A Cultural Conversation through Music – Cristina Pato
University Auditorium 333 Newell Dr, Gainesville, FL, United StatesFrom the origins of the Latin languages in Europe to the music of Afro-Spanish South America, the links between the two continents run deep. UF Performing Arts presents musician, writer, and educator Cristina Pato who, in addition to touring, serves as Artistic and Learning Advisor to the Silkroad (founded by Yo-Yo Ma), and Chair in …
Naila and the Uprising
J. Wayne Reitz Union Chamber RoomYou are invited to attend the conference Culture and Conflict in Palestine/Israel held February 1-3 at UF. The kickoff event for this conference will be a free screening of this documentary from 2017. When a nation-wide uprising breaks out in 1987, a woman in Gaza must make a choice between love, family, and freedom. Undaunted, …
Culture and Conflict in Palestine/Israel
You are invited to attend the conference Culture and Conflict in Palestine/Israel held February 1-3 at UF. As diplomatic and military efforts to establish justice and peace in Palestine/Israel have reached a stalemate, we call for a closer look into the cultural sphere – not as a form of escapism but rather as a sphere …
UF Intersections Ethics Café: Free Speech and Hate Speech
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesAre you interested in learning more about free speech and hate speech on campus? Would you like to talk with other students about freedom of expression and the extent to which it should or can be limited? This Ethics Café will provide a forum for wrestling with this difficult issue in a friendly, civil setting. …
Book Discussion: Coming of Age in Mississippi
Institute of Black Culture 1510 W. University Ave, Gainesville, FL, United StatesAs part of the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere 2019-20 Speaker Series Rethinking the Public Sphere Part I: Race and the Promise of Participation and in preparation for Leigh Ann Wheeler's public lecture "Anne Moody and Voting Rights in the Era of Black Power: After Coming of Age in Mississippi," students, faculty, …
Religion Rhetoric and Climate Change – Erin Prophet
Marston Science Library 136What can be learned from the study of religion about motivating climate action? Are religious people less likely to accept human responsibility for climate change? Erin Prophet will examine contemporary scholarship, consider the role of millennialism in both religious and environmental rhetoric, and ask whether it is possible to reframe the issue in ways that …
Welcoming the Stranger: Immigration and American Values – R. Marie Griffith
Pugh Hall OcoraJoin R. Marie Griffith, Director of the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University, for her lecture "Welcoming the Stranger: Immigration and American Values".
Decolonizing Representations: Past, Present, and Future (Workshop)
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesHow can faculty, students, and community members engage in digital knowledge production as critical users and as meaningful producers? Decolonizing Representations is a set of FREE workshops designed for those folks who want to learn to do both, using digital tools to examine and re-imagine representations of Black, Latinx, Indigenous, & Asian groups, and people …
Book Discussion: Coming of Age in Mississippi
Alachua County Library Headquarters - Meeting Room B 401 E University Ave, Gainesville, FL, United StatesAs part of the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere 2019-20 Speaker Series Rethinking the Public Sphere Part I: Race and the Promise of Participation and in preparation for Leigh Ann Wheeler’s public lecture “Anne Moody and Voting Rights in the Era of Black Power: After Coming of Age in Mississippi,” students, faculty, …
Finding Florida – Ken Sulak
Columbia County Public Library 308 NW Columbia Ave, Lake City, FL, United StatesJoin the Friends of the Columbia County Library for this special presentation on the history of pioneers in North Florida. Ken Sulak, Ph.D. is a research fish biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Gainesville, Florida. He is lead scientist for the Coastal Ecology and Conservation Research Group and leader of the Sturgeon Quest project …
UF Synergies: Women in the Context of State Violence
CHPS Yavitz Conference Room - 200B Walker HallThe 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. Talks are paired across disciplinary boundaries to stimulate …
The Scholems: A Story of the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie from Emancipation to Destruction – Jay Gellar
Judaica Suite, Library EastJay Gellar is the Samuel Rosenthal Professor of Judaic Studies at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of Jews in Post-Holocaust Germany, 1945-1953 (2005) and of The Scholems: A Story of the German-Jewish German-Jewish Bourgeoisie from Emancipation to Destruction (2019).
