Teaching Portfolio Review
201 Bryant Space Science Center 1772 Stadium Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesShowcase your teaching and professional strengths by learning how to create your teaching portfolio, and stand out in searches for academic positions.
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 StatesNancy 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 …
UF Synergies: Bodies in Movement and Science
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 …
Transforming Conflict
201 Bryant Space Science Center 1772 Stadium Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesConflict 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 …
UF Pop-Up Culture
Plaza of the AmericasPop-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 …
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.
President’s Arts and Humanities Luncheon: Andrew Cao
Dasburg House 450 Village Dr, Gainesville, FL, United StatesAndrew 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 …
UF Intersections: Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick – David Frye
Dauer 219How do walls—man-made and otherwise—define global-cultural limits? How do the physical/material characteristics of walls bear on/inform/reflect/etc. their religious, political, social, and economic meanings, and vice versa? How do walls mark cultural relations of infinity and finite-ness, abundance and lack, presence and absence, etc.? What kinds of cultural dynamics are generated in/by walls? What kinds of …
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 …
UF Intersections: Archaeology, Walls, and Charting Premodern Technospheres – David Frye
Pugh 302In this workshop, Professor Frye discusses his ongoing archeological concerns with walls and their functions and how these help us map premodern technospheres. David Frye is Professor of History at Eastern Connecticut State University and author of Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick (Simon and Schuster, 2018). This recent book on walls …
Inclusive Teaching Strategies: Embracing Student Diversity in All Forms (Part 1)
201 Bryant Space Science Center 1772 Stadium Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesInclusive 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 …
UF Intersections: A Conversation on Racial Formation and Colonialism in Puerto Rico
Ustler Hall AtriumJoin us in a conversation with two leading scholars whose research advances and complicates our understanding of Puerto Rico. Each scholar will present a piece of their work and then will be in conversation with each other and event attendees. "Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico" The rise and consolidation …
UF Intersections: Panel Discussion on Premodern Walls: Literal and Figurative Functions with David Frye and UF Faculty
Dauer 219Following his public lecture on How Ancient Walls began Modern Barriers, David Frye will participate in a Panel discussion with other UF faculty to discuss various perceptions of premodern walls. With brief presentations by Eleni Bozia (Classics): “‘All Roads Lead to Rome’: When your Walls Include the World”; Nina Caputo (History): “Real and Imagined Walls …
HESCAH Symposium – Beyond Biography: Artistic Practice and Personhood in Colonial Latin America
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesWhat 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 …
Civil War Roundtable: John H. Anderson, Jr. as Frederick Douglass
Trinity United Methodist Church 4000 NW 53rd Ave, Gainesville, FL, United StatesJohn 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 …
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 …
Global Learning Institute Info Session
UF International Center's Large Conference Room at the HUB 1765 Stadium Road, Gainesville, United StatesThe 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 …
Studying Africa in the United States: Lessons from the Past – Lioba Moshi
Grinter 404 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesDr. 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.
Art Festival at Thornebrook
Thornebrook Village 2441 NW 43rd St, Gainesville, FL, United StatesArt 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 …
Religious Entrepreneurs in Ethiopia: the Case of a Muslim Religious Leader in Masqan Wereda – Ikram Getachew
Grinter 471Ikram Getachew, of the University of Florida, will present this lecture as part of the Islam in Africa Working Group at the UF Center for African Studies.
SciArt Meetup: Pollinators
Florida Museum of Natural History 3215 Hull Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesCalling 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 …
Local Author Series: George ‘Bob’ Dekle, Sr
Columbia County Public Library 308 NW Columbia Ave, Lake City, FL, United StatesJoin local author George 'Bob' Dekle, Sr. for a presentation about his latest book, Six Capsules: the Gilded Age Murder of Helen Potts.
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.
Mississippi Freedom Project Panel
Pugh Hall OcoraJoin 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 …
Inclusive Teaching Strategies: Embracing Student Diversity in All Forms (Part 2)
201 Bryant Space Science Center 1772 Stadium Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesInclusive 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 …
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition – Liat Ben Moshe
Ustler Hall Auditorium (2nd Floor) 162 Fletcher Drive, Gainesville, FL, United StatesRecent scholarship and activism paint a troubling picture of the American carceral state and chart a way out by utilizing the framework of abolition. But disability and madness and their histories of oppression and resistance are largely missing from as ways to inform policy and activist resolutions to incarceration. For example- the erasure of the most …
A Conversation with Dr. Su’ad Abdul Khabeer with Selections from Sampled: “Beats of a Muslim Life”
Hippodrome CinemaSu’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 …
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. …
UF Intersections: Misreading The Literature of Late Antiquity: Palatine Anthology and the Politics of Criticism – Simon Goldhill
Dauer 219Join Professor Simon Goldhill (King's College, Cambridge, UK) for this engaging event. The workshop is about why and how the Palatine Anthology is not read as an anthology but cut up and redistributed for really bad critical reasons — to the extent that the Teubner does not even print book 8, and the standard work …
Urban Coastal Archives: Visual Culture and the Land-Water Divide in Lagos – Ben Mendelsohn
Grinter 404 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesBen 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 …