Friday, November 20 at 4:00 pm
UB Humanities Institute and Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center present
Join us for the inaugural Scholars@Hallwalls talk of the 2026-27 season! Complimentary beverages and light fare are served for a brief, pre-talk mingling session.
4:00pm | Mingling
4:15pm | Introductions and featured talk followed by Q + A
We hope you'll join us in-person for the good camraderie and conversation, but you can also join the livestream via the Hallwalls website.
Marisa Manheim is an interdisciplinary sustainability scientist interested in how bodily encounters with the environment can produce, contest, and reconfigure scientific, regulatory, and everyday knowledge of nature. Trained as an interaction designer, Manheim is committed to collaborative research that explores practical and creative ways of addressing societal problems. As Co-PI of the Urban Soil Co-lab at UB, she is currently undertaking a multi-pronged community-engaged research project on urban soil pollution in Buffalo. Her earlier work examined why households and organizations may hesitate to adopt recycled drinking water and circular sanitation systems, demonstrating how collaborative planning and hands-on experience can support more resilient water and food systems. Her research has been published in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Gastronomica, Health and Place, The Journal of the American Water Works Association, with forthcoming articles in Geography and Environment and Sustainability Science.