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HathiTrust’s Data and Analysis Tools for Text Mining Research
HathiTrust’s Data and Analysis Tools for Text Mining Research
This half-day workshop will introduce attendees to the text data and computational tools of HathiTrust. HathiTrust operates a repository of over 17 million items digitized at a network of partner libraries. This massive collection of text is available for computational text mining primarily through the tools and services of the HathiTrust Research Center. Attendees of …
Using Course Reserves Strategically
Using Course Reserves Strategically
The Smathers Libraries Course Reserves unit offers a range of options for making physical and digital materials available to students enrolled in your course, at no cost to them. This session will highlight how course reserves can support your teaching and how to navigate the ARES system. We will also discuss the Libraries’ growing effort …
Getting Your Classes on Track: Improving Your Teaching Skills
Getting Your Classes on Track: Improving Your Teaching Skills
New to teaching? Struggling to balance your teaching and research obligations? Then attend this session for some easy-to-implement tips on how to maximize your teaching effectiveness while minimizing teaching-related headaches. Sean Trainor (PhD), Lecturer, Management Communication Center, will lead this brief workshop as part of the Smathers Libraries 'Building You Career' series. No registration required. …
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Artist’s Reception: Vibe Inherent, Abstract and Esoteric – Brian Wilson
Artist’s Reception: Vibe Inherent, Abstract and Esoteric – Brian Wilson
Light hors d'oeuvres and libations will be served with background sounds of DreamerJazz, and guests will have the opportunity to meet the artist. Brian Wilson (Atlanta) is an abstract/energy artist who mainly works with acrylic paints/inks (on canvas) and includes charged crystal/gemstone powders for the protective and healing properties they offer. His paintings rarely reference …
2 events,
Nigerian Independence Celebration
In 2019, Nigeria turns 59! Bring your families, friends, and dancing shoes to a celebration of Nigerian Independence. Join the Nigerian Community of Gainesville and its satellite towns for an evening of free African food, music, dancing and more! For more information, please contact Professor Tunga Lergo at Santa Fe College.
Dance Alive National Ballet presents the Great Halloween Costume Sale
Dance Alive National Ballet presents the Great Halloween Costume Sale
Great adult and children's costumes! Great way to pick up dress up costumes for play groups – or an outrageous costume for an adult costume party. Fantastic prices! From $5. Benefits DANB's educational programming.
3 events,
UF Synergies: Bodies in Movement and Science
UF Synergies: Bodies in Movement and Science
The 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 …
Teaching Portfolio Review
Teaching Portfolio Review
Showcase 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
When One Teaches, Two Learn: The Role of Inquiry in Inspired Teaching – Nancy Dana
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 …
5 events,
UF Intersections: Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick – David Frye
UF Intersections: Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick – David Frye
How 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 …
Transforming Conflict
Transforming Conflict
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 …
UF Pop-Up Culture
UF Pop-Up Culture
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 …
3 events,
Religious Entrepreneurs in Ethiopia: the Case of a Muslim Religious Leader in Masqan Wereda – Ikram Getachew
Religious Entrepreneurs in Ethiopia: the Case of a Muslim Religious Leader in Masqan Wereda – Ikram Getachew
Ikram 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
SciArt Meetup: Pollinators
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 …
Local Author Series: George ‘Bob’ Dekle, Sr
Local Author Series: George ‘Bob’ Dekle, Sr
Join local author George 'Bob' Dekle, Sr. for a presentation about his latest book, Six Capsules: the Gilded Age Murder of Helen Potts.
