Beyond the Swamp Graduate Schools Fair
Reitz Union BallroomHosted by the Career Connections Center: October 24, 2017 from 10am-2pm in the Reitz Union Grand Ballroom Discover All the Possibilities! Graduate and professional schools from around the country come to recruit UF students and alumni interested in pursuing higher education. This is your opportunity to network with graduate school representatives from around the state …
UF Synergies: Ethics and Education in the Age of Accountability
Keene Flint 005Wednesday, October 24, 2018 @ 4:00 pm, Keene-Flint 05 Ethics and Education in the Age of Accountability • Jaime Ahlberg (Philosophy) “Disability as Difference: Implications for Educational Justice” Dr. Ahlberg’s talk offers a report from the inaugural summer residency at the National Center for the Humanities in summer of 2018 (sponsored by the Center for …
The African American Heritage of Florida
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesJane Landers, director of the Slave Societies Digital Archive, and Steve Noll, UF Department of History, will give a lecture on their book The African American Heritage of Florida. The “Florida and the Caribbean” books showcase a long, distinguished history of publishing works of Latin American and Caribbean scholarship that connect through generations and places. The breadth …
My Fulbright in Seven Minutes
The HubThe International Center (The Hub) Come talk to Adrian Barry Sosa, Ruxandra Sava, and Ali Husnain about their Fulbright experience. Refreshments will be served. RSVP by emailing UFFulbrightRSVP@gmail.co
“No Way Out: Precarious Living in the Shadow of Poverty and Drug Dealing” with Waverly Duck
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesThis talk illustrates how overlapping surveillance systems—police, schools, creditors, social workers, public housing officials, landlords, probation and parole officers—place multiple, contradictory demands on the residents of poor black neighborhoods that are often impossible to satisfy. Reporting on an ethnographic study of residents’ interactions with police and other agents of surveillance, it surveys a range of …
“Graduate Methods Workshop: Conducting Ethnographic Research” with Waverly Duck
Streib Conference Room - Turlington Hall Room 3302Waverly Duck is an urban ethnographer whose primary research examines the social order of neighborhoods and institutional settings. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and served as the associate director of the Yale Urban Ethnography Project where he is currently a Senior Fellow. His academic areas of interest are urban …
Baraza: Steve Howard, “We Are Mahmoud: On the Path of the Prophet in Unsettled Times”
Grinter 404 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United States
What Was Kant’s Critical Philosophy Critical Of?
303 Griffin Floyd HallDr. Catherine Wilson (CUNY Graduate Center/University of York) The event will be held in the Philosophy Library, 303 Griffin Floyd Hall Immanuel Kant is universally regarded as a philosopher of freedom in both pure and applied moral philosophy. His 'critical philosophy' is often said to have reconciled human freedom with Newtonian science. It is also believed …
Frankenread
Library WestDr. Friedman’s talk, related to his book, Monstrous Progeny: a history of the Frankenstein narratives, (co-written with Allison B. Kavey) is a study of the continuing popularity of the Frankenstein story (the 200th anniversary of publication is this year) exploring the how and why the visualization of this monster has changed as the cultures and technologies …
Research in Progress: “Manifest Destiny at Sea: Steam Infrastructure and American Power, 1847-1857”
Keene Flint 005You are invited for a Research in Progress talk in the History of Capitalism in the History Conference Room (005 Keene-Flint Hall): "Manifest Destiny at Sea: Steam Infrastructure and American Power, 1847-1857" Dr. Alicia Maggard, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Maritime Studies Program of Williams College and Mystic Seaport This presentation will examine the ways in which …
Lynching, Violence, and the State in Contemporary India – Inderpal Grewal (Yale University)
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesThursday, November 1, 2018 4:00pm Smathers Library 100 Under the Modi government, Hindu right-wing activists and vigilantes have used Modi-government policies (prohibitions on beef-eating, for example) to target poor Muslim men in order to undercut their economic livelihood, and have circulated narratives of “love-jihad” to lynch Muslim men in relationships with non-Muslim women. At the …
“Technology, Fiction, and our Future: An Interview with Rob Reid”
Turlington L005Rob Reid will address the impact of emerging technologies on the future of humanity, and the role of (science) fiction in preparing us for fast-paced global change. Rob Reid is an American author and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Listen.com, which created the Rhapsody digital music service. Reid is the author of 4 books, …
Baraza: Alioune Sow, “Transitional Memoirs in Mali”
Grinter 404 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesEternal Life: A Talk by Author Dara Horn
TBAAs part of the American Jewish culture endowment at UF, the writer Dara Horn will be speaking this fall, while she's on tour for her new novel, Eternal Life. She will speak on Tuesday, November 13th at 5 pm.
Getting Creative: Translation and Etymology as Cultural Narratives of Sustainability and Resilience with Dr. Simon Richter
Dauer 219Simon Richter, Professor and Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania. Lecture, November 13, 5:00-6:30 pm Dauer 219 (Ruth McQuown Room): “Getting Creative: Translation and Etymology as Cultural Narratives of Sustainability and Resilience.” Livestream link available HERE. In his lecture, Dr. Richter will present several case studies that …
Book Launch: Learning from Madness: Brazilian Modernism and Global Contemporary Art
College of the Arts Lecture Hall - FAB 0105Please join the UF School of Art + Art History for the book launch of "Learning from Madness: Brazilian Modernism and Global Contemporary Art." University of Chicago Press, 2018. Presentation by author Kaira M. Cabañas, Associate Professor of Global Modern & Contemporary Art. Introduction by Rosana Resende, Lecturer in Latin American Studies & Associate Director of …
What to do with the Art of Monstrous Men?
