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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …