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Frankenread
Dr. Friedman’s talk, related to his book, Monstrous Progeny: a history of the Frankenstein narratives, (co-written with Allison B. Kavey) is a study of the continuing popularity of the Frankenstein story (the 200th anniversary of publication is this year) exploring the how and why the visualization of this monster has changed as the cultures and technologies …
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Lynching, Violence, and the State in Contemporary India – Inderpal Grewal (Yale University)
Lynching, Violence, and the State in Contemporary India – Inderpal Grewal (Yale University)
Thursday, November 1, 2018 4:00pm Smathers Library 100 Under the Modi government, Hindu right-wing activists and vigilantes have used Modi-government policies (prohibitions on beef-eating, for example) to target poor Muslim men in order to undercut their economic livelihood, and have circulated narratives of “love-jihad” to lynch Muslim men in relationships with non-Muslim women. At the …
Research in Progress: “Manifest Destiny at Sea: Steam Infrastructure and American Power, 1847-1857”
Research in Progress: “Manifest Destiny at Sea: Steam Infrastructure and American Power, 1847-1857”
You are invited for a Research in Progress talk in the History of Capitalism in the History Conference Room (005 Keene-Flint Hall): "Manifest Destiny at Sea: Steam Infrastructure and American Power, 1847-1857" Dr. Alicia Maggard, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Maritime Studies Program of Williams College and Mystic Seaport This presentation will examine the ways in which …
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Eternal Life: A Talk by Author Dara Horn
Eternal Life: A Talk by Author Dara Horn
As part of the American Jewish culture endowment at UF, the writer Dara Horn will be speaking this fall, while she's on tour for her new novel, Eternal Life. She will speak on Tuesday, November 13th at 5 pm.
Getting Creative: Translation and Etymology as Cultural Narratives of Sustainability and Resilience with Dr. Simon Richter
Getting Creative: Translation and Etymology as Cultural Narratives of Sustainability and Resilience with Dr. Simon Richter
Simon Richter, Professor and Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania. Lecture, November 13, 5:00-6:30 pm Dauer 219 (Ruth McQuown Room): “Getting Creative: Translation and Etymology as Cultural Narratives of Sustainability and Resilience.” Livestream link available HERE. In his lecture, Dr. Richter will present several case studies that …
Book Launch: Learning from Madness: Brazilian Modernism and Global Contemporary Art
Book Launch: Learning from Madness: Brazilian Modernism and Global Contemporary Art
Please join the UF School of Art + Art History for the book launch of "Learning from Madness: Brazilian Modernism and Global Contemporary Art." University of Chicago Press, 2018. Presentation by author Kaira M. Cabañas, Associate Professor of Global Modern & Contemporary Art. Introduction by Rosana Resende, Lecturer in Latin American Studies & Associate Director of …
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UF Synergies: Anti-Anti-Semitism and Holocaust Memory, Then and Now
UF Synergies: Anti-Anti-Semitism and Holocaust Memory, Then and Now
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 @ 4:00 pm, Walker 201D Anti-Anti-Semitism and Holocaust Memory: Then and Now Rachel Gordan (Center for Jewish Studies & Religion) “1940s: The Decade of Anti-Anti-Semitism” Dr. Gordan illustrates how in American Jewish literary history, the 1940s could be called the decade of the “anti-anti-Semitism novel.” Novelists including Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, …
What to do with the Art of Monstrous Men?
What to do with the Art of Monstrous Men?
Claire Dederer will speak on "What to do with the Art of Monstrous Men?" Claire Dederer is the author of two critically acclaimed memoirs: Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning and Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, which was a New York Times bestseller. Poser has been translated into 11 languages, optioned for television …
Polder-Geist: Dutch Responses to Rising Sea Levels and Sinking Cities in the Netherlands, the United States and Asia
Polder-Geist: Dutch Responses to Rising Sea Levels and Sinking Cities in the Netherlands, the United States and Asia
Workshop, November 14, Dauer 215 (12:00-1:30 pm): “Polder-Geist: Dutch Responses to Rising Sea Levels and Sinking Cities in the Netherlands, the United States and Asia.” Livestream link available HERE. Coastal cities around the world are already contending with the effects of sea level rise. For many, the problems are exacerbated by subsidence. Cities are sinking …
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Love that Moves the Sun and Stars: A Workshop on Love in Italian Literature and Culture
Italian Studies, the UF Honors Program and the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies with the generous sponsorship of the Hal and Ruth Smith Fund, Henry and Sue Tosi and Paul Campbell, are pleased to present, "Love that Moves the Sun and Stars: A Workshop on Love in Italian Literature and Culture" November 15-16, 2018. …
Transformative Imaginations: Decarceration and Liberatory Futures A report from the 2019 Imagining America National Gathering
Transformative Imaginations: Decarceration and Liberatory Futures A report from the 2019 Imagining America National Gathering
Thursday, November 15th, 2019 1:30-2:30pm, Pugh Hall 210 Imagining America (IA) is a consortium of universities and organizations dedicated to advancing the public and civic purposes of the arts, humanities, and design. UF has been a member institution since 2009. Imagining America supports research, learning, and culture-making platforms where humanists, artists, designers, scholars, students, …
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Strange Careers: 50 Years of Southern Women’s History
November 27-29, 2018 Keene Faculty Center, Dauer Hall Hosted by the Richard J. Milbauer Program in Southern History and co-sponsored by the Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Research and the Department of History. For a complete schedule, click on this link.
Team Teaching from Classroom to Gallery
Team Teaching from Classroom to Gallery
Have you ever thought about team-teaching a course at UF? Collaboration can energize our teaching just as it does our research. Through team-teaching, faculty are creating innovative undergraduate courses that would be impossible for a single faculty member to teach independently. Some of these courses collaborate across academic disciplines, while others collaborate with UF Libraries …
Dilemmas and Debates Fall 2018 Speaker Series
Dilemmas and Debates Fall 2018 Speaker Series
A Family Business Panel with the following featured speakers and their businesses: Chris & Tim Tassin – Hingenuity Jamie McClave Baldwin & Jim McClave – InfoTech Jodi Bennet Hunt & Linda Bennett - SunCountry Sports Questions? Please contact Emma Stetter.
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Tentacles of the Technosphere: The Protest against Frankfurt Airport 1962-1987 with Professor Michael Schuering
Tentacles of the Technosphere: The Protest against Frankfurt Airport 1962-1987 with Professor Michael Schuering
The expansion of Frankfurt airport was a fiercely contested issue in the 1970s and early 1980s. The construction of a new runway galvanized the German ecological movement and the residents of the surrounding area in a long conflict with airport managers and politicians. The events highlighted the peculiar position of infrastructures in a modern landscape, as …
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