Google believes that artificial intelligence can provide new ways of approaching problems and meaningfully improve people’s lives. That’s why they are excited to support organizations that are using the power of AI […]
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A roundtable discussion with Susanne Götze and UF Faculty Discussants: Marcel Lewandowsky (Center for European Studies), Jasmine McNealy (Journalism), Ken Sassaman (Anthropology), and Robert T. Walker (Geography); moderated by Terry […]
Living in the shadow of the Wall as a child and coming to age in a united Berlin, Dr. Götze’s career as an environmental journalist seems to have brought her […]
Join Professor Shannon Dawdy (University of Chicago) for this interactive workshop. The past has a tenuous, often contentious, relationship with the future. We fragment and sequester the past, drawing memory […]
Join Professor Shannon Dawdy (University of Chicago) for this engaging event. The debris pile from 134,000 New Orleans buildings damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Katrina is visible from space. Although […]
Join Professor Simon Goldhill (King’s College, Cambridge, UK) for this engaging event. The workshop is about why and how the Palatine Anthology is not read as an anthology but cut […]
This lecture examines how we might understand the relationship between urban infrastructures, and the logics of exclusion and inclusion around which the category of citizenship is understood and cultural identities […]
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How do walls—man-made and otherwise—define global-cultural limits? How do the physical/material characteristics of walls bear on/inform/reflect/etc. their religious, political, social, and economic meanings, and vice versa? How do walls mark […]
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In this workshop, Professor Frye discusses his ongoing archeological concerns with walls and their functions and how these help us map premodern technospheres. David Frye is Professor of History at […]
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Following his public lecture on How Ancient Walls began Modern Barriers, David Frye will participate in a Panel discussion with other UF faculty to discuss various perceptions of premodern walls. […]