The Creation and Interpretation of Sacred Texts
Grinter 471Prof. Robert Kawashima, 2017 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow (Dept. of Religion) Bhakti Mamtora, 2016-17 Tedder Family Doctoral Fellow (Dept. of Religion) Thursday, 22 February – 4:00pm-5:00pm, Grinter Hall 471 (Center for African Studies Conference Room) How to Read Genesis 1-11 Prof. Robert Kawashima One of the great and enduring achievements of modern philology is the …
The Creation, Performance, and Experience of Art in the 21st Century
101 Music BuildingThe Music and Aesthetics Symposium will examine the creation and performance of music and the aesthetic environment surrounding it. Composers, performers, artists, and of course, and audience will be on hand to share their thoughts and experiences. The two-day event will be structured around six concerts that will provide a rich variety of musical and …
The 41st Annual Ancient Philosophy Workshop
Friends of Music RoomThe Ancient Philosophy Workshop is an annual conference that brings together specialists in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy from around the country and the world. There will be roughly eight talks, each followed by discussion, over the event’s two days, plus a talk by the Keynote Speaker at the end of the first day. A …
From ‘Dynamic Edition’ to ‘Dynamic Environment’: Constructing Cambridge Digital Humanities
Marston Science Library 136Digital Humanities Working Group (DHWG) Meet-Up John Rink (University of Cambridge) John Rink became Director of Cambridge Digital Humanities at the University of Cambridge in 2017, following his groundbreaking work developing landmark digital humanities research projects on critical editions of Chopin. In this meet-up, we will have the opportunity to hear from a great pioneer …
CoLAB Idea Table Café
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FLJoin other CoLABers for Idea Table Cafés where we will extend the benefits of CoLAB Workshops by expanding the connections and ideas that were generated during a CoLAB Workshop. This facilitated, casual environment will stimulate new possibilities of working with each other to combine research, teaching, and other collaborative opportunities. CoLAB Idea Table Café sessions …
“Tell Me Your Story”: Recent Developments in Russian-American-Jewish Writing
Walker 201Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya (Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Los Angeles) is Associate Professor of Slavic in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics and Courtesy Associate Professor of English. She is the Coordinator and Graduate Advisor for the Slavic Program. Her current book project Collecting Objects, Materializing Ethics investigates the relationship between …
Endangered Species, Endangered Truth: A Park Ranger’s Perspective
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FLJordan Fischer Smith Park ranger turned environmental writer Jordan Fisher Smith will speak on “Endangered Species, Endangered Truth: A Park Ranger’s Perspective,” at Smathers Library 100 on the UF campus Tuesday evening Nov. 7th at 6 p.m. The author of award-winning Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial and the Fight …
Lives in Limbo: (Un)DACAmented and Navigating Uncertain Futures
Dr. Roberto Gonzales of Harvard Graduate School of Education will present the keynote address, “Lives in Limbo: (Un)DACAmented and Navigating Uncertain Futures” at the Florida Society for the Social Science's (F3S) 13th Annual Conference of the Social Sciences: “Advancing Public Knowledge in a Changing Social Landscape.” Registration for the conference is free, and opens at …
The Humanities and Technology Camp
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FLOver the past several years, UF has collaborated with others in Gainesville to host a THATCamp-Gainesville event. “THATCamp” is The Humanities And Technology Camp, and it is an unconference: an open, inexpensive meeting where humanists, technologists, educators, archivists, and folks from many different backgrounds and fields come together to learn together, and to make connections …
TJ Dawe’s Burn Job
Squitieri Studio Theatre“…a thoughtful meditation on the way we narrate our lives, and the flaws of memory.” – Winnipeg Free Press UF Peforming Arts in partnership with the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere invites you to TJ Dawe's "Burn Job." Punctuated with music tracks and manipulated sounds created live on stage, Fringe legend and …
Humanities Grant/Fellowship Proposal Review
- RSVP to skacord@ufl.edu by 15 June 2018 to participate. - Proposals due 22 June 2018. - Feedback returned 9 July 2018. Faculty members and graduate students in the humanities are invited to submit complete, polished draft proposals (minus reference letters) for single-blind review by an interdisciplinary panel of three UF referees with experience serving …
Visiting Artist Lecture: Dread Scott
TBAThe School of Art + Art History at the University of Florida is proud to present visiting artist Dread Scott as part of the Fall 2018 Visiting Artist Lecture Series. The Lecture Series is free and open to the public. Lectures begin at 6:15PM in Little Hall, Room 101. The lectures offer the community at …
Visiting Artist Lecture: Dread Scott
The School of Art + Art History at the University of Florida is proud to present visiting artist Dread Scott as part of the Fall 2018 Visiting Artist Lecture Series. The Lecture Series is free and open to the public. Lectures begin at 6:15PM in Little Hall, Room 101. The lectures offer the community at …
Trio Festivale: The Great Hunger
School of Music Building Rm 101The program “The Great Hunger” is an all-Irish related program, including Frank Martin’s Trio on Irish Folk Tunes, new arrangements of Irish traditional music for the ensemble, and at the center of the program, a newly commissioned poetry and music work, “The Great Hunger” by composer Ian Wilson. The new work celebrates one of the …
