Assembly for Action Conference
Reitz Union - Various RoomsAssembly for Action is committed to educating and enabling the next generation of leaders at the University of Florida to bridge the gap between student involvement and non - profit …
Mississippi Freedom Project: Civil Rights History in the First-Person
TBAA panel of students and faculty will discuss their experiences interviewing civil rights movement veterans in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tallahassee, Florida. This panel celebrates SPOHP’s 11th year of sending students …
Employer Perspectives on the Value of International Education in the Global Workforce” by Martin Tillman
UF International Center17 October 2018 - 12:00 pm "Employer Perspectives on the Value of International Education in the Global Workforce" by Martin Tillman UF International Center Please join the UF International Center …
Workshop: “Muslim Youth and Lived Islam in Africa and Beyond”
18 -19 October 2018 Workshop: "Muslim Youth and Lived Islam in Africa and Beyond" UF Center for Global Islamic Studies The Center for Global Islamic Studies will be hosting a workshop, …
Symposium: The World to Come: Art, Politics and Climate Change
Chandler Auditorium (Harn Museum of Art)Keynote - Friday, October 19, 6 pm. Reception to follow. Symposium - Saturday, October 20, 10 am – 5 pm. Reception to follow. Join us for “The World to Come: …
“Queer and Disabled: Sandra Gail Lambert on Writing Memoir”
Pugh Hall 120Join author Sandra Gail Lambert in Pugh Hall 120 for a short reading from her memoir, A Certain Loneliness, and conversation about the challenges and rewards of narrating a life …
Baraza: Musa Ibrahim, “Muslim Youths and Kannywood: Producing Alternative Islamic Media”
Grinter 404 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL
“Dancing for the Dead: Funeral Strippers in Taiwan” with Marc L. Moskowitz
Pugh Hall 12019 October 2018 - 3:30 pm "Dancing for the Dead: Funeral Strippers in Taiwan" with Marc L. Moskowitz UF Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Professor Marc L. Moskowitz, University of South Carolina …
HESCAH Art History Lecture: Dr. T.J. Demos
Chandler Auditorium (Harn Museum of Art)"Blackout: The Necropolitics of Extraction" Dr. T.J. Demos, Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture and Director, Center for Creative Ecologies UC Santa Cruz Friday, October 19 2018 6PM, Chandler Auditorium, …
Community Engagement Workshop for UF Faculty, Admin, & Community Partners
In a workshop and public talk, Dr. Andrew Furco will address the benefits, opportunities, and challenges associated with community engagement by university faculty and students. Dr. Furco is Associate Vice President …
Graduate School Funding: Grad Student Panel
Career Connections CenterTuesday October 23rd Graduate School Funding: Grad Student Panel (Hosted by: Graduate School) 3:00pm-3:50pm Career Connections Center
From Outreach to Engagement: Building a 21st Century Approach to Community Engagement in Higher Education
Turlington L005Public Lecture October 23, 3-4pm, Turlington L005 “From Outreach to Engagement: Building a 21st Century Approach to Community Engagement in Higher Education” Today’s approaches to community engagement in higher education …
Beyond the Swamp Graduate Schools Fair
Reitz Union BallroomHosted by the Career Connections Center: October 24, 2017 from 10am-2pm in the Reitz Union Grand Ballroom Discover All the Possibilities! Graduate and professional schools from around the country come …
UF Synergies: Ethics and Education in the Age of Accountability
Keene Flint 005Wednesday, October 24, 2018 @ 4:00 pm, Keene-Flint 05 Ethics and Education in the Age of Accountability • Jaime Ahlberg (Philosophy) “Disability as Difference: Implications for Educational Justice” Dr. Ahlberg’s …
The African American Heritage of Florida
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FLJane Landers, director of the Slave Societies Digital Archive, and Steve Noll, UF Department of History, will give a lecture on their book The African American Heritage of Florida. The “Florida and …
My Fulbright in Seven Minutes
The HubThe International Center (The Hub) Come talk to Adrian Barry Sosa, Ruxandra Sava, and Ali Husnain about their Fulbright experience. Refreshments will be served. RSVP by emailing UFFulbrightRSVP@gmail.co
“No Way Out: Precarious Living in the Shadow of Poverty and Drug Dealing” with Waverly Duck
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FLThis talk illustrates how overlapping surveillance systems—police, schools, creditors, social workers, public housing officials, landlords, probation and parole officers—place multiple, contradictory demands on the residents of poor black neighborhoods that …
“Graduate Methods Workshop: Conducting Ethnographic Research” with Waverly Duck
Streib Conference Room - Turlington Hall Room 3302Waverly Duck is an urban ethnographer whose primary research examines the social order of neighborhoods and institutional settings. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and …
Baraza: Steve Howard, “We Are Mahmoud: On the Path of the Prophet in Unsettled Times”
Grinter 404 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL
What Was Kant’s Critical Philosophy Critical Of?
