Latest Past Events
Urban Coastal Archives: Visual Culture and the Land-Water Divide in Lagos – Ben Mendelsohn
Grinter 404 1523 Union Rd, GainesvilleBen 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
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 up and redistributed for really bad critical reasons — to the extent that the Teubner does not even print book 8, and the standard work
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.