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 …
UF Synergies: Anti-Anti-Semitism and Holocaust Memory, Then and Now
Walker 201Wednesday, November 14, 2018 @ 4:00 pm, Walker 201D Anti-Anti-Semitism and Holocaust Memory: Then and Now Rachel Gordan (Center for Jewish Studies & Religion) “1940s: The Decade of Anti-Anti-Semitism” Dr. …
Love that Moves the Sun and Stars: A Workshop on Love in Italian Literature and Culture
Judaica Suite, Library EastItalian Studies, the UF Honors Program and the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies with the generous sponsorship of the Hal and Ruth Smith Fund, Henry and Sue Tosi …
Transformative Imaginations: Decarceration and Liberatory Futures A report from the 2019 Imagining America National Gathering
Pugh Hall 210Thursday, November 15th, 2019 1:30-2:30pm, Pugh Hall 210 Imagining America (IA) is a consortium of universities and organizations dedicated to advancing the public and civic purposes of the arts, …
“Muslim Converts or Crypto Jews? Sabbatean Communities in the Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic” with Dr. Cengiz Şişman
Keene Flint 005Sabbatai 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 …
Strange Careers: 50 Years of Southern Women’s History
Keene Faculty CenterNovember 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 …
Team Teaching from Classroom to Gallery
Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, FloridaHave 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 …
Dilemmas and Debates Fall 2018 Speaker Series
Bryan Hall Room 130A Family Business Panel with the following featured speakers and their businesses: Chris & Tim Tassin – Hingenuity Jamie McClave Baldwin & Jim McClave – InfoTech Jodi Bennet Hunt & …
Transitioning to an Employment Based Visa: Featuring Immigration Attorney Aaron Blumberg
Career Connections CenterAs 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 …
Tentacles of the Technosphere: The Protest against Frankfurt Airport 1962-1987 with Professor Michael Schuering
Pugh Hall 302The 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 …