Fall 2015 Events
Thursday, 3 September – 3:00 pm
Power Hall, Florida Museum of Natural History
Historical Ecology and Archaeology in the Galápagos Islands
Peter Stahl (University of Victoria)
Friday, 4 September – 3:00 pm
Turlington Hall 1208
Efficacious Objects and Improvisational Practice: Exploring “Ornaments” and their Depositional Contexts in Banda, GhanaAnn B. Stahl (University of Victoria)
Thursday, 10 September – Wednesday, 30 September
Locations Vary
11th Annual Gainesville Latino Film Festival
Saturday, 19 September – 9:00am- 3:00 pm
Ustler Hall
The Role of Islamic Bioethics & Spirituality in Contemporary Medicine
The Center for Global Islamic Studies
Friday, 25 September – 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
2015-2016 Fellowship Brown-Bag Series: Rothman Doctoral Fellow
Orosius to Fructuosus: Bishops and Community in Northwestern Hispania
Rebecca Devlin (Department of History)
Sunday, 27 September – 2:30 pm
Alachua County Headquarters Library
Ilyasah Shabazz (author of Growing Up X)
Monday, 28 September – 3:00 pm
Pugh Hall Ocora
Ilyasah Shabazz (author of Growing Up X)
Tuesday, 29 September – 2:00 – 4:00 pm
Smathers Library (East) 100
Graduate Certificate Meet and Greet
Tuesday, 29 September – 5:00 -7:00 pm
Friends of Music Room, University Auditorium
Samuel’s State in Byzantine Ideology: Basil II and the Construction of Identity
Mitko B. Panov
Thursday, 1 October – 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Smathers Library (East) 100
The Legendary Struggle Between Basil II and Samuel: Blinding the Medieval Past in the Balkans
Mitko B. Panov
Tuesday, 6 October – 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
2015-2016 Fellowship Brown-Bag Series: Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow
Men’s Cosmetics in Plato and Xenophon
Velvet Yates (Department of Classics)
Wednesday, 7 October – 12:30 – 1:30 pm
Smathers Library (East) 104
2015-2016 Humanities Grant-and-Fellowship-Writing Series
Research and Study in Germany: How to Apply for Funding from the DAAD
Michael Schuering (Department of History)
Thursday, 8 October – 4:30 – 5:30 pm
Gerson Hall 126
The Long Reach of Early Childhood: Biological and Environmental Influences
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn (Columbia University)
Thursday, 8 October – 6:00 pm
Pugh Hall Ocora
My Perestroika
A Film by Robin Hessman
Friday October 9– Saturday, October 10
Smathers Library 100
Imagining Climate Change: Science and Fiction in Dialogue
Fall 2015 Colloquium
Monday, 19 October – 4:05 – 5:10 pm
CSE E221
Two is Better than One: How Bilingualism Can Contribute to Grammar Theory
Kay Gonzalez Vilbazo
Monday, 20 October – 3:30 pm
Ustler Hall Atrium
The Tolerance Trap: How God, Genes and Good Intentions are Sabotaging Gay Equality
Suzanna Walters (Northeastern University)
Wednesday, 21 October – 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
2015-2016 Fellowship Brown-Bag Series: Rothman Doctoral Fellow
Trans-Border Linguistic Citizenship: The Pulaar Movement in Senegal and Mauritania
John Hames (Department of Anthropology)
Monday, 26 October – 12:00 – 2:00 pm
Marston Science Library (L136)
2015-2016 Humanities Grant-and-Fellowship-Writing Series
Writing Social Justice: How to Apply to the Ford Foundation
Justin Dunnavant and Justin Hosbey (Department of Anthropology)
Wednesday, 28 October – 1:00 – 2:00 pm
Marston Science Library (L136)
Digital Humanities Working Group Meet-Up
Making in the Humanities: Makerspaces and Interdisciplinary Initiatives
Sara Gonzalez (Marston Science Library)
Monday, November 2 – 7:30 pm
University Auditorium
The Work of Imagining
Timothy Eatman and Scott Peters (Co-Directors, Imagining America)
Tuesday, 10 November – 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
