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Reading & Discussion: Dr. Figueroa’s Limbo – A Novel About Jamaica
Reading & Discussion: Dr. Figueroa’s Limbo – A Novel About Jamaica
More information here. Event registration here. “In Limbo, Esther Figueroa deftly navigates between steamy romance, backdoor deals and dangerous plunges into the inferno of Jamaica’s environmental disasters. But the novel’s other side is its tender and evocative celebration of love, friendship, place and belonging. The author (like her heroine) emerges triumphant at the end of …
Kambiz GhaneaBassiri: American Muslim Institutions, 1989-2001: A Decade of Transformation
Kambiz GhaneaBassiri: American Muslim Institutions, 1989-2001: A Decade of Transformation
The Center for Global Islamic Studies has planned a few online lectures during the spring semester: two lectures about Islam in America by Justine Howe and Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, and another about Sufism and Ifa by Oludamini Ogunnaike. The events will take place via Zoom, and you can find the links for registration after each event. …
Gender and Action in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Assassin
Gender and Action in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Assassin
This lecture examines the representation of the woman warrior figure in a groundbreaking hyper-real martial arts film from Hou Hsiao-hsien, an art-house director from Taiwan better known for his portrayal of 20th century historical trauma. With the 2015 film The Assassin, he turns his attention to examine individual trauma. What personal cost do you pay …
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Peace Corps Service in South America Info Session
Peace Corps Service in South America Info Session
Come hear about different sectors and countries that Peace Corps volunteers serve in throughout South America. In this panel there will be five speakers all representing different Peace Corps sectors and countries in South America including three UF Alumni. UF's Peace Corps Prep program will also be discussed along with general information about Peace Corps …
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Cutting Your Crap. Pasting the Pieces
Cutting Your Crap. Pasting the Pieces
This workshop invites you to look at the materials in your life and re-imagine them in new and generative ways. From our canvas (a toilet or paper towel roll) to our medium (newspaper, old magazines, or product packaging), we will observe and account for our "stuff" and transform it into something beautiful. Materials needed: Toilet …
Works Righteousness: Material Practice in Ethical Theory By Dr. Anna L. Peterson
Works Righteousness: Material Practice in Ethical Theory By Dr. Anna L. Peterson
Book Talk: Moderated by Dr. Ali Altaf Mian (University of Florida) In Works Righteousness, Anna L. Peterson examines the place of practice in contemporary ethical theory. Peterson argues that rather than assuming that pre-established moral ideas guide action, ethicists should acknowledge and explore the relationship between ideas, actions, and results. Both an analysis of alternative …
UF & Beyond: Exploring International Career Pathways
UF & Beyond: Exploring International Career Pathways
Are you interested in international careers but aren’t sure where to get started or what you need to do while at UF to prepare? Save the date for our first ever International Scholars Program alumni panel! We will be joined by professionals from different fields who have had unique journeys getting to where they are …
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ISP Info Session
ISP Info Session
The International Scholars Program is a commencement medallion program that is open for enrollment to all undergraduate students. It helps structure your global learning experience through the completion of international coursework, international experience or language learning, and co-curricular activities. Additionally, you may co-enroll in the Peace Corps Prep Program, which includes sector-specific coursework and hands-on …
Euripides in Havana: José Triana’s Medea in the Mirror (1960)
Euripides in Havana: José Triana’s Medea in the Mirror (1960)
Dr. Sergios Paschalis, postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. A celebration of the far-reaching legacy of Hellenism in our times. More information and registration here.
