UF Intersections: The Infrastructure of Tolerance – Simon Goldhill
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesThis lecture examines how we might understand the relationship between urban infrastructures, and the logics of exclusion and inclusion around which the category of citizenship is understood and cultural identities are formed. It looks in particular at the role of city planners and some past urban planning projects that had the effect of brutalizing social …
Ichetucknee Springs Time Machine Tour
Ichetucknee Springs State Park 12087 SW Hwy 27, Fort White, FL, United StatesJoin a park ranger for a trip through time! See Ichetucknee's past, from the stories of the Native Americans all the way up to the beautiful park that welcomes you now. Starting at the north entrance, a park ranger will guide the group through the history of the park by stopping at historic sites so …
Islam and the Spice Trade: Profit and Prophecy in the Global Middle Ages – Joel Blecher
Keene Flint 005Shipwrecks, smuggling, and… Islam? What if we retold the story of the spice trade—oft appreciated as a catalyst for Europe’s “Age of Discovery”—through the eyes of the late medieval Muslim merchants and scholars who mixed Islam and business across the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean? And what might the maritime corridor that linked the …
UF Synergies: National Humanities Center Summer Residencies
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 …
Inscribing the Self on the Small Screen: How Marguerite Duras Put Literature on TV – Anne Brancky
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesSome of the most well-known intellectuals of 20th-century France have warned of the dangers of television to thought, to society and to the book. However, Marguerite Duras, a prominent writer and public intellectual, made use of the television as an extension of her literary project. As both an interviewer on state funded television shows during …
An Impossible Dialectic: Resisting and Revitalizing Perception in Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book – Temiti Lehartel
Marston Science Library 136The Swan Book, a 2013 novel by Indigenous Australian author and land rights activist Alexis Wright, has been called “the first great novel of climate change… and perhaps the first truly planetary novel." Reflecting on Wright’s opaque Aboriginal realist and hybrid aesthetics, this lecture will investigate how Wright’s novel, still carrying and re-potentializing expression and sensation, …
UF Intersections: Amerkyah and ME: Mapping Afrofuturism within the Hip Hop Feminist Imaginary – Aisha Durham
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesAfrofuturism can be described as a politically-imaginative decolonial project that fuses fictions, fantasies, and folk traditions with technology to produce past-future narratives about being and belonging from a Black-centered framework (see e.g., Nelson, 2000; Womack, 2013). Using textual experience as an embodied interpretive approach, Durham explores the ways Erykah Badu and Missy Elliot use Afrofuturism …
When They See Us: A Discussion of Race, Crime, and Justice
Holland Hall 180 309 Village Dr, Gainesville, FL, United StatesJoin Professors Kenneth Nunn, Sarah Wolking, and Katheryn Russell-Brown for a discussion based around the Netflix miniseries "When They See Us" about the Central Park Five case. Light refreshments will be provided.
Climate Refugees
Turlington 2305Dr. Alioune Sow of UF's Department of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures will introduce this important documentary as part of the "Setting Global-Cultural Limits 30-Years after Berlin 1989" Campus Weeks Events. Climate Refugees is the first feature film to explore in-depth the global human impact of climate change and its serious destabilizing effect on international politics. The …
Getting Free: Leveraging Open Access Publishing Options
Library West 212 (Scott Nygren Studio)Are you hearing terms like "open access," "preprint," and "data sharing" and want to know more? The open access publishing landscape has expanded exponentially over the past two decades-this workshop will introduce options across disciplines for sharing, reviewing, and publishing open scholarship. This workshop is part of International Open Access Week. Perry Collins (MA, MLS), …
CES Funding Opportunities Info Session
Turlington 3310The UF Center for European Studies will host an information session on its upcoming funding opportunities. The info session will cover basic information on the awards, eligibility, and the application process. Funding opportunities include: Course Development Awards Research Tutorial Abroad Course Enhancement Awards European Studies …
Museums and Slavery: Engaging the Past and the Present in the Public Sphere – Ana-Lucia Araujo
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesHow have museums engaged the debates about human atrocities? This lecture explores the development of permanent exhibitions and museums dedicated in part or entirely to address the problem of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade in England, France and the United States, by examining the cases of the Nantes History Museum, Museum of Aquitaine, the …
Ingenium/Ingenio as a Form of Knowing and Thinking in Early-Modern Spain and the Americas – Rachel Schmidt
Reitz Union Room 2360Join Professor Rachel Schmidt (University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada) for the keynote address of the XII Florida Cervantes Symposium at the University of Florida, titled "Ingenium: Ingenuity, Ingeniousness and Engineering in Cervantes," October 24 – 25, 2019. Sponsored by UF Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies (Enhancement Fund), UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (Humanities …
My Fulbright in 7 Minutes
UF International CenterJoin the UF International Center for an exciting evening with three Fulbright scholars sharing their work in a fun, brief setting. Meghan Moe Beitiks will present her work, "SiteSightCite: Engagements with Place via Artistic Research." Kwan Kim will present his work "Nooks and Crannies in Oyster Clusters and their Species Diversity." Diego Juarez-Sanchez will present …
Dance Alive National Ballet presents: Anna Karenina
Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts 3201 Hull Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesDrama, intrigue, love and infidelity: this is the story of Russian beauty Anna Karenina. Based on Tolstoy’s magnificent novel, the ballet, a world premier created by Executive Artistic Director Kim Tuttle, explores a wellspring of family dynamics, social issues, and changing times. With stunning sets by Mihai Ciupe and striking projections by Houston Wells along …
Decolonizing Representations: Past, Present and Future
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 …
Verano Intenso: A Summer of Political Discontent and Activism in Puerto Rico
Reitz Union Room 2365 686 Museum Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesOver the span of two weeks in the summer, Puerto Rico experienced a series of protests that ended up with the resignation of former Governor Ricardo Rosselló. The protests were a culmination of factors stemming from colonial relations with the US, Hurricane María’s aftermath, economic instability, mass migration, and longstanding cases of corruption. The publication …
Biogenetics and Autobiography: Extracting Sephardic DNA from Cervantes’ Works – Kenneth Brown (University of Calgary)
Judaica Suite, Library EastYiddish humor is well-known. But Professor Kenneth Brown researches the “DNA” of Sephardic humor to the most unlikely of places: Cervantes’s famous novel of 1605, Don Quixote of La Mancha. A widely-published scholar of medieval romance philology, Professor Brown (University of Calgary) will present his findings at the closing event of the XII Florida Cervantes …
Battles of Public Memory – Ana-Lucia Araujo
Keene Flint 005This academic seminar is open to UF faculty, graduate students, and enrolled advanced undergraduate students. Please RSVP by October 23rd to: humanities-center@ufl.edu. An email reply confirming your participation will include a draft of the chapter under discussion. This seminar will discuss “Battles of Public Memory,” chapter 3 of Ana Lucia Araujo’s book manuscript Slavery in …
Currency Terms and National Identity in East Africa – Nancy Kula
Grinter 404 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesDr. Nancy Kula, Professor of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex, will offer this lecture as part of the Baraza Lecture Series. Dr. Kula studied phonology for her PhD at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, MA in Linguistics at SOAS, University of London, and BA in Linguistics at the University of Zambia. …
Print, Power, and Parable in Japanese Literature – Opening Session
Computer Science and Engineering Room E121 432 Newell Dr, Gainesville, FL, United StatesThis opening session of the 2019-2020 Speaker Series: "Print, Power, and Parable in Japanese Literature" will feature two great speakers. 4:00 pm - Glynne Walley (University of Oregon) "Taking Advantage of Filial Piety: Subverting Confucian Virtues in Edo Popular Fiction" This talk will examine parodies of Chinese filial piety narratives in early modern Japanese popular …
Sustainability Slam!
Civic Media Center 433 S Main St, Gainesville, FL, United StatesA fast-paced ethics improv competition concerning issues of sustainability. All are welcome. No preparation is necessary. Sponsored by Santa Fe College and Florida Organic Growers.
UF Classics Graduate Symposium: “Justice Turns the Balance Scales”
Ustler Hall AtriumAttendees must register in advance by Friday October 4. Click here to register. 9:30-9:45 Check-in and Coffee 9:50-10:00 Introductory Remarks 10:00-11:30 The “State” of Justice Coffee Break 11:45-12:30 Panel 1 Respondent: Dr. Victoria Pagan Lunch Break 1:30-2:30 Justice and Physical Space 2:30-3:15 Panel 2 Respondent: Dr. Ifigeneia Giannadaki Coffee Break 3:30-5:00 Thinking …
Assembly for Action Conference 2019 (Part 2)
Assembly for Action is a student-run community service leadership conference that pairs fifty Action Scholars with local non-profits to create community service projects. Through five grants of $2,500 each, the winning “Action Plans” contribute to community development by empowering student leaders to improve the capacity of local non-profits so they can better serve Gainesville residents. …
McIntosh 1890s Festival
Avenue G, McIntosh FLAll day free musical entertainment from country to bluegrass, featuring over 280 arts, crafts, plants and antique vendors, and food. Each year the 1890’s Festival raises money to fund projects in the community.
The Imperative for Social Justice in Schools: Collaborations with Community and Educational Leaders
Norman Hall 1221 SW 5th Ave, Gainesville, FL, United StatesThe Department of Educational Leadership in the College of Education at the University of Florida, in collaboration with the All Y’All Social Justice Collective, are proud to host this important one-day conference. It is meant to support educators and community members in advancing social justice in schools. See the website to register or become a …
Local Author Series: James Williams
Alachua County Library Headquarters - Meeting Room AJoin local author James Williams for a presentation of his science fiction book, The Pedestrians.
UF Intersections Ethics Cafe: Climate Change
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 …
Blackness in French – Mame-Fatou Niang
Library West 212 (Scott Nygren Studio)Mame-Fatou Niang is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on contemporary France, Sub-Saharan Africa, Postcolonial and Transnational Studies, Media, and Urban Planning. She is the author of IdentitésFrançaises (Brill 2019) which examines the development of Afro-French identities and the works of second- and third-generation female immigrant writers …
A New “Wall in the Head”? Populism as a Threat to a Unified Europe Thirty Years After the Fall of the Wall
Pugh Hall OcoraChair: Conor O’Dwyer, University of Florida Panelists: Michael Bernhard, University of Florida; Marcel Lewandowsky, University of Florida; Simona Guerra, University of Leicester; Milada Vachudova, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Discussant: Dariusz Stola, Polish Academy of Sciences Contemporary German discourse on the tensions between the former East and West German federal states often refers …