The second annual Buffalo Humanities Festival will be held on September 25 and 26, 2015.
A keynote talk by Jill Lepore will initiate a series of events on the theme of gender. Save the date then watch The Dome for further details, and consider incorporating the Festival’s events into your planning for the fall semester.
If your scholarly interests include a consideration of gender, please think about presenting. As a participating institution, Canisius will have two one-hour slots in the Saturday program, which will feature a variety of presentations. The Festival offers an opportunity to speak to an interested and diverse audience, and will provide an honorarium. The Festival aims to be a lively community event not a conventional conference. A range of formats is encouraged, from single speakers to debates to informal conversations and creative performances.
If you are interested, please send your idea by February 27 to Jen Desiderio (desider1@canisius.edu) or Julie Gibert (gibert@canisius.edu) who are representing Canisius on the Festival Steering Committee. We do not need a formal proposal right now—just a sentence or two describing your topic and format ideas. We will pass them on to the program committee, which will then select the speakers.
Gender Bender
Are we bound by gender? In a day and a half of presentations, performances and conversations, the 2015 Festival will attempt to answer that question by going beyond the traditional oppositions of male/female and gay/straight.
Some experts claim that we live in a “post-gender” era, with stay-at-home dads, female CEOs and transgendered characters on TV. Yet history, literature, music and the arts suggest that the story of gender is more complicated – and more interesting – than we often take it to be. Join us
for a festival of mind-bending ideas.
Submitted by: Julie Gibert, associate professor, History