2 events,
Getting Published: Writing Clear, Effective Academic Prose
Getting Published: Writing Clear, Effective Academic Prose
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
Mississippi Freedom Project Panel
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 …
3 events,
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition – Liat Ben Moshe
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition – Liat Ben Moshe
Recent 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 …
Inclusive Teaching Strategies: Embracing Student Diversity in All Forms (Part 2)
Inclusive Teaching Strategies: Embracing Student Diversity in All Forms (Part 2)
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 …
A Conversation with Dr. Su’ad Abdul Khabeer with Selections from Sampled: “Beats of a Muslim Life”
A Conversation with Dr. Su’ad Abdul Khabeer with Selections from Sampled: “Beats of a Muslim Life”
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 …
4 events,
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
UF Intersections: Misreading The Literature of Late Antiquity: Palatine Anthology and the Politics of Criticism – Simon Goldhill
Join 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 …
UF Intersections: The Infrastructure of Tolerance – Simon Goldhill
UF Intersections: The Infrastructure of Tolerance – Simon Goldhill
This 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 are formed. It looks in particular at the role of city planners and some past urban planning projects that had the effect of brutalizing social …
Urban Coastal Archives: Visual Culture and the Land-Water Divide in Lagos – Ben Mendelsohn
Urban Coastal Archives: Visual Culture and the Land-Water Divide in Lagos – Ben Mendelsohn
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 …
2 events,
Ichetucknee Springs Time Machine Tour
Ichetucknee Springs Time Machine Tour
Join 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 now. Starting at the north entrance, a park ranger will guide the group through the history of the park by stopping at historic sites so …
3 events,
UF Synergies: National Humanities Center Summer Residencies
UF Synergies: National Humanities Center Summer Residencies
The 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 …
Islam and the Spice Trade: Profit and Prophecy in the Global Middle Ages – Joel Blecher
Islam and the Spice Trade: Profit and Prophecy in the Global Middle Ages – Joel Blecher
Shipwrecks, 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 merchants and scholars who mixed Islam and business across the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean? And what might the maritime corridor that linked the …
Inscribing the Self on the Small Screen: How Marguerite Duras Put Literature on TV – Anne Brancky
Inscribing the Self on the Small Screen: How Marguerite Duras Put Literature on TV – Anne Brancky
Some 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 and public intellectual, made use of the television as an extension of her literary project. As both an interviewer on state funded television shows during …
4 events,
UF Intersections: Amerkyah and ME: Mapping Afrofuturism within the Hip Hop Feminist Imaginary – Aisha Durham
UF Intersections: Amerkyah and ME: Mapping Afrofuturism within the Hip Hop Feminist Imaginary – Aisha Durham
Afrofuturism can be described as a politically-imaginative decolonial project that fuses fictions, fantasies, and folk traditions with technology to produce past-future narratives about being and belonging from a Black-centered framework (see e.g., Nelson, 2000; Womack, 2013). Using textual experience as an embodied interpretive approach, Durham explores the ways Erykah Badu and Missy Elliot use Afrofuturism …
An Impossible Dialectic: Resisting and Revitalizing Perception in Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book – Temiti Lehartel
An Impossible Dialectic: Resisting and Revitalizing Perception in Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book – Temiti Lehartel
The 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 planetary novel." Reflecting on Wright’s opaque Aboriginal realist and hybrid aesthetics, this lecture will investigate how Wright’s novel, still carrying and re-potentializing expression and sensation, …
When They See Us: A Discussion of Race, Crime, and Justice
When They See Us: A Discussion of Race, Crime, and Justice
Join Professors Kenneth Nunn, Sarah Wolking, and Katheryn Russell-Brown for a discussion based around the Netflix miniseries "When They See Us" about the Central Park Five case. Light refreshments will be provided.
