Research Fundamentals Workshops Series: Experimental Research Designs– Dave Schwieder
Marston Science Library L308Research Fundamentals Workshops Series Held in Marston Science Library L308 at 3:00 pm. Reservations requested but not required. All workshops are free and open to all. See here for full list of upcoming workshops in the library. March 20 - Experimental Research Designs– Dave Schwieder This workshop provides an overview of experimental research, including the …
Authors@UF: Dr. Barbara Mennel
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesBarbara Mennel Rothman Chair and Director, Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere Associate Professor, Departments of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and English. Wednesday, March 20, 2019 3:30 p.m., Smathers Library, Room 100 Women at Work in Twenty-First-Century European Cinema University of Illinois Press, 2019 From hairdressers and caregivers to reproductive workers and power-suited executives, images of women’s labor …
From Segregation to Black Lives Matter: A Symposium and Celebration of the Opening of the Joel Buchanan Archive of African American Oral History at the University of Florida
George A. Smathers LibrariesJanuary 11, 2019: For Immediate Release The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida announces: From Segregation to Black Lives Matter. A Symposium and Celebration of the Opening of the Joel Buchanan Archive of African American Oral History at the University of Florida Free registration is available here. Contact: Tamarra Jenkins, (352-392-7168), …
Plotting the Garden: Politics and Narrative in the Literature and Culture of Gardens
“Plotting the Garden” is a two-day conference at the University of Florida that explores the intersection of gardens as physical plots of land cultivated for a purpose; as narrative plots that tell a story; and as political plots that convey identity, power, and even intrigue. We seek to mobilize what George McKay calls “horticultural politics” …
DEADLINE: Humanities and the Sunshine State: Florida Water Stories
Applications due for 2019 Humanities and the Sunshine State: Florida Water Stories Program.
Managing Fulbright Recruitment and Retention with Debra Anderson, Scott Davis, and Matt Mitterko
UF International CenterCHPS Search Committee Meeting
CHPS Yavitz Conference Room - 200B Walker HallSearch Committee Meeting
Walker 200Research Fundamentals Workshops Series: 3D Printing for Research – Sara Gonzalez
Marston Science Library L308Research Fundamentals Workshops Series Held in Marston Science Library L308 at 3:00 pm. Reservations requested but not required. All workshops are free and open to all. See here for full list of upcoming workshops in the library. March 21 – 3D Printing for Research – Sara Gonzalez
HESCAH Lecture | Plotting the Roman Garden
Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, FloridaJoin the School of Art + Art History for Plotting the Roman Garden, a HESCAH lecture given by Dr. Bettina Bergmann, the Helene Phillips Herzig '49 Professor of Art History at Mount Holyoke College on Thursday, March 21 at 6 p.m. in the Chandler Auditorium at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art. Free and open …
From Inscribing to Emoticoding: A workshop on human-readable information encoding with Angelos Barmpoutis
Research Education and Visualization Environment at the Digital Worlds Institute (NRG building).Human-readable information encoding has transitioned throughout human history utilizing the available technologies. During this evolution, humans familiarized themselves with various encoding schemes beyond natural language alphabets, such as Braille, Tally marks, and much more recently Morse code, Cellphone texting in 4×3 numerical keypads, emoticoding, and many others. This presentation discusses the common elements behind these encoding schemes and showcases …
Humanities Engagement Scholars Meet-Up
CHPS Yavitz Conference Room - 200B Walker HallAre you an undergraduate interested in what it means to be in graduate school? Meet graduate students who study the humanities or emphasize humanities approaches in the social sciences. The following graduate students will talk about their research and life in graduate school: Nolan Cannon, Philosophy Andreina Fernandez, Center for Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies …
The 14th Annual Conference of the Social Sciences (CSS)
Reitz Union - Various RoomsFor the past 14 years, the Florida Society of the Social Sciences (F3S) has strived to provide a unique forum for Florida’s scholars of the social and humanistic sciences to engage with others around issues of social import and impact. The cornerstone of F3S’s efforts is the Annual Conference of the Social Sciences, where hundreds of graduate and …
Once More at the River: From MLK to BLM
Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, FloridaOnce More at the River: From MLK to BLM, a one-hour documentary, explores the rich and continuing history of political activism in Memphis since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated there in 1968. This activism has often involved confrontation and sometimes controversy. This story, told through oral history interviews of more than 20 Memphis-based …
“We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria,” A Talk by Dr. Wendy Pearlman
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesBased on interviews with hundreds of Syrians conducted over four years across the Middle East, Europe, and the United States, "We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria" chronicles the war from its origins to its present horror, solely through the words of ordinary people transformed by its unfolding. Parents, children, students, teachers, …
“Early Experiments in Digital Postcolonial Studies” with Deepika Bahri
Dauer 219This brief talk will revisit the creation of the Postcolonial Studies @ Emory web site in 1996 as an example of early postcolonial digital praxis, its evolution in today's information rich digital environment, and speculations about the future of postcolonial digital humanities.
