Visiting Artist Lecture: Liam Gillick
Little Hall 109Join the School of Art + Art History for a Visiting Artist Lecture with Liam Gillick. Free and open to the public. Liam Gillick deploys multiple forms to expose the new ideological control systems that emerged at the beginning of the 1990s. He has developed a number of key narratives that often form the engine for …
The Art of a Good Schmooze
409 Yon HallThe “the good schmooze” has the ability to serve us well. Barack Obama and Bill Clinton are examples of good schmoozers, and this skill has obviously served them well. By softening the opposition between private and public, personal and political, higher and lower, schmoozing plays a vital but underappreciated role as a life and leadership …
Research Fundamentals Workshops Series: The Logic of Statistics – 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 list of upcoming workshops in the library. February 20 - The Logic of Statistics – Dave Schwieder Interested in statistics? Don’t have a strong math …
UF Synergies: The British Empire in the Nineteenth Century
Walker 201Wednesday, February 20, 2019 @ 4:00pm, Walker 200 The British Empire in the Nineteenth Century Jessica Harland-Jacobs (History, Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow) “The Catholic Question and the British Empire, 1710s-1830s” At the core of Dr. Jessica Harland-Jacobs’s talk lies the question how early modern and modern empires managed religious diversity and established the boundaries …
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 workshop all focused on the concept of embodiment and its increased importance in digital media studies scholarship. Dr. Parisi, Associate Professor of Emerging Media at College of …
Digital Resource Showcase
Library West ColonnadeFeel like you’re not utilizing all the resources our libraries have to offer? Not sure how to ace your paper? Need to diversify your tech skills to set yourself apart on the job market? Come find your match at the Digital Resource Showcase on February 21st! The showcase brings librarians and UF students + staff …
Research Fundamentals Workshops Series: Creating a Curriculum Vitae – Sara Gonzalez
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 list of upcoming workshops in the library. February 21 – Creating a Curriculum Vitae – Sara Gonzalez Instead of a resume, academic researchers use curriculum …
The Consequences of Co-Option: Rising Populism and the EU Efforts to Combat Gender Violence: A Talk by Celeste Montoya
Ustler Hall AtriumFebruary 21st, 5:00-7: 00 pm, reception to follow Ustler Hall Atrium In the past several decades, feminist transnational networks have worked to get (and keep) the issue of gender violence on the European Union’s agenda. The 1990s and early 2000s was characterized by important victories for these dynamic networks, as advocates from a wide array …
HESCAH Lecture | Humor and Violence: Seeing Europeans in Central African Art
Chandler Auditorium (Harn Museum of Art)“Humor and Violence: Seeing Europeans in Central African Art” Dr. Zoë Strother, Riggio Professor of African Art, Columbia University Thursday, February 21, 2019 6PM, Chandler Auditorium, Harn Museum of Art Reception to follow There is a long history of Central Africans depicting Europeans and Americans. Vili ivory sculptors made some of the only surviving portrayals …
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 courses for students that tie together different ways of looking at a topic and demonstrate the value of interdisciplinary inquiry. Instructors also benefit from collaborating …
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 22, 2019 at 6:00 pm. Ms. McSpadden is an author, activist and the mother of Michael Brown. She is also the founder of The Michael …
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 Price Library of Judaica at the University of Florida. This multidisciplinary conference aims to explore various facets of the Jewish experience in the Americas from …
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 MONTH, The Cultural Services of the French Embassy & the France Florida Research Institute of the University of Florid present “A Conversation with/ Conversation with Fanny GLISSANT, Film …
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 will be held in Turlington Hall (room L011) at 4:30 pm. This free, public event is sponsored by the University of Florida George A. Smathers …
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 American history, his work explores the varying relationships between culture and politics, engaging subjects as diverse as the civil rights movement, southern rock music, and …
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 at the process of accessing the power of mass subjectivity through the public material infrastructure of the cash-in-transit business in Nairobi, Kenya, and the work …
“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 media. The event, hosted by UF Philosophy, is sponsored by UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Levin College of Law, and the Wertheim …
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 list of upcoming workshops in the library. March 6 - What is a Data Management Plan? - Plato Smith Increasingly, researchers are required to develop …
“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 County Public Library, 2720 E. Silver Springs Blvd./SR 40, Ocala. The grassroots organization lobbies to pass the "Carbon Fee and Dividend" legislation and works closely …
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 (SyrianamericanA, Eye Know Faces, and Close My Eyes) sensitively explore the meanings around cultural identity, immigration, political struggles in the Middle East and the US, …
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 States District Court Judge in the Northern District of Iowa on August 26, 1994. On January 1, 2000, he became Chief Judge of the Northern …
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 past and those who wish to learn from its remains. Many U.S. museums continue to collect in restricted areas such as classical antiquity; and even …
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 Roberts, award winning documentarian and telecommunication professor in the College of Journalism and Communications at UF. A perspective before the screening will be provided by …
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 Florida and off-campus individuals, groups, and institutions, the Center will offer grants up to $3,000 to support public programs rooted in one or more 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 Rothman Endowment for the Humanities, offers an inaugural funding opportunity for reading groups. Groups may use this opportunity for scholarly exchange on a shared topic …
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 masculinities, spanning the early processes of nation-state formation and empire building, through defeat and democratization. About 150 years ago, scientists, reformers, and government officials made …
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 School, and more. This unique theatrical experience provides the foundation for critical dialogue around Black History and identity. Written & Co-Directed by: Brittney M Caldwell …