Culture and Conflict in Palestine/Israel
You are invited to attend the conference Culture and Conflict in Palestine/Israel held February 1-3 at UF. As diplomatic and military efforts to establish justice and peace in Palestine/Israel have […]
Naila and the Uprising
You are invited to attend the conference Culture and Conflict in Palestine/Israel held February 1-3 at UF. The kickoff event for this conference will be a free screening of this […]
1920-2020: A Century of Suffrage and Voter Suppression – Liette Gidlow
Join Professor Liette Gidlow of Wayne State University for this Gary C. and Eleanor G. Simons Lecture on American History. Prof. Gidlow is the 2019-2020 Mellon-Schlesinger Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute […]
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CANCELLED: Policing Dialect Loyalty: Style and Ideologies of Language and Gender in Moroccan Digital Discourse – Atiqa Hachimi
*This event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for Fall 2020.* Language serves a symbolic function in society as an expression of such concepts as power, gender and identity. Social […]
Linguistic Landscapes and Language Ideologies in the Occupied Territories (West Bank and East Jerusalem) – Keith Walters
Language serves a symbolic function in society as an expression of such concepts as power, gender and identity. Social actors produce and reproduce particular identities, as well as gender and […]
Norman Mailer, American Jews and the Conundrum of White Liberals – Kevin Schultz
Award-winning historian at the University of Illinois-Chicago, Schultz teaches twentieth-century American history with special interests in religion, ethno-racial history, and American intellectual and cultural life. Her most recent book, the […]
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Political Division in America: Author Jon Meacham and Former Senator Bill Nelson
This talk is open to students, faculty, and the public. Admission is free but seating is limited. Click here to register. Doors open at 9:00 am and discussion begins promptly […]
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Opening Night – Building the Wall
On November 21-23 2019, at 7:30 pm, and on November 24 2019, at 2:00 pm, The UF Center for Arts in Medicine will present a production of the play, Building […]
Women on the Front Lines: Lebanon Today – Elise Salem
Dr. Salem will share some of the challenges and opportunities of living and working in Lebanon, especially during this historic October 17 revolution. She will discuss gender equity in Lebanon […]
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Community Organizing and Keys to Resistance in Pre- and Post-Olympic Rio de Janeiro – Theresa Williamson
In preparation for the 2016 Olympics, the city of Rio de Janeiro targeted several of the low-income communities known as favelas for removal, leaving residents with few viable options for […]