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 …
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, connections among experiences, and career development. Faculty and staff interested in learning more about ePortfolio practice and platforms are invited to attend this workshop. Attendees …
“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 Joseph, University of Washington. Ralina L. Joseph is an associate professor of Communication, and adjunct associate professor of American Ethnic Studies and Gender, Women, Sexuality Studies at the University …
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 Joseph, University of Washington. Ralina L. Joseph is an associate professor of Communication, and adjunct associate professor of American Ethnic Studies and Gender, Women, Sexuality Studies at the University …
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 list of upcoming workshops in the library. March 20 - Experimental Research Designs– Dave Schwieder This workshop provides an overview of experimental research, including the …
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 100 Women at Work in Twenty-First-Century European Cinema University of Illinois Press, 2019 From hairdressers and caregivers to reproductive workers and power-suited executives, images of women’s labor …
DEADLINE: Humanities and the Sunshine State: Florida Water Stories
Applications due for 2019 Humanities and the Sunshine State: Florida Water Stories Program.
Managing Fulbright Recruitment and Retention with Debra Anderson, Scott Davis, and Matt Mitterko
UF International CenterCHPS Search Committee Meeting
CHPS Yavitz Conference Room - 200B Walker HallSearch Committee Meeting
Walker 200Research Fundamentals Workshops Series: 3D Printing for Research – 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. March 21 – 3D Printing for Research – Sara Gonzalez
HESCAH Lecture | Plotting the Roman Garden
Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, FloridaJoin the School of Art + Art History for Plotting the Roman Garden, a HESCAH lecture given by Dr. Bettina Bergmann, the Helene Phillips Herzig '49 Professor of Art History at Mount Holyoke College on Thursday, March 21 at 6 p.m. in the Chandler Auditorium at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art. Free and open …