Advancing Humanities Inquiry across Disciplines: Learn about the National Humanities Center’s Residential Fellowships, Educational Resources, and Public Programs
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FLAdvancing Humanities Inquiry across Disciplines: Learn about the National Humanities Center’s Residential Fellowships, Educational Resources, and Public Programs with Dr. Tania Munz (Vice President for Scholarly Programs, National Humanities Center ) Two identical workshops will be offered: Thursday, April 11, 2-4pm and Friday, April 12, 10am-12pm Smathers Library 100 Founded in 1978, the National …
Research Fundamentals Workshops Series: Start Writing using Overleaf – 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. April 11 – Start Writing using Overleaf – Sara Gonzalez Do you write your papers in LaTeX or …
Art in Engineering
Lullabies and Liturgies: Yiddish, Hebrew, Arabic
University Auditorium 333 Newell Dr, Gainesville, FLJoin performers Yair Dalal (oud, violin), Lenka Lichtenberg (guitar, harmonium), and Dror Sinai (percussion) for an evening of musical, linguistic, and folkloric traditions. This concert explores the beauty and surprising ease of creating intercultural harmonies and resonances. Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, Center for European Studies, and the Jewish Council of North Central …
Image, Ornament, Matter: A Symposium on their Limits and Intersections in the History of Art
Chandler Auditorium (Harn Museum of Art)April 12-13, 2019 Harn Museum of Art Speakers: Spyros Papapetros, Princeton University (Keynote) Benjamin C. Tilghman, Washington College / The Material Collective Megan McNamee, Warburg Institute Meekyung MacMurdie, University of Chicago Susanna McFadden, Bryn Mawr College Irene Backus, Oklahoma State University Ashley Jones, University of Florida Recent attempts to re-situate the so-called “Minor Arts” at …
Advancing Humanities Inquiry across Disciplines: Learn about the National Humanities Center’s Residential Fellowships, Educational Resources, and Public Programs
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FLAdvancing Humanities Inquiry across Disciplines: Learn about the National Humanities Center’s Residential Fellowships, Educational Resources, and Public Programs with Dr. Tania Munz (Vice President for Scholarly Programs, National Humanities Center ) Two identical workshops will be offered: Thursday, April 11, 2-4pm and Friday, April 12, 10am-12pm Smathers Library 100 Founded in 1978, the National …
16th Annual UF Conference on Comics – “Imagetext in Motion: Comics and Animation”
Ustler HallAnimation and comics are two tangled pictorial mediums that stem from the same modernist concerns with the possibilities of the image. Animation and the cartooned bodies it brings into being are omnipresent on the screens that surround us, the advertisements that beg our attention, and the popcorn fare that draws out our inner escapists. But …
Tenth Annual History Honors Conference and Awards Luncheon
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FLThe UF community is invited to see the research of Undergraduate Honors Students in the Department of History. Session 1 (9:00-10:15) Race, Community, and Politics in the American South Chair: Professor William Link Sujaya Rajguru Andrew Salyer Brenda Withington Julian Valdivia Session 2 (10:30-11:20) The US and the World in the 20th Century Chair: …
“Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld” by Dominique Kalifa
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FLHistorian and professor at the University of Paris 1, Dominique Kalifa works on the history of crime, social control, and mass culture in 19th- and early 20th- century France and Europe. His book "Vice, Crime and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld” (Columbia University Press) examines the underworld of 19th and 20th century …
“Cairo in One Breath” with documentary filmmaker Anna Kipervaser
Keene Flint 005Anna Kipervaser's film Cairo in One Breath will be screened on April 15th in Keene Flint 005 as the final installment of the "Muslim Worlds" series. The film focuses on the experiences of Cairo's muezzin during the implementation of the Egyptian project to automate calls to prayer in Cairo. As an experimental film, Cairo in One Breath also serves as a …
Teaching Portfolio Review
Reitz Union - Career Connections CenterA teaching portfolio can showcase your teaching and professional strengths and help you stand out in searches for academic positions. GA’s and TA’s, you are invited to sign up for a 30-minute block of time, on April 16, to receive feedback on your portfolio from the UF Office of Teaching Excellence. Teaching Portfolio Sign up.
Search Committee Meeting
CHPS Yavitz Conference Room - 200B Walker HallResearch Fundamentals Workshops Series: How to make your data FAIR? – Plato Smith
Marston Science Library L308Research Fundamentals Workshops Series Held in Marston Science Library L308 at 3pm. Reservations requested but not required. All workshops are free and open to all. See here for full list of upcoming workshops in the library: April 17 - How to make your data FAIR? - Plato Smith Funders are now expected to make their …
“Slavery and the University of Florida: Exploring the Connections”
Pugh Hall OcoraA team of student researchers reports on its investigation into ties between the University of Florida and slavery in antebellum Florida. As they've found, those ties run deep. With History undergraduates Ahmad Brown, Morgan Peltier, Javier Escoto-Garcia and Gabriella Paul, History Professor Jon Sensbach, and reflections by University Historian Carl Van Ness and Political Science …
Museums Seeding Authority: A Paradigm for Practice of Justice and Generosity
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FLJoin museum thought-leaders Noelle Kahanu (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa) and Ben Garcia (Museum of Man, San Diego, CA) for a conversation about what decolonial museum practice looks like nationally and internationally, and a conversation about recent projects that are positively impacting Indigenous communities and museums.
