The third annual Buffalo Humanities Festival will be held from September 22-24, 2016 and will feature a series of events on the themes of rebirth and renaissance. The keynote speaker will be Dava Sobel, a science writer and author of, among other books, Galileo’s Daughter and Longitude. For more information on her work, go to www.davasobel.com.
Sobel will speak at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery on Friday, September 23, and the full-day festival will be held on Saturday, September 24. As a participating institution, Canisius will have two, one-hour slots in the Saturday program, which will feature a variety of presentations. The festival aims to be a lively community event, not a conventional conference so a range of formats is encouraged from single speakers to debates to informal conversations and creative performances. If your interests and work include a consideration of rebirth and renaissance in all its varied formations, please think about presenting. The festival offers an opportunity to speak to a lively audience and will provide an honorarium.
If you are interested, please send your idea by March 4 to Jen Desiderio at desider1@canisius.edu or Julie Gibert at 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. Thank you for considering.
Submitted by: Julie Gibert, associate professor, history