303 Griffin Floyd HallDr. Catherine Wilson (CUNY Graduate Center/University of York) The event will be held in the Philosophy Library, 303 Griffin Floyd Hall Immanuel Kant is universally regarded as a philosopher of freedom …
Frankenread
Library WestDr. Friedman’s talk, related to his book, Monstrous Progeny: a history of the Frankenstein narratives, (co-written with Allison B. Kavey) is a study of the continuing popularity of the Frankenstein story …
Research in Progress: “Manifest Destiny at Sea: Steam Infrastructure and American Power, 1847-1857”
Keene Flint 005You are invited for a Research in Progress talk in the History of Capitalism in the History Conference Room (005 Keene-Flint Hall): "Manifest Destiny at Sea: Steam Infrastructure and American Power, …
Lynching, Violence, and the State in Contemporary India – Inderpal Grewal (Yale University)
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FLThursday, November 1, 2018 4:00pm Smathers Library 100 Under the Modi government, Hindu right-wing activists and vigilantes have used Modi-government policies (prohibitions on beef-eating, for example) to target poor Muslim …
“Technology, Fiction, and our Future: An Interview with Rob Reid”
Turlington L005Rob Reid will address the impact of emerging technologies on the future of humanity, and the role of (science) fiction in preparing us for fast-paced global change. Rob Reid is …
Baraza: Alioune Sow, “Transitional Memoirs in Mali”
Grinter 404 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FLEternal Life: A Talk by Author Dara Horn
TBAAs part of the American Jewish culture endowment at UF, the writer Dara Horn will be speaking this fall, while she's on tour for her new novel, Eternal Life. She …
Getting Creative: Translation and Etymology as Cultural Narratives of Sustainability and Resilience with Dr. Simon Richter
Dauer 219Simon Richter, Professor and Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania. Lecture, November 13, 5:00-6:30 pm Dauer 219 (Ruth McQuown Room): “Getting Creative: …
Book Launch: Learning from Madness: Brazilian Modernism and Global Contemporary Art
College of the Arts Lecture Hall - FAB 0105Please join the UF School of Art + Art History for the book launch of "Learning from Madness: Brazilian Modernism and Global Contemporary Art." University of Chicago Press, 2018. Presentation by …
What to do with the Art of Monstrous Men?
Harrell Medical Education Building, 460Claire Dederer will speak on "What to do with the Art of Monstrous Men?" Claire Dederer is the author of two critically acclaimed memoirs: Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning …
Polder-Geist: Dutch Responses to Rising Sea Levels and Sinking Cities in the Netherlands, the United States and Asia
Dauer 215Workshop, November 14, Dauer 215 (12:00-1:30 pm): “Polder-Geist: Dutch Responses to Rising Sea Levels and Sinking Cities in the Netherlands, the United States and Asia.” Livestream link available HERE. Coastal …