Fall 2013 Events
11 September 2013 – 5:30 pm
Smathers (Library East) 1A
“Civil” Society? On the Future Prospects of Meaningful Dialogue
Democracy and the Science Communication Environment
Dan Kahan (Yale University)
12 September- 13 October 2013
Harn Museum of Art Auditorium
9th Annual Gainesville Latino Film Festival
18 September 2013 – 4:00-5:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
2013-2014 Fellowship Brown Bag Series: Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow
Nymphs and Vampires: On Translating Leo Allatius
Robert S. Wagman (Department of Classics and Center for Greek Studies)
18 September- 5:30 pm
Grand Ballroom of the Reitz Union
Confronting History & the Good Life after Rosewood
Dr. David Colburn
25 September 2013 – 12:00-1:30 pm
Pugh Hall 210
Digital Humanities Working Group – Looking at the Humanities: Information and Visualization
01 October 2013 – 3:00-5:00pm
Harn Museum of Art, Chandler Auditorium
The Bombing of Poems: Art Events by the Group Casagrande
Dr. Cristobal Bianchi
03 October 2013 – 1:00pm
Plaza of the Americas
Tagged! Express Yourself: How Graffiti Provided a Voice to the Voiceless
Ricardo Nazario y Colón
10 October 2013 – 4:00-5:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
2013-2014 Fellowship Brown Bag Series: 2012-13 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow
Helping Hand or Hindrance? Can Outside Actors Build Support for Gay Rights in Postcommunist Europe?
Conor O’Dwyer (Department of Political Science)
15 October 2013 – 5:30 pm
Smathers (Library East) 1A
“Civil” Society? On the Future Prospects of Meaningful Dialogue
The Perennial Racial Divide: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Stephen Steinberg (Queens College, CUNY)
23 October 2013 – 12:00-1:30 pm
Pugh Hall 210
Digital Humanities Working Group: Looking at the Humanities: Information and Visualization
Thinking Visually: Seeing Information and Ideologies
24 October 2013 – 7:00pm
Smathers Library (East) 1A
From Conversation to Environmentalism
William Souder
29 October 2013 – 4:00-5:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
2013-2014 Fellowship Brown Bag Series: Rothman Doctoral Fellow
Listening to Heretical Voices: Philostorgius’s Vision of History
Anna Lankina (Department of History)
5 November 2013 – 6:00-9:00pm
Smathers Library (East) 1A
The Argentine Pope and the Future of Religion in Latin America
Daniel H. Levine (University of Michigan)
12 November 2013 – 5:30 pm
Smathers (Library East) 1A
“Civil” Society? On the Future Prospects of Meaningful Dialogue
The Fractured Teapot: Debating the Legacy of the Boston Tea Party
Benjamin Carp (Tufts University)
14 November 2013 – 4:00-5:00 pm
Walker Hall 200 Room Change: Grinter Hall 471
2013-2014 Fellowship Brown Bag Series: Tedder Doctoral Fellow
Toxic Treatment: The Wood-Preservation Industry and the Making of Superfund Sites
Nicole Cox (Department of History)
20 November 2013 – 12:00-1:30 pm
Pugh Hall 210
Digital Humanities Working Group: Looking at the Humanities: Information and Visualization
Diving Into Visualization: Tools for Research and Teaching
4 December 2013 – 6:00 pm
Civic Media Center
SPOHP in the Delta: 6th Annual Student Panel
Samuel Proctor Oral History Program
10 December 2013 – 8:30-11:30 am
UF/IFAS Straughn Extension Center
Building the NEH Grant Proposal – A Workshop with Dr. Robert Porter
Sponsored by the Office of Research
Proposals Due: Winter 2013 Proposal Review
RSVP to skacord@ufl.edu by 11 December 2013 to participate
Spring 2014 Events
14 January 2014 – 4:00-5:00 pm
Walker Hall 200 Room Change: Grinter Hall 471
2013-2014 Fellowship Brown Bag Series: Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow
‘And the World was Mended’: Seeking Homeland Security in Vergil’s Aeneid and Modern Fantasy Narratives
Jennifer Rea (Department of Classics)
15 January 2014 – 2:30 pm panel, screening 6:00pm
Ustler Hall Atrium (panel), Pugh Hall 170 (screening)
Panel and Screening of Trouble the Water
Tia Lessin (filmmaker)
21 January 2014 – 7:00 pm
Reitz Union Grand Ballroom
50 Years Forward
T.J. Holmes (journalist)
22 January 2014 – 12:00-1:30 pm
Dauer Hall 215
Digital Humanities Working Group
Online Courses and Re/Sources: A Conversation with Jane Landers (Vanderbilt University)
22 January 2014 – 2:30 pm
Smathers (Library East) 1A
Recovering Afro-Hispanic Lives from Spanish Colonial Records…and Making Them Available Digitally
Jane Landers (Vanderbilt University)
27 January 2014 – 11:45-1:40 pm
