Fall 2014 Events
12 September – 14 October 2014
Varying Locations
10th Annual Gainesville Latino Film Festival
18 September 2014 – 4:00 pm
Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) E121
2014/2015 Speaker Series on Bilingualism
The Acquisition of Variable Structures in Second Language Spanish
Kimberly Geeslin (University of Indiana)
18-19 September 2014
Varying Times and Locations
UF Global Islamic Studies Launching Conference
Global Islam and the Quest for Public Space
John Esposito, featured keynote
22 September 2014 – 10:30 am – 2:30 pm
Reitz Union Auditorium
2014-15 Humanities Grant- and Fellowship-Writing Series
Graduate Student Fellowships Workshop
Featuring: Bonnie Effros (Director, CHPS)
23 September 2014 – 5:30 pm
Reitz Union Grand Ballroom
What is the Good Life? And the UF Core Curriculum
A University of Florida Panel
27 September 2014 – (exhibit runs through January 3, 2015)
Thomas Center Main Gallery
Programs in the Public Humanities
“The Heart of a Culture: the Santos of Xavier Colón” Exhibition
UF University Galleries and City of Gainesville, Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs Department
1 October 2014 – 8:30 am – 5:30 pm and 7:30 – 9:00 pm
Smathers Library 100, Ustler Hall Atrium
International and Minority Science Fiction in a Global World
Anabel Enríquez Piñeiro (author), featured keynote
2 October 2014 – 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
2014-2015 Fellowship Brown Bag Series: Tedder Doctoral Fellow
Capitalists of the World, Unite? Locating an Imagined Community of Transnational Capitalists in Latin America’s Booming Relations with the Arab World
Kevin Funk (Department of Political Science)
8 October 2014 – 1:00 – 3:00 pm
Participate virtually here
Digital Humanities Meet-Up (with the UF Developing Humanities Librarian Group)
Professional Web Presence, Personal Site, Online Portfolios
Trainers: Aaron Bevridge and Laurie Taylor
8 October 2014 – 6:15 – 8:00 pm
Gannett Auditorium, Weimar Hall
Religion, Media and Socio-Political Change: The Case of “Islam and Daily Life”
9 October 2014 – 4:00 pm
CSE E121
Bilingualism As a Tool to Investigate Language, Cognition, and the Brain
Judith Kroll (The Pennsylvania State University)
13 October 2014 – 12:00 – 2:00 pm
Keene-Flint 005
Digital Humanities Working Group Meet-Up
Big Data and the Humanities: Projects, Skills, and Critique: Seminar with Evan Selinger (Rochester Institute of Technology)
13 October 2014 – 5:30 – 7:00 pm
Smathers Library 100
The Work of the Humanities, Critical Thinking in Life and Labor (in collaboration with UF Conflict Resolution Week)
The Outsourcing Illusion: Why Tempting Technology Can Lead To Dangerous Delegation
Evan Selinger (Rochester Institute of Technology)
13 October 2014 – 8:00 pm
J. Wayne Reitz Union Auditorium
Resolving Conflict through Forgiveness
Azim Khamisa
14 October 2014 – 3:00 pm
Turlington Hall, Room L011
Crisis and Opportunity in the Environmental Century: A Manifesto for Higher Education
Stephen Mulkey (Unity College)
15 October 2014 – 8:00am – 8:00 pm
Plaza of the Americans, Fine Arts Courtyard
Pop-Up Culture
National Arts and Humanities Month
16 October 2014 – 1:00 – 3:00 pm
Participate virtually via Google Hangout here, or watch via a YouTube stream here
Digital Humanities Meet-Up (with the UF Developing Humanities Librarian Group)
WordPress for Professional Blogging
Presenter: Suzan Alteri
Registration for attending in person is required here
16 October 2014 – 5:00 pm
Smathers Library (East), room 100
New Work at Rindoon Castle, Co. Roscommon, Ireland
Kieran D. O’Conor (National University of Ireland, Galway)
21 October 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
2014-2015 Fellowship Brown Bag Series: Rothman Doctoral Fellow
Spears, Smiths, and Iron in Anglo-Saxon England
Andrew Welton (Department of History)
23 October 2014 – 8:45 am – 4:00 pm
Terrace Room (G400), Norman Hall, College of Education
Engineered Landscapes: Society, the Environment and Shifting Values in Brazil and the United States
