Digital Assembly Spring Symposium: Embodied Interventions
Library West 212 (Scott Nygren Studio)The annual Digital Assembly Spring Symposium this year is called Embodied Interventions, featuring Drs. David Parisi, Jennifer Rhee, and Annette Vee for a two-day event February 21-22, with invited talks and a coding …
Team-Teaching 101: A Nuts and Bolts Workshop to Planning a Team-Taught Course
409 Yon HallLed by Sophia Acord, Eric Kligerman, and Kevin Knudson Have you ever thought about teaching a course with a colleague from a different discipline? Through team-teaching, faculty can create innovative new …
Women of the Movement: An evening with Dr. Stacey Patton & Ms. Lezley McSpadden (Mother of Michael Brown)
Rion Ballroom - Reitz UnionPlease join the UF African American Studies Program for a conversation about social justice, activism and police brutality led by Dr. Stacey Patton and Ms. Lezley McSpadden on Friday, February …
Jews and the Americas
The 68th Annual Conference of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. Co-sponsored by the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish Studies and the Isser and Rae …
A Conversation with Fanny GLISSANT on the Documentary “Slavery Routes”
Library West 212 (Scott Nygren Studio)For the official kick-off event of the second edition of the TOUT-MONDE FESTIVAL, the Caribbean Contemporary Arts Festival in Miami (March 13-17, 2019) “Echo-Natures,” and on the occasion of BLACK HISTORY …
Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Film, and Song: A book talk with Tara T. Green
Turlington L011Dr. Tara T. Green from UNC Greensboro will be visiting UF on February 25 to discuss her new book Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Film, and Song. The lecture …
Visiting Artist Lecture: Sam Durant
Little Hall 109Speaker: Sam Durant Location: Little Hall 101 Lecture Date: February 26 2019 Bio: Sam Durant is a multimedia artist whose works engage a variety of social, political, and cultural issues. Often referencing …
Cash, Public Infrastructure, and Mass Subjectivity: Private Security Guards in Nairobi, Kenya
Grinter 471Abstract: Recent work in material participation looks, from an STS (Science and Technology Studies) perspective, at how material infrastructures are active in the creation of mass subjectivity, publics. This talk looks …
“Promise and Problems in Emerging Technology — Shaping the Societal Impact of Artificial Intelligence”
Reitz Union Ground FloorThis two-day conference will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to address the social and ethical dimensions of artificial intelligence applications in transportation, medicine, cognitive science, criminal justice, and …
Search Committee Meeting
Walker 200Research Fundamentals Workshops Series: What is a Data Management Plan? – Plato Smith
Marston Science Library L308Research 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 …
“There is No Planet B” – Stop Climate Change Now!
Marion County Public LibraryCitizens' Climate Lobby representatives will speak on the movement to halt and reverse climate change at Indivisible Common Cents Ocala's meeting, Monday, March 11, at 6 p.m. at the Marion …
Hip Hop Performance/Lecture with Omar Offendum
Rion Ballroom - Reitz UnionOmar Offendum is a Los Angeles-based Syrian-American rapper/poet. A Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow for 2018-2019 known for his unique blend of Hip-Hop and Arabic poetry, Omar’s albums and solos …
CSRRR Annual Spring Lecture “Getting Explicit About Implicit Bias in the Courts”
Chesterfield Smith Ceremonial ClassroomWith Judge Mark W. Bennett Thursday, March 14, 2019, 12:00 pm, Chesterfield Smith Ceremonial Classroom, UF Levin College of Law Reception to follow **Mark W. Bennett was appointed a United …
Why Museums Sometimes Lie
College of the Arts Lecture Hall - FAB 0105Elizabeth Marlowe Associate Professor of Ancient and Medieval Art Colgate University This lecture will offer a new way of thinking about the tensions between those who wish to own the …
Asia Today
A Special Screening of “The Curse of the Terracotta Warriors”
The Curse of the Terracotta Warriors is the story of the peasant farmers who discovered the Terracotta Warriors and of what became of them following the discovery. Produced by Churchill …
Programs in the Public Humanities FINAL PROPOSAL DEADLINE
Programs in the Public Humanities (deadline Statement of Intent, Friday, February 15, 2019; Final Proposal, Friday, March 15, 2019) In order to encourage and enhance collaborations between the University of …
Reading Groups in the Humanities DEADLINE
NEW FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: Reading Groups in the Humanities (deadline Friday, March 15, 2019) The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, with the support of the Robert and Margaret …
DEADLINE: Humanities and the Sunshine State Teaching Florida’s Climates
The deadline to apply for the Humanities and the Sunshine State: Teaching Florida’s Climates Educator's Workshop.
“Real Men Die Wrapped in Horsehide: ” and Other Tales of Modern Masculinity. A talk by Sabine Frühstück
Fine Arts B, Room 105“Real Men Die Wrapped in Horsehide: ” and Other Tales of Modern Masculinity. A talk by Sabine Frühstück, University of California at Santa Barbara This talk considers the history of modern …
From Colored to Black: The Stories of North Central Florida
Squitieri Studio TheatreFrom Colored to Black encompasses over eighty years of Florida’s Black Oral History with stories from the St. Augustine Civil Rights Movement, the resettlement of Rosewood, Gainesville’s Old Lincoln High …
Fulbright Student Program Info Session (Student) With Michelle Bolourchi*
UF International CenterElectronic Portfolios Workshop
UF International Center's Small Conference RoomElectronic Portfolios allow students to reflect on their international experiences and courses while creating a digital archive of acquired skills and accomplishments. ePortfolios can be used to foster global learning, …
“Postracial Resistance: Black Women, Media and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity”
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FLPlease join the UF Mellon Intersections Group on Global Blackness and Latinx Identity in welcoming the first speaker in the Beyond Borders, Across Boundaries: Black and LatinX Knowledge Formations Speaker Series: Ralina …
Fulbright Student Program Info Session (Faculty) With Michelle Bolourchi*
UF International CenterHow Michelle Obama Became the Most Beloved Black Woman in America: A Look at Our Forever FLOTUS Before “Becoming”
Ustler Hall AtriumPlease join the UF Mellon Intersections Group on Global Blackness and Latinx Identity in welcoming the first speaker in the Beyond Borders, Across Boundaries: Black and LatinX Knowledge Formations Speaker Series: Ralina …
Research Fundamentals Workshops Series: Experimental Research Designs– Dave Schwieder
Marston Science Library L308Research 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 …
Authors@UF: Dr. Barbara Mennel
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FLBarbara Mennel Rothman Chair and Director, Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere Associate Professor, Departments of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and English. Wednesday, March 20, 2019 3:30 p.m., Smathers Library, Room …
From Segregation to Black Lives Matter: A Symposium and Celebration of the Opening of the Joel Buchanan Archive of African American Oral History at the University of Florida
George A. Smathers LibrariesJanuary 11, 2019: For Immediate Release The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida announces: From Segregation to Black Lives Matter. A Symposium and Celebration of the …