Sabbatai Sevi, a seventeen century Ottoman Jewish messianic claimant, led one of the largest religious movements in Jewish and Islamic history. When Ottoman authorities forced Sevi to convert to Islam in 1666, his followers formed a crypto-sect, later known as Dönmes, and maintained their overtly Muslim and covertly Jewish enigmatic identity over centuries. By using …
November 27-29, 2018 Keene Faculty Center, Dauer Hall Hosted by the Richard J. Milbauer Program in Southern History and co-sponsored by the Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Research and the Department of History. For a complete schedule, click on this link.
Have you ever thought about team-teaching a course at UF? Collaboration can energize our teaching just as it does our research. Through team-teaching, faculty are creating innovative undergraduate courses that would be impossible for a single faculty member to teach independently. Some of these courses collaborate across academic disciplines, while others collaborate with UF Libraries …
A Family Business Panel with the following featured speakers and their businesses: Chris & Tim Tassin – Hingenuity Jamie McClave Baldwin & Jim McClave – InfoTech Jodi Bennet Hunt & Linda Bennett - SunCountry Sports Questions? Please contact Emma Stetter.
As part of the Career Connections Center's International Student Series, learn about different ways to obtain an employment based Visa post-graduation in this informational workshop. Aaron Blumberg, an Immigratiion Attorney with Fragomen Associates, will be delivering a presentation and answering your questions related to H1B Visas and other ways to legally remain in the U.S. …
The expansion of Frankfurt airport was a fiercely contested issue in the 1970s and early 1980s. The construction of a new runway galvanized the German ecological movement and the residents of the surrounding area in a long conflict with airport managers and politicians. The events highlighted the peculiar position of infrastructures in a modern landscape, as …
A Balancing Work & Life Mindfully Panel Event with the following featured speakers and their businesses: Darin Cook - Infinite Energy Ron & Diane Farb - Climb for the Cure Foundation Angela Betancourt - Simplify Home Organizing Jocelyn Holt - Planning Hope Questions? Please contact Emma Stetter.
Wednesday, December 5, 2018 @ 4:00 pm, Walker 201D The Production of Race in Music and Science Vassiliki (Betty) Smocovitis (Biology and History, Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow) “Masuo Kodani, Genetics, and the Japanese American Experience” Dr. Betty Smocovitis’s presentation traces the life of Masuo Kodani (1913-1983), a promising Japanese American geneticist, who found himself a …
Intersections: Animating Conversations with the Humanities is a 3-year initiative of the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere at the University of Florida (UF) in the UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Throughout the 2017-2020 academic years, the Humanities Center will work to identify shared …