An International Symposium
24 October 2014 – 2:00 – 5:00 pm
Library West 212
2014-15 Humanities Grant- and Fellowship-Writing Series
“So What?” How to Write a Statement of Significance in the Humanities
Bess de Farber (UF Smathers Libraries)
3 November 2014 – 9:00 am – 5:30pm
Participate virtually here
Digital Humanities Meet-Up (with the UF Developing Humanities Librarian Group)
Text Encoding Initiative & Text Markup
Presenter: Syd Bauman
Registration for attending in person is required; Registration link TBA
6 November 2014 – 4:00pm
Smathers Library (East) 100
Tan Men/Pale Women: color and gender in archaic Greece and Egypt Authors @ UF: A conversation with Mary Ann Eaverly Associate Professor (Department of Classics)
7 November 2014 – 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
2014-2015 Fellowship Brown Bag Series: Rothman Doctoral Fellow
An Investigation into the Local Dietary and Agro-diversity Consequences of Globalized Traditional Agriculture in the Peruvian Andes
Deborah Andrews (Department of Anthropology)
10 November 2014 – 3:00 – 5:00 pm
Downtown Library Headquarters (401 East University Avenue)
2014-15 Humanities Grant- and Fellowship-Writing Series
Discover Florida Funding Opportunities in the Public Humanities!
A collaborative information session with the Florida Humanities Council, UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, and Alachua County Library District
13 November 2014 – 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Library West 211
Digital Humanities Working Group Meet-Up
18 November 2014 – 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
2014-2015 Fellowship Brown Bag Series: Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow
Rap and Islam in France: Arabic Islamic Language Contact with Vernacular French
Ben Hebblethwaite (Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)
20 November 2014 – 5:30 – 7:00pm
Hough Hall 150
The Work of the Humanities, Critical Thinking in Life and Labor
Narratives of Capitalism: Reading and Writing the Future of the Global Economy
Christopher Michaelson (University of St. Thomas)
4 December 2014 – 12:00 – 2:00 pm
Library West 212
Digital Humanities Working Group Meet-Up
Big Data and the Humanities: Projects, Skills, and Critique: Faculty/Graduate Seminar on Habitual New Media with Wendy Chun (Brown University)
4 December 2014 – 5:30 – 7:00 pm
Smathers Library 100
The Work of the Humanities, Critical Thinking in Life and Labor
Uncertain Actions, Inexperienceable Evidence: Towards New Practices of the Future
Wendy Chun (Brown University)
9 December 2014 – 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Walker Hall 200 Grinter Hall 404
2014-2015 Fellowship Brown Bag Series: Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow
Creating a European Capital from the Opera Stage: Cultural Fusion, Sovereignty, and Entertainment in Eighteenth-Century Parma
Margaret Butler (School of Music)
Proposals Due: Winter 2014 Humanities Grant/Fellowship Proposal Review
RSVP to skacord@ufl.edu by 12 December 2014 to participate
Spring 2015 Events
08 January 2015 – 6:00 pm
Chandler Auditorium, Harn Museum of Art
Caught in a Tangle of Exotic Obsessions: Four German Art Historians in Republican China
Lothar von Falkenhausen (UCLA, Department of Art History)
09 January 2015 — 6:00 pm
The Hippodrome Theater
Message from Mungo
A Film by Andrew Pike and Ann McGrath
15 January 2015 – 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
2014-2015 Fellowship Brown Bag Series: Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow
Giving Philosophy a Hand: Left and Right in Swordplay, Brains, and Lived Experience
Peter Westmoreland (Department of Philosophy)
17 January, 31 January, and 7 February 2015
Hippodrome State Theater
Constructive Conversations: Architecture Film Series and Public Dialogue
Gainesville Modern and the UF School of Architecture
21 January 2015 – 6:30 pm
University Auditorium
Martin Luther King’s Legacy: The Voice of Women
Tessa Thompson (Keynote)
