CANCELLED: Music as a Liberatory Process – Martha Gonzalez
Alachua County Library Headquarters - Meeting Room A*This event has been cancelled.* Dr. Martha Gonzalez (Assistant Professor in the Intercollegiate Chican@ Latin@ Studies Department at SCRIPPS/Claremont Colleges) will present this community songwriting workshop. Gonzalez and bassist Juan Perez, both of the Grammy award-winning band Quetzal, will work directly with members of the public. No previous musical experience is required, but if you …
Puerto el Triunfo
Civic Media Center 433 S Main St, Gainesville, FL, United StatesCome enjoy a screening of this acclaimed 2017 documentary and a discussion with the filmmaker, Dr. Jeffrey L. Gould. During the 1970s, El Salvador boasted a vast shrimp industry, and nearly all of the 3700 tons that it exported each year made its way to the United States. As shrimp was transitioning away from luxury …
CANCELLED: University Press of Florida 75th Anniversary
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United States*This event has been cancelled.* Join the University Press of Florida in celebrating 75 years of excellence in book publishing! This event will include books for sale published by the University Press of Florida and University of Florida Press; speaker panels featuring authors, press staff, and guests; informative displays and activities; giveaways and door prizes; …
CANCELLED: Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration – Nicole R. Fleetwood
Ustler Hall Atrium*This event has been cancelled. The organizers hope to reschedule at a later time.* Marking Time shows how imprisoned people turn ordinary objects into elaborate works of art, working with meager supplies and in the harshest conditions. The impact of their art, Fleetwood argues, can be felt far beyond prison walls and offers a new …
Virtual Lecture: Thinking Itself Is Dangerous: Reading Hannah Arendt Now – Samantha Rose Hill
The Waterloo Centre for German Studies was expecting a full house to attend the 2020 Grimm Lecture. Samantha Rose Hill, Assistant Director of the Hannah Arendt Centre for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, was to give a talk entitled “Thinking Itself Is Dangerous: Reading Hannah Arendt Now.” The coronavirus pandemic has prevented this lecture …
CANCELLED: Policing Dialect Loyalty: Style and Ideologies of Language and Gender in Moroccan Digital Discourse – Atiqa Hachimi
Computer Science and Engineering Room E121 432 Newell Dr, Gainesville, FL, United States*This event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for Fall 2020.* Language serves a symbolic function in society as an expression of such concepts as power, gender and identity. Social actors produce and reproduce particular identities, as well as gender and power relations through their language use and language choices. The Department of Languages, Literatures, …
The Red Lotus – Chris Bohjalian
Alachua County Library Headquarters - Meeting Room ANew York Times-bestselling author and playwright Chris Bohjalian will present his new novel, The Red Lotus. Bohjalian is the author of more than 20 novels, including The Sandcastle Girls and The Night Strangers. His book The Flight Attendant will be a limited TV series on HBO. He is adapting his Oprah’s Book Club novel Midwives …
CANCELLED: HESCAH Lecture – Gendering Abolition in the Eighteenth Century or How Black Female Figures Embodied Freedom
Chandler Auditorium (Harn Museum of Art)*This event has been cancelled.* Anne Lafont, Professor, EHESS, l’Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, will address the issues of representation in the rare examples of black female figures during the long 18th Century. The point will be to question how, in the colonial iconography, their bodies were, or not, connected to the …
Virtual Roundtable: Borders and Contested Memory in Northern Ireland
This month’s Conversation on Europe explores borders and contested memory in Northern Ireland. The panel of experts will explore the conflict over territory and identity in Norther Ireland and how that has played out at the border and in other spaces. They will discuss what has changed since the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement and what may …
POSTPONED: The Golem of Prague
Hippodrome State Theatre 25 SE 2nd Pl, Gainesville, FL, United States*This event has been postponed.* The University of Florida Opera Theater, directed by Anthony Offerle, will be presenting the world premiere of the opera The Golem of Prague at The Hippodrome Theater in downtown Gainesville. The 3-act, approximately 100-minute work composed by Paul Richards, with a libretto by Sidney Homan, will feature 7 soloists, chorus, …
Accessibility in Digital Scholarship – George Williams
Library West 212 (Scott Nygren Studio)Effective and ethical digital scholarship is accessible to all users, including people with disabilities. Join us for networking, presentations, and a hands-on workshop with Dr. George Williams, Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina-Upstate. Dr. Williams’s research and teaching interests include digital humanities and accessibility in digital environments, and he has been …
CANCELLED: UF Intersections Public Ethics Panel: Climate Change
The Historic Thomas Center 302 NE 6th Ave, Gainesville, FL, United States*This event has been cancelled.* This community panel features local experts who address climate change through science education, environmental justice, and local political efforts. After hearing from each speaker, participants will have the opportunity to engage the panelists and each other in a civil discussion about how Gainesville can respond to the challenges posed by …
Community Resiliency and Recovery
Reitz Union Room 2365 686 Museum Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesPlease save the date for this university-wide event on community resiliency and recovery related to disaster, sponsored by UF/IFAS Extension. The group is seeking participants from across the university, in a variety of disciplines, who engage in work that is associated with disaster preparation and response. The goal is to increase collaboration and communication among UF faculty …
CANCELLED: Installation of the Sheikh Fellowship in Islamic Studies
Keene Faculty Center*This event has been cancelled.* The UF Department of Religion invites you to celebrate the installation of the Sheikh Fellowship in Islamic Studies. Event Introduction by Terje Østebø (UF) Speaker Introduction by Bruce B. Lawrence (Duke University) Lecture by Ali Altaf Mian (UF) Response by Sadia Abbas (Rutgers-Newark)
CANCELLED: Symposium on the Study of Islam and the Critical Humanities
Keene Faculty Center*This event has been cancelled.* The central question of this symposium is: How is the study of Islam a vital site for justifying the institutional life of the critical humanities, both as an academic discipline and a mode of public engagement? This event will give both speakers and attendees an opportunity to discuss/debate the place of Islam in the …
CANCELLED: Waka Poetry’s Myths of Origin – Gusdtav Heldt
*This event has been cancelled.* As part of the Languages, Literatures, and Cultures 2019-2020 Speaker Series: Print, Power, and Parable in Japanese Literature, Gusdtav Heldt of University of Virginia will present this talk. For centuries after its initial articulation in the Kokinshū anthology, the waka tradition asserted it began with the god Susa-no-o’s song at Izumo. …
CANCELLED: La Dérive Douce d’un Enfant de Petit-Goâve
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United States*The film festival has been postponed until Fall 2020.* In this documentary film by director Pedro Ruiz, the viewer follows the director to a dozen cities including Montreal, Paris, New York, Port-au-Prince to the legendary fishing village of Petit-Goâve. Along the way, the film explores the meaning of place, travel, exile, and homecoming. This screening …
US-Cuba Relations: Where We Go from Here – John Caulfield
Judaica Suite, Library EastThe Honorable John Caulfield, former Chief of the US Mission in Havana, will present this talk. Sponsored by the Department of History, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere.
