Prince of the Press – Joshua Teplitsky
Judaica Suite, Library EastJoshua Teplitsky is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and the Program in Judaic Studies at Stony Brook University. He specializes in the history of the Jews in Europe in the early modern period, with a particular interest in cultures of knowledge-making, printing, and book collecting. David Oppenheim (1664–1736), chief rabbi of Prague in …
The Social Lives of Books from Print to Pixel
Judaica Suite, Library EastThis roundtable and workshop on Digital Book History will feature four panelists: Joshua Teplitsky (SUNY Stony Brook), Footprints Rebecca Jefferson (UF), The Cairo Genizah Neil Weijer (UF), The Archaeology of Reading Hélène Huet (UF), Mapping Decadence Cosponsored by the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish Studies and the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica.
The Holocaust, the POLIN Museum, and the Politics of the Past in Poland – Dariusz Stola
Judaica Suite, Library EastProfessor Dariusz Stola (Institute for Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences) will present this lecture. He was director of the POLIN Museum of the History of the Polish Jews in Warsaw from its opening in 2014 until 2019. His seven books include The Anti-Zionist Campaign in Poland, 1967-1968.
HESCAH Lecture – Providing for the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt and Early China
Chandler Auditorium (Harn Museum of Art)Anthony Barbieri-Low, Professor of History at University of California Santa Barbara, will present this lecture. Professor Barbieri-Low has wide-ranging interests in many aspects of Early China, including technology, organization of production, labor history, gender and social relations, legal process, material culture, and state formation. He also conducts research in Egyptology as a comparative field with …
Getting Organized: Managing Projects and Time
Library West 212 (Scott Nygren Studio)This workshop will provide you with tips and tools to help you manage your time and your various projects as you navigate your graduate career. Hélène Huet (PhD), European Studies Librarian, will lead this brief workshop as part of the Smathers Libraries 'Building Your Career' series. No registration required. Open to all UF Graduate and …
Broken Families Across the Border – Erin Anderson
Turlington 2305Erin Anderson works for Al otro lado, an NGO that supports and provides legal advice to families separated by ICE. She will talk about how Al otro lado helps parents who have been deported from the U.S.A. to Mexico, Guatemala and other central American countries to come back to the U.S. legally and be reunited …
Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Savior – Peter Tinti
Reitz Union - Career Connections CenterJoin international investigative journalist Peter Tinti, who will speak as part of the International Career Pathways Speaker Series. Tinti will host a discussion of careers in investigative journalism and his work on security, human rights, conflict, and organized crime. Tinti will also discuss his recent book called "Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Savior" that investigates the migrant smuggling …
Insincere Peace? The Political Autonomy of the Eritrean-Ethiopian Peace Rapprochement – Kjetil Tronvoll
Grinter 404 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesJoin Kjetil Tronvoll of the International Law & Policy Institute for this Baraza Lecture. Tronvoll has undertaken long-term anthropological fieldworks in Eritrea, Ethiopia and Zanzibar, in addition to shorter field studies in a dozen of African countries. Tronvoll has served as an advisor to political reconciliation processes and international peace meditating initiatives, as well as …
Local Author Series: Scott Camil
Matheson History Museum 513 E University Avenue, Gainesville, FL, United StatesJoin local author and anti-war activist Scott Camil for a presentation about his new graphic novel Winter Warrior: A Vietnam Vet's Anti-War Odyssey. Through the unflinching personal journey of a hardened marine turned dogged anti-war activist, Winter Warrior reveals the brutal reality of the Vietnam War and the bleak political reality on the domestic front. …
Gainesville History Hunt
Depot Park 874 SE 4th St, Gainesville, FL, United StatesJoin E. Stanley Richardson and Storm Roberts at Depot Park for a free trivia race that journeys through 150 years of Gainesville history. Click here to register your team of 2-5 players. There will be food, games, and more in this part performance, part competition, part story experience. This event is part of the Art …
All Saints Concert – Mozart’s Requiem
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church 100 NE 1st St, Gainesville, FL, United StatesHoly Trinity’s Music Director and Conductor John Lowe, the Chamber Orchestra, and Dance Alive National Ballet are pleased to present this work as part of Music At Holy Trinity’s music program. Dance Alive National Ballet principal dancers along with a corps of 20 will fill the aisles and alter at Holy Trinity – a magnificent …
President’s Arts and Humanities Luncheon: Jill Ciment
Dasburg House 450 Village Dr, Gainesville, FL, United StatesJill Ciment, author and UF Creative Writing Professor, will speak about memoir. This event is Free and open to any UF student, but space is highly limited. Click here to RSVP beginning October 21. Professor Ciment teaches graduate and undergraduate creative writing workshops. She is the author of Small Claims, a collection of short stories …
UF Synergies: Postwar Revolution and Reconstruction
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 Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Making (and Unmaking?) of a Global Iconic Event – Julia Sonnevend
Dauer 215Julia Sonnevend (The New School) will present this lecture as part of the CES speaker series The Collapse: 1989 Then and Now with support from the Department of Education Title VI National Resource grant. This talk contemplates how particular events become lasting global myths, while others fade into oblivion. What comes to be known and …
Masterclass: Grants and Fellowships Speakeasy
Library West 212 (Scott Nygren Studio)This experimental masterclass will answer the question: Can we create a sense of community for those actively seeking grants and fellowships? We plan to explore topics of grants and fellowships often hidden from public view. Those who are engaged in the pursuit of grant funding are often disconnected from others who travel the same journeys …
Land Reform and Nationalism: Negotiating National Loyalty in Interwar Transylvania, Romania
Turlington 3310Bogdan Dumitru, PhD candidate, History The relationship between land rights and national discourse, while a central element of nation-building in East Central Europe, has been relatively neglected by contemporary historical scholarship on nationalism. Based on the analysis of legal disputes over land ownership and peasant petitions, this talk discusses the relationship between land ownership inequality, …
Women of the Gulag – Film Screening
Turlington L011The film Women of the Gulag (2018) tells the compelling and tragic stories of the women - last survivors of the Gulag, the brutal system of repression and terror that devastated the Soviet population during the regime of Stalin. The film screening will be followed by a discussion with the director, Marianna Yarovskaya. This event …
The Age of Consequences
Turlington 2305Dr. Les Thiele of UF's Department of Political Science will introduce this important documentary as part of the "Setting Global-Cultural Limits 30-Years after Berlin 1989" Campus Weeks Events. ‘The Hurt Locker’ meets ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, THE AGE OF CONSEQUENCES investigates the impacts of climate change on increased resource scarcity, migration, and conflict through the lens …
Book Discussion: How to Be an Antiracist – Ibram Kendi
Holland 355CJoin this book discussion in advance of Dr. Kendi's talk at the Phillips Center on November 21. Refreshments will be provided.