27 January 2015 – 12:00 – 1:00 pm This event has been canceled.
Ustler Hall Atrium
The Tolerance Trap: How God, Genes and Good Intentions are Sabotaging Gay Equality
Suzanna Walters (Northeastern University)
29 January 2015 – 5:30 – 7:00 pm
Smathers Library 100
The Work of the Humanities, Critical Thinking in Life and Labor
More Human than Human: The Work of Life in the Age of Biotechnical Reproduction
Priscilla Wald (Duke University)
2 February 2015 – 3:00 – 5:00 pm
Dauer 215
Service Learning in the Humanities: A Workshop for Interested Instructors and Community Partners
Facilitated by Anita Anantharam (Women’s Studies), Angela Garcia (Center for Leadership and Service), and April O’Neal (Slow Food Gainesville)
4 February 2015 – 1:00 – 4:00 pm
Attend via Adobe Connect at: https://ufsmathers.adobeconnect.com/_a1117191254/gishum/
Digital Humanities Meet-Up (with the UF Developing Humanities Librarian Group)
Mapping the Brothers Grimm
Presenter: Joe Aufmuth
5 February 2015 – 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
2014-2015 Fellowship Brown Bag Series: Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow
Spanish Embroidery in the New World Church: Models and Modifications
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi (Department of Art History)
6 February 2015 – 3:00 – 4:15 pm
216 Anderson Hall
The Way Our Republic Ought to Be, and a Plan to Revive It
Christopher Phillips (Harvard University)
6 February 2015 – 4:00 – 5:30 pm
CSE E222
Applying Cognitive Linguistics in the Second Language Classroom: Teaching the Multiple Meanings of English Phrasal Verbs
Andrea Tyler (Georgetown University)
7 February 2015 – 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
Keene-Flint 005, History Department Conference Room
Material Culture in Late Antiquity: Continuities and Change
11 February – 5:30 pm
University Auditorium
Good Life Common Lecture
Success and the Good Life in the Renaissance
Konrad Eisenbichler (University of Toronto)
12 February 2015 – 5:30 – 7:00 pm This event has been rescheduled for 16 April
Pugh Hall Ocora
The Work of the Humanities, Critical Thinking in Life and Labor
Start-up Democracy: Innovating Citizenship with the Ancient Athenians
Cynthia Farrar (Yale University)
17 February, 7:30 pm
McGuire Pavilion Black Box Theatre
2014-2015 Fellowship Brown Bag Series: Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow
Gator Tales: Post-Performance Talk-Back
Directed by Kevin Marshall (UF School of Theatre and Dance)
19-21 February 2015
Smathers Library (East) 100
The Vagantes Medieval Graduate Student Conference
20 February 2015 – 7:00 pm
Hippodrome State Theater
Threads of Silver and Gold: Women of the Panama Canal
Directed and Written by Deborah B. Dickey
28 February 2015 – 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
Orlando, FL
9 March 2015 – 12:00 – 3:00 pm
Smathers Library (East) 100
2015-2016 Humanities Grant-and Fellowship-Writing Series
Academic Style in the Humanities: A Faculty and Graduate (Grant) Writing Workshop
Eric Hayot (Pennsylvania State University)
11 March 2015 – 9:00 am – 3:30 pm
Library West 211, 212, and Smathers Library 100
Digital Humanities Meet-Up (with the UF Developing Humanities Librarian Group)
Data Visualization
Presenter: Scott Weingart
Registration for attending in person is required; Registration link TBA
11 March 2015 – 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
2014-2015 Fellowship Brown Bag Series: Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow
Code-Switching Effects: Evidence from Variable Subject Pronoun Expression in Spanish-Catalan Bilinguals
Ana de Prada Pérez (Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies)
12 March 2015 – 4:30 – 6:30 pm
Marston Library Conference & Visualization Room L-136
2015 Team-Taught Course Event
E-Poetry Master Class
Nick Montfort (MIT)
12 March 2015 – 6:30 pm
Fine Arts Building 105
Public Artist Lecture
Kenya (Robinson)
16 March 2015 – 5:30 – 7:00 pm
Ustler Hall Atrium
