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Teaching Portfolio Review

201 Bryant Space Science Center 1772 Stadium Rd, Gainesville, FL, United States

Showcase your teaching and professional strengths by learning how to create your teaching portfolio, and stand out in searches for academic positions.

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When One Teaches, Two Learn: The Role of Inquiry in Inspired Teaching – Nancy Dana

Norman Hall Room 1-225 1221 SW 5th Ave, Gainesville, FL, United States

Nancy Dana, Ph.D., Professor at the School of Teaching and Learning and winner of CTE’s 2017 Exemplary Online Awards, will be hosting her Cherry Award Lecture. Her lecture will focus on a process for teacher learning that she has been studying for over 25 years. She will share her own journey to inquiry, define and

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Transforming Conflict

201 Bryant Space Science Center 1772 Stadium Rd, Gainesville, FL, United States

Conflict is part of our daily lives and can undermine our success unless we get better at using it effectively. As surprising as this might sound, we want conflict in the workplace; but it has to be the right kind of conflict. In this class you will learn how to build your conflict competence/fitness to

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UF Pop-Up Culture

Plaza of the Americas

Pop-Up Culture is part of UF's celebration of National Arts & Humanities Month and takes place at the UF Plaza of the Americas on October 9, 2019 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Come for an array of activities that will celebrate the arts and humanities at UF. From musical performances to poetry readings and from dancing to

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Getting a Job: Finding Work after Grad School

Library West 212 (Scott Nygren Studio)

This workshop provides a brief introduction and discussion for graduate students about approaching the job market and job application process. Megan Daly (PhD), Classics, Philosophy, and Religion 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 Professional Students.

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President’s Arts and Humanities Luncheon: Andrew Cao

Dasburg House 450 Village Dr, Gainesville, FL, United States

Andrew Cao, Lecturer at the UF School of Theatre + Dance, will speak about musicals.  This event is Free and open to any UF student, but space is highly limited.  Click here to RSVP beginning September 25. Andrew danced on Broadway in Disney’s Aladdin, the 2011 revival of Anything Goes with Sutton Foster, and Nice

10th South East African Languages and Literatures Forum Conference

The South East African Languages and Literatures Forum (SEALLF) is an annual conference organized by a group of scholars working on African language pedagogy, linguistics, and literature. This year's theme is: African Languages & Literatures: (Re) mapping the territories, reshaping the strategies. A throwback to the past will help us understand where we as teachers and

Inclusive Teaching Strategies: Embracing Student Diversity in All Forms (Part 1)

201 Bryant Space Science Center 1772 Stadium Rd, Gainesville, FL, United States

Inclusive practices are critical to the higher education landscape to improve student learning. Inclusive teaching means designing and teaching courses in ways that foster talent in all students, but especially those who come from groups traditionally underrepresented in higher education. This two-part workshop will familiarize participants with the concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and

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HESCAH Symposium – Beyond Biography: Artistic Practice and Personhood in Colonial Latin America

Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United States

What was the nature of artistic work in colonial Latin America? This symposium gathers leading scholars to think about artistic subjectivity without focusing on names or “life’s work.” They will consider artistic personhood and practice within social structures, in relation to medium, and as determined by gender, age, and race. This symposium strives for a

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Civil War Roundtable: John H. Anderson, Jr. as Frederick Douglass

Trinity United Methodist Church 4000 NW 53rd Ave, Gainesville, FL, United States

John H. Anderson, Jr., the son of Civil War reenactors has been part of his mother’s reenactment troop for 17 years.  His mother had been troubled by the neglect and false impressions most historians had given of slaves and free persons of color regarding their development of our nation.  Deliberately omitting rhetoric about the well-known

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Mapping a Dialogue: Marginalized Youth and Literacy

Chandler Auditorium (Harn Museum of Art)

The collision of thought processes around innovative ways of visualizing social inequities often brings artists, educators, and engineers together. Join Michelle Tillander, Associate Professor of Art and Sally Crane, PhD candidate in the College of Education for a conversation ignited by the artwork Prison Searches in regard to the mediated sociocultural landscape, literacy, and the

