Date & Time: Friday, April 4, 2025, 11:30am - 1:15pm
Location: 107 Capen, the Colloquium Room, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
Join us on Friday, April 4, 2025 from 11:30am-1:15pm for lunch and a discussion on indigeneity and governance with UB professors Jorge Fabra-Zamora and Montgomery Hill. We will explore a range of issues related to how indigenous populations have defined and negotiated self-governance in the context of colonialism, neo-colonialism and globalization. Professors Fabra-Zamora and Hill will explore how Indigenous communities assert their political autonomy and rights within existing nation-state structures and re-centering Indigenous knowledge systems, legal traditions, and approaches to leadership.
For more information, please visit our Campus Community Conversation page. Space is limited, please click here to register.
Date & Time: Friday, April 25, 2025, 12:00 - 2:00pm
Location: 210 Student Union, Landmark Room, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
Join us on Friday, April 25, 2025 at 12:00pm for lunch and a discussion on Dr. Nathan H. Lents' book The Sexual Evolution. In The Sexual Evolution, Lents takes readers on a journey through the animal world, from insects to apes, revealing what the incredible array of sexual diversity can teach us about our own diverse beauty. Nature, it turns out, has made a lot of space for diverse genders and sexual behaviors. And why? Because when it comes to evolution—diversity wins. This is not just a political or social message, instead it’s a biological reality revealed through careful scientific study.
For more information, please visit our Campus Community Conversation page. Space is limited, please click here to register.
Date & Time: Wednesdays, 3:00pm - 4:00pm, through May 7, 2025
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.
These BIPOC Drop-In groups will take place weekly every Wednesday in 240 Student Union, unless otherwise stated.
For more information on how to join, please e-mail Frankie Kraft, frankie@buffalo.edu.
Sponsored by: Counseling Services and 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 second 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 or to register, 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
Location: Zoom Webinar
Intended Audience: Open Event
UB SON’s Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee Presents: A Panel Series–Minding the Gaps: Dialogues on Disparities
Each session includes panel discussions, interactive breakout rooms and Q&A sessions.
For more information, please contact Candida Davis at cldavis5@buffalo.edu or visit the UB Calendar Link.
Sponsored by: UB School of Nursing.
Date & Time: Monday, March 24, 2025, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location: Room 240, Student Union
Intended Audience: Open Event
In this age of digital technology, social media has become a widely used platform for activism. How does social media help or harm activist movements? Is social media always performative or ineffective? For more information or to register, please visit the UB Calendar link.
Sponsored by: Intercultural and Diversity Center.
Date & Time: Tuesday, March 25, 2025, 2:00 pm
Location: 107 Capen Hall
Intended Audience: Open Event
Join us for a powerful and inspiring talk by Dr. Jake Newsome, historian and author, as he explores the history of the pink triangle—from a Nazi concentration camp badge to an enduring symbol of LGBTQ+ pride, liberation, and community.
Through unexplored archival sources and original interviews, Dr. Newsome highlights the voices of LGBTQ+ Holocaust victims and the individuals who reclaimed the pink triangle as a beacon of resilience and activism in the post-Holocaust world.
For more information, please visit the Department of History’s website.
Sponsored by: the Department of History and the Digital Humanities Research Workshop.
Date & Time: Tuesday, March 25, 2025, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location: Email for location
Intended Audience: Open Event
The Banned Book Club aims to expose our UB community to LGBTQ+ literature and raise awareness about the ongoing attempts to ban or challenge certain books from schools and public libraries. It’s a platform for fostering open dialogue and critical thinking about literature that challenges societal norms and perspectives.
This spring, we will be reading "Gender Queer: A Memoir" by Maia Kobabe, a deeply moving graphic memoir that has sparked important conversations about identity and self-discovery. According to the American Library Association, 7 out of the 13 most challenged books in 2022 were targeted for their LGBTQ+ content. By engaging with works like this, we aim to create a space where students can explore diverse viewpoints and discuss the impact of censorship on freedom of expression.
PLEASE EMAIL US FOR THE LOCATION
For more information or to register, please visit the UB Linked Website.
