2011-2012 Events Fall 2011 Events 8 September-15 October Harn Museum of Art, Chandler Auditorium 7th Gainesville Latino Film Festival Presented by Latina Women’s League 12 September, 7:30 pm Smathers 1A, followed by reception Rehumanizing the University Series- Something Wicked This Way Comes: How to Save the University Cary Nelson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 30 September, 12:00 pm Walker Hall 201D Brown Bag Series- Hagiographic Transformations of Patriarch Ma Mario Poceski 3 October, 7:00 am – 7:00 pm Spontaneous locations on the UF campus 12-hour Random Acts of Cultural Marathon 3 October, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm Reitz Union Colonnade 5 October, 3:00 – 3:50 pm Friends of Music Room, University Auditorium Being Musical: An Ontology of Music and Trance in Africa Steven Friedson (University of North Texas) 9 October, 2:00 – 3:00 pm Millhopper Branch Library, Alachua County Library District Prof. Leslie Harris will discuss her autobiographical work-in-progress on New Orleans: “Hurricane Season: Life in Twentieth-Century New Orleans” Leslie Harris (Emory University) 10 October, 6:00 pm Chandler Auditorium, Harn Museum Art and Technology Series: Robert Heinecken and Photographic Postmodernism in the 1980s Matthew Biro (University of Michigan) 10 October, 7:30 pm Smathers 1A Rehumanizing the University Series- Using Diverse Histories to Transform University Communities Leslie Harris (Emory University) 17 October, 6:00 pm Chandler Auditorium, Harn Museum Art and Technology Series: Luminotectonics Jeffrey Schnapp (Harvard University) 21 October, 2:00-4:00 pm Walker 200 Imagining America – Public Scholarship in the Arts, Humanities, and Design Faculty/Graduate Meet-and-Greet 22 October, 1:15-6:15 pm 216 Anderson Hall Florida Buddhist Studies Roundtable Organized and presided by Mario Poceski (University of Florida) 24 October, 4:00 pm Ustler Hall Atrium Literature Before and After Auschwitz J. Hillis Miller 25 October, 6:00 pm The Harn Museum “The First Sail: J. Hillis Miller,” a film by Dragan Kujundzic Followed by a discussion with the director and J. Hillis Miller 31 October, 12:00 pm Walker Hall 201D Brown Bag Series- Prophecies of Paradise Mary Watt 31 October, 6:00 pm Chandler Auditorium, Harn Museum Art and Technology Series: The Authorship of Revolution & Mass Communications: Paris, 1968 Victoria Scott (Emory University) 9 November, 3:00-6:00 pm Library West 211 Proposal-Writing Workshop in the Humanities Bess de Farber (UF Libraries Grants Manager) 14 November, 7:30 pm Smathers 1A Rehumanizing the University Series- In-comparative Literature: On the Problem of Untranslatability in Literary Studies Emily Apter (New York University) 17 November, 4:30 pm 212 Library West Defiance for Christ’s Sake: The Holy Fool in Religious and Secular Society Sergey A. Ivanov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) 18 November, 3:00 pm 216 Anderson Hall Asleep at the Wheel: Why Did Political Theory Largely Ignore Thirty Years of Neo-Liberal Inequality? Joseph Schwartz (Temple University) 29 November, 6:00 pm Chandler Auditorium, Harn Museum Art and Technology Series: Experiments in Art and Technology Michelle Kuo (editor-in-chief of Artforum) 8 December, 3:00-4:00 pm Walker Hall 200 UF Digital Humanities Working Group First Meeting UF Digital Humanities Working Group RSVP by 9 December Grant Proposal Review Opportunity 15-17 December, 9:00 am- 6:00 pm 216 Anderson Hall Plants and Religion: Multidisciplinary Approaches Organized by the Working Group on Plants and Religion Spring 2012 Events 10 January, 3:00 pm Smathers Room 1A Policía and the Plaza: Utopia and Dystopia in the Colonial City Richard Kagan (Johns Hopkins University) 12 January, 7:30 pm Smathers 1A Rehumanizing the University Series- ‘If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?’ The market, European universities and the ‘Bologna Process’ Chris Lorenz (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) 18 January, 12:00- 1:00 pm 200 Walker Hall Digital Humanities Working Group brown-bag meeting Presentations from the 2011 MLA and AHA 19 January, 6:00 pm Chandler Auditorium, Harn Museum Art and Technology Series Tue Greenfort 19 January, 6:00 pm University Gallery, Fine Arts Building B Panel Discussion of “The Power of Typography” Exhibit Felix Beltran 20-21 January, 3:50 pm- 9:00 pm, 9:30 am- 3:15 pm Smathers Room 1A Digital Platforms and the Future of Books Two Day Symposium 26 January, 12:00 pm Walker Hall 200 Brown Bag Series- Capturing the Trace of an Errant History: Chaadaev and the Image of the Russian Nomad Ingrid Kleespies 8 February, 7:00 – 8:00 pm Millhopper Branch Library, Alachua County Library District What Evolution can’t tell us about Women’s Sex and Work Carla Fehr (University of Waterloo) 9 February, 7:30 pm Ustler Hall Atrium Rehumanizing the University Series- Ignorance, Women and Excellent Science Carla Fehr (University of Waterloo) 10-11 February, 9:30 am – 6:30 pm, 9:00am – 1 pm 215 Dauer “Imágenes del heroísmo en la literatura hispánica finisecular” (Images of Heroism in 19th-Century Hispanic Literature) Symposium 13 February, 6:00 pm MacKay Auditorium (Pugh Hall 170) Israel & Palestine – Fear of the Future Amira Hass 15 February, 12:00 – 1:00 pm Smathers Library First Floor Conference Room Digital Humanities Working Group brown-bag discussion Aesthetic Computing: Software as Cultural Product (Paul Fishwick) 16 February, 6:00 pm Chandler Auditorium, Harn Museum Art and Technology Series: Artist/System: Hans Haacke in the Sixties Caroline Jones (MIT) 18-20 February Top Secret Space and the University Auditorium Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival (FLEXfest) Su Friedrich, Steve Reinke, Sam Green 23 February, 6:00 – 7:30 pm Smathers 1A Ronald C. Foreman Lecture: The 21st Century for People of Color Sonia Sanchez 23-24 February Ustler Hall Atrium Mary Wollstonecraft: Legacies The Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research 23-25 February African Dance in the Diaspora Lectures and Performances 24 February, 1:55 pm Friends of Music Room at the University Auditorium Musicology Colloquium Series- Music, Theater, and Ritual Experience: “Classical Music Performers and the Idea of the Composer” Mary Hunter (Bowdoin College) 27 February, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Library West, 212 Graduate Fellowship-Writing in the Humanities 13 March, 6:00 pm Smathers Library 1A, University of Florida Rethinking the Age of ‘King Arthur’ Prof. Guy Halsall (Universtiy of York) 14 March, 12:00 – 1:00pm Smathers Library East, 1st Floor Conference Room Implicit Assumptions, Methodology, and the Digital Humanities Laurie Gries (Department of English) 16 March, 5:00 pm Pugh Hall 120 Guest Lecture: The Foreign View Laura Demaria (University of Maryland) 19 March, 4:00 pm Smathers Library 1A, University of Florida Virtual Presentation/Q&A Brett Bobley (Director of the Office of Digital Humanities for the NEH) 20 March, 12:00 pm Fine Arts C, 102 (Art + Art History conference room) Brown Bag Series- The Evolution of “Cultural Heritage” and Other Related Concepts in Modern China Guolong Lai 26 March, 7:00 pm Smathers 1A Rehumanizing the University Series- History and Empathy, or, What We Can Learn from the Forgotten Orientalist Georg Ebers Suzanne Marchand (Louisiana State University) 4 April, 11:30am-1:30pm Pugh Hall, 210 The Future of the Scholarly Edition- Lunch and Discussion Professor Gregory Crane (Tufts University; Editor in Chief, Perseus Project) 5 April, 7:30 pm Smathers 1A Rehumanizing the University Series- To Advance the Common Understanding: Reinventing the Humanities in a Digital Age Gregory Crane (Tufts University; Editor in Chief, Perseus Project) 13 April, 12:00 pm Walker Hall 201D Brown Bag Series- The Museum of Babel Mark Thurner 13 April, 2:00-4:00 pm Chandler Auditorium, Harn Museum E-Mining the Archive: Digital practices in Cuban contemporary art With works and presentation by Cuban artists Hamlet Lavastida and Rodolfo Peraza 17 April, 6:00 pm Harn Museum Auditorium, followed by reception Rehumanizing the University Series- Rehumanizing Babel: Museums and the Re-enchantment of the Arts and Sciences Anthony Shelton (Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia) 26 April, 9:00am-4:00 pm Smathers Library, 1A 1st Annual UF Digital Humanities Day + Interface 2012: Faculty Seminar 27 April, 12:30-4:30 pm Digital Humanities Field Trip RSVP by 1 June Grant/Fellowship Proposal Review Opportunity