Latest Past Events
Team Teaching from Classroom to Gallery
Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, GainesvilleHave 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
Strange Careers: 50 Years of Southern Women’s History
Keene Faculty CenterNovember 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.
“Muslim Converts or Crypto Jews? Sabbatean Communities in the Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic” with Dr. Cengiz Şişman
Keene Flint 005Sabbatai Sevi, a seventeen century Ottoman Jewish messianic claimant, led one of the largest religious movements in Jewish and Islamic history. When Ottoman authorities forced Sevi to convert to Islam in 1666, his followers formed a crypto-sect, later known as Dönmes, and maintained their overtly Muslim and covertly Jewish enigmatic identity over centuries. By using