Becoming American – Keeping My Religion: Identity and 2nd Generation Immigrant College Students – Haroon Moghul
Pugh Hall OcoraJoin Haroon Moghul, author of How to Be a Muslim: An American Story for his lecture "Becoming American - Keeping My Religion: Identity & 2nd Generation Immigrant College Students". College students in general are struggling with questions related to identity, dealing with authority figures, the mental stress of growing responsibility, and balancing it all with one’s …
Make it Global: Curriculum Internationalization
201 Bryant Space Science Center 1772 Stadium Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesExplore ways to develop course assignments that incorporate international perspectives and enhance the development of intercultural competence.
UF Intersections Ethics Cafe: Free College
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesAre you interested in learning more about controversial public issues? Would you like to talk with other students about the issues that you care about? Do you want to wrestle with hard questions in a friendly, civil setting? No previous training is necessary – bring an open mind, willingness to listen and share, and a …
Beauty and Its Beasts: The Ethics of Appreciating Art by Immoral Artists
Ustler Hall Atrium24th Annual Food & Talk event! Join the UF Department of Philosophy for dinner and discussion on a topic of broad philosophical interest. Professors Jaime Ahlberg and Jon Rick will open the discussion with remarks on the ethics of appreciating the art of immoral artists. Food & Talk is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy …
Bauhaus Spirit: 100 Years of Bauhaus
Hippodrome CinemaCelebrate the 100th anniversary of Walter Gropius’ Bauhaus with this lively and wide-ranging exploration of the movement uniting modern design, art, architecture and performing arts with communal social living to form an academic discipline and utopian way of life. Combining free imagination and play with strict structure, Bauhaus’ members included Anni Albers, Marcel Breuer, Wassily …
1989: Reminisces from Central Europe – Roundtable
Keene Flint 005This panel will explore the firsthand experiences of two scholars who witnessed the momentous events of 1989. Dr. István Hegedüs, who was part of the opposition movement in Hungary during the 1980s, will offer his perspective of the events in Hungary and the opening of the border with Austria. Dr. Dirk Philipsen will likewise discuss …
From Guy Senghor to Masalik al-Jinaan: Murid Struggle for a Place in Urban Senegal – Cheikh Babou
Grinter 404 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesJoin Cheikh Babou of the University of Pennsylvania for this Baraza Lecture. Dr. Babou is a historian of Islam and the modern West African Muslim diaspora. Dr. Babou’s current research, Making Muslim Place in the West is a multi-sited project that explores strategies of place making among West African Muslim immigrants in Paris, New York …
How to Establish a Poetic School in Early Medieval Japan – Malgorzata Citko
Computer Science and Engineering Room E121 432 Newell Dr, Gainesville, FL, United StatesAs part of the Print, Power, and Parable in Japanese Literature Speaker Series, this second session will feature Professor Citko's talk, "How to Establish a Poetic School in Early Medieval Japan: Fujiwara no Shunzei’s “Reflections on the Man’yoshu Era” (Man’yoshu Jidaiko) and the Beginnings of the Mikohidari." Fujiwara no Shunzei introduced his poetic school, the …
Exhibition Opening – Tom Petty’s Gainesville: Where Dreams Began
Matheson History Museum 513 E University Avenue, Gainesville, FL, United StatesThe Matheson History Museum will open its latest exhibition, "Tom Petty's Gainesville: Where Dreams Began" on Friday, November 8, with a free reception. Matheson members are invited to join at 6pm and the general public at 7pm to tour the exhibition. Heavy hors d'oeuvres will be served. All attendees are asked to RSVP.
Right-Wing Populist Parties and Border Issues – Oscar Mazzoleni
Turlington 3310Dr. Oscar Mazzoleni (University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and currently Visiting Scholar at Columbia University) will focus on the border issues in right-wing populist strategies. Although this linkage is rarely considered by scholarship, one might argue the construction of new borders, bridging anti-immigration stances and sovereignty claim, is part of a global trend. In order to …
Community Organizing and Keys to Resistance in Pre- and Post-Olympic Rio de Janeiro – Theresa Williamson
Turlington 2349 330 Newell Dr, Gainesville, FL, United StatesIn preparation for the 2016 Olympics, the city of Rio de Janeiro targeted several of the low-income communities known as favelas for removal, leaving residents with few viable options for housing. Despite initial positive press for policies intervening in the city’s favelas, the tide changed in 2013 with escalating debate and conflict over policies which have …