Date & Time: Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Location: Room 145B, Student Union
Intended Audience: Open Event
Misinformation is nothing new. For as long as humans have communicated, they have also manipulated information and deceived others to gain power. Nevertheless, scholars, journalists and pundits have expressed a concern about humanity entering a new “Post-Truth” era, one driven by the collapse of truth and political turmoil. In this talk, Dr. Ophir argues that humans have never been motivated by accuracy, and that the current moment could be better explained by considering unprecedented technological and political developments.
For more information, contact Travis Eisele at teeisele@buffalo.edu or Derrick Gunter at dgunter@buffalo.edu.
Sponsored by the LGBTQ FSA, MSFA, and PSS Diversity and Inclusion Committee.
Date & Time: Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Location: Clemens 6th Floor, Food Sovereignty Kitchen
Intended Audience: UB graduate students whose research focuses on Indigenous Studies
Professional development workshop to demystify the funding and grantmaking process and their role in both building research projects.
Speakers: Meredith Palmer (Six Nations Tuscarora), Assistant Professor, Department of Indigenous Studies and Department of Geography; Kevin Lee (Chamoru), Assistant Professor, Department of Indigenous Studies
Sponsored by: Department of Indigenous Studies.
Date & Time: Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Location: 205 Capen Hall
Intended Audience: Open Event
Join the Pink Triangle Legacies Project for a workshop exploring the transformation of an academic monograph into a digital public history project. Attendees will learn about navigating the challenges and opportunities of using digital history to restore LGBTQ+ voices to historical narratives, foster community, and combat homophobia and transphobia today.
Featured speakers: Dr. Jake Newsome and Grace Shaffer
For more information, please visit the Department of History’s website.
Sponsored by: the Department of History and the Digital Humanities Research Workshop.
Date & Time: Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Room 240, Student Union
Intended Audience: Open Event
Join us in celebrating the breaking of fast, Iftar Celebration, during the Islamic Holy month of Ramadan in the IDC!
For more information or to register, please visit the UB Linked Website.
Sponsored by: the Intercultural and Diversity Center.
Date & Time: Thursday, March 27, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: Zoom Webinar
Intended Audience: Open Event
Feminist Research Alliance with Kevin Lujan Lee (Chamoru), Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies, University at Buffalo and Josh Campbell, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, UCLA.
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 UB Calendar link.
Sponsored by: UB Gender Institute.
Date & Time: Thursday, March 27, 2025, 2:00pm - 4:30pm
Location: 107 Capen Hall, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
Join us for an insightful lecture by Dr. V. P. Franklin, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Riverside, as he explores the historical and contemporary struggles for reparations and reparatory justice. Dr. Franklin will examine the evolution of the reparations movement, the challenges faced, and the future of justice for African Americans and other historically marginalized communities.
REGISTER AT: go.buffalo.edu/franklin. Can’t make it in person? Livestream the event on Zoom at go.buffalo.edu/aaszoom
Sponsored by: The Department of Africana and American Studies.
Date & Time: Thursday, March 27, 2025, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: Room 240, Student Union
Intended Audience: Open Event
Join us bi-weekly for Taste Thursdays — where we provide a chance to learn from one another and understand the cultural differences and similarities through food. Each Taste Thursday has the goal of promoting inclusion and belonging as we highlight local culturally owned businesses and UB student organizations with the goal of celebrating some of the best cuisines that Buffalo has to offer. This week we are highlighting the Dominican community, Food and Culture. Join us and come get the experience. For more information or to register, please visit the UB Calendar link.
Sponsored by: Intercultural and Diversity Center.
Date & Time: Monday, March 31, 2025, 10:00am - 3:00pm
Location: Lobby, Student Union
Intended Audience: Open Event
Join us as we highlight and celebrate the existence and contributions of Trans-people, a historically marginalized group that has heavily contributed to the diversification of society.
Students can visit the Intercultural and Diversity Center for Trans-Pride Swag and additional information on local LGBTQ+ resources. For more information or to register, please visit the UB Calendar link.
Sponsored by: Intercultural and Diversity Center.
Date & Time: Monday, March 31, 2025, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location: Room 240, Student Union
Intended Audience: Open Event
April is Autism Awareness month and a time we celebrate Pride in UB. Join our discussion on the intersectional experiences of queer neurodivergent people. Together, we can broaden our ideas about “queerness” as it relates to our abilities and gender. For more information or to register, please visit the UB Calendar link.
Sponsored by: Intercultural and Diversity Center.
