Fall 2016 Events
Thursday, 8 September – Saturday, 24 September
Locations Vary
12th Annual Gainesville Latino Film Festival: Unity Through Culture
Thursday, 15 September – 5:30 pm
Smathers Library 100
Death: Confronting the Great Divide
War and the Neoliberal Condition: Death and Vulnerability in Contemporary Mexico
Ignacio Sánchez Prado (Washington Univers
Tuesday, 20 September – 2:00 – 3:00 pm
Library West 212, Scott Nygren Scholars Studio
Digital Humanities Working Group Meet-Up
HASTAC Scholars Program
Dhanashree Thorat (HASTAC Scholar, Department of English)
Thursday, 22 September – 5:00 – 6:30 pm
Marston Visualization Lab (L136)
Empire, Religion, and Ethnicity in Europe and Beyond
Rethinking Europe and Its Borders: Adriatic Multi-Nationalism in Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, and Venice
Dominique Reill (University of Miami)
Thursday, 29 September – 5:30 pm
REVE Polymodal Immersive Classroom Theater
Death: Confronting the Great Divide
Documentary Film: “Thank You For Playing”
Directed and Produced by David Osit & Malika Zouhali-Worrall
Friday, 30 September – Saturday, 1 October
Dauer 215
Colonial and Postcolonial Asian and African Diasporic Interactions
Saturday, 1 October – 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Islam and Encounters with Secularism: Futural Openings?
Ustler Hall Atrium
Monday, 3 October – 6:00 pm
Pugh Hall Ocora
Race, Science, and Society in the 21st century
Ageliki Lefkaditou (University of Oslo)
Thursday, 6 October – 5:00 – 6:30 pm
Marston Visualization Lab (L136)
Empire, Religion, and Ethnicity in Europe and Beyond
Russian Hajj: Empire and the Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca
Eileen Kane (Connecticut College)
Monday, 17 October – 11:00-12:30 pm
Criser Hall (LVV Auditorium, Office of Admissions)
Fellowship Opportunities in the Humanities
Tuesday, 18 October – 2:00 – 3:00 pm
Library West 212, Scott Nygren Scholars Studio
Digital Humanities Working Group Meet-Up
Municipal Archives and Their Users
Paula de la Cruz-Fernández (Digital Archivist)
Thursday, 20 October – 5:30 pm
Smathers Library 100
Death: Confronting the Great Divide
Mobile Memorials: Carrying the Dead in the Twenty-First Century
Candi Cann (Baylor University)
Tuesday, 25 October – 2:00 – 3:00 pm
Library West 212, Scott Nygren Scholars Studio
Digital Humanities Working Group Meet-Up
From Historical GIS to Crowdsourcing and Collective Memory
Michelle Campos (Department of History)
Thursday, 27 October – 12:00 – 2:00 pm
Library West 212, Scott Nygren Scholars Studio
2016-17 Humanities Grant-and Fellowship-Writing Series
Broadening the Job Search: Why Humanities Postdocs Matter
Wednesday, 2 November – 5:30 pm
Marston Visualization Lab (L136)
Invaders: Rome, Iran, China and Their Northern Barbarians
Michael Kulikowski (Pennsylvania State University)
Thursday, 3 November – 5:30 pm
Smathers Library 100
Death: Confronting the Great Divide
The Ecology of a Corpse: Dead Bodies in American Environmental History
Ellen Stroud (Pennsylvania State University)
Monday, 7 November – 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Marston Visualization Lab (L136)
2016-17 Humanities Grant-and Fellowship-Writing Series
Addressing the Gap: Resources and Support for International Graduate Students in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Wednesday, 9 November – 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
2016-2017 Fellowship Brown-Bag Series: Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow
Perpetua of Carthage: Power and Gender in the Roman World
Jennifer Rea (Department of Classics)
Wednesday, 9 November – 5:00 – 6:30 pm
Marston Visualization Lab (L136)
Empire, Religion, and Ethnicity in Europe and Beyond
Another Hungary: The Nineteenth-Century Provinces in Eight Lives
Robert Nemes (Colgate University)
Tuesday, 15 November
Smathers Conference Room (First Floor)
Digital Humanities Working Group Meet-Up
iBook on Civil Rights
Lauren Pearlman (Department of History)
Tuesday-Wednesday, 15-16 November
SoA Teaching Gallery (Architecture Building)
Ethics and the Built Environment Symposium & Exhibition
Thursday, 17 November – 4:30 – 6:00 pm
Matherly Hall 0018
‘A Circle in a Rectangle’: Contextualized Ministry and Indigenous Education
Casey Church (Director of Wiconi International)
Friday, 18 November – 1:00 pm
Dauer Hall 215
Octavia E. Butler’s Public Legacy: Celebrating Life and Letters
Tarshia Stanley (Spelman College)
Friday, 18 November – 4:00 pm
Dauer Hall 215
MarketWise Special Event: “The Choice is Also Yours: Getting Hired In Today’s Job Market.”