14th Gainesville Latino Film Festival
The Gainesville Latino Film Festival (GLFF), organized by the Latina Women’s League, is proud to present the lineup for its fourteenth edition. Held over three weeks, September 13 – 30, Festival events will be spread across 13 venues in Gainesville, Florida. Press kit information is attached. This year’s theme, “Latin American Women in Film: Celebrating …
“Balancing Expectations: Creating Useful Library and DH Experience for Humanities Graduate Students” with Paige Morgan
Library West 212 (Scott Nygren Studio)On September 18, from 2-3pm in the Nygren Studio, come listen to Paige Morgan’s presentation entitled: "Balancing Expectations: Creating Useful Library and DH Experience for Humanities Graduate Students." Paige C. Morgan is the Digital Scholarship Librarian & Scholarly Publishing Officer at the University of Miami. The University of Miami’s UGrow Fellowship program provides graduate students …
Writing Successful DDRG and GRF Proposals at NSF
1208A Turlington20 September 2018 - 9:00 am - 11:00 am "Writing Successful DDRG and GRF Proposals at NSF" with Dr. Jeff Mantz UF Department of Anthropology Please join the UF Department of Anthropology for a presentation and discussion about writing successful DDRG and GRF Proposals at the National Science Foundation, with Dr. Jeff Mantz. Jeff will offer …
Rethinking Muslim-Jewish Relations: Reflections on Late Ottoman Realities
20 September 2018 - 5:00 pm "Rethinking Muslim-Jewish Relations: Reflections on Late Ottoman Realities" with Dr. Julia Phillip-Cohen Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish Studies, Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica Dr. Julia Phillips Cohen (Vanderbilt University) examines the shifting place of Jews in Ottoman society during the empire’s modern reform era. At the start of …
“Home Away from Home: Remembering Refugees in Florida”
Pugh Hall OcoraSeyeon Hwang, a doctoral student at UF, will present her oral history interviews with refugees resettled in Jacksonville and moderate a discussion with a panel of refugees based in Jacksonville and Miami. The program will also highlight national efforts for refugee advocacy in celebration of the Welcoming Week (Sep. 14-23), an event designated to bring …
Baraza: Terje Ostebo, “From Demonstrations to Democratization: Understanding Current Political Change in Ethiopia”
Grinter 404 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FLBaraza: Abdoulaye Kane, “Villages Gone Virtual: Senegalese Migrants’ Home Connections in the Age of Social Media”
Grinter 404 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL
“Oyster Factory” (牡蠣工場 Kaki kōba) Film Showing
Pugh 17021 September 2018 - 5:10 pm "Negotiating Transitions,” the 14th Annual Japan Foundation Film Series UF Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures and the Japan Foundation The 14th Annual Japan Foundation Film Series is sponsored by the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures and the Japan Foundation. All films will be shown in Pugh 170, and …
HESCAH Art History Lecture: Dr. Nicola Courtright
Chandler Auditorium (Harn Museum of Art)"A Paradoxical Queen: Royal Spaces for Marie de’ Medici in Baroque France" Dr. Nicola Courtwright William McCall Vickery 1957 Professor of the History of Art, Amherst College Friday, September 21 2018 6PM, Chandler Auditorium, Harn Auditorium of Art Free to the public. Reception to follow.
A Paradoxical Queen: Royal Spaces for Marie de’ Medici in Baroque France
Chandler Auditorium (Harn Museum of Art)21 September 2018 - 6:00 pm "A Paradoxical Queen: Royal Spaces for Marie de’ Medici in Baroque France" with Dr. Nicola Courtright Harn Museum of Art Dr. Nicola Courtright, the William McCall Vickery 1957 Professor of the History of Art at Amherst College will give a lecture titled "A Paradoxical Queen: Royal Spaces for Marie …
2018 Fall Research Expo
Reitz Union BallroomA networking-style event to discuss research in various fields of study with UF undergraduates! Represent your department and field of study and register HERE.
Queen Quet visits UF
Chemistry Lab (C130)Queen Quet, Chieftess and Head of State of the Gullah/Geechee Nation, will be speaking at UF Tuesday 25 September at 7:30 pm in the Chemistry Lab (room C130). Queen Quet is a celebrated author, preservationist, mathematician, historian, and art-ivist. Since 1999, she has represented her people at numerous UN conferences including the Oceans Conference, the Minority …
UF Synergies: Knowledge and Law in the Caribbean
Walker 201Wednesday, September 26, 2018 @ 4:00pm, Walker 201D Knowledge and Law in the Caribbean Matthew Strickland (History) “Civilizing Slaves: Imperialism, Anglicanism, and African Slavery on Codrington Plantation” Matthew Strickland’s presentation discusses the lives of enslaved people on Codrington Plantation on Barbados and the role of religious conversion that occurred there from 1710 to emancipation in …
Subjunctive Explorations of Fictive Vaisnava-Sufi Discourse in Bengal
Anderson 216The Center for the study of Hindu Traditions (CHiTra) is pleased to announce a lecture by Professor Tony Stewart, Professor of Religious Studies and Professor of Asian Studies and Chair, Department of Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University. Title: “Subjunctive Explorations of Fictive Vaisnava-Sufi Discourse in Bengal.” Date and Time: September 27th, 4;00 pm Venue: Anderson 216, …
60th Anniversary of the Desegregation of the University of Florida
Reitz Union Second Floor Auditorium 686 Museum Road, Gainesville, FL27 September 2018 - 6:00 pm "60th Anniversary of the Desegregation of the University of Florida" UF African American Studies Reitz Union Second Floor Auditorium (686 Museum Road) In 1958, George Starke became the first African American student to enroll at the University of Florida. He studied at UF for three trimesters. The year 2018 …