Date & Time: Tuesday, April 1, 2025, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location: 509 O’Brian Hall, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
Join us for the presentation, "Global Governance and Educational Change: A Look Towards the Future", by Karen Mundy (University of Toronto). This talk will focus on understanding how larger global challenges and the practices of international actors shape educational change.
For more information, please visit https://www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/events.host.html/content/shared/www/baldycenter/modules/mundy.detail.html.
Sponsored by: the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy.
Date & Time: Thursday, April 3, 2025, 8:30am - 3:30pm
Location: 10 Capen Hall, Buffalo Room, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
This symposium addresses the human rights implications raised by the current conflict between Israel, Hamas and Hezbollah. It will examine the limitations of the international system that has sustained the conflict. We ask what alternative configurations can be imagined to secure political and human rights for both Israelis and Palestinians?
For more information or to register for in-person or virtual symposium, please email dussourd@buffalo.edu or https://www.alisondesforges.org/upcoming-events/2025/2/10/israel-and-palestine-human-rights-and-configurations-for-the-future.
Sponsored by: Alison Des Forges Memorial Committee; Muslim Public Affairs Council of Western New York; University at Buffalo: Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy; Departments of Comparative Literature, Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, History, and Political Science; Gender Institute; Humanities Institute; James Agee Chair in American Culture; Office of the Vice Provost for International Education; School of Public Health and Health Professions.
Date & Time: Friday, April 4, 2025, 12:00pm: reception; 12:30pm: presentation
Location: 509 O'Brian Hall
Intended Audience: Open Event
The Baldy Center proudly sponsors a variety of speakers each year who share presentations of their ongoing work on important topics in law and society. The speakers provide an important catalyst for research and dialogue in The Baldy Center community.
Speaker: Stephanie Plamondon (Brigham Young University Professor of Law)
For more information, please visit: https://www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/events/speakers.html.
Sponsored by: The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy.
Date & Time: Friday, April 4, 2025, 3:00pm - 5:00 pm
Location: Room 240, Student Union
Intended Audience: Open Event
Join us in the IDC as we enjoy tasty treats inspired by AAPI culture! Stop by and learn about influential AAPI figures and historical events that shaped history. For more information or to register, please visit the UB Calendar link.
Sponsored by: Intercultural and Diversity Center.
Date & Time: Saturday, April 5, 2025, 8:30 am – 8:00 pm
Location: Niagara Falls Convention Center, Niagara Falls, NY
Intended Audience: Public
The 2025 Storytellers Conference highlights research and educational initiatives that relate Indigenous knowledge, histories, and experiences through artistic and literary practices, and through language-based and action-oriented approaches. We are interested in submissions that foreground the creative production of more accurate and meaningful narratives about Indigenous lives, responsibilities, and relations. We hope you will join us as we gather to learn about each other’s work. We welcome submissions on projects large and small as we come together in unity to support our collective commitment to our people.
Keynote Address: Jolene Rickard (Tuscarora, Turtle Clan), Artist and Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Studies, Cornell University
John Mohawk Legacy Address: UB Haudenosaunee Archive, Resource and Knowledge (H.A.R.K.) Team
Registration information is forthcoming; please contact indigenous-studies@buffalo.edu for updates.
Sponsored by: Indigenous@UB Hub and the Department of Indigenous Studies.
Date & Time: Monday, April 7, 2025, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location: Room 240, Student Union
Intended Audience: Open Event
How has LGBTQ+ culture been appropriated by companies and political bodies that harm queer communities? What is the difference between Pinkwashing and genuine queer allyship and activism? Let’s talk about what true pride is really about. For more information or to register, please visit the UB Calendar link.
Sponsored by: Intercultural and Diversity Center.
Date & Time: Monday, April 7, 2025, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Room 240, Student Union
Intended Audience: Open Event
Unleash your inner artist in the spirit of pride. Whether you’re a seasoned artist or a beginner.
Light refreshments, snacks, and painting supplies will be provided. Grab a friend and come on down. Supplies are limited. For more information or to register, please visit the UB Calendar link.
Sponsored by: Intercultural and Diversity Center.
Date & Time: Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 2:45pm - 3:30pm
Location: Capen Hall, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
March to celebrate your identity, support your peers, and honor the history of LGBTQ+ activists who paved the way for the community today.