Louise Nevelson’s Palace
Louise Nevelson’s Palace
Dr. Julia Bryan-Wilson, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at University of California, Berkeley Professor Julia Bryan-Wilson lectures on the work of Louise Nevelson, the Ukrainian-American sculptor whose career intersected with the feminist art movement. Her talk focuses particularly on Mrs. N’s Palace (1964-77), Nevelson’s largest sculpture. Comprised of some hundred found objects, painted black, the work echoes …
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The Power of the Brass Band
The Power of the Brass Band
Dr. Suzel Reily Professor of Ethnomusicology at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil Musicology Colloquium Talk Email Angela Jonas at ajonas@arts.ufl.edu for Zoom link
Meeting at the Crossroads: Community, Safe Spaces, and Professional Critique in a Pandemic
Meeting at the Crossroads: Community, Safe Spaces, and Professional Critique in a Pandemic
Our speaker event intends to bring to the forefront a current and applicable conversation in reference to the COVID-19 pandemic and the recent change of political power here in the U.S. As we witnessed, the pandemic and societal climate had a great impact on academia, health, and legal affairs. Thus, the event will have a …
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Virtual Roundtable on Education and COVID
Virtual Roundtable on Education and COVID
How has COVID-19 affected all education levels? Hear perspectives from educators, parents, administrators, students, and community advocates who will discuss hardships, losses, successes, and everything in between! We welcome students of all ages, parents, educators, and community members to join us. There will be short presentations by the panelists, followed by a moderated discussion. Participants …
Roundtable Salon: Femme Figurations in Contemporary Art
Roundtable Salon: Femme Figurations in Contemporary Art
Roundtable Salon: Femme Figurations in Contemporary Art Featuring curator Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle and artists Pamela Council, Yvette Mayorga, and Kenya (Robinson) Moderated by Dr. Jillian Hernandez, Assistant Professor in the Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Research This program is a part of the speaker series Radical Femininity: Women of Color Imaginaries, New Political …
Black Preference & Indifference in Sites of Erasure
Black Preference & Indifference in Sites of Erasure
Featuring: Dr. Mandisa Haarhoff This talk is a critical reflection on how black people engage sites of erasure (particularly spaces that hold sacred meanings to settler-colonial histories) and do so without knowledge, concern, or reverence for these histories. How does this interaction with these sites potentially undermine, disrupt, or throw into sharp relief ongoing forms of …
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Black Women’s Health & Reality TV: Using Black Popular Culture for Health Promotion
Black Women’s Health & Reality TV: Using Black Popular Culture for Health Promotion
Featuring: Asha Winfield In this conversation, Winfield discusses functions of Black popular culture as it relates to, depicts, and covers Black health issues. Black reality television often shares the complexities of Black realities and on occasion includes Black women's health as a part of its "edutainment" or cultural pedagogy: Put in the context of race, sex, …
ePortfolio Workshop: Marketing Your Experiences
ePortfolio Workshop: Marketing Your Experiences
Looking to perfect your ePortfolio? In this workshop, you will learn how to market your experiences – whether they be study abroad/internships abroad, club or campus involvement, volunteering, or others. We will be hosting this workshop with guests from the Career Connections Center to provide insight on how to articulate your skills and how to …
A Conversation With Novelist Yaa Gyasi
A Conversation With Novelist Yaa Gyasi
Join us for a zoom conversation with novelist Yaa Gyasi, a recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 2016 “5 Under 35” Award, and a graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. We will be talking about Gyasi’s recent novel, Transcendent Kingdom, published in 2020 by Knopf, and about the writing life. We will …
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The Shifting Terrain of Christian-Muslim Encounters in Africa
This symposium will examine the intricate dynamics, multifaceted entanglements, and ambivalences in Christian-Muslim encounters in Africa. Internal transformations within Christianity and Islam have been occurring alongside changing patterns of interactions between Christians and Muslims. Focusing on “religious encounters” and putting Christianity and Islam in Africa within the same analytical frame, the symposium will shed light …
Within/Without You: London and the Provincial Choral Festival in the 1830s
Within/Without You: London and the Provincial Choral Festival in the 1830s
Guest Lecture: Musicology Colloquium Dr. Charles McGuire, Oberlin University “Within/Without You: London and the Provincial Choral Festival in the 1830s" Please email Angela Jonas (ajonas@arts.ufl.edu) for the Zoom link.
UF History Workshop: Alice Freifeld
UF History Workshop: Alice Freifeld
Paper title and discussants to be announced. Contact Prof. Nancy Hunt (nrhunt@ufl.edu) for the Zoom link and draft paper to be discussed.