Search Committee Meeting
Walker 200
Humanities Engagement Scholars Meet-up
CHPS Yavitz Conference Room - 200B Walker HallTopic: Center for Undergraduate Research: Emerging Scholars, University Scholars, and Honors Thesis in majors Are you curious how to get funding for your research project? Do you know how to graduate with Honors? If you are interested in these questions, come to the open meeting of the Humanities Engagement Scholars to talk to students and …
American Moonshot with Historian Douglas Brinkley
Pugh Hall, MacKay AuditoriumMarking the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing in 1969, historian Douglas Brinkley will speak at the University of Florida on April 19 on his new book, American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race. The perennial New York Times best-selling author and CNN presidential historian will speak at Pugh Hall, MacKay Auditorium at 6 …
Convergence: Music & Art
Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, FloridaIn connection with the exhibition "Divergent Convergence: The Arts of Creativity, Discovery & Inquiry," this afternoon event will feature original works by the 2018-2019 Harn Composer-in-Residence Diogo Carvalho incorporating music, dance, poetry, and audience participation. Featured will be the world premiere of "Garden Soundscape" (2019), an original work inspired by the Harn Asian Rock Garden and …
Spring Symposium on Men and Gender
Pugh Hall 302This multidisciplinary symposium will discuss the sometime unconsidered facets of gender that effect men and masculinity in the context of multiple identities, cross-sections, social conventions and sexual practices. Monday, April 22 during periods 5th and 6th (11:45 to 1:40), in Pugh 302. Moderated by Prof. Trysh Travis, Associate Professor and Waldo W. Neikirk Term Professor, …
UF Digital Humanities Working Group Brown Bag Lunch and Lightning Round Presentations
Library West 212 (Scott Nygren Studio)The Digital Humanities Working Group is hosting brown-bag lunch lightning round sessions. Please feel free to come for all or part of the session and bring your lunch along. Do you have: - a DH project you’ve finished and you want to share it with everyone - a DH project that’s in progress (and maybe you …
Research Fundamentals Workshops Series: How to develop an Open Source Framework (OSF) project? – 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: April 24 - How to develop an Open Source Framework (OSF) project? – Plato Smith Have you heard …
Local Impacts of Mass Incarceration: A Community Round Table
Reitz Union Room 2355Between 1980 and 2015, the number of people incarcerated in America increased from near 500,000 to over 2.2 million. Today, 1 in every 37 adults in the United States is under some form of correctional supervision. While this punishment creep impacts communities, populations, and individuals in different ways, its presence impacts our local community in distinct ways. You are invited to a round table where community members directly address how they …
Humanities Writing Retreat (2019)
Austin Cary Forest Learning Center 10625 NE Waldo Road, Gainesville, FLHumanities Writing Retreat Monday-Friday, May 6-10, 2019 (UF intersession) 8:30am to 4:30pm daily Austin Cary Forest Learning Center The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere offers a five-day writing retreat in the peaceful Austin Cary Forest Learning Center. Turn off your cell phones! Dust off your writing project! Finish your article! Jump-start your …
Sip and Scholarship: An Evening of Legends and Libations
The Edison 470 Suwannee St, Tallahassee, FLThe Florida Council for History Education will host an evening of libations and stories from Florida's past. Members and non-members are invited to join the fun at the Edison Restaurant in Tallahassee, as Dr. Andrea Oliver shares narratives of historical events through an informal and interactive lecture. Cash bar and full menu will be available.
Humanities Center Search Committee Meeting
Walker 200Act Locally
Florida and Water: A History
Join Steven Noll, master lecturer in the University of Florida Department of History, who will be the guest speaker at this month's installment of the public lecture series, Evenings at Whitney. For further details, call (904) 461-4000
SciArt Meetup: Reptiles and Amphibians
Florida Museum of Natural History 3215 Hull Rd, Gainesville, FLArtists and designers are invited to visit the Florida Museum of Natural History after hours for SciArt Meetups to explore exhibits and create art inspired by Florida nature and culture! With partners Santa Fe College Art Gallery and Wayfaring Painter, join the museum on May 14 from 6 to 9 p.m. for a brief art …
Dissertation Writing Workshop: Writing a Comprehensive Literature Review
Pugh 170Join Vernetta K. Williams, PhD, and learn the ins and outs of how to write a comprehensive literature review - a collection of articles, books, and other sources on a specific topic - to sum up existing research on your subject, put your own research in context, and highlight what your research will add to …