The mixer will immediately follow the march in the progress pride pathways. For more information or to register, please visit the UB Calendar link.
Sponsored by: Intercultural and Diversity Center.
Date & Time: Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Location: Student Union Courtyard/Progress Pride Pathways, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
Join our Annual Pride celebration as we journey to the Pride Carnival, which includes a live DJ and performances from some of WNY's best local talent. Complete with refreshments, vendors, tabling, and activities! For more information or to register, please visit the UB Calendar link.
*In case of inclement weather, the mixer will be moved to Student Union 145 A - E*
Sponsored by: Intercultural and Diversity Center.
Date & Time: Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Location: Clemens 6th Floor, Food Sovereignty Kitchen
Intended Audience: Open Event
Professional development workshop to address some of the fundamentals of navigating academic publics, and the range of conferences, professional associations, workshops, and other academic groups that constitute them.
Speakers: Mishuana Goeman (Tonawanda Band of Seneca), Professor, Department of Indigenous Studies; Meredith Palmer (Six Nations Tuscarora), Assistant Professor, Department of Indigenous Studies and Department of Geography; Shannon Seneca (Six Nations Mohawk), Assistant Professor, Department of Indigenous Studies
Reach out to leekl@buffalo.edu for more information.
Sponsored by: Department of Indigenous Studies.
Date & Time: Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Center for the Arts Atrium, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
A Gala that marries red carpet glamour, Queer visibility, and education, with a red carpet and Keynote plus panel discussion, seeking to answer the question: Where did we come from, and where are we going?
This event includes a showcase of queer talent, as well as plated dinner, and requires an RSVP by March 15, 2025. For more information or to register, please visit the UB Calendar link.
Sponsored by: Intercultural and Diversity Center.
Date & Time: Friday, April 11, 2025, 7:30pm - 11:30pm
Location: Center for the Arts-Atrium, North Campus
Intended Audience: Open Event
Queer Prom concludes UB Pride Week 2025! Dance the night away with food and refreshments in your fanciest outfits. Featuring a live DJ and a photographer to capture your prom photos. For more information or to register, please visit the UB Calendar link.
*Photos will only be taken during the first two hours of the event.
Sponsored by: Intercultural and Diversity Center.
Date & Time: Saturday, April 12, 2025, 7:30pm
Location: Room 240, Student Union
Intended Audience: Open Event
Comedian Tina Friml will perform her stand up comedy show live at UB on Saturday, April 12. Tickets are FREE, but must be reserved.
For more information or to register, please visit the Student Life Website.
Sponsored by: Accessibility Resources.
Date & Time: Monday, April 14, 2025, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location: Room 240, Student Union
Intended Audience: Open Event
As we celebrate World Earth Day, we reflect on communities that are most vulnerable to the climate crisis. How are queer liberation and environmental movements connected? Join this discussion on the intersection of social justice and climate justice. For more information or to register, please visit the UB Calendar link.
Sponsored by: Intercultural and Diversity Center.
Date & Time: Monday, April 14, 2025, 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Location: Room 240, Student Union or Zoom Webinar
Intended Audience: Open Event
Join Accessibility Resources and the Intercultural and Diversity Center to go over a couple chapters of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha each session. We will be focusing on chapters that entail information about disability justice, community building, and care work centering disabled, queer, trans, black, indigenous, and/or people of color. This week's session will cover chapters 5 and 8. Drinks will be provided. This is a hybrid event. To register, please visit UBLinked.
Sponsored by: Accessibility Resources and Intercultural and Diversity Center.
Date & Time: Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Location: Clemens 6th Floor, Social Room
Intended Audience: UB students
Teaching Social Dances, meanings and protocols.
Speaker: Aaron VanEvery, Cayuga Nation, Wolf Clan, Community Outreach Coordinator, Indigenous@UB HUB
Register by sending an email to indigenous-studies@buffalo.edu.
Sponsored by: Indigenous@UB Hub.
Date & Time: Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Location: Clemens 6th Floor, Social Room
Intended Audience: UB graduate students whose research focuses on Indigenous Studies
IDS graduate student-led seminars featuring external Indigenous scholar guests to discuss their works and career trajectories.
Reach out to leekl@buffalo.edu for more information.
Sponsored by: Department of Indigenous Studies.