2015-2016 Fellowship Brown-Bag Series: Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow
Precipitating Infrastructure: the Sensory and Material Tetherings of River crossings in postwar Peru
Richard Kernaghan (Department of Anthropology)
Thursday, 12 November – 12:00 – 1:30
Marston Science Library (L136)
2015-2016 Humanities Grant-and-Fellowship-Writing Series
What is Your Budget IQ? How to Develop Budgets for Fundable Humanities Fellowship and Grant Proposals
Bess de Farber (Smathers Libraries)
Friday, 13 November – 1:00 – 2:00 pm
Library West 212, Scott Nygren Studio
Digital Humanities Working Group Meet-Up
Introducing UF’s New Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate
Elizabeth Dale (Department of History)
Monday, 16 November – 1:00 – 2:00 pm
Library West 212, Scott Nygren Studio
Digital Humanities Working Group Meet-Up
Google Muscial Scores without Google
Julie E. Cumming (McGill University)
Friday, 20 November – 4:05 pm
Pugh Hall 120
Examining the Relation Between Production Patterns and Comprehension Costs with Code-Switched Language
Rosa Guzzardo-Tamargo (University of Puerto Rico)
Tuesday, 17 November – 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
2015-2016 Fellowship Brown-Bag Series: Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow
Being the Change: Food, Sustainability and Community
Whitney Sanford (Department of Religion)
Tuesday, 1 December – 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
2015-2016 Fellowship Brown-Bag Series: Tedder Doctoral Fellow
African Americans and Police in the Jim Crow South: An Analysis of Grand Jury Records for Jefferson County, Alabama, 1920-1932
Brandon Jett (Department of History)
Thursday, 3 December – 7:00 pm
Fine Arts Building B, Room 103
Meaningful Object: Artist’s Talk
Jiha Moon
Friday, 4 December – 3:00 pm
Turlington Hall 1208
The Political Ecology of Water and Enslavement on Caribbean Plantations
Mark Hauser (Northwestern University)
Friday, 11 December – 2:00 – 5:00 pm
Pugh 120
2015-2016 Humanities Grant-and-Fellowship Writing Series
Writing for the Public: How to Do It and Why It’s Important
Sean Trainor (Santa Fe College)
Wednesday, 16 December – 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
IDEA Marketplace: Collaborative Creativity: The Art of Giving to Get
Saturday, 19 December
Proposals Due: Winter 2015 Humanities Grant/Fellowship Proposal Review
RSVP to skacord@ufl.edu by 12 December 2015 to participate
Monday, 21 December – 1:00 – 2:30 pm
Library West 212, Scott Nygren Studio
Digital Humanities Working Group Meet-Up
Lowcountry Digital History Initiative (LDHI) at the College of Charelston
Amanda Noll (College of Charelston)
Spring 2016 Events
Saturday, 9 January – 2:30 pm
Alachua County Library District Headquarters Branch
Imagining Florida: The Place We Call Home
A Conversation on Writing with Award-Winning Gainesville Author Lauren Groff
Wednesday, 13 January – 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
2015-2016 Fellowship Brown-Bag Series: Tedder Doctoral Fellow
Cosmopolitan Culture in Boccherini’s Madrid, 1785-1800
Michael Vincent (School of Music)
Thursday – Sunday, 14 – 17 January
Religion, Science, and the Future: Annual Conference
International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture
Friday, 22 January – 4:00 – 5:00 pm
REVE Facility
Digital Humanities Working Group Meet-Up
Sunday, 24 January – 8:00 – 5:00 pm
Pugh Hall Ocora
Flint 50
Career Symposium for Graduate Students Interested in Non-Academic Jobs
Thursday – Friday, 28 – 29 January
Smathers Library
Thursday, 4 February – 1:00 – 2:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
2015-2016 Fellowship Brown-Bag Series: Rothman Doctoral Fellowship
Constructing Royal Power: Host Desecration and Kingship in the Fourteenth-Century Crown of Aragon
