Black Preference & Indifference in Sites of Erasure
Featuring: Dr. Mandisa Haarhoff This talk is a critical reflection on how black people engage sites of erasure (particularly spaces that hold sacred meanings to settler-colonial histories) and do so without knowledge, concern, or reverence for these histories. How does this interaction with these sites potentially undermine, disrupt, or throw into sharp relief ongoing forms of …
ePortfolio Workshop: Marketing Your Experiences
Looking to perfect your ePortfolio? In this workshop, you will learn how to market your experiences – whether they be study abroad/internships abroad, club or campus involvement, volunteering, or others. We will be hosting this workshop with guests from the Career Connections Center to provide insight on how to articulate your skills and how to …
A Conversation With Novelist Yaa Gyasi
Join us for a zoom conversation with novelist Yaa Gyasi, a recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 2016 “5 Under 35” Award, and a graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. We will be talking about Gyasi’s recent novel, Transcendent Kingdom, published in 2020 by Knopf, and about the writing life. We will …
Black Women’s Health & Reality TV: Using Black Popular Culture for Health Promotion
Featuring: Asha Winfield In this conversation, Winfield discusses functions of Black popular culture as it relates to, depicts, and covers Black health issues. Black reality television often shares the complexities of Black realities and on occasion includes Black women's health as a part of its "edutainment" or cultural pedagogy: Put in the context of race, sex, …
Underwater Panthers and Their Place in the Cosmos
Please join us for a talk presented by, Megan Kassabaum, University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. Archaeologists generally agree that certain beliefs about the cosmos are broadly shared among indigenous peoples of the Americas. Though the details vary wildly, the world is generally seen as consisting of three layers—the Above World, the Middle World, and the Beneath …
The Shifting Terrain of Christian-Muslim Encounters in Africa
This symposium will examine the intricate dynamics, multifaceted entanglements, and ambivalences in Christian-Muslim encounters in Africa. Internal transformations within Christianity and Islam have been occurring alongside changing patterns of interactions between Christians and Muslims. Focusing on “religious encounters” and putting Christianity and Islam in Africa within the same analytical frame, the symposium will shed light …
Within/Without You: London and the Provincial Choral Festival in the 1830s
Guest Lecture: Musicology Colloquium Dr. Charles McGuire, Oberlin University “Within/Without You: London and the Provincial Choral Festival in the 1830s" Please email Angela Jonas (ajonas@arts.ufl.edu) for the Zoom link.
UF History Workshop: Alice Freifeld
Paper title and discussants to be announced. Contact Prof. Nancy Hunt (nrhunt@ufl.edu) for the Zoom link and draft paper to be discussed.
Femme-inist is to Feminist as PYNK is to Pink
What is a black femme-inist? This talk offers preliminary thoughts on black femme-inism’s gender-specific, race-specific, and desire-specific contributions to the ongoing project of getting free. Meditating on what makes "black femme" a very smart, very black, and very queer gender, Dr. Tinsley outlines why black femme perspectives prove important to dismantling white supremacist heteropatriarchy. Omise’eke …
Conversations in the Neighborhood: How Can We Make Gainesville More Sustainable?
How can we have a sustainable food system? How can we have better food policies? How can we provide farmworkers better working conditions? This session brings speakers across Gainesville to share their perspectives on how Gainesville can build a food system that is sustainable both environmentally and socially. Please register for the event through the Zoom …
ISP Info Session
The International Scholars Program is a commencement medallion program that is open for enrollment to all undergraduate students. It helps structure your global learning experience through the completion of international coursework, international experience or language learning, and co-curricular activities. Additionally, you may co-enroll in the Peace Corps Prep Program, which includes sector-specific coursework and hands-on …
Oludamini Ogunnaike: Twin Mirrors: Sufism as seen by Ifa, Ifa as seen by Sufism
The Center for Global Islamic Studies has planned a few online lectures during the spring semester: two lectures about Islam in America by Justine Howe and Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, and another about Sufism and Ifa by Oludamini Ogunnaike. The events will take place via Zoom, and you can find the links for registration after each event. …
ePortfolio Workshop: Getting Started
Join us for an ePortfolio Workshop where we'll go over how to get started and how to navigate Wix, 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. Zoom registration
Interface Teaching Conference
The Interface Teaching Conference provides faculty, staff, TAs, GAs, and post-docs with new strategies for great teaching and learning through interactive breakout sessions. This year’s theme is Better Together: Unstoppable Student Teams. Although students may have diverging opinions on group work, creating diverse teams that collaborate on creative assignments can energize students and result in greater …
Coffee Without Borders: Sustainable Development
Join the International Scholars Program and the One Health Student Association to discuss sustainable development with your peers and “upgrade your worldview” by seeing how much you know about the UN sustainable development goals! We can’t wait to see you there! Please emailAmila Tica (atica@ufic.ufl.edu) for the Zoom link.