Date & Time: Thursday, April 17, 2025, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: Room 240, Student Union
Intended Audience: Open Event
Join us bi-weekly for Taste Thursdays — where we provide a chance to learn from one another and understand the cultural differences and similarities through food. Each Taste Thursday has the goal of promoting inclusion and belonging as we highlight local culturally owned businesses and UB student organizations with the goal of celebrating some of the best cuisines that Buffalo has to offer. For more information or to register, please visit the UB Calendar link.
This week we are highlighting the Thai community, Food and Culture. Join us and come get the experience. Food provided by Roma Thai.
Sponsored by: Intercultural and Diversity Center.
Date & Time: Monday, April 21, 2025, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location: Room 240, Student Union
Intended Audience: Open Event
Arab, Asian, and other communities with international backgrounds continue to face discrimination for being “un-American”. Why are people so afraid of foreign cultures? How can we be more accepting of people from cultures different from our own? For more information or to register, please visit the UB Calendar link.
Sponsored by: Intercultural and Diversity Center.
Date & Time: Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Location: Clemens 6th Floor, Social Room
Intended Audience: UB students, faculty, and staff
Our purpose is to establish an ongoing dialogical space on our campus where UB community members who focus on Indigenous issues can share ideas on various topics in an environment that values Indigenous knowledge.
Speaker: Aaron VanEvery, Cayuga Nation, Wolf Clan, Community Outreach Coordinator, Indigenous@UB HUB
No registration required.
Sponsored by: Indigenous@UB Hub.
Date & Time: Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Location: Clemens 6th Floor, Food Sovereignty Kitchen
Intended Audience: Open Event
Professional development workshop to collectively review our CVs, discuss how we might frame the trickier parts of being an academic with relational accountabilities to Indigenous place—both within and beyond our own home nations.
Speakers: Mishuana Goeman (Tonawanda Band of Seneca), Professor, Department of Indigenous Studies; Kevin Lee (Chamoru), Assistant Professor, Department of Indigenous Studies
Reach out to leekl@buffalo.edu for more information.
Sponsored by: Department of Indigenous Studies.
Date & Time: Monday, April 28, 2025, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location: Room 240, Student Union
Intended Audience: Open Event
Queer POC have always faced challenges in navigating their gender and sexuality within their communities. How do Asian communities celebrate or repress queerness? How do we reconcile our culture with our LGBTQ+ identities? For more information or to register, please visit the UB Calendar link.
Sponsored by: Intercultural and Diversity Center, in collaboration with Asia Research Institute.
Date & Time: Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Room 240, Student Union
Intended Audience: Open Event
Kick off Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with our monthly mixer. This event aims to connect students, faculty, and staff across campus. We will celebrate AAPI Month through cultural music, food, and fun activities. For more information or to register, please visit the UB Calendar link.
Sponsored by: Intercultural and Diversity Center.
Date & Time: Thursday, May 1, 2025, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Room 240, Student Union
Intended Audience: Open Event
Celebrate black history month with the IDC with movie night! Snacks and refreshments will be provided!
About Ponyo: During a forbidden excursion to see the surface world, a goldfish princess encounters a human boy named Sosuke, who gives her the name Ponyo. Ponyo longs to become human, and as her friendship with Sosuke grows, she becomes more humanlike. Ponyo's father brings her back to their ocean kingdom, but so strong is Ponyo's wish to live on the surface that she breaks free, and in the process, spills a collection of magical elixirs that endanger Sosuke's village. For more information or to register, please visit the UB Calendar link.
Sponsored by: Intercultural and Diversity Center.
Date & Time: Friday, May 2, 2025, 11:00 am – 11:50 am
Location: Clemens Hall 6th Floor, Social Room
Intended Audience: Open Event
Join the IDS 101: Intro to Indigenous Studies as we teach Social Dances, meanings and protocols.
Speaker: Aaron VanEvery, Cayuga Nation, Wolf Clan, Community Outreach Coordinator, Indigenous@UB HUB.
Register by sending an email to indigenous-studies@buffalo.edu.
Sponsored by: Indigenous@UB Hub.
Date & Time: Saturday, May 3, 2025, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Location: Harriman Hall Ballroom, South Campus
Intended Audience: Public
Come celebrate our graduates while enjoying some food and social dancing. No registration required.
Sponsored by: Department of Indigenous Studies and Indigenous@UB Hub .
