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 […]
Recent scholarship and activism paint a troubling picture of the American carceral state and chart a way out by utilizing the framework of abolition. But disability and madness and their histories […]
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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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Are you interested in learning more about controversial public issues? Would you like to talk with other students about the issues that you care about? Do you want to wrestle […]
Afrofuturism can be described as a politically-imaginative decolonial project that fuses fictions, fantasies, and folk traditions with technology to produce past-future narratives about being and belonging from a Black-centered framework […]
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. […]
Join us in a conversation with two leading scholars whose research advances and complicates our understanding of Puerto Rico. Each scholar will present a piece of their work and then […]
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