Tarshia Stanley (Spelman College)
Tuesday, 22 November – 10:30 am
Dauer Hall 215
Heavens on Earth?
Carmen Boullosa (Novelist)
Monday, 5 December – 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
2016-2017 Fellowship Brown-Bag Series: Tedder Family Doctoral Fellow
The Calorie of Progress: Food and Culture in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1760-1850
Nicholas Foreman (Department of History)
Tuesday, 6 December – 2:00 – 3:00 pm
Library West 212, Scott Nygren Scholars Studio
UF Digital Humanities and Library Publishing Internship: Fostering Transformative and Radical Collaborations in the Academy
Poushali Bhadury (Department of English)
Thursday, 8 December – 12:00 – 2:00 pm
Pugh Hall 210
Imagining America Working Group Meet-Up
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
Monday, 19 December
Proposals Due: Winter 2016 Humanities Grant/Fellowship Proposal Review
RSVP to skacord@ufl.edu by 16 December to participate
Spring 2017 Events
Wednesday, 11 January – 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
2016-2017 Fellowship Brown-Bag Series: Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow
Building an Inclusive Movement: the National Black Women’s Health Project and the Battle for Health, 1981-1994
Evan Hart (African-American Studies Program)
Tuesday, 17 January – 2:00 – 3:00 pm
Library West 212, Scott Nygren Scholars Studio
Digital Humanities Working Group Meet-Up
The Digitization of Public Scholarship
Ibram Kendi (Department of History)
Thursday, 19 January – 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
2016-2017 Fellowship Brown-Bag Series: Rothman Doctoral Fellow
Portuguese Immigrants Before the Cartagena Inquisition, 1610-1660
Brian Hamm (Department of History)
Saturday, 21 January – Saturday 24 June
Matheson History Museum
River of Dreams: the St. Johns and Its Springs
Thursday, 26 January – 5:00 pm
Marston Visualization Lab (L136)
Whodunit? The Role of the Rural Population in Post-Roman Economic Development (450-750)
Frans Theuws (Leiden University)
Saturday – Sunday, 28 – 29 January
Pugh Hall Ocora
Sexing Sacred Bodies: Gender and Performance in the Study of Religion
Tuesday, 31 January – 3:30 – 4:30 pm
Library West 212, Scott Nygren Scholars Studio
2016-17 Humanities Grant-and Fellowship-Writing Series
How to Think Like a Reviewer: Orientation Session
Mickey Schafer (University Writing Program)
Wednesday, 1 February – 7:00 pm
Millhopper Branch Library, Alachua County Library District
Death: Confronting the Great Divide
Into the Open: What Animals Can Teach Us about Death
Jessica Pierce (Bio-ethicist, Writer, Religious Studies Scholar)
Thursday, 2 February – 11:30 – 1:00 pm
UF Informatics Institute
Distant Reading, Surface Reading, Close Reading: How Digital Archives Can Bridge the Gap
Laura Mandell (Texas A&M University)
Monday, 6 February – 11:00 – 12:30 pm
Library West 212
How to Write a Book Proposal
Wednesday, 8 February – 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
2016-2017 Fellowship Brown-Bag Series: Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow
The Sociolinguistic Making of Montreal and Brussels
Hélène Blondeau (Department of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures)
Thursday, 9 February – 5:30 pm
Ustler Hall Atrium
Warriors in Drag: Ottoman Prisoners of War Camp Theaters in Russia and Egypt, 1914-1921
Yücel Yanıkdağ (University of Richmond)
Thursday, 16 February – 5:30 pm
Smathers Library 100
Death: Confronting the Great Divide
Preparing for Death: Reflections on Possession and Loss in Late Antiquity
Isabel Moreira (University of Utah)
Thursday – Friday, 16 – 17 February
Various Times and Locations
