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Campus Earth Week Keynote Address featuring Julian Agyeman
Campus Earth Week Keynote Address featuring Julian Agyeman
Please join Sustainable UF for the Campus Earth Week Keynote Address featuring Julian Agyeman, expert and thought leader whose research centers on the concept of Just Sustainabilities. This event is free and open to the public. Julian Agyeman Ph.D. FRSA FRGS is a Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University, and …
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Gender, Disability, and the Chinese Muslim’s Encounters with Cultural Traditions and a Modernized World
Gender, Disability, and the Chinese Muslim’s Encounters with Cultural Traditions and a Modernized World
Red Flowers and Green Leaves (Dir. Liu Miaomiao, 2018, Fiction/96 min/English subtitle/Color) Film screening and discussion with the Filmmaker Time: April 2, Tuesday, 5:15-7:30pm Location: The PICT Theater of Research Education and Visualization Environment at the Digital Worlds Institute (Normal Gym Building, 2nd FL) Abstract: Shot in a village of the Hui people, a minority …
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Research Fundamentals Workshops Series: Introduction to Qualitative Research – Dave Schwieder
Research Fundamentals Workshops Series: Introduction to Qualitative Research – Dave Schwieder
Research Fundamentals Workshops Series Held in Marston Science Library L308 at 3:00 pm. Reservations requested but not required. All workshops are free and open to all. See here for full list of upcoming workshops in the library. April 3 - Introduction to Qualitative Research – Dave Schwieder This workshop provides a basic overview of qualitative …
Dream Empire with David Borenstein
Dream Empire with David Borenstein
Film screening and discussion with the Filmmaker David Borenstein. Yana’s company uses actors to turn remote Chinese ghost towns into temporary “international booming cities,” tricking visitors into buying overpriced property. But when the real estate market starts to collapse, she faces financial ruin. Released in 2016, Dream Empire is a boom to bust tale set …
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The Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin
The Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin
Smather's Library and the English Department would like to invite you to the Gainesville screening of the internationally Award-winning documentary, "The Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin" on April 4th 2019, in Smathers 100 from 3:30-6:30. The documentarian/filmmaker Arwen Curry will be present to answer questions after the screening. Ursula K. Le Guin passed away …
Bringing America together, Taking the Nazis Apart: Hollywood Jews, Moviemaking During World War II, and Implicating Film in the Third Reich
Bringing America together, Taking the Nazis Apart: Hollywood Jews, Moviemaking During World War II, and Implicating Film in the Third Reich
Michael Berkowitz is Professor of modern Jewish history at University College London and editor of Jewish Historical Studies: Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England (UCL Press). Please join him for a public talk on film during World War II. Professor Berkowitz received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin and taught previously at the …
Once More at the River: From MLK to BLM with Dr. Roxane Coche
Once More at the River: From MLK to BLM with Dr. Roxane Coche
To honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy on the 51st anniversary of his assassination in Memphis, Dr. Roxane Coche, Assistant Professor in the Department of Telecommunication, is hosting a special screening of her movie Once More at the River: From MLK to BLM with the Black Student Union. The one-hour documentary explores the rich …
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Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere 10-Year Anniversary Event
Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere 10-Year Anniversary Event
The University of Florida’s Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (founded in 2005 and launched in 2009) invites you to the Celebration of its Ten-Year Anniversary April 5, 2019 2:00pm Welcome, Kent Fuchs, President, University of Florida Introduction, Steve Seibert, Executive Director, Florida Humanities Council Keynote, Jon Parrish Peede, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities …
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant Workshop and Office Hours with Jeff Hardwick, Deputy Director of the Division of Public Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant Workshop and Office Hours with Jeff Hardwick, Deputy Director of the Division of Public Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities
A Workshop 11 am - 12 pm in the Marston Science Library Visualization Lab (L136) And Office Hours (by appointment) 9:30 am - 10:30 am & 12:30 - 1:30 pm in the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (Walker Hall 200) Join the UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, UF Office …
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Out of the Mist: A Silver River Story
Out of the Mist: A Silver River Story
You are invited to the Gainesville premiere of Out of the Mist: A Silver River Story at the Florida Museum on April 6, 2019. This short documentary film tells the historic, economic and environmental story of Silver Springs by Emmy award-winning, National Geographic filmmaker Mark Emery. The Gator Nation knows Emery’s video, The Chomp, from …
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THICK: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
THICK: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
THICK: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom Join a Book Discussion! The New Press writes, "In these eight piercing explorations on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom — award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed—embraces her venerated role as a purveyor of wit, wisdom, and Black Twitter snark about all that …
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Disabilities Studies Seminar with Dr. Heather Vrana
Disabilities Studies Seminar with Dr. Heather Vrana
The UF Disability Resource Center Presents a Disabilities Studies Seminar with Dr. Heather Vrana: "Finding Disability in the Archive: A Historical Approach to Disability Inquiry"
