Policing the Politicians: Law, Politics, and Democracy in Classical Athens – Chris Carey
Dauer 219The UF Centre for Greek Studies welcomes Chris Carey (Emeritus Professor of Greek, University College London) for this Polopolus Series Spring Lecture. Chris Carey is one of the world's leading experts on Athenian democracy, law and politics and one of the most distinguished academics of our times in Classical Studies. He has written substantially on Athenian …
Careers in the Humanities (Workshop)
Reitz Union - Career Connections CenterLearn about careers for students of all majors interested in the Humanities. Registration is encouraged as space is limited. Register here. This event is open to all UF students. Sponsored by UF Mellon Intersections, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, the Career Connections Center, and Smathers Libraries.
Digital Humanities Open House
Library West 212 (Scott Nygren Studio)This event is an informal gathering for anyone interested in learning about and discussing digital humanities, hosted by Tiffany C. Esteban, the Digital Scholarship Associate at Library West. She will provide a brief introduction to the Scott Nygren Scholars Studio’s resources and the UF Digital Humanities Working Group. UF faculty, staff, and students are all …
UF Intersections Public Ethics Panel: Immigration Reform
The Historic Thomas Center 302 NE 6th Ave, Gainesville, FL, United StatesThis community panel features local experts who will address immigration reform through religious, policy, and community 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 immigration crisis, and specifically whether Gainesville should become a sanctuary …
CANCELLED: New Public Humanities Summer Internships for Ph.D. Students – Info Session
CHPS Yavitz Conference Room - 200B Walker Hall*This event has been cancelled.* Learn more about the Center for the Humanities and Public Sphere’s new Public Humanities Internship Program for Ph.D. Students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for summer 2020. Each internship is a paid six-week .50 FTE Graduate Research Assistantship during the period of summer A. Ph.D. students will …
Imagineering the Museum
Dr. Eleni Bozia (UF Classics) will present "Reimagining Authenticity in the Era of 3D Printing." Living in the era of 3D digitization and printing, hence of recreation and different representations of artifacts, we need to reconsider authenticity and originality. This workshop will consider 3D representations of museum artifacts and other manifestations of reproduction to reevaluate …
Is American ‘Different?’ Antisemitism and the Belief in American Exceptionalism – Tony Michels
Judaica Suite, Library EastJoin Dr. Tony Michels of the University of Wisconsin, Madison for this event, sponsored by Mitchell Hart, the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish History. Tony Michels is George L. Mosse Associate Professor of American Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New …
CANCELLED: Spiritual Subjects: Central Asian Pilgrims and the Ottoman Hajj – Lâle Can
Keene Flint 005Unfortunately, Thursday evening's book talk by Dr. Lâle Can has been cancelled due to travel concerns. At the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of Central Asians made the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. Traveling long distances, many lived for extended periods in Ottoman cities dotting the routes. Though technically foreigners, these Muslim colonial subjects often …
CANCELLED: HESCAH Lecture: Louise Nevelson’s Palace – Julia Bryan-Wilson
Chandler Auditorium (Harn Museum of Art)*This event has been cancelled.* Julia Bryan-Wilson, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Berkeley, lectures on the work of Louise Nevelson, the Ukrainian-American sculptor whose career intersected with the feminist art movement. Her talk focuses particularly on Mrs. N’s Palace (1964-77), Nevelson’s largest sculpture. Comprised of some hundred found objects, painted black, the work echoes both public …
Florida’s Female Pioneers – Peggy Macdonald
Matheson History Museum 513 E University Avenue, Gainesville, FL, United StatesThe Matheson History Museum is thrilled to welcome back public historian, author, and former executive director Dr. Peggy Macdonald, to speak at the Matheson about Florida’s Female Pioneers. A book signing will follow her presentation. In this presentation Dr. Peggy Macdonald examines some of the women who have shaped Florida, including: Dr. Esther Hill Hawks, …
Seeing is Believing: Women Direct
Hippodrome CinemaSeeing Is Believing: Women Direct is a documentary film which emphasizes the opportunity for women to use their voice through media to change the social and political landscape and achieve full equality. Focusing on inspiring and uplifting young female storytellers through the mentorship and leadership of four diverse directors, Seeing is Believing: Women Direct opens …
CANCELLED: Lecture by Byllye Y. Avery
Ustler Hall 200Unfortunately, Byllye Avery will be unable to travel to Gainesville at this time. The events featuring Byllye Avery, including the lecture and discussion scheduled for Friday, March 13th, have been cancelled. They will be rescheduled at a later date. Byllye Y. Avery, a key figure in shaping Gainesville's prominent role in the national feminist movement, …
CANCELLED: Identifying with Nationality: Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandria – Will Hanley
Keene Flint 005*This event has been cancelled.* Nationality is the most important legal mechanism sorting and classifying the world's population today. An individual's place of birth or naturalization determines where he or she can and cannot be and what he or she can and cannot do. Although this system may appear universal, even natural, Will Hanley shows …
Linguistic Landscapes and Language Ideologies in the Occupied Territories (West Bank and East Jerusalem) – Keith Walters
Computer Science and Engineering Room E121 432 Newell Dr, Gainesville, FL, United StatesLanguage 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, and Cultures presents this talk as part of the Spring 2020 …
CANCELLED: Lies Deceit and Bullshit in Law – Lawrence Solan
Pugh 170*This event has been cancelled.* Join UF Linguistics for this plenary session of the Florida Linguistics Yearly Meeting (FLYM 2020). Professor Lawrence Solan (Don Forchelli Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School) will present this talk. Sponsored by the Department of Linguistics; College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; UF English Language Institute; Center for African Studies; …
CANCELLED: Lagos Landing