Date & Time: Friday, May 2, 2025, 3:30pm
Location: Buffalo Room, Capen 10
Intended Audience: Open Event
Lecturer: Dr. Ayesha Khurshid, Associate Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Florida State University
Title: Education, Gender, and Muslim Womanhood: Ethnographies of a Punjabi Muslim Community from Pakistan and a Maya Muslim Community from Mexico
Muslim womanhood continues to be an ideological battleground for different political, social, and religious movements not only in Muslim countries but also in different Western contexts. The educational level of Muslim women is often mobilized as a measure to determine the “progress” of Muslim communities. This presentation examines how Muslim women from two different geographical, national, and cultural sites, a rural Punjabi Muslim community in Pakistan and an Indigenous Maya Muslim community in Mexico, make sense of and perform what it means to be educated Muslim women in their specific contexts. Though focusing on lived experiences, it highlights how the hybridity of the cultural and Islamic identities of these two groups of women, as well as their connections with their environment, shape the nature, value, and relevance of education for them. This presentation invites educational scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to explore the conceptual and methodological approaches, especially decolonizing methodologies, needed to engage with the multidimensional and context-specific identities of people who often become subjects of national and international educational reforms.
To register, please click here.
Sponsored by: the Graduate School of Education and the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Date & Time: Monday, May 5, 2025, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location: Room 240, Student Union
Intended Audience: Open Event
Mental health is a taboo topic for AAPIDA communities, especially as generational trauma persists in many families. How can we de-stigmatize mental health struggles rooted in our culture and histories? Join us in this discussion on intergenerational trauma.
Sponsored by: Intercultural and Diversity Center, in collaboration with Counseling Services.
Date & Time: Monday, May 5, 2025, 5:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Room 240, Student Union
Intended Audience: Open Event
Let's connect with one another as we finish this spring semester strong. These study spaces are designed to provide safe, community spaces, with lots of snacks for you to study. So, grab your squad and join us for our end of semester study sessions! For more information or to register, please visit the UB Calendar link.
Sponsored by: Intercultural and Diversity Center
Date & Time: Friday, May 9, 2025, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location: UB North Campus, Center for the Arts Drama Theater
Intended Audience: Open Event
The Lavender Ceremony and Reception welcomes all graduating members of the UB LGBTQ+ Community from all majors, all levels of education, in various programs and from various backgrounds.
Recognizing the challenges many LGBTQ+ students face on their journey to graduation, the Lavender ceremony provides the opportunity for graduating students, family, friends, faculty, administrators, peers, allies, and supporters to embrace each student as they celebrate graduating at UB. During the Lavender ceremony, graduates receive a rainbow tassel, lavender plant, and a lavender UB pin.
For more information or to register, please visit the Student Life Website.
Sponsored by: Intercultural and Diversity Center.
Date & Time: Thursday, May 15, 2025, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: UB North Campus, Center for the Arts
Intended Audience: Open Event
At the conclusion of each academic year, the Intercultural and Diversity Center hosts the ALANA (African, Latinx, Asian, and Native American) Celebration of Achievement, a pre-commencement ceremony honoring the achievements of those students who have successfully completed an undergraduate or graduate/professional degree from the University at Buffalo.
The ALANA celebration is an intimate ceremony open to all students, centering around the shared experiences of historically racially underrepresented cultures and includes a Kente Stole to be worn during the ceremony.
For more information or to register, please visit the Student Life Website.
Sponsored by: 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: Intercultural and Diversity Center
Date & Time: Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 9:30am - 4:30pm
Location: Zoom Webinar
Intended Audience: Open Event
Both training sessions will include a screening of two very powerful documentaries on historical traumas impacting Indigenous peoples. On Monday, March 17, we will show the “Doctrine of Discovery” documentary which provides an Indigenous perspective of world and US history. On Wednesday, March 26, we will show the “Unseen Tears” about residential boarding schools. Both documentaries provide very impactful,stark examples of trauma, violence, and loss of life. Understanding how these traumas continue to impact Native peoples can help us all develop more effective methods, approaches, and programs to support Native health and wellbeing. Self-care and debriefing activities will be held in both sessions.
For more information, please contact Pete Hill at phill@nacswny.org or 716-574-8981. Please register by March 21 by visiting this link.
Sponsored by: NACS' Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Promotion (IHAWP) Program which is funded by the 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.