Alana Lord (Department of History)
Sunday, 7 February – 1:00 – 6:00 pm
Thomas Center
Public Symposium: Modern Architecture as Place-Making in Florida
Monday, 8 February – 11:30 – 1:00 pm
Keene-Flint 05
2015-2016 Humanities Grant-and-Fellowship-Writing Series
The Florida Humanities Council and the Public Square
Diane Wakeman (Florida Humanities Council)
Monday, 8 February – 4:00 pm
Judaica Suite (Special Collections, Library East)
Olive Senior: A Reading and Conversation
Wednesday, 10 February – 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
2015-2016 Fellowship Brown-Bag Series: Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship
STILL ICE
Stephanie Smith (Department of English)
Thursday, 11 February – 12:00 pm
Keene-Flint 05
Mediterranean Crosscurrents in Juan Latino’s Song of John of Austria
Elizabeth Wright (University of Georgia)
Monday, 15 February – 11:30 – 2:00 pm
Marston Visualization Lab (L136)
2015-2016 Humanities Grant-and-Fellowship-Writing Series
Finding Your Way Through Fulbright
Maria Gahan (Fulbright Program Officer)
Wednesday, 17 February – Thursday, 18 February
Smathers Library 100
Imagining Climate Change: Science and Fiction in Dialogue
Spring 2016 Colloquium
Wednesday, 17 February – Thursday, 18 February
Pugh Hall Ocora
An Assessment of the Obama Presidency: A Two-Day Symposium
Michael Jefferies (Wellesley College) & Fredrick Harris (Columbia University)
Thursday, 18 February – 8:30 – 5:00 pm
University of Central Florida, John C. Hitt Library
Thursday, 18 February – 3:00 pm Canceled
Dauer 215
My Soul Is in Haiti: An Anthropologist’s Study of Protestant Culture
Bertin M. Louis, Jr. (University of Tennesee)
Friday, 19 February – 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Keene-Flint 05
2015-2016 Humanities Grant-and-Fellowship-Writing Series
Professionalization in the Humanities: A Workshop on Grants, Jobs, and Teaching
Gary Gallagher (University of Virginia)
Monday, 22 February – 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Dauer 219
The Aesthetic Turn
Mark Taylor (Columbia University)
Tuesday, 23 February – 6:00 – 8:00 pm
First United Methodist Church
The Crossroads Project: Rising Tide
Wednesday, 24 February – 3:30 pm
Santa Fe Campus, Lawrence W. Tyree Library
Imagining Florida: The Place We Call Home\
Thursday, 3 March – Saturday, 5 March
University of Florida Hilton Hotel and Conference Center
Language Variation Within and Across Speakers
Special session of the 29th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing
Tuesday, 8 March – 1:00 – 2:00 pm
Library West 212, Scott Nygren Studio
Digital Humanities Working Group Meet-Up
TRACE Innovation Initiative
Sid Dobrin (Department of English)
Wednesday, 9 March – 8:30 – 5:00 pm
Judaica Suite in Smathers Library
Jewish-Muslim Relations: Boundaries and Transgressions
Thursday, 10 March – 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
2015-2016 Fellowship Brown-Bag Series: Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship
Obdurate Space: Architecture of Donald Judd
Donna Cohen (School of Architecture)
Sunday, 13 March – 3:00 pm
Smathers Library East (100)
Imagining Florida: The Place We Call Home
Talking Objects, Global Voices: Collecting Florida Treasures with UF Curators
Suzan Alteri, Katalin Rac, Florence Turcotte, Margarita Vargas-Betancourt (Smathers Libraries, Special Collections)
Friday, 18 March – 4:05 pm
CSE E119
Proficiency, fluency, and verbosity: A usage based study of bilingual children’s speech
Jenny Dumont (Gettysburg College)
Saturday, 19 March – 8:00 am
University of Florida Auditorium
Pushing Boundaries: Extending Reach and Amplifying Voice
2016 Conference of the Florida Society of the Social Sciences
Keynote: Patricia Hill-Collins (University of Maryland)
Thursday, 24 March – 1:00 – 2:00 pm
