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Thinking Back Through Mythical Mothers: Modern Japanese Women Writers Retell the Past – Rebecca Copeland

Pugh 170

As part of the Languages, Literatures, and Cultures 2019-2020 Speaker Series: Print, Power, and Parable in Japanese Literature, Rebecca Copeland of Washington University in St. Louis will present this talk. In her famous line from “A Room of One’s Own,” Virginia Woolf invites women writers to think back through their mothers—biological, literary, and imaginative. In

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Digital Humanities Working Group – Meeting and Lightning Round

Library West 212 (Scott Nygren Studio)

At this meeting of the UF Digital Humanities Working Group, David Schwieder will be presenting on "Simulations for the Digital Humanities." This session will examine several types of computer simulations, and discuss how they might achieve wider usage in digital humanities projects. These simulations use rule-based systems to produce novel, dynamic inferences, and thus they

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Local Author Series: Sterling Watson

Matheson History Museum 513 E University Avenue, Gainesville

Join local author Sterling Watson for a presentation about his latest book, The Committee. The novel is set in Gainesville, a sleepy late 1950s Florida university city. Its characters—professors, students, townspeople rich and poor, and politicians—are both typical of such a place and unusual, even bizarre, for the challenges they face and the changes they

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