The Buffalo Humanities Festival will be held on September 26 and 27, 2014. The festival is modeled on very successful events held in Chicago and other cities; the plan is to make it an annual part of Buffalo’s cultural calendar.
The festival program committee is soliciting proposals relating to this year’s theme–“Migration Nation.” Presentations will be in a variety of formats—talks, roundtables, multimedia presentations, performances, etc. They should relate to the topic of migration in some way and should be designed for a diverse public audience.
The presentations will take place on Saturday September 27, at Buffalo State College. Other participating institutions are UB, Buffalo State, Niagara University, SUNY-Fredonia, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, and the Burchfield Penney Art Center. Each institution will have slots in the festival program.
If you’d like to offer a session—either alone or in collaboration with others–please contact Julie Gibert (gibert@canisius.edu), who is representing Canisius on the festival committee. A few sentences explaining your general topic and approach (talk? reading? roundtable? multimedia?) will suffice and are needed by Friday, February 14.
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Submitted by: Julie Gibert, associate professor, history