Limits to Decolonization: Indigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco
Limits to Decolonization: Indigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco
A Book Talk With Dr. Penelope Anthias The talk will describe how racialized inequalities and hydrocarbon interests have conjoined to place enduring obstacles on indigenous struggles for territory. Anthias will also explore the surprising ways in which Guaraní leaders are rethinking their visions of territorial autonomy in the context of these limits – including through …
“Redneck Muslim” with Dr. Zoharah Simmons
“Redneck Muslim” with Dr. Zoharah Simmons
On April 10th you are invited to the screening of "Redneck Muslim" and an engaging discussion with Dr. Zoharah Simmons on race and Islam in the United States. This event will take place in the second floor of Anderson Hall in the Political Science Conference room. "Redneck Muslim" is a short film that serves as a …
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Advancing Humanities Inquiry across Disciplines: Learn about the National Humanities Center’s Residential Fellowships, Educational Resources, and Public Programs
Advancing Humanities Inquiry across Disciplines: Learn about the National Humanities Center’s Residential Fellowships, Educational Resources, and Public Programs
Advancing Humanities Inquiry across Disciplines: Learn about the National Humanities Center’s Residential Fellowships, Educational Resources, and Public Programs with Dr. Tania Munz (Vice President for Scholarly Programs, National Humanities Center ) Two identical workshops will be offered: Thursday, April 11, 2-4pm and Friday, April 12, 10am-12pm Smathers Library 100 Founded in 1978, the National …
The Embodiment of Techne: Remarks on Martin Luther’s “Open Letter on Translating” with Will Hasty
The Embodiment of Techne: Remarks on Martin Luther’s “Open Letter on Translating” with Will Hasty
Based on examples from Genesis, the Gospel according to John, and the Bible-translation of Martin Luther and his own comments about it – on which my main attention is focused, I explore in this workshop the validity of the proposition that culture generally and within it the technosphere – at least the part of it …
Research Fundamentals Workshops Series: Start Writing using Overleaf – Sara Gonzalez
Research Fundamentals Workshops Series: Start Writing using Overleaf – Sara Gonzalez
Research Fundamentals Workshops Series Held in Marston Science Library L308 at 3:00 pm. Reservations requested but not required. All workshops are free and open to all. See here for full list of upcoming workshops in the library. April 11 – Start Writing using Overleaf – Sara Gonzalez Do you write your papers in LaTeX or …
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Image, Ornament, Matter: A Symposium on their Limits and Intersections in the History of Art
April 12-13, 2019 Harn Museum of Art Speakers: Spyros Papapetros, Princeton University (Keynote) Benjamin C. Tilghman, Washington College / The Material Collective Megan McNamee, Warburg Institute Meekyung MacMurdie, University of Chicago Susanna McFadden, Bryn Mawr College Irene Backus, Oklahoma State University Ashley Jones, University of Florida Recent attempts to re-situate the so-called “Minor Arts” at …
16th Annual UF Conference on Comics – “Imagetext in Motion: Comics and Animation”
Animation and comics are two tangled pictorial mediums that stem from the same modernist concerns with the possibilities of the image. Animation and the cartooned bodies it brings into being are omnipresent on the screens that surround us, the advertisements that beg our attention, and the popcorn fare that draws out our inner escapists. But …
Advancing Humanities Inquiry across Disciplines: Learn about the National Humanities Center’s Residential Fellowships, Educational Resources, and Public Programs
Advancing Humanities Inquiry across Disciplines: Learn about the National Humanities Center’s Residential Fellowships, Educational Resources, and Public Programs
Advancing Humanities Inquiry across Disciplines: Learn about the National Humanities Center’s Residential Fellowships, Educational Resources, and Public Programs with Dr. Tania Munz (Vice President for Scholarly Programs, National Humanities Center ) Two identical workshops will be offered: Thursday, April 11, 2-4pm and Friday, April 12, 10am-12pm Smathers Library 100 Founded in 1978, the National …
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Tenth Annual History Honors Conference and Awards Luncheon
Tenth Annual History Honors Conference and Awards Luncheon
The UF community is invited to see the research of Undergraduate Honors Students in the Department of History. Session 1 (9:00-10:15) Race, Community, and Politics in the American South Chair: Professor William Link Sujaya Rajguru Andrew Salyer Brenda Withington Julian Valdivia Session 2 (10:30-11:20) The US and the World in the 20th Century Chair: …
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“Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld” by Dominique Kalifa
“Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld” by Dominique Kalifa
Historian and professor at the University of Paris 1, Dominique Kalifa works on the history of crime, social control, and mass culture in 19th- and early 20th- century France and Europe. His book "Vice, Crime and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld” (Columbia University Press) examines the underworld of 19th and 20th century …
“Cairo in One Breath” with documentary filmmaker Anna Kipervaser
“Cairo in One Breath” with documentary filmmaker Anna Kipervaser
Anna Kipervaser's film Cairo in One Breath will be screened on April 15th in Keene Flint 005 as the final installment of the "Muslim Worlds" series. The film focuses on the experiences of Cairo's muezzin during the implementation of the Egyptian project to automate calls to prayer in Cairo. As an experimental film, Cairo in One Breath also serves as a …
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Teaching Portfolio Review
Teaching Portfolio Review
A teaching portfolio can showcase your teaching and professional strengths and help you stand out in searches for academic positions. GA’s and TA’s, you are invited to sign up for a 30-minute block of time, on April 16, to receive feedback on your portfolio from the UF Office of Teaching Excellence. Teaching Portfolio Sign up.