The Work of the Humanities, Critical Thinking in Life and Labor
Unpaid and Unpriced: Toward a Feminist Political Economy
Nancy Folbre (Emerita, University of Massachusetts Amherst)
18 March 2015 – 5:00 -7:00 pm
Ustler Hall Atrium
Digital Humanities Working Group Meet-Up
Florida NOW(National Organization of Women) Digital Collection
Tim D’Annecy (University of Florida)
20 March 2015 – 8:30 am – 5:30 pm
Grinter Hall 404
Creating and Designing Documentary Linguistic Outcomes
The University of Florida Language Archive Workshop
23 March 2015 – 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
2014-2015 Fellowship Brown Bag Series: Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow
Russian National Idea/Identity in the 21st Century: Liberalism vs. Democracy
Alexander Burak (Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
27 March 2015 – 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Union Academy
The Voices of Yopp: A Few of Our Favorite Things
31 March 2015 – 6:15 – 8:10 pm
Pugh Hall 170
Theorizing Shamanism in the Contested Field between Academia, Colonialism, and Religious Practice
Kocku Von Stuckrad (University of Groningen)
1 April 2015 – 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Library West 212; virtually connect here
Digital Humanities Meet-Up (with the UF Developing Humanities Librarian Group)
Online Exhibit Training
Trainer: Lourdes Santamaria-Wheeler
Registration for attending in person is required; Registration link TBA
2 April 2015 – 3:00 pm
Library West 212
MarketWise Forum: Careers for Humanities PhDs in University Libraries and Presses
Speakers: Brian Kieth and Dennis Lloyd
4 April 2015 – 4:05 pm
Pugh Hall 120
Perceiving Miami: Bilingualism Language Politics, & Spanish Dialect Diversity
Phillip Carter (Florida International University)
8 April 2015 – 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Library West 212; virtually connect here
Digital Humanities Meet-Up (with the UF Developing Humanities Librarian Group)
Linked Data Training
Presenter: Val Minson
Registration for attending in person is required; Registration link TBA
9 April 2015 – 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
2014-2015 Fellowship Brown Bag Series: Tedder Doctoral Fellow
Re-designing the American Garden: The Global Environmental Imagination in Contemporary Multiethnic Women’s Fiction
Yeonhaun Kang (Department of English)
9 April 2015 – 6:00 -7:00 pm
Gannet Auditorium, Weimar Hall
China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa
Howard French (Columbia University)
10 April 2015 – 12:00 – 4:00 pm
Marston Science Library 136
2015-2016 Humanities Grant-and Fellowship-Writing Series
From Projects to Proposals: An Intensive Beginner’s Guide to Graduate Fellowship-Writing in the Humanities
Mickey Schafer (UF Writing Program)
16 April 2015 – 5:30 – 7:00 pm
Pugh Hall Ocora
The Work of the Humanities, Critical Thinking in Life and Labor
Start-up Democracy: Innovating Citizenship with the Ancient Athenians
Cynthia Farrar (Yale University)
17 April 2015 – 6:00 pm
Advocacy Center, UF Levin College of Law
Unlocking New Power
Jeremy Heimans
24 April 2015 – 8:30 – 4:30 pm
Library West and Smathers Library (East)
Summer 2015 Events
20 May 2015 – 2:30 – 4:30 pm
2015-2016 Programs in the Public Humanities
Emancipation Day at the Cone Park Library
9 June 2015 – 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Communicore Building, C1-7
Literature and Medicine: Silas Weir Mitchell’s Fiction
Anne Stiles (St. Louis University)
14 June – 19 June 2015
University of Florida
Humanities and the Sunshine State: Exploring Florida’s Past, Present, and Future
18 June 2015 – 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Communicore Building, C1-7
How Understanding the Rest Cure Helps Promote the Value of the Humanities in Medical Education
Michael Blackie (Northeast Ohio Medical University)
Summer 2015 Humanities Grant/Fellowship Proposal Review
RSVP to skacord@ufl.edu by 15 June 2015 to participate