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Global Learning Institute Info Session

UF International Center's Large Conference Room at the HUB 1765 Stadium Road, Gainesville, United States

The Global Learning Institute is a cohort-based semester-long program aimed at providing faculty with relevant tools, pedagogies, and techniques to make their on-campus courses more global. Institute participants will attend eight workshops throughout the Spring 2020 semester and participate in collaborative and multidisciplinary conversation with fellow faculty members about curriculum internationalization. For more information about

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Studying Africa in the United States: Lessons from the Past – Lioba Moshi

Grinter 404 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United States

Dr. Lioba Moshi, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies at the University of Georgia, is a native speaker of Swahili from Tanzania.  She has developed a series of videos intended to help students acquire Swahili language and culture.  This lecture is part of the Baraza Lecture Series.

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Art Festival at Thornebrook

Thornebrook Village 2441 NW 43rd St, Gainesville, FL, United States

Art Festival at Thornebrook is a 2 day event being held from 12-13 October 2019 at the Thornebrook Village in Gainesville. This trade show event showcases products like molds, kits, or patterns, commercial displays, taxidermy, crocheting, knitting, velvet painting, manufactured or kit jewelry, candles, ceramics and much more. This festival is entering its 35th year

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SciArt Meetup: Pollinators

Florida Museum of Natural History 3215 Hull Rd, Gainesville, FL, United States

Calling all art enthusiasts! Visit the Florida Museum of Natural History after hours for SciArt Meetups to explore exhibits and create art inspired by Florida nature and culture! With partners Santa Fe College Art Gallery and Wayfaring Painter, join the museum on Oct. 15 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. for a brief art or science

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Local Author Series: George ‘Bob’ Dekle, Sr

Columbia County Public Library 308 NW Columbia Ave, Lake City, FL, United States

Join local author George 'Bob' Dekle, Sr. for a presentation about his latest book, Six Capsules: the Gilded Age Murder of Helen Potts.

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Getting Published: Writing Clear, Effective Academic Prose

Library West 212 (Scott Nygren Studio)

This session covers a set of powerful, easy-to-use techniques that will help participants write better theses, dissertations and manuscripts. David Schwieder (PhD), Political Science 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 Professional Students.

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Mississippi Freedom Project Panel

Pugh Hall Ocora

Join the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program (SPOHP) as students share their experiences from the 12th Mississippi Freedom Project trip. A team of student researchers road tripped to the Mississippi Delta on a weeklong fieldwork initiative interviewing civil rights veterans, educators, and activists. They made their way all the way to Elaine, Arkansas to commemorate

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Inclusive Teaching Strategies: Embracing Student Diversity in All Forms (Part 2)

201 Bryant Space Science Center 1772 Stadium Rd, Gainesville, FL, United States

Inclusive practices are critical to the higher education landscape to improve student learning. Inclusive teaching means designing and teaching courses in ways that foster talent in all students, but especially those who come from groups traditionally underrepresented in higher education. This two-part workshop will familiarize participants with the concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and

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A Conversation with Dr. Su’ad Abdul Khabeer with Selections from Sampled: “Beats of a Muslim Life”

Hippodrome Cinema

Su’ad Abdul Khabeer is a scholar-artist-activist who uses anthropology and performance to explore the intersections of race and popular culture.  Su’ad’s written work on Islam and hip hop is accompanied by her performance ethnography, Sampled: Beats of Muslim Life. Sampled is a one-woman solo performance designed to present and represent her research and findings to

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Assembly for Action Conference 2019

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.

Urban Coastal Archives: Visual Culture and the Land-Water Divide in Lagos – Ben Mendelsohn

Grinter 404 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United States

Ben Mendelsohn is the 2018-2020 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow with the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities. He earned his PhD in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University, where his dissertation combined written research with documentary video to examine the urban coastal geology of Lagos, Nigeria. His article, "Making the Urban Coast: A Geosocial Reading of

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