Make it Global: Curriculum Internationalization Workshop
Join Paloma Rodriguez on Oct. 26, 2021, from 10:00 am - 11:00 am for a virtual workshop where you can explore how to enhance your courses with international perspectives. This session will also provide information about tools like virtual exchange, and you can also assess how internationalized your courses already are. Please note that you …
My Fulbright in 7 Minutes
Register here Hyojung Cho Texas Tech University and Tate Quinones Total Immersion: Adapting and Immersing Yourself in your Host Country
International Scholars Program – Getting Started ePortfolio Workshop
Join the UF International Center for an ePortfolio Workshop where we'll go over how to get started and how to navigate wix.com, what you'll need to include, and suggested guidelines for making a polished, reflective, and career-driven ePortfolio as part of the International Scholars Program and Peace Corps Prep. Attend in Person or on Zoom! …
Language, Gender, and Identity in the Arab World
“#Your lyrics do not represent my Moroccan dialect”: Sociolinguistic change, gender and the pop music industry in the Arabic-speaking world Invited Speaker: Atiqa Hachimi - University of Toronto Atiqa Hachimi is a sociolinguist and Arabic specialist whose teaching contributes to the programs for Women's and Gender Studies and African Studies. Her research focuses on social …
UF History Workshop: Nina Caputo
Nina Caputo with a work-in-progress chapter on Europe’s high middle ages: “The Trouble with Conversion: Jewish Converts and Christian Responses” With three distinguished discussants, specialists all in religious practices and conversion, and across three continents: Deeana Klepper, professor of religion & history, Boston University Benjamin Soares, professor of religion, University of Florida Kenneth Mills, professor …
Israel at a Crossroads: Directions, Perceptions, Illusions, and Challenges
This event is part of the “Contemporary Israel and Its Challenges: A Series of Conversations” series. In an era full of anecdotal evidence — which is, by nature, partial and often misleading — the need to bring evidence-based perspectives to democracy’s front lines has become paramount. This is particularly true in the midst of extensive social-economic-political …
Religious TV & Selective Piety in Pakistan
If you would like to attend, please follow this link to register: https://tinyurl.com/CGISNov1
Black Faculty and Staff Recruitment and Retention at UF Project Virtual Town Hall
The faculty and researchers of the Black Faculty and Staff Recruitment and Retention at UF Project in association with the African American Studies Program, UF Black Effort, and the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program cordially invite the greater UF community to their upcoming Town Hall on Wednesday, November 3 at 6 pm. The Black Faculty …
Teaching with ePortfolios Virtual Workshop
Join Paloma Rodriguez on Nov. 04, 2021, from 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm for a virtual workshop where you will gain an understanding of how ePortfolios support integrative learning (including career development) and experience a 20-minute hands-on tutorial about creating ePortfolios with the free web development platform Wix.
Coffee Without Borders: “The Power of Our Names: Exchanging Histories and Cultures”
Coffee Without Borders “The Power of our Names: Exchanging Histories and Cultures”! ISP is partnering with Changemakers’ Dialogue in the BCLS and UF International Exchange Student Services to facilitate an event that will encourage open discussions promoting international engagement and cultural exchange around what names can tell us about where we’ve been and where we’re …
Topple: Reimagining Monuments – Paul M. Farber
Paul M. Farber (Director, Monument Lab, Philadelphia) Virtual Event – Register Here to Receive Zoom URL Monument Lab Director and Co-founder Paul Farber shares insights on the reckoning and reimagining of our nation’s monuments. Over the last decade, artists, activists, and cultural organizers have pushed the status quo in public art, especially to reckon with symbols …
Residues and Relations: Thinking Identity at the Edge of Modernity
Chandler Auditorium (Harn Museum of Art)Dr. Amor will lecture on specific chapters of her career-long research on late modern artistic practices by artists from Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela as it implies a reflection on historical, local, and material conditions of cultural production beyond the dominant narratives of art history. Dr. Amor teaches modern and contemporary art with a focus on …
The Watergate Girl: My Fight For Truth and Justice Against a Criminal President – Jill Wine-Banks
Watch the event recording on Youtube Book Talk, Panel, Q&A and Closing event with Jill Wine-Banks author of The Watergate Girl, Legal Analyst or Legal Contributor for MSNBC, iGenPolitics, #SistersInLaw, and #JillsPins. Panel Discussion follows the Book Talk to be moderated by Beverly Robinson Register here.