CANCELLED: UF Intersections Ethics Café: Reparations
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United States*This event has been cancelled.* Are you interested in learning more about reparations to historically oppressed minority groups, especially African-Americans and Native Americans? Would you like to talk with other students about the ethical, political, and practical issues involved in reparations? This Ethics Café will provide a forum for wrestling with this difficult issue in …
Virtual Lecture: Food and Enslavement in Early America – Psyche Williams-Forson
As part of the Fire and Freedom Exhibition, please join the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries on Thursday April 9th from 12-1 via zoom to hear Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson as she presents a talk about food and enslavement in early America. Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of …
CANCELLED: UF Intersections Public Ethics Café: Wealth Inequality in Gainesville
The Historic Thomas Center 302 NE 6th Ave, Gainesville, FL, United States*This event has been cancelled.* Are you interested in learning more about wealth inequality in Gainesville? Would you like to talk with other community members about the distribution of wealth in our community? This Ethics Cafe will provide a forum for wrestling with this difficult issue in a friendly, civil setting. Bring an open mind, …
CANCELLED: UF Intersections Student Research Symposium: Religion, Ethics, and Gender
Reitz Union Ground Floor*This event has been cancelled.* This event will feature research by UF undergraduate and graduate students exploring the relations between gender, sexuality, and ethics. Individually and in groups, students will create posters, papers, and other media addressing the ethical and religious dimensions of issues including gender-based economic inequities, sexual violence and harassment, gendered dimensions of …
CANCELLED: HESCAH Lecture – Afro-Atlantic, Neo-Romantic: Reflections on Rotimi Fani-Kayode
Chandler Auditorium (Harn Museum of Art)*This event has been cancelled.* Kobena Mercer, Professor of History of Art & African American Studies at Yale University, will give the final presentation of the Spring 2020 lecture series "Art's Inclusive Histories: In Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage." Nigeria-British artist Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989) created his entire oeuvre in the six years between …
ONLINE: Explaining Venezuela’s Disaster: Populism, Extractivism, and Socialism of the 21st Century – Margarita Lopez Maya
The situation today in Venezuela is one of economic, social and political catastrophe. International Agencies have recognized that under Nicolás Maduro's Administration the country is undergoing a complex humanitarian crisis. The possibilities to control COVID-19 are in such context almost null. Having been in the 20th Century one of the most successful countries of the …
CANCELLED: Students in Action: A Social Justice Summit
Ustler Hall Atrium*This event has been cancelled.* The purpose of the summit is to highlight the social justice advocacy work that has been led and carried out by undergraduate students leading a social justice education, Gatorship, at the University of Florida. They aim to engage the University of Florida and broader Gainesville community in critical dialogue through poster presentations, …
SciArt Meetup: Women Scientific Illustrators
Florida Museum of Natural History 3215 Hull Rd, Gainesville, FL, United States*This event has been rescheduled from March 24 to April 21.* Artists 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 for …
Local Author Series: Marie Q. Rogers
Alachua County Library Headquarters - Meeting Room AJoin local author Marie Q. Rogers as she presents her book, Trials by Fire. This is the first book in her science fiction series.
Humanities Writing Retreat 2020
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere is canceling its annual Humanities Writing Retreat at the Austin Cary Forest. Instead, the Humanities Center is offering a Virtual Humanities Writing Support Group, which will focus on the transition from teaching to writing. The new deadline to RSVP is May …
The Revolution Within: Religious Mediation and the Struggle for the ‘New Egypt’ – Yasmin Moll
The 2011 revolution unleashed passionate public concern about how to create a “New Egypt.” Islamic channels were important sites of these debates as rival television preachers gave media form to their competing visions of what a virtuous life entails and what an ethical polity looks like. Based on fieldwork in Cairo with the “New Preachers” …
Local Author Series: Jo Ann Lordahl
Alachua County Library Headquarters - Meeting Room AJoin local author Jo Ann Lordahl as she presents her book, A Secret Kept in Hawaii.