Harrell Medical Education Building, 460Claire Dederer will speak on "What to do with the Art of Monstrous Men?" Claire Dederer is the author of two critically acclaimed memoirs: Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning and Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, which was a New York Times bestseller. Poser has been translated into 11 languages, optioned for television …
Polder-Geist: Dutch Responses to Rising Sea Levels and Sinking Cities in the Netherlands, the United States and Asia
Dauer 215Workshop, November 14, Dauer 215 (12:00-1:30 pm): “Polder-Geist: Dutch Responses to Rising Sea Levels and Sinking Cities in the Netherlands, the United States and Asia.” Livestream link available HERE. Coastal cities around the world are already contending with the effects of sea level rise. For many, the problems are exacerbated by subsidence. Cities are sinking …
UF Synergies: Anti-Anti-Semitism and Holocaust Memory, Then and Now
Walker 201Wednesday, November 14, 2018 @ 4:00 pm, Walker 201D Anti-Anti-Semitism and Holocaust Memory: Then and Now Rachel Gordan (Center for Jewish Studies & Religion) “1940s: The Decade of Anti-Anti-Semitism” Dr. Gordan illustrates how in American Jewish literary history, the 1940s could be called the decade of the “anti-anti-Semitism novel.” Novelists including Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, …
Love that Moves the Sun and Stars: A Workshop on Love in Italian Literature and Culture
Judaica Suite, Library EastItalian Studies, the UF Honors Program and the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies with the generous sponsorship of the Hal and Ruth Smith Fund, Henry and Sue Tosi and Paul Campbell, are pleased to present, "Love that Moves the Sun and Stars: A Workshop on Love in Italian Literature and Culture" November 15-16, 2018. …
Transformative Imaginations: Decarceration and Liberatory Futures A report from the 2019 Imagining America National Gathering
Pugh Hall 210Thursday, November 15th, 2019 1:30-2:30pm, Pugh Hall 210 Imagining America (IA) is a consortium of universities and organizations dedicated to advancing the public and civic purposes of the arts, humanities, and design. UF has been a member institution since 2009. Imagining America supports research, learning, and culture-making platforms where humanists, artists, designers, scholars, students, …
“Muslim Converts or Crypto Jews? Sabbatean Communities in the Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic” with Dr. Cengiz Şişman
Keene Flint 005Sabbatai Sevi, a seventeen century Ottoman Jewish messianic claimant, led one of the largest religious movements in Jewish and Islamic history. When Ottoman authorities forced Sevi to convert to Islam in 1666, his followers formed a crypto-sect, later known as Dönmes, and maintained their overtly Muslim and covertly Jewish enigmatic identity over centuries. By using …
Strange Careers: 50 Years of Southern Women’s History
Keene Faculty CenterNovember 27-29, 2018 Keene Faculty Center, Dauer Hall Hosted by the Richard J. Milbauer Program in Southern History and co-sponsored by the Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Research and the Department of History. For a complete schedule, click on this link.
Team Teaching from Classroom to Gallery
Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, FloridaHave you ever thought about team-teaching a course at UF? Collaboration can energize our teaching just as it does our research. Through team-teaching, faculty are creating innovative undergraduate courses that would be impossible for a single faculty member to teach independently. Some of these courses collaborate across academic disciplines, while others collaborate with UF Libraries …
Dilemmas and Debates Fall 2018 Speaker Series
Bryan Hall Room 130A Family Business Panel with the following featured speakers and their businesses: Chris & Tim Tassin – Hingenuity Jamie McClave Baldwin & Jim McClave – InfoTech Jodi Bennet Hunt & Linda Bennett - SunCountry Sports Questions? Please contact Emma Stetter.
Transitioning to an Employment Based Visa: Featuring Immigration Attorney Aaron Blumberg
Career Connections CenterAs part of the Career Connections Center's International Student Series, learn about different ways to obtain an employment based Visa post-graduation in this informational workshop. Aaron Blumberg, an Immigratiion Attorney with Fragomen Associates, will be delivering a presentation and answering your questions related to H1B Visas and other ways to legally remain in the U.S. …
Tentacles of the Technosphere: The Protest against Frankfurt Airport 1962-1987 with Professor Michael Schuering
Pugh Hall 302The expansion of Frankfurt airport was a fiercely contested issue in the 1970s and early 1980s. The construction of a new runway galvanized the German ecological movement and the residents of the surrounding area in a long conflict with airport managers and politicians. The events highlighted the peculiar position of infrastructures in a modern landscape, as …
Dilemmas and Debates Fall 2018 Speaker Series
Bryan Hall Room 130A Balancing Work & Life Mindfully Panel Event with the following featured speakers and their businesses: Darin Cook - Infinite Energy Ron & Diane Farb - Climb for the Cure Foundation Angela Betancourt - Simplify Home Organizing Jocelyn Holt - Planning Hope Questions? Please contact Emma Stetter.
UF Synergies: The Production of Race in Music and Science
Walker 201Wednesday, December 5, 2018 @ 4:00 pm, Walker 201D The Production of Race in Music and Science Vassiliki (Betty) Smocovitis (Biology and History, Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow) “Masuo Kodani, Genetics, and the Japanese American Experience” Dr. Betty Smocovitis’s presentation traces the life of Masuo Kodani (1913-1983), a promising Japanese American geneticist, who found himself a …
Intersections Retreat
Library West 212 (Scott Nygren Studio)Intersections: Animating Conversations with the Humanities is a 3-year initiative of the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere at the University of Florida (UF) in the UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Throughout the 2017-2020 academic years, the Humanities Center will work to identify shared …