Chronicles of Contagion
As we continue to grapple with the COVID-19 crisis, this event brings together cultural critics and historians to have a wide-ranging conversation across the domains of epidemiology, microbiology, politics, and literature. We will explore the histories of our pandemic present, as well as examine how the current pandemic is deeply tied to our civic and …
MFOS at 15 Years: A Documentary Premiere Screening
Reitz Union Second Floor Auditorium 686 Museum Road, Gainesville, FL, United StatesThe Machen Florida Opportunity Scholars (MFOS) program celebrates fifteen years of success ensuring the academic success of first-generation college students at the University of Florida. MFOS alumni are now making their mark on society and giving back to the Gator Nation! In honor of this momentous anniversary, the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program produced “MFOS …
Snakes on the Dance Floor: Bollywood Divas and Gay Indian Nightlife
Kareem Khubchandani (any pronouns) is the Mellon Bridge assistant professor in theater, dance, and performance studies, and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Tufts University. He is the author of Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife (University of Michigan Press, 2020), which won the 2021 Association for Theatre in Higher Education Outstanding Book award and the …
UF Synergies: Research on Women in Different Places
Please register for the event through the Zoom link: https://ufl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lceqsqD0jGdPJfVu5WqEF8OwdkzdU1e3t Professor Bonnie Ernst (Sociology and Criminology & Law) – “We Were All Feminists”: Punishment, Resistance, and Women’s Rights in the Age of Mass Incarceration” “We Were All Feminists” challenges and reframes dominant narratives on mass incarceration by exploring the experiences of women and protest movements in …
Harn Museum Nights: Into the Landscape
Presented in collaboration with the UF Center for European Studies Voyage in, around and through landscapes near and far, photographed and painted during our Museum Nights on a Tuesday. Explore art with friends and guides, meet remarkable land-loving groups from the area and enjoy performances, creative activities, and a fun photo-op. Hot Club de Ville performs jazz manouche to …
Florida’s Negro War: Black Seminoles and the Second Seminole War
Author and historian Dr. Anthony Dixon will join The Matheson Museum virtually via Zoom webinar to share about his book "Florida’s Negro War: Black Seminoles and the Second Seminole War" on Saturday, November 13 at 4pm.
Make it Global: Curriculum Internationalization Workshop
Join Paloma Rodriguez on November 16, 2021, from 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm for a virtual workshop where you can explore how to enhance your courses with international perspectives. This session will also provide information about tools like virtual exchange, and you can also assess how internationalized your courses already are. Please note that you …
Remembrance, Resolution, and Resiliency: A Colloquium on Murdered/Missing Indigenous Women & Girls
Anderson Hall 117As part of Native American Heritage Month, the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program is hosting a colloquium on the critical issue of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG). The program features a range of speakers to educate students, faculty, and local community members on the history, contemporary situation, jurisdictional challenges, and lack …
Grieving Our Way Back to Meaningfulness
University Auditorium Friends of Music RoomDr. Cholbi is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He specializes in ethical theory, practical ethics, and the philosophy of death and dying. His current research interests are focused on Kantian ethics, particularly respect for persons, equality, and agency; death and dying, including suicide and assisted dying, immortality, and grief; ethics of work …
Creating Global Classrooms Through Virtual Exchange Workshop
Join Paloma Rodriguez on November 18, 2021, from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm for a virtual workshop where you will discover different types of virtual exchange (VE) activities designed by UF faculty and learn how international virtual exchange can benefit students and faculty alike. This session will provide information on the UF Global Classrooms initiative, …
12 Women One Piano
The Historic Thomas Center 302 NE 6th Ave, Gainesville, FL, United States12 Women One Piano, Music for piano solo composed by women from the 11th century to today. The concert includes spoken word - poetry, stories and descriptions of the people, times and places. A journey in time, space and sound. This concert is funded, in part, by a grant from New York Women Composers, Inc. More …
Conversations in the Neighborhood – Sites of Transformations: Songs, Native Identity, and Healing
In this virtual conversation, indigenous artists dig into their creative process and their musical influences. They also explore how they express their lived experiences and their relationships with healing. More information here. Zoom registration Moderator Renata Yazzie is a Diné (Din-EH) pianist, music educator, and musicologist-in-training whose work focuses largely on the expression of Indigeneity in …
Soil Collection Ceremony in Lake County
An Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) Representative from Montgomery, AL, will attend the Soil Collection Ceremony in Lake County. The purpose is in Remembrance of The Groveland Four and Samuel Shepherd, who is listed on the EJI monument as one of those killed around the 1950s. Also listed are Harry and Harriette Moore, Mims, FL, Emmett …
Ethics on Tap: COVID Misinformation
Cypress and Grove Brewing 1001 NW 4th Street, Gainesville, FL, United StatesCome join the UF Ethics in the Public Sphere at Cypress and Grove for a group discussion about ethical issues that are raised by misinformation surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.
Graduate Film Studies Group in Conversation with Brett Story
From November 29 through December 1, GFSG will host a virtual screening of Dr. Story’s 2016 documentary A Prison in Twelve Landscapes. Following the screening, on December 2 Dr. Story will speak with us during a virtual interview from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. EST. The Zoom invite information has been provided below, so mark your calendars!
Dudley Farm: National Historic Landmark Delegation Celebration
Dudley Farm Historic Site 18730 West Newberry Road, Newberry, FL, United StatesThe Florida Department of Environmental Protection Division of Recreation and Parks , the city of Newberry, and the Friends of Dudley Farm invite you to the National Historic Landmark Delegation Celebration.
Museum Nights: Holidays in the Sun
Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, FloridaJoin the Harn Museum for Holidays in the Sun, celebrating diverse traditions of December and beyond.