“Postcolonial Biology” with Deepika Bahri
Dauer 219“Postcolonial Biology” Tuesday, March 26, 3:00 pm in Dauer 219 Postcolonial Biology investigates how minds and bodies have been shaped by colonial contact, to create deeply embedded hierarchies among the colonized. Moving beyond “North/South” thinking, Bahri reframes the questions of postcolonial bodies to address all societies, whether developed or developing. Engaging in innovative, highly original readings …
Search Committee Meeting
Walker HallResearch Fundamentals Workshops Series: Deciding Where to Publish– Suzanne Stapleton
Marston Science Library L308Research Fundamentals Workshops Series Held in Marston Science Library L308 at 3:00 pm. Reservations requested but not required. All workshops are free and open to all. See here for full list of upcoming workshops in the library. March 27 - Deciding Where to Publish– Suzanne Stapleton Are you writing up your STEM research results? Learn …
Punch of the Autochtones
College of the Arts Lecture Hall - FAB 0105Jan Čumlivski is a Prague-based graphic designer, book artist, and historian of graphic design. He has won many prizes for his art-books, and teaches at Prague’s Academy of Art, Architecture and Design and Bratislava’s Academy of Fine Arts and Design. His talk will focus on samizdat, the clandestine text-image practice of self-publishing formerly common across …
ePortfolio Workshop: Getting Started
UF International CenterJoin the UF International Center for an ePortfolio Workshop in their Center's Large Conference Room. The presentation will go over how to get started and how to navigate wix.com, what you'll need to include, and suggested guidelines for making a polished, reflective, and career-driven ePortfolio as part of the International Scholars Program and Peace Corps Prep.
Search Committee Meeting
Walker HallCenter for European Studies 15th Anniversary Celebration
Boxcar at Depot ParkCampus Earth Week Keynote Address featuring Julian Agyeman
University Auditorium 333 Newell Dr, Gainesville, FL, United StatesPlease join Sustainable UF for the Campus Earth Week Keynote Address featuring Julian Agyeman, expert and thought leader whose research centers on the concept of Just Sustainabilities. This event is free and open to the public. Julian Agyeman Ph.D. FRSA FRGS is a Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University, and …
Gender, Disability, and the Chinese Muslim’s Encounters with Cultural Traditions and a Modernized World
The PICT Theater of Research Education and Visualization Environment at the Digital Worlds Institute (Normal Gym Building, 2nd FL)Red Flowers and Green Leaves (Dir. Liu Miaomiao, 2018, Fiction/96 min/English subtitle/Color) Film screening and discussion with the Filmmaker Time: April 2, Tuesday, 5:15-7:30pm Location: The PICT Theater of Research Education and Visualization Environment at the Digital Worlds Institute (Normal Gym Building, 2nd FL) Abstract: Shot in a village of the Hui people, a minority …
UF Fulbright Student Info Session with Regan Garner and Kelly Medley (Student)
UF International CenterResearch Fundamentals Workshops Series: Introduction to Qualitative Research – Dave Schwieder
Marston Science Library L308Research Fundamentals Workshops Series Held in Marston Science Library L308 at 3:00 pm. Reservations requested but not required. All workshops are free and open to all. See here for full list of upcoming workshops in the library. April 3 - Introduction to Qualitative Research – Dave Schwieder This workshop provides a basic overview of qualitative …
Dream Empire with David Borenstein
The PICT Theater of Research Education and Visualization Environment at the Digital Worlds Institute (Normal Gym Building, 2nd FL)Film screening and discussion with the Filmmaker David Borenstein. Yana’s company uses actors to turn remote Chinese ghost towns into temporary “international booming cities,” tricking visitors into buying overpriced property. But when the real estate market starts to collapse, she faces financial ruin. Released in 2016, Dream Empire is a boom to bust tale set …
The Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin
Smathers Library 100 1523 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United StatesSmather's Library and the English Department would like to invite you to the Gainesville screening of the internationally Award-winning documentary, "The Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin" on April 4th 2019, in Smathers 100 from 3:30-6:30. The documentarian/filmmaker Arwen Curry will be present to answer questions after the screening. Ursula K. Le Guin passed away …
Bringing America together, Taking the Nazis Apart: Hollywood Jews, Moviemaking During World War II, and Implicating Film in the Third Reich
Judaica Suite, Library EastMichael Berkowitz is Professor of modern Jewish history at University College London and editor of Jewish Historical Studies: Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England (UCL Press). Please join him for a public talk on film during World War II. Professor Berkowitz received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin and taught previously at the …