West Africa’s engagement with the Atlantic world through slavery, legitimate commerce and colonialism shaped the demography of the African forced diaspora and transformed local gender ideologies.
The Louis P. Ciminelli Family Foundation has given $1 million to the UB School of Architecture and Planning to help build a brighter future for the school and its host communities.
Françoise Pfaff, a Fulbright scholar and pioneer of African American film studies, will visit the UB on April 19 to discuss the life and career of Ousmane Sembene, “the father of African cinema.”
The UB Department of Art will present “Art Talk Back: Race, Gender, Sexuality and Inclusion,” a collective conversation addressing questions of equity and inclusion on campus, April 14.
Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington Post editorial cartoonist Tom Toles is UB’s honored guest for this year’s Signature Series, an annual event celebrating UB’s legacy of innovation and distinction in arts and letters.
UB’s Gender Institute will present Gender Across Borders 2016 Forging Alliances/Vive les differences on April 8 at the South Lake Community Center on the university’s North Campus.