Solidarity Sessions: More than an Athlete – Raja Rahim
Institute of Black Culture 1510 W. University Ave, Gainesville, FL, United StatesRaja Rahim (PhD Candidate, UF History) will discuss the history of suppressing Black athletes attempting to use their platform to promote social issues. Solidarity Sessions is a discussion series presented by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program in which professors, graduate students, and community organizers lead students in discussions on various issues concerning Black and …
A Chi’Xi Gesture: Writing in Spanish in the US Today – Cristina Rivera Garza
Turlington L011The Center for Latin American Studies presents this lecture by Dr. Cristina Rivera Garza, an eminent Mexican writer based at the University of Houston. Dr. Cristina Rivera Garza is Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston. She is the award-winning author of six novels, three collections …
UF Intersections Public Ethics Panel: Sex Trafficking and Toxic Masculinity
Dauer 219Join UF experts and community activists in a discussion of sex trafficking and its existence in the local community. After hearing from each speaker, participants will have the opportunity to engage the panelists and each other in a civil discussion. The event is free and open to the public. Panelists: Sedona Huffy, Created Gainesville Alison …
1920-2020: A Century of Suffrage and Voter Suppression – Liette Gidlow
Ustler Hall AtriumJoin Professor Liette Gidlow of Wayne State University for this Gary C. and Eleanor G. Simons Lecture on American History. Prof. Gidlow is the 2019-2020 Mellon-Schlesinger Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, where she is participating in the Long Nineteenth Amendment Project at the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in …
Solidarity Sessions: Racism in the Latinx Community – Rosana Resende
Institute of Hispanic-Latino Cultures 1504 W University Ave, Gainesville, FL, United StatesDr. Rosana Resende (UF Center for Latin American Studies) will examine a history of racial oppression within Latin America and the Latinx diaspora and how it persists to this day. Solidarity Sessions is a discussion series presented by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program in which professors, graduate students, and community organizers lead students in …
Anne Moody and Voting Rights in the Era of Black Power: After Coming of Age in Mississippi – Leigh Ann Wheeler
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesAnne Moody is best known for her civil rights activism and her acclaimed memoir, Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968). Until now, no one has known what happened in Moody's life after her memoir ends in 1964. This talk will show how Anne Moody's thinking about civil rights evolved in response to her experiences in …
Spiritual Highway (Panel Discussion)
Together with the award-winning Nigerian photographer Akintunde Akinleye, anthropologist Dr. Marloes Janson hit the road in the summer of 2013 to map the most important and busiest Nigerian road - the 120-kilometer long Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. While it has failed as the artery linking the north and the south of Nigeria, the highway has succeeded as …
Museum Nights: Beyond the Mask
The HARN Museum of Art presents Museum Nights: Beyond the Mask. Immerse yourself in exhibitions that feature contemporary and historical art by artists from across Africa and the African diaspora, working in ceramics, oil paint, masquerades, photography and more. Enjoy jewelry making, dance performances and Art Blast Tours. Meet campus and community organizations representing a range …
Public Humanities 101 or How to Write for the Public – Leigh Ann Wheeler
Keene Flint 005In addition to her lecture, Professor Wheeler will host a brunch seminar in which she will use her current research project—a biography of civil rights activist Anne Moody-- to speak about public humanities. She will explain how and why she oriented herself toward writing for a broader public, from op-ed pieces to her current book project. …
Conspiracy Theories – Victoria Pagán
Dasburg House 450 Village Dr, Gainesville, FL, United StatesAlthough conspiracies and conspiracy theories are as old as history itself, they have only emerged as a topic of research and study in the last twenty years. Whether considered beneficial or corrosive or both, one thing is certain: The steady advancement of science, knowledge and technology has done nothing to dull their remarkable persistence – and may even …
The Wonderful Adventures of Western Children’s Classics in the East – Melek Ortabasi
Pugh 170As part of the Languages, Literatures, and Cultures 2019-2020 Speaker Series: Print, Power, and Parable in Japanese Literature, Melek Ortabasi of Simon Fraser University will present this talk. World literature is what happens when literary works travel from their point of origin. How does children’s literature behave differently from “adult” literature when it moves among …
Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities – Lenny Ureña Valerio
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesIn Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920, Lenny Ureña Valerio offers a transnational approach to Polish-German relations and nineteenth-century colonial subjectivities. She investigates key cultural dynamics in the history of medicine, colonialism, and migration that bring Germany and Prussian Poland closer to …
Local Author Series: Ann-Marie Magné
Alachua County Library Headquarters - Meeting Room AJoin local author Ann-Marie Magné as she reads from her book Almost Ticked Off, the story of the rare medical condition that put her husband at the brink of death. Almost Ticked Off is a love story, a survival story, a memoir.
Local Author Series: Craig Pittman
Matheson History Museum 513 E University Avenue, Gainesville, FL, United StatesJoin local author and journalist for the Tampa Bay Times Craig Pittman for a presentation about his new book Cat Tale: The Wild, Weird Battle to Save the Florida Panther. With novelistic detail and an eye for the absurd, Pittman recounts the extraordinary story of the people who brought the panther back from the brink of …
Hidden Lives Illuminated
As a kick-off to the Museums Challenge 2020 Symposium, come enjoy a special screening of Hidden Lives Illuminated, a documentary about animated films made by incarcerated artists, which were projected onto the walls of Eastern State Penitentiary in Fall 2019.
Museums Challenge 2020
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesIn 2000, the University of Florida established a graduate program in museum studies. In the last twenty years, museums and museum professions have undergone critical transformations. The UF Museum Studies program states: “We believe museums can change the world.” Thus, the program centers the transformational power of museums. This interdisciplinary symposium will examine the history …
Monuments and Contested Memory in Europe – Virtual Panel Discussion
Turlington 3310This month's session of Conversations on Europe will invite discussion on contested monuments in the US and Europe - some of which have generated lots of public notice, while others may be less familiar. The panel of experts will consider and compare recent controversies over Confederate and Communist statues, colonial monuments, and memorials to WWII and …
Models of Human-Environment Sustainability – Madhur Anand
Bartram Hall 211 876 Newell Dr, Gainesville, FL, United StatesA body of work is emerging wherein simple mathematical models of ecological dynamics are coupled to simple mathematical models of human behavior to examine long-term sustainability of these systems. Madhur Anand (University of Guelph) will discuss several recent and ongoing studies in which the researchers examine widely-ranging contemporary human-environment problems including forest pest control, coral reef endangerment, …