Daur 215
Rothman Distinguished Lecture Series (RSVP only)
Popular Sovereignty in Ancient Greek Philosophy? Aristotle on Rule as Control of Magistrates
Melissa Lane (Princeton University)
27 January 2014 – 5:30-7:30 pm
Reitz Union Ballroom
Sustainable Citizenship
Melissa Lane (Princeton University)
29 January 2014- Event Moved to April 14
Bridging Indigenous and Scientific Knowledges: Multicultural Solutions for Climate Change
Kyle Powys Whyte (Michigan State University)
5 February 2014 – 5:00-7:00 pm, (open house)
The Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention,
904 S Main St, Gainesville, FL 32608
Launch Reception: Programs in the Public Humanities
11 February 2014 – 4:00-5:00 pm
Grinter Hall 471
2013-2014 Fellowship Brown Bag Series: Tedder Doctoral Fellow
Western Shoshone Heritage and Pain: Representational Challenges of the Unspoken, the Understated, and the Confidential
Ryan Morini (Department of Anthropology)
14 February 2014
Pugh Hall 170
From Axis Mundi to Mappa Mundi: Sacred Bodies, Temples and Paper in Mesoamerican Religions
David Carrasco
15-16 February 2014
University of Central Florida
Florida THAT Camp
19 February 2014 – 5:30 pm
Hippodrome Theatre, Cinema (downtown Gainesville)
“Civil” Society? On the Future Prospects of Meaningful Dialogue
The Slow Murmur of Learning: Honoring Substance and Solitude in Education
Diana Senechal (Columbia Secondary School, NYC)
20 February 2014 – 4:05 pm
Little Hall, rm 207
Contact Linguistics at Narrow Time Depths
Barbara Bullock (University of Texas at Austin)
20 February 2014 – 6:00-8:00 pm
Friends of Music Room, University Auditorium
The Evolution of African American Studies in America
Abdul Alkalimat (University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign)
20-21 February 2014
Ustler Hall Atrium
A Feminist Anthropology Symposium
Feminist Publics, Current Engagements: Gender, Culture, Society Forty Years Later
Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research (CWSGR)
21-23 February 2014
The Wooly (20 N. Main St.)
Screenings at 7pm and 9pm every night; round table discussions at 2pm Saturday and Sunday
FLEXfest 2014 (Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival)
24 February 2014 – 12:00-1:30 pm
Pugh Hall 210
Digital Humanities Working Group
Meet-Up: Teaching through Online Activity
12 March 2014 – 6:00 p.m.
Pugh Hall Ocora
The Florida Civil Rights Struggle: Past and Present
Samuel Proctor Oral History Program
13-15 March 2014
Smathers (Library East) 1A
The 28th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics
14 March 2014
Library West 212
MarketWise: Career Paths for Humanities PhDs
Sarah Bleakney and Jill Pruett
17 March 2014 – 4:00-5:00 pm
Walker Hall 201D
2013-2014 Fellowship Brown Bag Series: Rothman Doctoral Fellow
“The Missing Link”: Black Police and Black Power in Chicago, 1968-1987
Kenneth Allen Kent (Department of History)
19-21 March 2014
UF Campus
2014 Annual Latin American Studies Conference
Panama Considered: Remembering the Past, Embracing the Future
25 March 2014 – 12:00-1:30 pm
Dauer Hall 215
Digital Humanities Working Group
Meet-Up: Feminist Pedagogy for the Digital Age (“A Feminist MOOC”?)
27 March 2014 – 5:30 pm
Ustler Hall Atrium, reception follows
“Civil” Society?
On the Future Prospects of Meaningful Dialogue
Studying Racist Activists:
What Can Be Learned and What Cannot
Kathleen Blee (University of Pittsburgh)
31 March 2014 – 4:00-5:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
2013-2014 Fellowship Brown Bag Series: Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow
Virtual Museum of World Heritage: A 3D Digital Collection for the UF Digital Epigraphy and Archaeology Project
Eleni Bozia (Department of Classics)
3 April 2014 – 4:30pm-7:00pm
Smathers Library East Room 100 (formerly 1A)
Speaker Panel and Exhibition Opening
Revolucionarias: Women and the Formation of the Cuban Nation
Lillian Guerra (University of Florida), Michelle Chase (Bloomfield College), Jennifer Lambe (Yale University)
7 April 2014 – 4:00-5:00 pm
Walker Hall 201
2013-2014 Fellowship Brown Bag Series: Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow
Narration and Knowledge: The ‘Archaeology’ of the Sabbath
Robert S. Kawashima (Department of Religion)
14 April 2014 – 5:30 pm
Weil Hall 0270
“Civil” Society? On the Future Prospects of Meaningful Dialogue
Bridging Indigenous and Scientific Knowledges: Multicultural Solutions for Climate Change
Kyle Powys Whyte (Michigan State University)
24-25 April 2014