Femme-inist is to Feminist as PYNK is to Pink
Femme-inist is to Feminist as PYNK is to Pink
What is a black femme-inist? This talk offers preliminary thoughts on black femme-inism’s gender-specific, race-specific, and desire-specific contributions to the ongoing project of getting free. Meditating on what makes "black femme" a very smart, very black, and very queer gender, Dr. Tinsley outlines why black femme perspectives prove important to dismantling white supremacist heteropatriarchy. Omise’eke …
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Conversations in the Neighborhood: How Can We Make Gainesville More Sustainable?
Conversations in the Neighborhood: How Can We Make Gainesville More Sustainable?
How can we have a sustainable food system? How can we have better food policies? How can we provide farmworkers better working conditions? This session brings speakers across Gainesville to share their perspectives on how Gainesville can build a food system that is sustainable both environmentally and socially. Please register for the event through the Zoom …
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ISP Info Session
ISP Info Session
The International Scholars Program is a commencement medallion program that is open for enrollment to all undergraduate students. It helps structure your global learning experience through the completion of international coursework, international experience or language learning, and co-curricular activities. Additionally, you may co-enroll in the Peace Corps Prep Program, which includes sector-specific coursework and hands-on …
Oludamini Ogunnaike: Twin Mirrors: Sufism as seen by Ifa, Ifa as seen by Sufism
Oludamini Ogunnaike: Twin Mirrors: Sufism as seen by Ifa, Ifa as seen by Sufism
The Center for Global Islamic Studies has planned a few online lectures during the spring semester: two lectures about Islam in America by Justine Howe and Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, and another about Sufism and Ifa by Oludamini Ogunnaike. The events will take place via Zoom, and you can find the links for registration after each event. …
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ePortfolio Workshop: Getting Started
ePortfolio Workshop: Getting Started
Join us for an ePortfolio Workshop where we'll go over how to get started and how to navigate Wix, 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. Zoom registration
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Interface Teaching Conference
The Interface Teaching Conference provides faculty, staff, TAs, GAs, and post-docs with new strategies for great teaching and learning through interactive breakout sessions. This year’s theme is Better Together: Unstoppable Student Teams. Although students may have diverging opinions on group work, creating diverse teams that collaborate on creative assignments can energize students and result in greater …
Coffee Without Borders: Sustainable Development
Coffee Without Borders: Sustainable Development
Join the International Scholars Program and the One Health Student Association to discuss sustainable development with your peers and “upgrade your worldview” by seeing how much you know about the UN sustainable development goals! We can’t wait to see you there! Please emailAmila Tica (atica@ufic.ufl.edu) for the Zoom link.
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Indigenous Rights, Environmental Change, and Development in South America’s Chaco
The Gran Chaco is one of Latin America’s most threatened forest ecosystems. Global demand for beef, soybeans, and hydrocarbons are driving a multi-billion dollar infrastructure boom, deforestation, and new migration dynamics across the region. As a result, the Chaco been the site of landmark Indigenous land rights cases, profound social change, and enduring efforts to …
Immanent Vitalities: Meaning and Materiality in Modern and Contemporary Art
Immanent Vitalities: Meaning and Materiality in Modern and Contemporary Art
Join us on Thursday, April 15 at 6 pm for the launch of Kaira M. Cabañas's Immanent Vitalities: Meaning and Materiality in Modern and Contemporary Art. The book was published as part of the University of California Press's "Studies in Latin American Art" series, which is supported by the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA).
Ethics on Tap: Community Conversation on Gentrification
Ethics on Tap: Community Conversation on Gentrification
Come join us at Cypress and Grove Brewery for a night of socially distanced discussion on the ethical issues raised by gentrification in the Gainesville community. This event is free and open to members of the UF and Gainesville communities. Location: Cypress and Grove Brewery 1001 Northwest 4th Street Gainesville, FL 32601 Register here More information …
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PLAYED: Music as an Instrument of Exploiting Black Girls’ Online Play as Free Labor
PLAYED: Music as an Instrument of Exploiting Black Girls’ Online Play as Free Labor
Guest Lecture: Musicology Colloquium Dr. Kyra Gaunt, University at Albany (SUNY) Please email Angela Jonas (ajonas@arts.ufl.edu) for the Zoom link.
