm - 7:30 pm
Location: Greiner Hall B Wing, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
This collaboration between RHA and the Intercultural Diversity Center will provide student leaders with the opportunity to become more knowledgeable and impactful leaders. The IDC will present an “Inclusive By Design” workshop specifically for student organization leaders designed to help them be more inclusive leaders, followed by an activity led by RHA's Director of Advocacy, Kayla Anderson. Snacks will be provided! For more information please visit, https://buffalo.campuslabs.com/engage/event/10701606.
Sponsored by the Residence Hall Association and Intercultural and Diversity Center.
Date & Time: Thursday, November 21, 2024, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Student Union 222, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
Join us for an Election Reflection Circle hosted in Student Union 222 from 4:00 to 5:00 PM. This gathering, facilitated by our MSW Graduate Interns and Ambassadors of Civic Engagement (ACEs) Interns, offers a welcoming space for UB students to process and reflect on the recent Presidential Election results. Together, we’ll explore what these outcomes might mean for our campus community and foster an open, supportive environment for sharing thoughts and questions. Students from all perspectives are invited to participate in this inclusive dialogue.
Sponsored by the Intercultural and Diversity Center and Student Engagement.
Date & Time: Thursday, November 21, 2024, 5pm
Location: Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences- 955 Main Street, Room 2101 (Next to the Cafe)
Intended Audience: Open Event
Intimate conversations with the Buffalo Community about the matters we care about. Please register at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1BOhmJCsosVCSZAm1ReLsGBWJTWtJeRQ7HS0NANequZc/viewform?edit_requested=true. Facilitated by the Biomedical Graduate Student Governance.
Sponsored by the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences: Office of Inclusion and Cultural Enhancement.
Date & Time: Thursday, November 21, 2024, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: Student Union, Room 240, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
Tough Topics are a weekly open forum to discuss local, national, global and trending news of interest to students.
Is it right to celebrate Thanksgiving and America’s history of settler colonialism? What can we do to honor this day of mourning for Native communities? We can redefine the meaning of Thanksgiving to remember and respect indigenous peoples’ histories.
For more information, please visit the UB Calendar Link.
Sponsored by the Intercultural and Diversity Center.
Date & Time: Thursday, November 21, 2024, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Student Union, Room 240, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
Take time to relax with us and partake in the appreciation of this practice as we learn about the ethnic groups that use it and its religious and artistic use!
Sand painting as an art form is a painting that is created by using finely crushed materials that are typically applied to plywood, or in our case, colorful sand to canvases, to depict a scene.
For more information, please visit the UB Calendar Link.
Sponsored by the Intercultural and Diversity Center.
Date & Time: Thursday, November 21, 2024, 5:00pm
Location: Capen 129, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
Open to all UB Students! Join us for the final event in our Indigenous Student Success Series—IDS Friendsgiving! By registering for this event, we'll focus on strategies for a successful ending to the semester. During this event, you'll learn about applying to scholarship applications, resume tips, internships, and how to design a personalized blueprint for success for your remaining time at UB. Additionally, students will come together, share their favorite dishes, and enjoy traditional Haudenosaunee foods. Bring a dish to share, or simply come to enjoy the food and community.
Sponsored by the Indigenous@UB Hub.
Date & Time: Saturday, November 23, 2024 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Alumni Arena, Ed Wright Practice Facility, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
Accessibility Resources will host three recreation events throughout the fall semester. Test your skills at goalball, adaptive yoga and wheelchair/blind tennis in this free student series. Accessibility Resources and Greater Buffalo Adaptive Sports are hosting a wheelchair/blind tennis clinic. Wheelchair tennis is an adaptive version of tennis where the players are in sports wheelchairs. The sports wheelchairs are provided by Greater Buffalo Adaptive Sports. Blind tennis uses a particular ball that makes noise to alert players to where the ball is. Blindfolds and tennis rackets will be provided.
For more information, please visit the UB Calendar Link.
Sponsored by the Accessibility Resources.
Date & Time: Tuesday, November 26, 2024, All-day
Location: All campuses
Intended Audience: Open Event
UBISC and UB AISES will be wearing different clothing on November 26 to celebrate Native American Heritage Month in November. We ask that any students or faculty that partake in these events to please visit Clemens 510 at 3 p.m. that day for a group photo!
For more information, please visit the https://www.buffalo.edu/studentlife/who-we-are/announcements.host.html/content/shared/www/studentlife/gateway-wide-content/announcements/current/native-american.detail.html.
Sponsored by the UBICS and UB AISES.
Date & Time: Monday, December 2, 2024, 4:00pm
Location: TBD
Intended Audience: Open Event
Aroha Harris’s research engages Māori histories of the twentieth century, with a focus on Māori-state relations. Aroha is a founding member of Te Pouhere Korero, the national collective of Māori historians, and has been an editor of their journal of the same name. She is also a former member of the Waitangi Tribunal where she was the historian member of the panel convened for Te Rohe Pōtae inquiry (Wai 898). Her first book, Hikoi: Forty Years of Maori Protest, was published in 2004. Her second book, Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History (2014), was a collaborative effort with Emeritus Professor Atholl Anderson and the late Dame Judith Binney. She is Māori and belongs to Te Rarawa and Ngāpuhi iwi (tribes).
Sponsored by Mishuana Goeman, Chair, Department of Indigenous Studies.
Date & Time: Monday, December 2, 2024 - Friday, December 6, 2024, Time TBD
Location: Clemens 510, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
IDS and the Indigenous Student Collective (UBISC) will be presenting a series of events to assist students in destressing for finals. Events will include study groups, therapy dogs, food and more!
Sponsored by the Indigenous@UB Hub.
Date & Time: Thursday, December 5, 2024
Location: Student Union, Room 240, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
Tough Topics are a weekly open forum to discuss local, national, global and trending news of interest to students.
December is a month of many celebrations. How do different religious and cultural communities celebrate this time of year? Let’s learn how to be more inclusive in our holiday greetings!
For more information, please visit the UB Calendar Link.
Sponsored by the Intercultural and Diversity Center.
Date & Time: Monday, December 9, 2024, 4:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Harriman Hall Ballroom 105, South Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
Come celebrate the end of the semester with a Traditional Haudenosaunee Social Dance. For more information, please contact Aaron VanEvery, Community Outreach and Culture Programming Coordinator, at alv8@buffalo.edu.
Sponsored by the Intercultural and Diversity Center.
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: First and Third Monday of Each Month from 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Location: Zoom Webinar; Zoom ID: 834 2155 7387, https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83421557987
For more information please contact IHAWP Program Coordinator, Madison Tighe: mtighe@nacswny.org or (716) 349-8782.
Sponsored by New York State Department of Health/AIDS Institute.
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.