Indigenous Rights, Environmental Change, and Development in South America’s Chaco
The Gran Chaco is one of Latin America’s most threatened forest ecosystems. Global demand for beef, soybeans, and hydrocarbons are driving a multi-billion dollar infrastructure boom, deforestation, and new migration dynamics across the region. As a result, the Chaco been the site of landmark Indigenous land rights cases, profound social change, and enduring efforts to …
Immanent Vitalities: Meaning and Materiality in Modern and Contemporary Art
Join us on Thursday, April 15 at 6 pm for the launch of Kaira M. Cabañas's Immanent Vitalities: Meaning and Materiality in Modern and Contemporary Art. The book was published as part of the University of California Press's "Studies in Latin American Art" series, which is supported by the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA).
Ethics on Tap: Community Conversation on Gentrification
Come join us at Cypress and Grove Brewery for a night of socially distanced discussion on the ethical issues raised by gentrification in the Gainesville community. This event is free and open to members of the UF and Gainesville communities. Location: Cypress and Grove Brewery 1001 Northwest 4th Street Gainesville, FL 32601 Register here More information …
PLAYED: Music as an Instrument of Exploiting Black Girls’ Online Play as Free Labor
Guest Lecture: Musicology Colloquium Dr. Kyra Gaunt, University at Albany (SUNY) Please email Angela Jonas (ajonas@arts.ufl.edu) for the Zoom link.
Artist’s Talk: Disaster and the Body
In the past year, Florida and its neighbors in the Gulf Coast and Caribbean have weathered hurricanes, earthquakes, and ice storms, all amidst a global pandemic. Artists have helped disaster-impacted communities come to terms with how to move forward, rebuild, and prepare for the next crisis. Join choreographer, Michelle Gibson (New Orleans/ Dallas), and members …
Sermon I Wish I’d Heard — Play & Workshop
Growing up Blxck, Queer, Non-binary, and Bible Belted in the Midwest, the Sermon I wish I'd Heard bears witness to Hicks' journey towards self-love through spoken word, song, and movement--three friends that fed the indomitable spirit childhood required. Such is a blossom, which Hick says, ultimately saves their life; and perhaps, lives now as a call home …
The WWI Diary of Albert Huet. From Digitization to Implementation in the Classroom
Panelist 1: Dr. Hélène Huet (University of Florida) In 2016, I published online the digitized French-language notebook of my great-grandfather, Albert Huet, in which he recounts his experience as a young inexperienced soldier in the French army during WWI. For this presentation, I will focus on the origins of the digital project and showcase my …
Intersections Symposium Ft. Will Robots Feel Pain? The Politics of Race, the Governance of Technology, and the Future of Humanity – Sylvester Johnson
From Aristotle’s ancient conception of the soul, to Ibn Rushd’s 12th-century analytics of the intellect, to the information theory underlying neural networks, scholars have queried the agency of things and the relationship between matter and its other (spirit?). Does agency inhere in material things? Can an assemblage of machine parts be a person? What distinguishes …
Florida Humanities: Braver Angels Red/Blue Workshop – Part I
Join us for a free two-part intensive online workshop that brings together Red (conservative or Republican-leaning) and Blue (liberal or Democratic-leaning) citizens for moderated activities and structured discussions that reduce stereotyped thinking, clarify disagreements, build relationships and find common ground through listening and learning rather than declaring and debating. Registering for Part 1 will automatically …
ISP Graduation Ceremony & ePortfolio Showcase
The International Scholars Program is proud to announce the latest cohort of International Scholars Program graduates for the Spring 2021 semester. Join us as we celebrate our graduates' accomplishments and give them the chance to present their eportfolio capstone projects. There will be three ceremonies to accommodate our graduates. Please use the links below to …
Virtual Humanities Writing Support Group RSVP
HUMANITIES WRITING RETREAT Monday-Friday, May 3-7, 2021 (UF intersession) Daily Short Virtual Meetings RSVP by April 28th: https://ufl.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9GmNNxKtf45Hx6R More information here.
Let’s Eat! Community Cookbooks of the Matheson
Join Curator of Collections Kaitlyn Hof-Mahoney and friend of the Matheson Katie Kelly on Thursday, April 29th for “Let’s Eat! Community Cookbooks of the Matheson.” This free, virtual program will feature Kaitlyn and Katie giving a cooking demonstration of recipes from a few of the many Florida cookbooks in the Matheson’s collection. The Matheson’s collection …
Florida Humanities: Braver Angels Red/Blue Workshop – Part II
This is Part II of an intensive online workshop that brings together Red (conservative or Republican-leaning) and Blue (liberal or Democratic-leaning) citizens for moderated activities and structured discussions that reduce stereotyped thinking, clarify disagreements, build relationships and find common ground through listening and learning rather than declaring and debating. Registering for Part 1 will automatically …
Virtual Humanities Writing Support Group
VirtualHumanities Writing Retreat Monday-Friday, May 3-7, 2021 (UF intersession) Daily Short Virtual Meetings Do you want to dust off your writing project, finish your article, jump-start your grant-proposal, edit your book manuscript, or write your blog? Would you benefit from making daily commitments and embracing accountability? Do you love learning about the research projects of …
NEH Virtual Workshop — Digital Humanities
This workshop will highlight grant programs that support work in the digital humanities, both in NEH's Office of Digital Humanities and across the agency. Teams meeting link: Join live event Dial-in phone number: +1 202-600-8430 Conference ID: 507 646 569#