The Diversity Project: Dr. Kitty Oliver
Thursday, 16 February
Various Times and Locations
Black Women in the Academy: A Symposium
Friday, 17 February – 4:05 pm
CSE E121
Drifting Datives: The Case of US Spanish
Inmaculada Gómez Soler (University of Memphis)
Saturday, 18 February – 12:30 – 3:30 pm
Alachua County Library District Headquarters
The Seed Cabinet Exhibition and Seed Saving 101
Tuesday, 21 February – Tuesday, 18 April
Hippodrome Theater
Refugees in Film: A Series
Wednesday, 1 March – 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
2016-2017 Fellowship Brown-Bag Series: Rothman Doctoral Fellow
Dressing the Part: The So-Called “Aquitanian” Plate Buckles and Personhood in Early Medieval Gaul
Ralph Patrello (Department of History)
Wednesday, 1 March – 5:30 pm
Marston Visualization Lab (L136)
Criticism of the Albigensian Crusade in Occitan Crusading Lyrics
Marjolaine Raguin (University of Liège)
Thursday, 16 March – 6:00 pm
Chandler Auditorium, Harn Museum of Art
Death: Confronting the Great Divide
Relics and Reliquaries: A Matter of Life and Death
Cynthia Hahn (CUNY, Hunter College)
Thursday-Friday, 16-17 March
Various Times & Locations
The Provocations of Contemporary Refugee Migration: A Conference
Friday, 17 March, 7:30 pm
University Auditorium
Performance by Bernard Woma and the Saakumu Dance Troupe
Monday, 20 March – 4:00 pm
Pugh Hall 201
Latin America in Space
Rachel Haywood Ferreira (Iowa State University)
Tuesday, 21 March, 2:00-3:00 pm
Library West 212, Scott Nygren Scholars Studio
Digital Humanities Working Group Meet-Up
Teaching Reason Through Technology
Greg Ray (Department of Philosophy)
Thursday, 23 March – 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Walker Hall 200
2016-2017 Fellowship Brown-Bag Series: Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow
Towards Transhistoricism: Interpreting Public Universal Friend and Their Followers
Jodi Schorb (Department of English)
Monday, 27 March – 5:00-6:30 pm
Smathers Library, Judiaica Suite (2nd Floor in Special Collections)
Empire, Religion, and Ethnicity in Europe and Beyond
Contradictions of Race, Religion, and Politics in a Multicultural City at War: Sarajevo in World War II
Emily Greble (Vanderbilt University)
Thursday, 30 March – 6:00 pm
Fine Arts Building B, Room 103
Lecture by Adam Brown
Adam Brown (Michigan State University)
Monday, 3 April, 6:00-8:00 pm
The Hippodrome (25 SE 2nd Pl)
Film Screening of “La Piedra Austente” (The Absent Stone) and Q&A
Sandra Rozental (director)
Wednesday, 5 April, 11:00 am-1:00 pm
Grinter 310A
Workshop–Ethnographies of Patrimony: On the Objects of Law, Property and Heritage in Mexico
Sandra Rozental (director)
Thursday, 6 April – 5:30 pm
Smathers Library 100
Death: Confronting the Great Divide
A Doorway to the Divine: Islamic Bodies and the Sufi Saints as Connecting the Living to the Dead
Ellen Amster (McMaster University)
Wednesday, 12 April – 12:00 – 1:00
Walker Hall 200
2016-2017 Fellowship Brown-Bag Series: Rothman Doctoral Fellow
Patrolling the Hallways: Police Presence in Twentieth Century Urban Public Schools
Kenneth Noble (College of Education)
Saturday, 15 April – 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Reitz Union
12th Annual Conference of the Social Sciences
Tuesday, 18 April – 12:00 – 1:00
Walker Hall 200
2016-2017 Fellowship Brown-Bag Series: Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow
Jerusalem 1905: Urban History in the Digital Age
Michelle Campos (Department of History)
Friday, 21 April – 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Harn Museum of Art
THATCamp-Gainesville
Summer 2017 Events
Thursday, 1 June 2017, 5:00 pm, Ustler Hall