2 events,
Getting Free: Leveraging Open Access Publishing Options
Getting Free: Leveraging Open Access Publishing Options
Are you hearing terms like "open access," "preprint," and "data sharing" and want to know more? The open access publishing landscape has expanded exponentially over the past two decades-this workshop will introduce options across disciplines for sharing, reviewing, and publishing open scholarship. This workshop is part of International Open Access Week. Perry Collins (MA, MLS), …
CES Funding Opportunities Info Session
CES Funding Opportunities Info Session
The UF Center for European Studies will host an information session on its upcoming funding opportunities. The info session will cover basic information on the awards, eligibility, and the application process. Funding opportunities include: Course Development Awards Research Tutorial Abroad Course Enhancement Awards European Studies …
4 events,
Museums and Slavery: Engaging the Past and the Present in the Public Sphere – Ana-Lucia Araujo
Museums and Slavery: Engaging the Past and the Present in the Public Sphere – Ana-Lucia Araujo
How have museums engaged the debates about human atrocities? This lecture explores the development of permanent exhibitions and museums dedicated in part or entirely to address the problem of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade in England, France and the United States, by examining the cases of the Nantes History Museum, Museum of Aquitaine, the …
Ingenium/Ingenio as a Form of Knowing and Thinking in Early-Modern Spain and the Americas – Rachel Schmidt
Ingenium/Ingenio as a Form of Knowing and Thinking in Early-Modern Spain and the Americas – Rachel Schmidt
Join Professor Rachel Schmidt (University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada) for the keynote address of the XII Florida Cervantes Symposium at the University of Florida, titled "Ingenium: Ingenuity, Ingeniousness and Engineering in Cervantes," October 24 – 25, 2019. Sponsored by UF Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies (Enhancement Fund), UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (Humanities …
My Fulbright in 7 Minutes
My Fulbright in 7 Minutes
Join the UF International Center for an exciting evening with three Fulbright scholars sharing their work in a fun, brief setting. Meghan Moe Beitiks will present her work, "SiteSightCite: Engagements with Place via Artistic Research." Kwan Kim will present his work "Nooks and Crannies in Oyster Clusters and their Species Diversity." Diego Juarez-Sanchez will present …
7 events,
Decolonizing Representations: Past, Present and Future
Decolonizing Representations: Past, Present and Future
How can faculty, students, and community members engage in digital knowledge production as critical users and as meaningful producers? Decolonizing Representations is a set of FREE workshops designed for those folks who want to learn to do both, using digital tools to examine and re-imagine representations of Black, Latinx, Indigenous, & Asian groups, and people …
Verano Intenso: A Summer of Political Discontent and Activism in Puerto Rico
Verano Intenso: A Summer of Political Discontent and Activism in Puerto Rico
Over the span of two weeks in the summer, Puerto Rico experienced a series of protests that ended up with the resignation of former Governor Ricardo Rosselló. The protests were a culmination of factors stemming from colonial relations with the US, Hurricane María’s aftermath, economic instability, mass migration, and longstanding cases of corruption. The publication …
Biogenetics and Autobiography: Extracting Sephardic DNA from Cervantes’ Works – Kenneth Brown (University of Calgary)
Biogenetics and Autobiography: Extracting Sephardic DNA from Cervantes’ Works – Kenneth Brown (University of Calgary)
Yiddish humor is well-known. But Professor Kenneth Brown researches the “DNA” of Sephardic humor to the most unlikely of places: Cervantes’s famous novel of 1605, Don Quixote of La Mancha. A widely-published scholar of medieval romance philology, Professor Brown (University of Calgary) will present his findings at the closing event of the XII Florida Cervantes …
4 events,
Assembly for Action Conference 2019 (Part 2)
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 Classics Graduate Symposium: “Justice Turns the Balance Scales”
Attendees must register in advance by Friday October 4. Click here to register. 9:30-9:45 Check-in and Coffee 9:50-10:00 Introductory Remarks 10:00-11:30 The “State” of Justice Coffee Break 11:45-12:30 Panel 1 Respondent: Dr. Victoria Pagan Lunch Break 1:30-2:30 Justice and Physical Space 2:30-3:15 Panel 2 Respondent: Dr. Ifigeneia Giannadaki Coffee Break 3:30-5:00 Thinking …
McIntosh 1890s Festival
McIntosh 1890s Festival
All day free musical entertainment from country to bluegrass, featuring over 280 arts, crafts, plants and antique vendors, and food. Each year the 1890’s Festival raises money to fund projects in the community.
The Imperative for Social Justice in Schools: Collaborations with Community and Educational Leaders
The Imperative for Social Justice in Schools: Collaborations with Community and Educational Leaders
The Department of Educational Leadership in the College of Education at the University of Florida, in collaboration with the All Y’All Social Justice Collective, are proud to host this important one-day conference. It is meant to support educators and community members in advancing social justice in schools. See the website to register or become a …
2 events,
Local Author Series: James Williams
Local Author Series: James Williams
Join local author James Williams for a presentation of his science fiction book, The Pedestrians.
