Fall 2010 Events
9 September
6th Gainesville Latino Film Festival
16 September
Death and Renewal: Books and Libraries in Late Antique Egypt
Roger Bagnall (NYU)
21 September
The King James Bible in the 21st Century
Herbert Marks (Indiana University) & Austin Busch (SUNY Brockport)
27 September
Carnegie Libraries: Public Reading for the Reading Public
Abigail Van Slyck (Connecticut College)
29 September
The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy History of Black and White Women in the Women’s Liberation Movement
Winifred Breines (Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Women’s Studies, Northeastern University)
1 October
Nigeria as a Center of Discourse: Re-Centering a Marginal Nation-State
A One-Day Symposium
21 October
A New Garb for the Jewish Soul: The JPS Bible in the Light of King James
Naomi Seidman (Graduate Theological Union)
28 October
The Benedictine and the Labyrinth: The Enlightenment Library and the Problem of Universal Knowledge
Jacob Soll (Rutgers, Camden)
28 October
Learnability Theory and Second Language Acquisition: Complex WH-Questions in Non-Native German and Non-Native Spanish
Juana M. Liceras (University of Ottawa)
3 November
Tapestry Thinking and Tapestry Actions: Weaving Threads of Science, Arts and the Humanities to Create the Good Life
Nalini Nadkarni (The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington)
5 November,
La voz enardecida / A voice impassioned: Remembering Miguel Hernandez (1910-1942)
A colloquium presented by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies
5 November
Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril
Kathleen Dean Moore (Oregon State University) & Micheal Nelson (Michigan State University)
5-6 November
Conference of the Society for Amazonian and Andean Studies
5-7 November
Film & Philosophy: How Films Think
A conference presented by the UF Graduate Film Studies Group
18 November
Collecting and Reading in the Early Chinese Print Age
Hilde De Weerdt (Oxford)
1 December
Google and the Future of Books
Siva Vaidhyanathan (Virginia)
2 December
Reaching and Teaching the ‘Digital Generation’: Separating Myth from Fact
Siva Vaidhyanathan (Virginia)
Spring 2011 Events
10 January to 1 May
2011 Grimes Conference – Exhibition Ayiti: Forces of Nature, Forces of Life
Curated by Natalia Marques da Silva
11 January
2011 Grimes Conference – Screening of Bound by Haiti. Followed by a Q&A with filmmakers Jon Bougher and Roman Saufiullin
Co-Sponsored by the Grimes Series with Gators United for Haiti.
13 January
2011 Grimes Conference – Panel Discussion: Rebuilding Haiti, Perspectives from the Field
Moderated by Marilyn Swisher (Department of Family, Youth & Community Sciences)
24 January
2011 Grimes Conference – Why Is Haiti So Poor?
David Geggus (Department of History, University of Florida)
4 February
Brown Bag Series – Princes and Religion: Daoism and Elite Patronage from the Ming Princely Institution
Richard Wang (Chinese Language & Literature, Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures)
7 February
2011 Grimes Conference – The Anthropology of Survival in Post-Earthquake Haiti: Institutional Predators, Individual Maneuver
Gerald Murray (Department of Anthropology, University of Florida)
10-11 February
Simone de Beauvoir: Legacies
A conference presented by the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research
14 February
Heritage Lost and Found: Marketing Indonesian Identity Arts in Economically Uncertain Times
Kathleen Adams (Loyola University)
17 February
Migrants, Foreigners, Jews: The Nation as Performative Event in US and German TV Crime Dramas
Wulf Kansteiner (Binghamton University, SUNY)
21 February
Brown Bag Series – Death Proof: Trauma and Memory in Black Power Era Images
Amy Ongiri (Department of English)
24 February
A Primitive Effect on the Pictures: Norval Morrisseau and the Global Emergence of Indigenous Modernism
Ruth Phillips (Carleton University)
25-26 February
African Independence: Cultures of Memory, Celebrations and Contestations
Gwendolyn M. Carter Conference in African Studies at the University of Florida
28 February
Workshop on Sustainable Public Health Work
Louise Ivers, Chief of Mission, Partners in Health in Haiti, and Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
1 March
2011 Grimes Conference – Haiti: Public Health and Structural Change
Louise Ivers, Chief of Mission, Partners in Health in Haiti, and Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
17 March
2011 Grimes Conference – Two-Part Panel Discussion: The Role of Haitian Creole in the School System of Post-Earthquake Haiti
Michel DeGraff (Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT)
Flore Zéphir (Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Missouri-Columbia)
21 March
Brown Bag Series – The First Flight: J. Hillis Miller Film and Book Project
Dragan Kujundzic (Jewish Studies, Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures)
25 March
Stalin’s Biography: Childhood or World History?
Stephen Kotkin (Princeton University)
28 March
ETHNICITY, INC.: On Indigeneity and its Interpellations
Jean and John Comaroff (Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago)
4 April
Cosmic Time and the Dialogue between Faith and History
Euan Cameron (Henry Luce III Professor of Reformation History, Union Theological Seminary/Columbia University)
4 April
Brown Bag Series – Regional Migration Policies: the EU and MERCOSUR in Comparative Perspective
Ana Margheritis (Department of Political Science)
7 April
Informational Session on Grant and Fellowship Writing in the Humanities
9 April
Florida Cervantes Symposium: “The Beast in the Book: Animals in Cervantes”
Adrienne Martin (UC Davis)
11 April
Covering the Struggle for Democracy, from Johannesburg to Cairo
Les Payne
12 April
Brown Bag Series – Control into Conjunctive Participle Clauses: The Case of Assamese
Youssef Haddad (Arabic Linguistics, Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures)
15 April
Ronald Foreman Lecture
Michelle Duster
10 May
Intensive Grant Writing Session in the Humanities
Summer 2011 Events
20 May, 5:00 pm
HPNP Building, Room G101
Frankenstein Series: Lecture and Screening of The Resurrection Trade and The Body Snatcher
Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig (Illinois State University)
24 May, 12:00 PM
HPNP Building, Room G101
Frankenstein Series: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: from Science Fiction to Fact
J. M. van der Laan
26 May, 5:00 PM
HPNP Building, Room G101
Frankenstein Series: Screening of Frankenstein (1931)
2 June, 5:00 PM
HPNP Building, Room G101
Frankenstein Series: Screening of Bride of Frankenstein
Introduction by Andrew Gordon (University of Florida)
7 June, 5:00 PM
HPNP Building, Room G101
Frankenstein Series: Screening of Young Frankenstein
Introduction by Andrew Gordon (University of Florida)
15 June, 12:00 PM
HPNP Building, Room G101
Frankenstein Series: Mothering Monsters – Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Genetic Engineering
Anne Mellor (UCLA)