Hippodrome Cinema*The film festival has been postponed until Fall 2020.* Lagos Landing is a romantic thriller, a love story inspired by true events. It was created in Nigeria. This screening is part of the Voyages Across Borders Film Festival, which is free and open to all. It is sponsored by the France-Florida Research Institute; Center for …
CANCELLED: The Lost Café
Hippodrome Cinema*The film festival has been postponed until Fall 2020.* The Lost Café is an uplifting story about a girl's decision to rise above her dark family secrets, heartbreak and culture shock to live out her dreams abroad. It was created in Nigeria. This screening is part of the Voyages Across Borders Film Festival, which is free …
CANCELLED: Doing Phonetics in the Field: Afrikaans-Spanish Bilingualism in Patagonia – Andries Coetzee
Pugh 170*This event has been cancelled.* Join UF Linguistics for this keynote address of the Florida Linguistics Yearly Meeting (FLYM 2020). Professor Andries Coetzee (Director of the Center for African Studies at University of Michigan) will present this talk. Sponsored by the Department of Linguistics; College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; UF English Language Institute; Center for …
Afrofeminismo toward Racial Justice – Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro
Dauer 215As a keynote lecture for the 2020 Spanish and Portuguese Academic Research Conference (SPARC), Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro will present this talk. She is an award-winning Puerto Rican novelist, short story writer and essayist. Sponsored by Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (Rothman Endowment); Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies; Department of Linguistics; Center …
CANCELLED: Corpus Linguistics as a Method of Legal Interpretation – Lawrence Solan
Pugh 170*This event has been cancelled.* Join UF Linguistics for this keynote address of the Florida Linguistics Yearly Meeting (FLYM 2020). Professor Lawrence Solan (Don Forchelli Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School) will present this talk. Sponsored by the Department of Linguistics; College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; UF English Language Institute; Center for African Studies; Office of …
Local Author Series: Gary Steele
Alachua County Library Headquarters - Meeting Room AJoin local author Gary Steele as he presents his book The Gypsy Family Circus of 1933. The author is product of a Gypsy heritage and a circus childhood, and he weaves together old family stories of life on the road during the Great Depression, when people yearned for escape from their dreary lives and shelled …
Spanish Heritage Language Education – Maria M. Carreira
Dauer 219As a keynote lecture for the 2020 Spanish and Portuguese Academic Research Conference (SPARC), Maria M. Carreira will present this talk. She is Professor of Spanish at California State University, Long Beach. Sponsored by Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (Rothman Endowment); Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies; Department of Linguistics; Center for …
CANCELLED: Hope
Hippodrome Cinema*The film festival has been postponed until Fall 2020.* Hope is a dramatic film by French writer/director Boris Lojkine. In this film, Léonard makes a clandestine journey from Cameroon to Europe through the Sahara desert. Along the way, Léonard meets Hope, a Nigerian girl who's following the same dream. This screening is part of the …
CANCELLED: Catch the Wind
Hippodrome Cinema*The film festival has been postponed until Fall 2020.* Catch the wind is a dramatic film by French director Gael Morel. In this film, a middle-aged factory worker's life is upended when she follows her employer to Morocco. This screening is part of the Voyages Across Borders Film Festival, which is free and open to all. It …
CANCELLED: Yang Yang
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United States*The film festival has been postponed until Fall 2020.* Yang Yang is a dramatic film by Taiwanese writer/director Yu-Chieh Cheng. In this film, a young woman struggles to deal with her mixed identity as part French, part Taiwanese. This screening is part of the Voyages Across Borders Film Festival, which is free and open to …
CANCELLED: Moral Sentimentalism and the Boundaries of Morality – Stephen Stich
303 Griffin Floyd Hall*This event has been cancelled.* What is required for an utterance (or judgment, or principle, etc.) to count as moral? Mid-twentieth century philosophy was preoccupied with this question, and in recent times it has become an important issue for psychologists and other social scientists interested in morality. In this talk, Stephen Stich (Professor of Philosophy, …
CANCELLED: UF Intersections Ethics Café: Gender Violence
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United States*This event has been cancelled. The organizers hope to reschedule at a later time.* Are you interested in learning more about the relations between gender and violence? Would you like to talk with other students about different forms of gender violence, proposals to decrease this violence, and the moral questions raised by these debates? This …
CANCELLED: Sino-French Cinema as Métissage – Michelle Bloom
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United States*The film festival has been postponed until Fall 2020.* Join Dr. Michelle Bloom for this talk. This lecture is part of the Voyages Across Borders Film Festival, which is free and open to all. It is sponsored by the France-Florida Research Institute; Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (Yulee Lectures Endowment); UF International Center; …
POSTPONED: UF Synergies: The Politics of Place and Identity
CHPS Yavitz Conference Room - 200B Walker Hall*This event has been postponed. Updates coming soon.* The UF Synergies series features informal talks by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere’s Rothman Faculty Summer Fellows, Tedder Doctoral Fellows, and Rothman Doctoral Fellows. Fellows will speak for 20 minutes in length about their funded work, leaving ample time for questions and discussion. …
CANCELLED: Music Travels: Transnational Dialogues and Rhythmic Intentions – Martha Gonzalez
Ustler Hall Atrium*This event has been cancelled.* Dr. Martha Gonzalez (Assistant Professor in the Intercollegiate Chican@ Latin@ Studies Department at SCRIPPS/Claremont Colleges) and bassist Juan Perez, both of the Grammy award-winning band Quetzal, will present this interactive multimedia lecture that explores the legacy of rhythms. Sponsored by the UF Mellon Intersections Group on Global Blackness and Latinx …