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Research Fundamentals Workshops Series: How to make your data FAIR? – Plato Smith
Research Fundamentals Workshops Series: How to make your data FAIR? – Plato Smith
Research Fundamentals Workshops Series Held in Marston Science Library L308 at 3pm. Reservations requested but not required. All workshops are free and open to all. See here for full list of upcoming workshops in the library: April 17 - How to make your data FAIR? - Plato Smith Funders are now expected to make their …
“Slavery and the University of Florida: Exploring the Connections”
“Slavery and the University of Florida: Exploring the Connections”
A team of student researchers reports on its investigation into ties between the University of Florida and slavery in antebellum Florida. As they've found, those ties run deep. With History undergraduates Ahmad Brown, Morgan Peltier, Javier Escoto-Garcia and Gabriella Paul, History Professor Jon Sensbach, and reflections by University Historian Carl Van Ness and Political Science …
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Museums Seeding Authority: A Paradigm for Practice of Justice and Generosity
Museums Seeding Authority: A Paradigm for Practice of Justice and Generosity
Join museum thought-leaders Noelle Kahanu (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa) and Ben Garcia (Museum of Man, San Diego, CA) for a conversation about what decolonial museum practice looks like nationally and internationally, and a conversation about recent projects that are positively impacting Indigenous communities and museums.
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Humanities Engagement Scholars Meet-up
Humanities Engagement Scholars Meet-up
Topic: Center for Undergraduate Research: Emerging Scholars, University Scholars, and Honors Thesis in majors Are you curious how to get funding for your research project? Do you know how to graduate with Honors? If you are interested in these questions, come to the open meeting of the Humanities Engagement Scholars to talk to students and …
American Moonshot with Historian Douglas Brinkley
American Moonshot with Historian Douglas Brinkley
Marking the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing in 1969, historian Douglas Brinkley will speak at the University of Florida on April 19 on his new book, American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race. The perennial New York Times best-selling author and CNN presidential historian will speak at Pugh Hall, MacKay Auditorium at 6 …
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Convergence: Music & Art
Convergence: Music & Art
In connection with the exhibition "Divergent Convergence: The Arts of Creativity, Discovery & Inquiry," this afternoon event will feature original works by the 2018-2019 Harn Composer-in-Residence Diogo Carvalho incorporating music, dance, poetry, and audience participation. Featured will be the world premiere of "Garden Soundscape" (2019), an original work inspired by the Harn Asian Rock Garden and …
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Spring Symposium on Men and Gender
Spring Symposium on Men and Gender
This multidisciplinary symposium will discuss the sometime unconsidered facets of gender that effect men and masculinity in the context of multiple identities, cross-sections, social conventions and sexual practices. Monday, April 22 during periods 5th and 6th (11:45 to 1:40), in Pugh 302. Moderated by Prof. Trysh Travis, Associate Professor and Waldo W. Neikirk Term Professor, …
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UF Digital Humanities Working Group Brown Bag Lunch and Lightning Round Presentations
UF Digital Humanities Working Group Brown Bag Lunch and Lightning Round Presentations
The Digital Humanities Working Group is hosting brown-bag lunch lightning round sessions. Please feel free to come for all or part of the session and bring your lunch along. Do you have: - a DH project you’ve finished and you want to share it with everyone - a DH project that’s in progress (and maybe you …
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Research Fundamentals Workshops Series: How to develop an Open Source Framework (OSF) project? – Plato Smith
Research Fundamentals Workshops Series: How to develop an Open Source Framework (OSF) project? – Plato Smith
Research Fundamentals Workshops Series Held in Marston Science Library L308 at 3:00 pm. Reservations requested but not required. All workshops are free and open to all. See here for full list of upcoming workshops in the library: April 24 - How to develop an Open Source Framework (OSF) project? – Plato Smith Have you heard …
Local Impacts of Mass Incarceration: A Community Round Table
Local Impacts of Mass Incarceration: A Community Round Table
Between 1980 and 2015, the number of people incarcerated in America increased from near 500,000 to over 2.2 million. Today, 1 in every 37 adults in the United States is under some form of correctional supervision. While this punishment creep impacts communities, populations, and individuals in different ways, its presence impacts our local community in distinct ways. You are invited to a round table where community members directly address how they …
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