4 events,
UF Intersections Ethics Cafe: Climate Change
UF Intersections Ethics Cafe: Climate Change
Are you interested in learning more about controversial public issues? Would you like to talk with other students about the issues that you care about? Do you want to wrestle with hard questions in a friendly, civil setting? No previous training is necessary – bring an open mind, willingness to listen and share, and a …
Blackness in French – Mame-Fatou Niang
Blackness in French – Mame-Fatou Niang
Mame-Fatou Niang is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on contemporary France, Sub-Saharan Africa, Postcolonial and Transnational Studies, Media, and Urban Planning. She is the author of IdentitésFrançaises (Brill 2019) which examines the development of Afro-French identities and the works of second- and third-generation female immigrant writers …
A New “Wall in the Head”? Populism as a Threat to a Unified Europe Thirty Years After the Fall of the Wall
A New “Wall in the Head”? Populism as a Threat to a Unified Europe Thirty Years After the Fall of the Wall
Chair: Conor O’Dwyer, University of Florida Panelists: Michael Bernhard, University of Florida; Marcel Lewandowsky, University of Florida; Simona Guerra, University of Leicester; Milada Vachudova, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Discussant: Dariusz Stola, Polish Academy of Sciences Contemporary German discourse on the tensions between the former East and West German federal states often refers …
3 events,
The Social Lives of Books from Print to Pixel
The Social Lives of Books from Print to Pixel
This roundtable and workshop on Digital Book History will feature four panelists: Joshua Teplitsky (SUNY Stony Brook), Footprints Rebecca Jefferson (UF), The Cairo Genizah Neil Weijer (UF), The Archaeology of Reading Hélène Huet (UF), Mapping Decadence Cosponsored by the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish Studies and the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica.
The Holocaust, the POLIN Museum, and the Politics of the Past in Poland – Dariusz Stola
The Holocaust, the POLIN Museum, and the Politics of the Past in Poland – Dariusz Stola
Professor Dariusz Stola (Institute for Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences) will present this lecture. He was director of the POLIN Museum of the History of the Polish Jews in Warsaw from its opening in 2014 until 2019. His seven books include The Anti-Zionist Campaign in Poland, 1967-1968.
HESCAH Lecture – Providing for the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt and Early China
HESCAH Lecture – Providing for the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt and Early China
Anthony Barbieri-Low, Professor of History at University of California Santa Barbara, will present this lecture. Professor Barbieri-Low has wide-ranging interests in many aspects of Early China, including technology, organization of production, labor history, gender and social relations, legal process, material culture, and state formation. He also conducts research in Egyptology as a comparative field with …
2 events,
Getting Organized: Managing Projects and Time
Getting Organized: Managing Projects and Time
This workshop will provide you with tips and tools to help you manage your time and your various projects as you navigate your graduate career. Hélène Huet (PhD), European Studies 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 …
Broken Families Across the Border – Erin Anderson
Broken Families Across the Border – Erin Anderson
Erin Anderson works for Al otro lado, an NGO that supports and provides legal advice to families separated by ICE. She will talk about how Al otro lado helps parents who have been deported from the U.S.A. to Mexico, Guatemala and other central American countries to come back to the U.S. legally and be reunited …
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Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Savior – Peter Tinti
Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Savior – Peter Tinti
Join international investigative journalist Peter Tinti, who will speak as part of the International Career Pathways Speaker Series. Tinti will host a discussion of careers in investigative journalism and his work on security, human rights, conflict, and organized crime. Tinti will also discuss his recent book called "Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Savior" that investigates the migrant smuggling …
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Local Author Series: Scott Camil
Local Author Series: Scott Camil
Join local author and anti-war activist Scott Camil for a presentation about his new graphic novel Winter Warrior: A Vietnam Vet's Anti-War Odyssey. Through the unflinching personal journey of a hardened marine turned dogged anti-war activist, Winter Warrior reveals the brutal reality of the Vietnam War and the bleak political reality on the domestic front. …
2 events,
Gainesville History Hunt
Gainesville History Hunt
Join E. Stanley Richardson and Storm Roberts at Depot Park for a free trivia race that journeys through 150 years of Gainesville history. Click here to register your team of 2-5 players. There will be food, games, and more in this part performance, part competition, part story experience. This event is part of the Art …
All Saints Concert – Mozart’s Requiem
All Saints Concert – Mozart’s Requiem
Holy Trinity’s Music Director and Conductor John Lowe, the Chamber Orchestra, and Dance Alive National Ballet are pleased to present this work as part of Music At Holy Trinity’s music program. Dance Alive National Ballet principal dancers along with a corps of 20 will fill the aisles and alter at Holy Trinity – a magnificent …
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