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Artist’s Talk: Disaster and the Body
Artist’s Talk: Disaster and the Body
In the past year, Florida and its neighbors in the Gulf Coast and Caribbean have weathered hurricanes, earthquakes, and ice storms, all amidst a global pandemic. Artists have helped disaster-impacted communities come to terms with how to move forward, rebuild, and prepare for the next crisis. Join choreographer, Michelle Gibson (New Orleans/ Dallas), and members …
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Sermon I Wish I’d Heard — Play & Workshop
Sermon I Wish I’d Heard — Play & Workshop
Growing up Blxck, Queer, Non-binary, and Bible Belted in the Midwest, the Sermon I wish I'd Heard bears witness to Hicks' journey towards self-love through spoken word, song, and movement--three friends that fed the indomitable spirit childhood required. Such is a blossom, which Hick says, ultimately saves their life; and perhaps, lives now as a call home …
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The WWI Diary of Albert Huet. From Digitization to Implementation in the Classroom
The WWI Diary of Albert Huet. From Digitization to Implementation in the Classroom
Panelist 1: Dr. Hélène Huet (University of Florida) In 2016, I published online the digitized French-language notebook of my great-grandfather, Albert Huet, in which he recounts his experience as a young inexperienced soldier in the French army during WWI. For this presentation, I will focus on the origins of the digital project and showcase my …
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Intersections Symposium Ft. Will Robots Feel Pain? The Politics of Race, the Governance of Technology, and the Future of Humanity – Sylvester Johnson
Intersections Symposium Ft. Will Robots Feel Pain? The Politics of Race, the Governance of Technology, and the Future of Humanity – Sylvester Johnson
From Aristotle’s ancient conception of the soul, to Ibn Rushd’s 12th-century analytics of the intellect, to the information theory underlying neural networks, scholars have queried the agency of things and the relationship between matter and its other (spirit?). Does agency inhere in material things? Can an assemblage of machine parts be a person? What distinguishes …
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Florida Humanities: Braver Angels Red/Blue Workshop – Part I
Florida Humanities: Braver Angels Red/Blue Workshop – Part I
Join us for a free two-part intensive online workshop that brings together Red (conservative or Republican-leaning) and Blue (liberal or Democratic-leaning) citizens for moderated activities and structured discussions that reduce stereotyped thinking, clarify disagreements, build relationships and find common ground through listening and learning rather than declaring and debating. Registering for Part 1 will automatically …
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ISP Graduation Ceremony & ePortfolio Showcase
The International Scholars Program is proud to announce the latest cohort of International Scholars Program graduates for the Spring 2021 semester. Join us as we celebrate our graduates' accomplishments and give them the chance to present their eportfolio capstone projects. There will be three ceremonies to accommodate our graduates. Please use the links below to …
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Virtual Humanities Writing Support Group RSVP
HUMANITIES WRITING RETREAT Monday-Friday, May 3-7, 2021 (UF intersession) Daily Short Virtual Meetings RSVP by April 28th: https://ufl.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9GmNNxKtf45Hx6R More information here.
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Let’s Eat! Community Cookbooks of the Matheson
Let’s Eat! Community Cookbooks of the Matheson
Join Curator of Collections Kaitlyn Hof-Mahoney and friend of the Matheson Katie Kelly on Thursday, April 29th for “Let’s Eat! Community Cookbooks of the Matheson.” This free, virtual program will feature Kaitlyn and Katie giving a cooking demonstration of recipes from a few of the many Florida cookbooks in the Matheson’s collection. The Matheson’s collection …
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Florida Humanities: Braver Angels Red/Blue Workshop – Part II
Florida Humanities: Braver Angels Red/Blue Workshop – Part II
This is Part II of an intensive online workshop that brings together Red (conservative or Republican-leaning) and Blue (liberal or Democratic-leaning) citizens for moderated activities and structured discussions that reduce stereotyped thinking, clarify disagreements, build relationships and find common ground through listening and learning rather than declaring and debating. Registering for Part 1 will automatically …
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