André Kertész: Budapest, Paris, New York – Robert Gurbo
Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, FloridaIhn a lecture that offers an intimate and personal look, Curator Robert Gurbo interweaves the artist André Kertész’s work and self-portraits into the timeline of his complicated life story. From his pioneering work in Hungary (1912 -1925), through his influential work during Paris’s artistic heyday (1925- 1936), right up to his final days in New …
Tools from the State Archives for Teaching World War II (Webinar)
Florida's contributions to the war effort during World War II were both extensive and varied. Floridians had to contend with coastal blackouts, German submarines lurking offshore, sabotage attempts, strict rationing and the challenges of accommodating thousands of troops who came to take advantage of the state's ideal climate for military training. Join State Archives education …
Norman Mailer, American Jews and the Conundrum of White Liberals – Kevin Schultz
Keene Faculty CenterAward-winning historian at the University of Illinois-Chicago, Schultz teaches twentieth-century American history with special interests in religion, ethno-racial history, and American intellectual and cultural life. Her most recent book, the winner of the Robert F. Lucid Award from the Norman Mailer Society, examines the fascinatingly intertwined lives of right-wing firebrand William F. Buckley, Jr. and …
Smug Parables: Anachronistic Self-Congratulation in the History of Writing – David Lurie
Pugh 170As part of the Languages, Literatures, and Cultures 2019-2020 Speaker Series: Print, Power, and Parable in Japanese Literature, David Lurie of Columbia University will present this talk. The story of the god Thoth and King Ammon in Plato's Phaedrus is perhaps the most familiar example of a script-origin narrative, but such accounts also exist from …
Visiting Artist Lecture: Julien Bismuth
Little Hall 101Working in the mediums of collage, installation, and performance, Julien Bismuth straddles a wide range of critical and cultural interrogations. His practice often intertwines language and image to call both into question, probing the ways in which our representations of the world shape and inform our decisions and interactions. In his recent projects, Bismuth has …
Mock Caldecott Awards
Alachua County Library Headquarters - Meeting Room AThe Alachua County Library District, with staff from the University of Florida’s Center for Children's Literature and Culture, hosts a Mock Caldecott Awards event, in which participants will review the best picture books of 2019 and vote for their top picks. This event is open to picture book lovers of all ages. Will Alachua County choose …
Faculty Recital – Laura Ellis (Organ)
University Auditorium 333 Newell Dr, Gainesville, FL, United StatesUF Professor of Music Laura Ellis will perform on organ. The program will include selected portions of the Clavierübung III of J.S. Bach.
Political Division in America: Author Jon Meacham and Former Senator Bill Nelson
Smathers Library East: Grand Reading Room 1508 Union Road, Gainesville, FL, United StatesThis talk is open to students, faculty, and the public. Admission is free but seating is limited. Click here to register. Doors open at 9:00 am and discussion begins promptly at 10:00 am. Senator Nelson: After serving in the Florida Legislature, U.S. House of Representatives, and as Florida's treasurer, insurance commissioner and fire marshal, he …
Social Justice in World Language Education – Terry Osborn
220 Rinker Hall 304 Rinker, Gainesville, FL, United StatesThe UF Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies invites you to a discussion on what social justice is and is not, how it can be done in classes, and why it's important to be critical of teaching for social justice. Dr. Terry Osborn is a professor of educational leadership at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee. He …
How to Prepare a Quest Course Proposal (Workshop)
201 Bryant Space Science Center 1772 Stadium Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesFaculty who are interested in submitting a Quest course proposal are invited to attend one of the January workshops on Quest course design. Participants will learn what are the goals of the UF Quest program; how Quest courses differ from other general education courses; and how to prepare an application to teach a Quest course for …
Harassed: Gender, Bodies, and Ethnographic Research – Rebecca Hanson and Patricia Richards
Ustler Hall AtriumResearchers frequently experience sexualized interactions, sexual objectification, and harassment as they conduct fieldwork. These experiences are often left out of ethnographers’ “tales from the field” and remain unaddressed within qualitative literature. Harassed argues that the androcentric, racist, and colonialist epistemological foundations of ethnographic methodology contribute to the silence surrounding sexual harassment and other forms of …
From the Excess to the Apocalyptic: Media and the Production of Religious Surplus in Africa – Asonzeh Ukah
Grinter 404 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesThe Center for Global Islamic Studies is organizing this lecture as part of the Henry Luce Foundation project, "Islam and Africa in Global Context." Dr. Ukah is a sociologist of religion and head of the department of Religious Studies at the University of Cape Town (South Africa). Sponsored by the Center for Global Islamic Studies, Center for …
Hunting Hitler’s Hidden Soldiers in the US – Debbie Cenziper
Pugh Hall OcoraNew from Pulitzer Prize winning author Debbie Cenziper, Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitler’s Hidden Soldiers in America chronicles the story of a team of Nazi hunters at the U.S. Department of Justice as they raced against time to expose members of a brutal SS killing force who disappeared in America after World War II. …
Artist as Researcher: Visualizing Knowledge in the Americas (Panel Discussion)
Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, FloridaThis panel is presented in conjunction with the exhibitions Accumulate, Classify, Preserve, Display on the archive and work of artist Roberto Obregón at University Gallery and the Harn Museum of Art. Speakers: Esther Gabara - Associate Professor of Romance Studies, Duke University Jennifer Josten - Associate Professor, Modern and Contemporary Art, University of Pittsburgh Sérgio …
Media and ‘Public’ Islam in Africa and Elsewhere (Workshop)