Library West 212, Scott Nygren Studio
Digital Humanities Working Group Meet-Up
Tenure & Promotion: Evaluating, Validating, and Assessment
Laurie Taylor (Digital Scholarship Librarian) and Bonnie Moradi (Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research)
Thursday, 24 March – 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Dauer Hall 219
Eccentric Dickens
Peter Logan (Temple University)
Thursday, 24 March – 5:10 – 6:30 pm
Latin American and Caribbean Collection, Smathers Library (East)
Reporting on the Bishop Gerardi, Heavens and Ayotzinapa Cases in Guatemala and Mexico, and Some of the Lessons Taken
Francisco Goldman (Trinity College)
Friday, 25 March – 2:00 – 3:00 pm
Library West 212, Scott Nygren Studio
Digital Humanities Working Group Meet-Up
Encyclopedic Time Workshop
Peter Logan (Temple University)
Monday, 28 March – 10:00 – 11:30 am
UFII Conference Room, CISE Building E252
Research Data Curation at Scale
Sayeed Choudhury (Johns Hopkins University)
Tuesday, 29 March – 12:00 – 5:00 pm
Religious Conversions: A Workshop
Friday, 1 April – 3:30 pm
Marston Science Library (L136)
New Perspectives on Medieval Archaeology: A Mini-Conference
Monday-Tuesday, 4-5 April
Friday, 1 April – 1:00 – 2:00 pm Canceled
Library West 429
Digital Humanities Working Group Meet-Up
HASTAC
Anthony Kolenic (College of the Arts)
Thursday, 7 April – 6:00 pm
Matheson History Museum
Imagining Florida: The Place We Call Home
Dream Fruit for a Dream State, or When Alachua County Was a Citrus Power
Gary Mormino (Emeritus, University of South Florida)
Friday-Sunday, 8-10 April
Transnational Comics: Crossing Gutters, Transcending Boundaries
Monday, 11 April – 12:00 – 1:00 pm
McCarty Hall D 3042
2015-2016 Humanities Grant-and-Fellowship-Writing Series
An Introduction to Imagining America’s Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Fellowship
Brittany Farr (USC) & Lily Hodges (UC, Davis)
Thursday, 14 April – 2:00 – 3:00 pm
Library West 212, Scott Nygren Studio
Digital Humanities Working Group Meet-Up
The Promise and Peril of Digital Pedagogy: Two Case Studies
Sean Trainor (Department of History)
Thursday, 14 April – 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
2015-2016 Fellowship Brown-Bag Series: Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship
China in the Mix: Cinema, Popular Music, and Multilingualism in the Age of Globalization, 1984-2014
Ying Xiao (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)
Friday, 15 April – 2:30 pm
Dauer Hall 219
Postcolonial Thought & Social Theory
Julian Go (Boston University)
Friday, 22 April – 10:30 – 12:00 pm
Fine Arts C 102
2015-2016 Humanities Grant-and-Fellowship-Writing Series
Bridging Theory and Practice: Applying for the ACLS Public Fellows Program for Recent PhDs
Emily Dufton (Center for Public Integrity)
Saturday, 23 April – 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
Imagining Florida: The Place We Call Home
THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp)
Santa Fe College, Center for Innovation and Economic Development, 530 W. University Ave.
Summer 2016 Events
Thursday, 5 May – 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
The Phantom Public, The Haunted Audience: Finding “the Public” in the Federal Theatre Project’s Living Newspapers (1935-9)
Jordana Cox (Humanities Center)
Monday, 30 May – Sunday, 10 July
Various times and locations
Surviving & Thriving: AIDS, Politics, and Culture
Sunday-Saturday, 12-18 June
University of Florida
Humanities and the Sunshine State: (Re)Discovering Florida’s Waters
Monday-Friday, 20-24 June
University of Florida
What Sustains Us? Florida Ecosystems in an Era of Rapid Change
Saturday, 1 July
Proposals Due: Summer 2016 Humanities Grant/Fellowsip Proposal Review
RSVP to skacord@ufl.edu by 17 June 2016 to participate