Grinter 404 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesThe Center for Global Islamic Studies is organizing this Workshop as part of the Henry Luce Foundation project, "Islam and Africa in Global Context." The workshop will feature presentations on mediated religion and various media such as print, television, video, and the internet in Egypt, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, and beyond by: Hatsuki Aishima (National Museum …
Digital Ethnography: Grounded Engagements with Online Worlds (Workshop) – Victoria Bernal
Marston Science Library 136The workshop features short presentations by UF faculty members and students, followed by an open dialogue with Dr. Victoria Bernal of UC Irvine. It is open to anyone interested in exploring how anthropologists and social scientists engage with ethnography – both as a method and form of communication – to make sense of an increasingly …
The Bridal Suite – Rochelle Alers
Alachua County Library Headquarters - Meeting Room AAward-winning romance novelist Alers is a regular on the Waldenbooks, Borders and Essence bestseller lists. She has written more than 60 titles and boasts almost two million copies of her books in print. Her new book, The Bridal Suite, follows four friends on a romantic adventure to New Orleans. When Nydia Santiago arrives at the …
Crazy Horse: The Lakota Warrior’s Life and Legacy
Alachua County Library Headquarters - Meeting Room ACrazy Horse family member Floyd Clown and author William Matson will speak about and sign their new book. The Crazy Horse family's oral history had not been told outside the family for over a century. Now it is ready to be told by Clown, who is the son of Edward Clown, who was the nephew to Crazy …
UF Synergies: Rethinking Marginal Identities
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 FBI, Jews and Muslims: A History of Suspicion – Steven Weitzman
Judaica Suite, Library EastSteven Weitzman is Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Ella Darivoff Director of the Katz Center of Advanced Judaic Studies. Weitzman specializes in the Hebrew Bible and the origins of Jewish culture. Recent publications include The Origins of The Jews (Princeton, 2017); Surviving …
Kannywood and Contestations and Negotiations between Sufi and Salafi Muslims – Musa Ibrahim
Grinter 471Join UF's Musa Ibrahim for this public lecture about Sufi and Salafi Muslims in Nigeria. Presented by the Islam in Africa Working Group, the Center for African Studies, the Center for Global Islamic Studies, and the Department of Religion.
Childhood Agency in Julian Kulski’s WWII Diary – Corinne Matthews
Turlington 3310The World War II diary of Julian Kulski is one of few English-language primary accounts of the WWII German occupation of Warsaw. First published in 1979 and re-issued in 2014, this account follows Julian’s experiences over the course of the war as he “is recruited into the clandestine Polish Underground Army by his Scoutmaster, undertakes …
How to Prepare a Quest Course Proposal (Workshop)
Pugh Hall 210Faculty who are interested in submitting a Quest course proposal are invited to attend one of the January workshops on Quest course design. Participants will learn what are the goals of the UF Quest program; how Quest courses differ from other general education courses; and how to prepare an application to teach a Quest course for …
Decolonizing Knowledge: Indigenous Theories in Latin American and U.S. Empire Studies
Dauer 215Dauer 215 In the last decade indigenous studies have emerged as a crucial theoretical site for understanding and critiquing the settler colonial present and for decolonial thinking. This symposium will address national and hemispheric conversations on indigenous theories as they shape thinking and writing outside the dominant epistemological frameworks of modernity/coloniality. By connecting notions such …
How to Prepare a Quest Course Proposal (Workshop)
201 Bryant Space Science Center 1772 Stadium Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesFaculty who are interested in submitting a Quest course proposal are invited to attend one of the January workshops on Quest course design. Participants will learn what are the goals of the UF Quest program; how Quest courses differ from other general education courses; and how to prepare an application to teach a Quest course for …
My Fulbright in 7 Minutes
UF International Center's Large Conference Room at the HUB 1765 Stadium Road, Gainesville, United StatesJoin the UF International Center for an exciting evening with three Fulbright scholars sharing their work in a fun, brief setting. Muhammad Shahroze will present his work, "Accessibility analysis of University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries research guide." Maria J. Bedoya-Duran will present her work "Privately protected areas and conservation of mammals and birds in a …
History of the Future of Fossil Fuels (Roundtable)
Pugh Hall OcoraAt this 2020 History of Capitalism Roundtable, the panel of experts will review historical predictions about the end of fossil fuel use from the nineteenth century to the present. Featuring Jacqueline Weaver of the University of Houston Law Center; Daniel Raimi of Resources for the Future; and R. Tyler Priest of the University of Iowa. …
Local Author Series: Sterling Watson
Matheson History Museum 513 E University Avenue, Gainesville, FL, United StatesJoin local author Sterling Watson for a presentation about his latest book, The Committee. The novel is set in Gainesville, a sleepy late 1950s Florida university city. Its characters—professors, students, townspeople rich and poor, and politicians—are both typical of such a place and unusual, even bizarre, for the challenges they face and the changes they …
Digital Humanities Working Group – Meeting and Lightning Round
Library West 212 (Scott Nygren Studio)At this meeting of the UF Digital Humanities Working Group, David Schwieder will be presenting on "Simulations for the Digital Humanities." This session will examine several types of computer simulations, and discuss how they might achieve wider usage in digital humanities projects. These simulations use rule-based systems to produce novel, dynamic inferences, and thus they …
Thinking Back Through Mythical Mothers: Modern Japanese Women Writers Retell the Past – Rebecca Copeland
Pugh 170As part of the Languages, Literatures, and Cultures 2019-2020 Speaker Series: Print, Power, and Parable in Japanese Literature, Rebecca Copeland of Washington University in St. Louis will present this talk. In her famous line from “A Room of One’s Own,” Virginia Woolf invites women writers to think back through their mothers—biological, literary, and imaginative. In …